New Grower Potential problem(s)/my possible solution!

[Need4Weed]

I started 7 autos in semi-clear green 16 oz, cups 11 days ago, with the intentions of moving them outside and planting them teir style in prepared holes, (link is in siggy). I was planning on using the red 16 oz cups, (beer pong type cups), but the store was out. Since I had beans soaking with tails I had no choice but to buy the see-thur green cups. Now I can see roots growing down the sides and a couple circling at the bottom of each cup, (which is really cool btw). Fearing that light might harm the roots, I purchased new cups yesterday. I was thinking I would just slide the planted cups right into the new red cups!. So I made drain holes in the new cups and suddenly thought, "why not go ahead and remove the bottoms from the green cups now instead of when I re-plant!" Thinking it would be a lot less stressfull on the plant now than later, I removed each bottom and placed them directly in the red cups. Oh yeah, I did add about an inch of medium to the bottom of each new cup, (I would have used pertlite, but all I have is the very large type and I'm afraid of too large air space might harm roots). I did have to use the large perlite to stablelize the cup, which no longer fit snugly after adding soil. I wish I could have posted pics of the process, but I can't up load pics at the moment. I will try again later ...

PS: Kind of dumb of me to think no one has tried any of this before. Mods please remove "my" from thread title if you happen upon this ... thanks!

 

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I started 7 autos in semi-clear green 16 oz, cups 11 days ago, with the intentions of moving them outside and planting them teir style in prepared holes, (link is in siggy). I was planning on using the red 16 oz cups, (beer pong type cups), but the store was out. Since I had beans soaking with tails I had no choice but to buy the see-thur green cups. Now I can see roots growing down the sides and a couple circling at the bottom of each cup, (which is really cool btw). Fearing that light might harm the roots, I purchased new cups yesterday. I was thinking I would just slide the planted cups right into the new red cups!. So I made drain holes in the new cups and suddenly thought, "why not go ahead and remove the bottoms from the green cups now instead of when I re-plant!" Thinking it would be a lot less stressfull on the plant now than later, I removed each bottom and placed them directly in the red cups. Oh yeah, I did add about an inch of medium to the bottom of each new cup, (I would have used pertlite, but all I have is the very large type and I'm afraid of too large air space might harm roots). I did have to use the large perlite to stablelize the cup, which no longer fit snugly after adding soil. I wish I could have posted pics of the process, but I can't up load pics at the moment. I will try again later ...

PS: Kind of dumb of me to think no one has tried any of this before. Mods please remove "my" from thread title if you happen upon this ... thanks!

Hey...I did something similar, pics in my outdoor auto grow thread in the Dutch Passion section. As a side note....I grew for almost 2 decades using 2 liter clear pop bottles, and never saw anything negative happen from roots getting light(thousands of plants and dozens of strains).

 

[HashMaster]

I started 7 autos in semi-clear green 16 oz, cups 11 days ago, with the intentions of moving them outside and planting them teir style in prepared holes, (link is in siggy). I was planning on using the red 16 oz cups, (beer pong type cups), but the store was out. Since I had beans soaking with tails I had no choice but to buy the see-thur green cups. Now I can see roots growing down the sides and a couple circling at the bottom of each cup, (which is really cool btw). Fearing that light might harm the roots, I purchased new cups yesterday. I was thinking I would just slide the planted cups right into the new red cups!. So I made drain holes in the new cups and suddenly thought, "why not go ahead and remove the bottoms from the green cups now instead of when I re-plant!" Thinking it would be a lot less stressfull on the plant now than later, I removed each bottom and placed them directly in the red cups. Oh yeah, I did add about an inch of medium to the bottom of each new cup, (I would have used pertlite, but all I have is the very large type and I'm afraid of too large air space might harm roots). I did have to use the large perlite to stablelize the cup, which no longer fit snugly after adding soil. I wish I could have posted pics of the process, but I can't up load pics at the moment. I will try again later ...

PS: Kind of dumb of me to think no one has tried any of this before. Mods please remove "my" from thread title if you happen upon this ... thanks!

The name for that is Tiered growing.

With the bottom removed you just put it slightly into your final medium and leave the cup in place.

 

[Need4Weed]

Hey...I did something similar, pics in my outdoor auto grow thread in the Dutch Passion section. As a side note....I grew for almost 2 decades using 2 liter clear pop bottles, and never saw anything negative happen from roots getting light(thousands of plants and dozens of strains).

I'll be checking that thread out for sure .. again, lol

The name for that is Tiered growing.

With the bottom removed you just put it slightly into your final medium and leave the cup in place.

Thanks HashMaster, I knew it was called something like that, as I've seen several photos of grows with the cup and plant sticking out of the final pot! I know autos don't have time in their short lives to be stressed out and whoever invented tiered growing deserves a max rep slap!!

 

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I'll be checking that thread out for sure .. again, lol


Thanks HashMaster, I knew it was called something like that, as I've seen several photos of grows with the cup and plant sticking out of the final pot! I know autos don't have time in their short lives to be stressed out and whoever invented tiered growing deserves a max rep slap!!

Not quite tier growing that I a doing....to avoid confusion for you need4weed the pics of the autos ad the custom instatransplant pots are located here https://www.autoflower.org/threads/...lorado-and-daiquiri.52205/page-7#post-1072648

 

[HashMaster]

I'll be checking that thread out for sure .. again, lol


Thanks HashMaster, I knew it was called something like that, as I've seen several photos of grows with the cup and plant sticking out of the final pot! I know autos don't have time in their short lives to be stressed out and whoever invented tiered growing deserves a max rep slap!!

Well ...... that was me so slap away !



Just kidding, that's been around a long time.

Auto's have improved since back when they were too temperamental to be transplanted.

But there are other advantages to tiered growing.

Peace
Hash