When should I transplant?

Oside

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First time on this forum! This will be my third season i have tried to grow out door and I am hoping nothing will go wrong, so I can at least see the growing process from seed to bud for the first time. Right now I have 3 plants that I started from seed, they seem to be doing well. My question is should I transplant them now, or wait till the beginning of next month to do it?

i have been putting Fox Farm grow big liquid plant food once a week.
 

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socaljoe

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What does the root ball look like? Given the size of the plant relative to the container size, I think you'd be better of transplanting now rather than waiting.
 

Sunbiz1

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I usually try and do a final transplant just prior to flowering, which in northern hemisphere is upcoming in a few weeks or so.

In your case, those starter containers are holding up vegetative growth. Therefore, I would transplant into 3 gal(standard mop bucket size)...and the sooner the better
 

Grobda

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Transplant now. The clones I got from a local collective were a little smaller than those and in the same containers when I got them. I put them into 1 gallon containers the same day and they were definitely rootbound in the original container. After 2 weeks outside (the first in total shade and the second in direct sun) they were ready for the 3 gallon pots. 2 weeks later roots were starting to come out of the 3 gallon pots so I dropped them into 5 gallon buckets.
 

carsick

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Have they shown their sex yet bro? If not u might want to wait before buying soil and pots u might not need if one or two of them is a male.....
 
How are you growing outdoors? Pots? Raised beds? In the ground? I grow in raised beds and I've put my seedlings out as young as 10 days old at the end of April. This is what they look like now: 100_4127.jpg100_4104.jpg The first pic is the best I have of everybody--even the veggies, sorry!-- and the second is of the actual seedlings that were only 10 days old when I put them out on April 28 this year. They went into pots first in case I had to protect them from cold, but the pots were sitting right where the plants are growing now. I never transplant more than twice: seedling germinated in peat pot, transplanted once to pot, usually within two weeks or so, and then transplanted one last time to their beds. Yeah, everyone is kinda ragged and what-not. I'm lazy and pretty much let them grow as they wish :) The netting you see on the laths is to keep the area feral cats from turning my beds into litter boxes. So, get them puppies out into the sun!! After you give them a few days of shade and dappled sun first so they don't fry :) But get them out of those pots into something much bigger and let them stretch their roots. Happy growing!!
 

Oside

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Thanks for helpful hints.i am not 100% sure what there sex really is....but I did some reading and from what I have read they seem to be females. I will be transplanting them into 3 different size pots, because in the past 2 seasons I had them inside a 2-3 gallons and they got some freakin Big they were soon going past my wall. From left to right I the picture 1.5qt, 2.5qt, 1.5gal.
 

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