budding plant,pot change?

Can I change a pot its a 1 gallon budding plant been flower 4 weeks.Only about 18 inches . Wasnt vegged.

Yes you can, I did it and put it in a three gallon pot from the one gallon. I would lightly wet the top surface of the soil before pulling it out and also squeezing around the pot a little before extraction. Its been in the one gallon long enough that it should come out all in one piece. Good luck

4 weeks in, you're not gonna see much root expansion going forward. Probably not gonna make any yield difference

Eviljay said:

4 weeks in, you're not gonna see much root expansion going forward. Probably not gonna make any yield difference

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I have seen root expansion with my plant especially from the bottom. It does make a difference because the plant still has a while to go.

Yes,go ahead and transplant to a 3-5 gallon container, your plant will thank you later.....the easier you transplant the shorter the recover time.GL.peace

Eviljay said:

4 weeks in, you're not gonna see much root expansion going forward. Probably not gonna make any yield difference

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Agreed. However, I had a girl once very root bound in a plastic pot (2gallon) that tapered to a smaller diameter at the bottom. Good sized plant yielding about 4oz in the end, I up potted(3gallon also tapered pot) just to help the roots possibly expand and breath so as to help prevent and weird deposits develope. I want to say she was around week 5 of 11. Not sure if it helped exactly but it def didn't hurt her. When I up potted i made sure the soil was damp not soaked and lightly squeezed sides, then i put the pot onto sometime small and round...a rock usually works fine...and push down on the rim. This will USUALLY pop the plant right out of the pot with very little harm, left root ball as is with no breaking it apart or anything but i did dust it with some Azos from Extreme Gardening to help lessen the shock from transplanting.
When i harvested there were plenty of roots reaching the sides of the pot and starting to spread out.
Like i said, still not sure if this helped...not like i was doing a controlled experiment.
Hope our answers help
PEACE!

100th post!...and i forgot to say that roots never completely stop growing, that would be silly of them lol but the plant puts a lot of effort into a great root base during veg and the first part of flower so it can provide lots of water and food to its produce. Then it def starts focusing on the produce, especially when you're finishing the plant it's getting flushed starting to discolor; that maybe the time when roots are goin alright time to give up everything to the fruits and stop growth.

Should be fine but nothing is guaranteed.