so i was watching this video...

Quickee

Quickee

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just about people growing and other techniques blah blah blah..and these guys for their final stages plant into a 1 gallon pot and flower it..and these plants get big as fuck..like 3-4 feets with sweet buds..i thought rule of thumb was 1gallon for every month of growth...like....what the hell..they are veggin for two months and then flowering in 1gallon pots..a little help here?
 
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Quickee said:
just about people growing and other techniques blah blah blah..and these guys for their final stages plant into a 1 gallon pot and flower it..and these plants get big as fuck..like 3-4 feets with sweet buds..i thought rule of thumb was 1gallon for every month of growth...like....what the hell..they are veggin for two months and then flowering in 1gallon pots..a little help here?
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The thing is that marijuana plants are weeds and they can be abused (within reason of course) and still grow rather well.

Because of this many people will grow in what is way less than optimal conditions and the results still are enough to impress them so they tell themselves that they really know what they are doing and then teach others their mistakes.

When a plant is in a root-bound condition you open the door for a number of problems. If someone is lucky enough to grow in root-pound conditions without having major problems they write off any minor problems they experience as not being in any way connected to their pot size/root-bound condition.

A root-bound plant is far more likely to experience nute burn than one that is not root-bound but when nute burn happens those that grow in to small of a pot size do not realize that the cause of it is because of the small pot size. They are incapable of connecting the dots and they blame it on a mistake made by them of on the fertilizer they use or on the soil they use etc.

They wrongly believe their pot size to be correct so they have to place the blame for their problems somewhere and it is never on their pot size like many times it should be.

You said; "these plants get big as fuck..like 3-4 feets with sweet buds.." Well I don’t know how much experience you have growing or what you believe to be; "big as fuck" but to me a 3-foot plant is anything but; "big as fuck" and a 4-foot plant is just respectable and nothing more. Hardly if ever has anything I have ever grown been less than 4-feet and sometimes they have been a good bit taller and if you count growing in pots outside I have had plants that were MUCH taller.

I never use anything smaller than 5-gallon pots, and that is VERY RARE, and normally I grow in 7-gallon pots and outside I mainly use 15-gallon pots but now and then I will put a plant or two into pots that are as much as 25-gallons, though that is only because I have them on my deck and figure I might as well use them and not because I believe I need pots that are that large.

Once a plants roots begin to circle the pot they are in the plant is under stress. The worse it gets the more stress the plant is under. Ideally a pot should be large enough that when a plant reaches maturity the roots will just fill the pot but not circle the pot. Anything less is to small to the plant regardless of what a person may think and feel and believe.

What so very many people fail to understand is that what impresses them could be more impressive if they used larger pots. But since they are impressed and happy with their results they decide that they know what they are doing and that they are doing it correctly and cannot begin to realize or understand that they are not getting the very most from their plants as they could be getting.

They mistake good results for being great results so they are happy with good results and never think to shoot for great results because they wrongly believe they are getting great results.

Of course many here will say they grow in 2-gallon pots and 3-gallon pots and that you do not need to use anything larger. They are in the group of people who wrongly believe they are getting great results instead of just good results and they are very pleased with their good results so they believe they are doing everything as well as it can be done and they will tell you things like there is no such thing as root-bound and plants do not need larger pots for any reason and there is no danger of problems growing in small sized pots.

Root-bound:
Root-bound is where the roots of your plant outgrow the container they are contained in.


The following symptoms may be observed if you allow your plants to become root-bound:


  1. Stunted Growth.
  2. Stretching.
  3. Smaller and slower bud production.
  4. Needs watering too often.
  5. Easy to burn with low % nutrient solution mixtures.
  6. Wilting.
 
Quickee

Quickee

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when i said..big as fuck..i mean big as fuck for a one gallon container..ive seen pictures of 75 foot tall trees..so i know theres are bigger of coarse..and i see your point as far as even though they are successful they was more potential
 
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