To late to sprout a bean hoping for a big plant?

TurboTokes

TurboTokes

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Having never vegged before, frost has just left my area (southern ontario canada)

Is it to late to sprout the seed and plant it straight outdoors?? Ive got a 20 gallon pot of promix sitting doing nothing, just not sure if it would be a waste in such a huge pot. Would like to get a good size plant just not sure if I missed the window
 
ganga gurl420

ganga gurl420

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TurboTokes said:
Having never vegged before, frost has just left my area (southern ontario canada)

Is it to late to sprout the seed and plant it straight outdoors?? Ive got a 20 gallon pot of promix sitting doing nothing, just not sure if it would be a waste in such a huge pot. Would like to get a good size plant just not sure if I missed the window
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20 gallons outdoors is not a huge pot. I would start them in a small cup for a week or two then transplant tho...
 
TurboTokes

TurboTokes

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Well a 20 gallon pot is pretty big when its being filled with promix and perlite and being waterred like its hydro on drippers.

Outdoors just adds a twist, wasnt sure if I would even fill this big pot if I popped beans today
 
too larry

too larry

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TurboTokes said:
Well a 20 gallon pot is pretty big when its being filled with promix and perlite and being waterred like its hydro on drippers.

Outdoors just adds a twist, wasnt sure if I would even fill this big pot if I popped beans today
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Say you dropped seeds in cups of soil today {5-18}. Sprouts in 3 days to a week, then 3-4 weeks of veg. That would have you transplanting June 15-22. So if you are harvesting in October, that would be 3+ months. With the drip system you will be able to get enough water to them, even if they do get rootbound.
 
TurboTokes

TurboTokes

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I popped 2 beans yesterday. Im on the fence about straight to final pot vs small pot.

If I open that paper towel and both have germed I may just try one in a bubble bucket outdoors, for shits and grins
 
GroErr

GroErr

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Not an issue in SO, and the 20gal pot will be about right since you're starting a little later. Any 8 week strain will typically finish around 1st/2nd week of October up here regardless of when you start them.
 
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