Question about Transplanting

Is it nesseccary to let a seed grow in a small cup only to transplant it into a bigger one later? or could i just use a big pot right away?

seed -
Auto Early Wonder Skunk Fem.

medium -
FF Ocean Forest

nutes -
FF GB, BB, TB trio

Lights -
27w CFL (5500k) x2
26w CFL (2700k)

Using a PC Grow box, once setup is complete.

Your vegging soil may be too hot for the seed. Start in a cup with starter mix.

Try starting seeds/clones in FF Light Warrior. I start in 16oz Cups w/FFLW then transplant into 2gallon pots or FFOF.

well i ordered the FFOF online, so if i was to order light warrior, it would take until around tues - wed and my seeds are germinating right now

For years I thought the same way -- why TP twice when once would do it? Then I started keeping good notes on my grows.
Here's what works for me.

If you TP directly from a solo cup to a large pot you are more likely to get a tall, scrawny plant with large distances between bud nodes
(a bad thing). Reason is that when the seedling goes straight into a big pot it will spend 2 weeks or more developing the rootball it needs to
support itself in the large pot. Station yourself directly above your plant and look straight down. If the leaves are growing wider than
the pot you can be sure the root system has expanded to the same size. By the time the leaves reach the outside of the pot the roots have already
hit the sides of the pot.

So now I TP my rooted clones and seedlings into a 4-inch pot and leave them there for 2 weeks. By then the roots are bound and the plant devotes more
resources to building up the branches. You want more branching because that promotes more budding sites. By letting the seedling get rootbound in the small pot it forces the plant to
grow more branches.

Good luck, BigSteve.

Young Stoner B said:

well i ordered the FFOF online, so if i was to order light warrior, it would take until around tues - wed and my seeds are germinating right now

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In that case you should just put um in the OF some people say its fine for seedlings others say use LW. I personally like to be safe and just use LW but you should be ok. Maybe water the OF and let them sit in the sun for a few hours b4 planting the seeds.

Some have trouble with seedlings but they can be hardy little things. 'Hot' soil will mess them up so I start em in little rockwool cubes, wait for roots to be poking out here and there, then pop them in soil with ferts. No feed for a while after though.

Just buy a bag of Miracle Gro Seed Starting Mix. Its $3 a bag. Use it for three weeks then switch over to your Ocean Forest. As for container size... nothing wrong with a bigger container. I hear some people say something about the oxygen but that's total BS. As the medium dries up, it's going to be pulling in air to the roots. That's why you don't water until the container feels 50% lighter from when you first water. You want that vacuum effect. As for a bigger container fucking up the growth, I don't see that in any of my grows. Stretch is caused by lights being placed to far away or to much nitrogen and to little potash during early development.

for my most recent grow i used ocean forest and plastic party cups for the first 2 weeks until they reached veg then transplanted them into 5 gallon containers. It shouldn't make too much of a difference using starter or ocean forest, just make sure your ph levels are where they should be. I dunno if I'd ever use miracle grow for anything again, way too many bad experiences with growing plants in general with that stuff haha, but to each their own.

I think i will plant them in 16oz cups for now, and then wait about two weeks then transplant to a bigger pot. Anyone have a idea on how big of gal pt you can fit in a pc grow box?

best thing for u to use would be a cuboid shaped recepticle of some variety and make it a pot. You could maybs push 2gal. However a regular 1 gal pot is like 8". Imagine a window box u see plants in, you want something like that but smaller.

Start them in a little cup, and when they are about as long as your hand, transplant them

Alright thanks guys, im going to transplant them.. just going to stick with FFOF