Flowering and repotting help needed

Quick question for the cannabis growers out there. Well kinda quick. So I am getting ready to flower and I hope to delay till next payday in two weeks. Problem is I just transplanted 3 of 5 plants to avoid root lock. 2 of those 3 started to get sad appearance so repotting had to be done. (This is not a math problem I promise) I went from 3 gallon to 10 gallon pots. (See picture below or maybe above, wherever it ends up) The average repot from solo cup to 3 gallon was 1.5 weeks per repot. 2 repots. I waited nearly 2 weeks for this repot to 10 gallon. Here comes my question, can I make it two more weeks in these 10 gallons under veg lighting from today before it will root lock or affect the grow/potency of the buds? Or should I save a lot of space for flower cycle by flowering now? Remember I cannot go up a pot after all 5 are in the 10 gallons. My other option is to switch my bulb and keep clones under cfls until I can afford my second light setup, but I don't like this option. Sorry for the short story but thank you for the help.

Oh yeah, I am a noob so laymans terms would be outstanding. Again thanks a million.

Those ten gallons are huge. You can keep them in there for another month before you flower if you want. When the plant outgrows the container in volume its time to transplant. Theres no formula for it from a book. Go by the size of the plant.

Can they survive all of flowering in those 10 gallons?

CommanderTRON said:

Can they survive all of flowering in those 10 gallons?

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Hell ya. I flower way bigger plants than that six to a light in seven gallons.

For sure, 10gals are huge for most indoor guys. Some guys veg a month in 1/2gals then flower in them

You are sweet and ready to go. My last lot were in 8 gal and that was overkill

10's are huge indoors unless you got the ceiling space (or width) , if you can let those plants veg a few weeks you will be very happy with the returns, transplant the other 2 into similar containers, veg till a week after payday and flip...not sure what your grow conditions are tho..space/lighting/strain, if you don't mind give us those juicy details and we'll all pitch in where we can...a lot of my indoors is flowered in 3gal smart pots... seed/clone (solo cup) --> 1 gal disposable grow bag --> 3 gal smart pot for last week of veg and flower...usually 10-14 days in solo, 3 weeks in 1 gal, then up pot, its strain dependent however, I must be high this is mostly useless info i'm typing

This is all great info. Ive grown a couple times but this is my first serious grow. As for the strains, there is Pineapple Chunk, Blueberry Skunk, Critical Plus, Pineapple Express and Atomic Bomb.

I have 8 foot ceilings with 1000 watt Raptor 6. Vegamatrix noots.

CommanderTRON said:

This is all great info. Ive grown a couple times but this is my first serious grow. As for the strains, there is Pineapple Chunk, Blueberry Skunk, Critical Plus, Pineapple Express and Atomic Bomb.

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Looks like some good stuff, I have the Critical+, Critical+ 2.0, and Channel+ (Medical Seeds version of critical) all in my garden right now in a mini grow-off lol. They are all seedlings atm but I do have the 2.0 in flower as well, she's a beauty

Here's an update, btw does anyone know if they're to far topped for a screen of green? It's a method I would like to try.

CommanderTRON said:

View attachment 3682040 Here's an update, btw does anyone know if they're to far topped for a screen of green? It's a method I would like to try.

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Looking good. Remember those tops will stretch anywhere from 1.5 to 3 times their current height once you start flowering. That will be the time you start pulling them through the scrog to keep them growing horizontally during the stretch. If you're having trouble keeping your tops even lst and even super cropping can help with that.

I would also think a scrog would be easier to do with just one big plant rather than several smaller ones, without careful control of the canopy there is no point to a scrog and several plants can wind up with varying canopy heights easy.

Right on. So you think I could scrog at least one of them? What about individual scrog setups for each plant? Or do you think the yield would be optimal leaving them as they are?

I'm only flowering 4 at a time.

Cyrus420 said:

Looking good. Remember those tops will stretch anywhere from 1.5 to 3 times their current height once you start flowering. That will be the time you start pulling them through the scrog to keep them growing horizontally during the stretch. If you're having trouble keeping your tops even lst and even super cropping can help with that.

I would also think a scrog would be easier to do with just one big plant rather than several smaller ones, without careful control of the canopy there is no point to a scrog and several plants can wind up with varying canopy heights easy.

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Ty for the info

I all ways let my plants get root bound ,it makes them go into serious growth mode once you do re pot.There looking really well but they will hold in them pots a while longer.

CommanderTRON said:

Right on. So you think I could scrog at least one of them? What about individual scrog setups for each plant? Or do you think the yield would be optimal leaving them as they are?

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Try to fill up a single big screen with the four plants.

I would just build one table for them,they look prime for a scrog,

Do I start the scrog with flowering or before?