Root Bound?

\tGet the Right Sized Container or Pot for Your Cannabis\t\tKeep marijuana plants small by growing them in a smaller container\t\t\t\t\t\t\tWhen your cannabis roots don't have room to expand, it will tend to keep your cannabis smaller.
I have grown cannabis from start to finish in a Solo Cup, and the plant stayed very small, under a foot.
Basically...
Smaller pots keep plants smaller.
Some people worry about their cannabis getting root-bound, but that will likely only happen if you try to keep the plant alive for too long.
For example, if you're going to keep a plant in the vegetative stage for years, then you'll definitely need a bigger pot.
But if you're growing a marijuana plant plan to harvest it within a few months, then it's unlikely your plant will be affected by being root bound.
Even if you get a one gallon pot or smaller, when you get your cannabis to start flowering within a few months after the beginning of the vegetative stage, it will never have the time to get really root-bound.
For example, I have grown several plants from seed to harvest in a solo cup container.
The plants are fine even when spending their whole life in this small container, the biggest problem is just that the solo cups tend to tip over.
Because of easy tipping, I recommend weighting the bottom of solo cups if you use them, or upgrading to one-gallon containers.
The downside... When your cannabis is kept in a smaller container, you will notice that you have to water your plant much more often than if you kept your plant in a big pot.
As long as you're vigilent and water your girls often enough, then keeping your plants in a small pot is another simple, easy way to control the total size of your plant.
Keeping plants in tiny containers is especially important when growing in a very space-limited grow space, such as growing in a computer case for stealth reasons.
However, there are even more powerful growth control techniques explained below that allow you to grow big high-producing plants, but keep them nearly as short as if you restricted their growth with a small container.
Therefore I encourage you to read about all the other growth control techniques before making a decision about what do to with your plants.

 

thats if you want short bushy plants.i just put it there to show you that root bound barley happens

 

yes, it will resume. give it a few days to recover.

 

How long did u have them in solo cups? u can veg in solo cups for 3-4 weeks before u need to transplant them. And thats without problems happening. If your roots wrapped round the outside of the soil, i like to loosly break the roots up a little to get them to grow out. Then i plant them in next size bag/ transplant outside.

 

I spray the rootball with superthrive and toss on some MYKs , trim off some of the lower vegs and she will be fine

 

sorry i didn't reply. what theanswer21 said

 

how big do you want them. put them in two or three gallons with some fertilizer and you should be ok.

 

Hey remption, I started my plants from seed in red solo cups on April 19th and I didnt transplant them until sometime in June, and when I did,I only transplanted them into 3 pound coffee containers. I dont really know how many gallons that equals out to,maybe 1? Anyways, so far they a really thriving(i grow outside by the way) and am actually debating on wheter i should transplant them again.Also when transplanting a rootbound plant, gently run a razorblade vertically up and down the sides of the exposed roots/rootball to loosen them up and the younger roots will take hold in your new medium more easily. But please,before you do this,please note that I am by no means an expert and I tell you this so that you can ask a more experienced member for more info on how to accomplish this in a safe manner as to not hurt/kill your plant(s). Corto Malteze has always given me awesome info....

 

Root bound CAN definitely happen.  It happened to me this year.  I thought I would get an earlier start than last year.  Got the clones ready about a month earlier than normal, thinking they would get even bigger.  Problem was I left them in small pots or solo cups for too long and it did hurt my overall growth.  YES they did come back and start growoing again, but the damage was done.  They did not grow as fast as they could of and they definitley stayed shorter and squatier than normal.  Thay are super healthy vibrant green, no deficientcies, but overall vegative growth was slow.  Think about it like this.  The roots allow food to be absorbed into the plant.  If we root bound them, we constrict the root and dont allow the root to grow, in essence stopping the growth at the root will stop the growth of the plant.  The bigger the root the more the plant can eat, and the bigger the plant can get.  Its all a learning process.

 

If your plants become root bound you can always graft the root ball a bit. It WILL shock the hell out of the plant. But most of the time they will pull through and.grow just fine. I've got buddies that ha e to do it all the time BC they're being lazy, or just didn't have funds for teansplanting