BigHornBuds
Well-Known Member
I have found that transplanting just before flip , will cut down on stretch too.
I go straight away as in most cases I'm potting up
to Anticpate that stretch
I've yet to encounter any 'side effects'
good luck
lol...many times I go direct to the 10-14 day stretchAgreed.
Unless you've damaged the plant in some way ect, I found 0 bad happenings going straight into flower the same day as uppot/repot.
Ill take clones from a mother 1 week before I plan on flip. Rooting takes 7-10 days. Veg for 60 more. Start in 32oz cups/Promix BX, when roots fill the cup, uppot to 5g/Promix BX.
I veg in 5g plastic pots, under 1000w, while my other plants are flowering,.
By the time its time for flip, the 5g container plants are rootbound, and ready for uppot.
I'll slightly rough up the roots, to let them expand, and speed up the lateral root growth process, and plant them. IF you don't rough up the roots, it will limit the expansion of the central ball. All of my plants in 20 gallon container are rootbound at the end of the cycle.
So from being rooted at the start of flowering cycle, my closes after 70 days, and in 5 g pots, are ready to be upotted into a 20g container, and flipped.
I found that a GOOD PLANT will completely fill the rest of the 20g container by the time the plant is finished. So in my experience, Ive found no drawbacks.
Exactly. And how you tell that (obviously you cant see it) is the plant is drying out the medium daily or every other day. The pot lift method and sticking finger in there is your "eyes" and your technique here.until the container is filled out with roots......
I have transplanted and flipped on the same day many times.
It works really well because the flip/transition period initiates more roots.