Is my pot to small for my plant?

[darthstoner09]

Hye, My Plant is 12" tall right now, and I dont know if my pot is still a good size for it. It is 12" wide and 9" tall. Should I trasnfer my plant into a bigger pot? The reason I ask is that the plant really hasnt gotten taller in the past 5-6 days. Thanks guys for the help!

darthstoner09 Reviewed by darthstoner09 on 08-17-2006. Is my pot to small for my plant? Hye, My Plant is 12" tall right now, and I dont know if my pot is still a good size for it. It is 12" wide and 9" tall. Should I trasnfer my plant into a bigger pot? The reason I ask is that the plant really hasnt gotten taller in the past 5-6 days. Thanks guys for the help! Rating: 5

[smokeafatty420]

wait ill it gets a little more wide (like the body of the plant) because thats when the roots start getting larger. but start looking around for a new pot.

[trupothead420]

yea, the general size pot is 2-3 gal...mine are only 1/2 gal and the plants got rootbound after bein in flowering for bout a month....but def put in bigger pot b4 flowering b/c the plants can double to triple in size...looks good tho....did u top it? looks like its growing out into a V.. good job brah :stoned:

[darthstoner09]

No i did not top it. I dont even really know what that means. This is my first grow. Is it a good or bad thing that it is growing into a V? Thanks for the help to, I got plenty of bigger pots around the house, Ill just have to do a transfer soon.

[stinkyattic]

indica- yes, it will. Just not to its potential.

The rule for pots/dirt is 1 gallon dirt per 1 foot of finished plant height. But transplanting too soon is also not generally recommended by houseplant books; the plant just grows roots and that's it for a while. I like to let my plants get just a touch rootbound before transplanting them. It is also nice because then the whole root ball slides out in one clump rather than breaking up.
Avaoid planting in clay pots because the roots stick to the sides and it's really hard to transplant without damaging the roots.

[iwantFUEGO]

when the latest you would transplant (in a flowering cycle)...?

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[Racerx]

when the latest you would transplant (in a flowering cycle)...?

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I mentioned this in a thread before, but I have been in the position not once, not twice, but now 4 times where I have had to transplant in flowering. Essentially, most of my plants like their size, but once in awhile (maybe due to more or less air in the soil then others) one gets rootbound. Unfortunetly for me, it seems this only happens in flowering. My most recent transplant was over 3 weeks into flowering. I used a simple method of cutting the bottom of the pot off. Since its a plastic pot, with a good saw (better yet a dremel or air tool or grinder) cut the bottom off while holding the plant as steady as possible. Take the bottom off, and have your new larger pot ready. Set the plant into the new pot, with dirt still around the plastic pot. Pack it in lightly. No watering. Give it a couple days and a good water. When your done and you bud, pull out the first bucket and you find a root system that has fully developed into the entire new bucket. Hence one of the reasons outdoor plants can thrive so well. Anyways, the recent transplant I did was yet another affirmation that plants need roots and space. Within a couple days the leaves were perked up, its color was returning, and even its smell was better. A week later almost, its once again grown at about 3x its previous rate (its been stunted for awhile). Now, from being behind, its even one of the most advanced in its cycle and easily catching up in height.

There are variations to this process I have done. One was to tape or wrap some twine around the pot after you have cut a line down the entire side, leaving a half inch at the top still connected. Cut the bottom off. Place the pot into the larger pot like the other method, but a little deeper. Cut the very bit of the top still connected, and lift the cut up pot out. Its a lot of work, however this was required when despite many tries, I could not get the plant to come easily out of the pot to transplant.

Obviously this doesnt apply to the poster of the thread...as your not using plastic. As long as you can transplant before flowering, cannabis seems to be prettly resilient. I have even transplanted from a botched hydro setup into soil with success.

[stinkyattic]

I transplant within the first 2 weeks of flower with no apparent harm.
The quick and dirty way is just by turning the pot upside down while supporting the soil with my other hand and smacking the bottom a bunch of times until the whole mess falls out, into my hand of course, then carefullt supporting the root ball and setting it gently into its new larger pot.
But if you have more space than plants and don't need to crop aggressively (keeping plants in the smallest possible container to save precious space), I'd suggest repotting one week before switching to 12/12.

[darthstoner09]

Well, I repotted it, It was worrying me to much so I just did it. There was a big root ball on the bottom, so im pretty sure it was time for another pot.ill post a picof the new pot later

[trupothead420]

No i did not top it. I dont even really know what that means. This is my first grow. Is it a good or bad thing that it is growing into a V? Thanks for the help to, I got plenty of bigger pots around the house, Ill just have to do a transfer soon.

by topping it it allows the plant to grow 2 main colas instead of one, but since u didnt and dont even really know what it is, then....hmmm...maybe it was jus me, does ne 1 else notice this in the pic....lookin great tho brah.......now that u have put them into bigger pots u shouldnt have to worry too much about them becoming rootbound...GL... BTW..darth, this is my 1st too. so im jus learnin too...wha i posted was jus from wha i have read, been told etc....