Question about round pots and square pots

Hi i'm going to be growing 4 plants in a ds60 in 6l square wilma pots. Is it ok to start seeds in a small round pot, then into a 2l round pot and then into a 6l square wilma pot. I'm mainly asking beacause with square pots being deeper and not as wide as a round pot, I thought maybe a round 2l pot might be wider than a 6l wilma pot so therfore it wouldn't fit come to transplanting or am I way wrooong. I haven't even seen the wilma pots, I just ordered them last night so I have no idea how big they actually look compared to the 2l pots I currently use for vegging.

Just start them in the same pot, unless area restrictions are involved. I don't see the need in transplanting 3 times.

yea, that will work out good...peace

I could start them in a small round pot and then transplant them into the 6l pots. This is my current grow in 10l pots which are way too big but nevermind . To be honest I think i'd get more bud from 4 plants in 6l pots.

dont start em in the big pot, its harder to keep them watered properly.

plant seed in finishing pot (container). less handling. GL

Round pots are best to transplant out of. Square pots are most efficient.

BigSteve.

I know it would mean less handling if I put them straight in big pots i've done it before on my first ever grow. But I believe you get a better root system when you start small then make the way up to big. I don't really want to go straight to a big pot I just feel more comfortable transplanting up. Obviously round pots will be better to transplant with and I believe square pots are more of a sog thing considering they're more effiecient. I couldn't find 6l pots on ebay which are round so I just went with squared ones.

higgins2k9 said:

I know it would mean less handling if I put them straight in big pots i've done it before on my first ever grow. But I believe you get a better root system when you start small then make the way up to big. I don't really want to go straight to a big pot I just feel more comfortable transplanting up. Obviously round pots will be better to transplant with and I believe square pots are more of a sog thing considering they're more effiecient. I couldn't find 6l pots on ebay which are round so I just went with squared ones.

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If you look outside at a plant that grows in the dirt it gets to be huge with all the available land area, right? Yes, with help from the sun and readily available breathing room. Merely my opinion, I use Jiffy Pots and stick them straight into my final pot. Usually 1-3 Gallon Smart Pots. So I don't really transplant, the Jiffy's biodegrade naturally and the root system pushes through it without a problem. Also every time you transplant you are disrupting the root system, depending upon how you do it. Think of being uprooted every couple of weeks and moved around city to city, shit gets old.

were not outside!

When the pots come i'll see if the 2l pots fit nicely into the 6l pots. If they do then I know i'm safe. I don't think it will actually matter too much just as long as they have a fair bit of space to adjust to the shape of the new pot, at the end of the day roots go anywhere if it has space so they say. I know what people mean by it growing outside in unlimited space, but if you grow your plants indoor the way it grows outdoor then don't feed nutes just rain water, grow a bagseed from brick weed (natural landraces not modern crosses) and if you get any males don't remove them. Things like transplanting up, feeding nutes, crossing plants in controlled ways to create new strains and getting temps and humidity to optimum levels are all things the human does to make plants grow to a better potential which nature does not do.

I do not transplant more than once. 18 oz. cup for veg and then into flowering pot with 2 additional weeks of veg. Same tent as you.

I know I asked a bit of a silly question to begin with and espacially to come back and say what I said in the above post but I think what I said was rather common sense to be honest after more thinking about how my situation would work.

I have a veg cab that I want to veg them in for 2-3 weeks until my current plants have finished the last few weeks of growth and i'm going to dry in the tent as well for 4-5 days with the filter on. I've had good success with transplanting twice I just feel it's getting a better root system and you're not letting soil become unused for ages which I think could be bad especially for diseases and whatever else soil can get because when you think about it the bottom of the pot will need to be wet all the time in order for it to have enough water at the top where the roots are when the plant is still young.

brimck325 said:

were not outside!

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Speak for yourself, and do try to keep up with the conversation. It's called a simile. You don't plant a seed outside and then transplant it, unless you need to. It's in one spot the entire time and it grows big. Now, you take a seed and plant it in a pot, then in a couple weeks take it out of that pot and put it into another pot, then in a couple more weeks do the same thing until you shoe yourself up the ass silly!