The Google has conflicting information (shocker). When and to what at transplant time.

twentyeight.threefive

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They look really healthy. I feel better though. If you said like 10 days I was going to really be down on my root game :bigjoint:. I'm usually out of Solo cups in 2-3 weeks unless I'm backed up with life happening shit to deal with. Just for my own learning, how do the bottoms of the cups look? If you have time, I'd like to see what you do for drainage and if it's significantly different than what I do. I cut slightly bigger than pencil sized holes on the edge of the bottom in two to three spots depending on my mood and pain level at the time basically. Not very scientific but I use a pretty good draining media so two holes is plenty and three is a safety factor I think.
Don't think I have any of the cups around but I drill plenty of holes just in the bottom of the cup about pencil size and about 8 or so?

I prefer my square starter pots though over solo cups. I just picked up like a 48 pack so that's all I'll be using for a long time.

Also I normally transplant out of those starter pots at around 14 days.
 

FirstCavApache64

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Don't think I have any of the cups around but I drill plenty of holes just in the bottom of the cup about pencil size and about 8 or so?

I prefer my square starter pots though over solo cups. I just picked up like a 48 pack so that's all I'll be using for a long time.

Also I normally transplant out of those starter pots at around 14 days.
Thanks man, that's a lot more than I do and could be accounting for the better looking roots. I don't leave them in their for very long and have very porous media so I can water daily so I've never been too worried about a bunch of holes but I'll add a couple extra next couple of seeds/clones and see if I notice a different.
 
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