5 gallon grow bags/4 months in veg?

[Greenpassion]

I have 5 plants in 5 gallon grow bags. They have been in veg for 4+ months, and I won't be able to move them into the 12 12 room for some weeks out from here. Actually one of them can be moved into the 12 12 room as I will be harvesting one from that room in two weeks. That said, the ones in veg are two Wonder Woman, and 3 pure power plant. So being in veg for 4 months, they're good-sized plants, very wide and lots of tops as I have been training them. Do I need to put them in 7 gallon grow bags or will they be okay in the five gallon through to flowering?

[Toker1]

Go 7gal few weeks before the flip. Hell, go 10 gal if you can. Bigger roots = bigger fruits.

[Spidermite]

I agree with toker. If you can go to 10 gallon pots I would. My yields tend to be directly related to pot size.

[Toker1]

Exactly. I use1 gallon of soil pot size for every half oz of dried bud as a fairly decent estimate. Assuming all other variables are already dialed in. So 10 gallon pots can grow 5 oz per plant (dried).

[9fingerleafs]

re-potting a plant from a grow bag is very destructive to the roots, unless you just transplant without removing the 5 gal bag i would do it now to give the plant a couple of weeks to recover from the stress. you dont want to flip to flower with root damage/stress

[Greenpassion]

Oh, good to know. I've been keeping them all in the very same 5 gallon cloth bag that I put them in as seedlings, and getting 3 to 4 oz per plant so far. I never thought of repotting into larger bags. I find it
worrisome that it stresses them though... Do you guys ever just stay in the same bag or pot you started out in?

[9fingerleafs]

i only use bags as "final" pots, i use regular plastic ones: solo cups, one quart, one gallon and then straight into 5 gal fabric pots and into flowering. this last run i grew 8 plants in 5 gal pots outside and yielded 1100 grams of dried trimmed bud plus 200 grams of larf. thats around 150 grams per plant. its a lot but i use coco and have killer sun for 10+ hours a day. my point is 5 gal fabric pots are more than enough for a 5 foot tall 2 foot wide plant

[Greenpassion]

And is there a way to transplant them into a larger cloth pot without damaging them or stressing them?

[9fingerleafs]

just burry the small fabric pot into the second one like it wasnt there

[Toker1]

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.growweedeasy.com/transplant%3famp

[Greenpassion]

Yes I'm not new to transplanting. I've done it a million times I've just never transplanted from a cloth pot into a larger cloth pot. That tutorial doesn't say a thing about the method of transplanting from a cloth pot to a cloth pot.@9fingerleafs posted that it's very stressful to do that, and that is my question now. If I were to pot up to a larger size do I have to cut the pot off?

[Toker1]

No need to cut it. It would be much easier though. All transplanting is stressful to plants no matter what the container material may be.
I transplant fabric pots all the time. Not too much different than a plastic one. I flip the plant up side down. I’ll pull the fabric pot off the roots starting at the bottom. I contain the stem and top portion of the soil of the plant with my opposite hand. I start with pinching the bottom fabric off a bit first, then I get all the roots detached from the fabric on bottom by continuing to pinch of smaller sections on the bottom. From there, I use a slightly forceful pull on the bottom of the container and repeat that motion until the plant is completely removed.

[Greenpassion]

I'll try that method Toker1, as as cut one off

[Spidermite]

I have never had to cut one off. But maybe after 4 months it might be safer.