When should I put put stakes in my pots?

I just transplanted from beer cups to 3 gallon pots a few days ago which is gonna be the pots I flower in. I usually put bamboo sticks in when my plants need them in flower but I always feel like I'm damaging the roots. Should I just put them in now?

when you put stakes in before in flower stage, did plants suffer, if not then go head

Why? for training the plant? Just use coat hangars, cut them in two, straighten, put a hook on one end and you have a plant stake. Doesnt hurt the roots too bad because its a smaller diameter.

Not until they are in their final contaniers, but sometimes when started in cup and they strech you can use toothpicks as stakes, alway use wood because the metal will deaden the part of plant it touches. Dasicaly stake when you need to anytime. bamboo stakes workwell

I don't have dead spots, and I use them a lot. By the time flowering is done, I'll have 20 stakes in the ground.

The sticks are to tie up any fat buds in flower that start to fall over.

BUDies said:

I just transplanted from beer cups to 3 gallon pots a few days ago which is gonna be the pots I flower in. I usually put bamboo sticks in when my plants need them in flower but I always feel like I'm damaging the roots. Should I just put them in now?

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I used to worry about the same thing brother. So I did an experiment, 3 different times because I'm OCD like that, half the plants in my room I tied up early the other half I waited until about week 6 when they started to sag and I noticed no difference in quality nor in my yield.

BUDies said:

The sticks are to tie up any fat buds in flower that start to fall over.

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i think youll find when this eventually does happen to you, it ill be a case of "fUCK i need summing to hold this shit up asap"and wether it hurts the roots is irrelivant...no one likes to see limp donkey dicks....

You can pound all the stakes you want to in a healthy plant with a good root system. It will not "shock" it or set it back in any way if it is healthy.

Thanks for all the great responses guys, guess I'll just wait till flower.

when you put stakes in before in flower stage,

Like most people say it doesn't really matter but I put them in the day I transplant them into their final pot cause Im OCD like that. Good luck

BUDies said:

The sticks are to tie up any fat buds in flower that start to fall over.

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I asked this very question quite awhile ago. What I was told was that you can add stakes any time wherever you want them. By the time you need stakes to keep buds from falling over, your rootmass is huge and as big as your pot. The plant has thousands of points from which to drink from. If when pushing a stake through the ground you can hear the sound of it breaking through some of the rootball, no problem, and they'll drink right from the new break you just made, plus thousands of other places.

So, I used to try to carefully place them around the outer edge of the pot and after reading that ( which I believe) I now push them in wherever they are needed most.

Agree 100%. If a plant is so fragile that breaking a few roots hurts it. Then there's something else you've been doing wrong. JMO

I've never found the need to do it before flowering. I usually do it right after the stretch(2.5 weeks into flowering). Between pot and root ball, I stake in 4 spots. Pull a branch to each stake, twist tie them off. Then use twist tie to secure branches that are going to need it. Don't just wrap the plant with twist tie, it bunches it up. I then lollypop/ prune lower stuff as necessary.

Right after doin all that, I fire up a doobie and remind myself that i won't have to do another dam thing to those plants(hopefully), except feed/ water them until chop time..Gone are the days of walking into the room to find plants have fallen over. What a pain in the ass! the stakes can help shape your plant and therefore your garden to.