First time grower: White Widow Feminized

[Clewie]

Hello! These ladies are 2 weeks in (day 1 being paper towel germination). They are in solo cups with Happy Frog soil. I will likely transplant into 1 gal then 5 gal final fabric pots. Simple question here is : when should I transplant these to the 1 gal? The leaves have reached the cup edge (which I have read is a time to transplant), but it doesn’t seem to have as many established nodes as others have when they transplant.
looking forward to learning from, and growing with you!!​

 

[crucialbunny]

Multiple transplants in most grower's opinions is unnecessary. If they were mine I'd give them another 10-12 days in their solos and then go straight into the 5 gallon. The better the root ball in the cups, the less problematic the transplant will be. Seedlings need very little in the way of nutrients so they'll be fine for a bit longer where they are.

 

[Clewie]

Good deal and appreciate the insight. I was unsure about multiple transplants, but figured that I wouldn’t wear shoes 4 sizes to big as I would “grow into them”, so why not for the seedlings!

 

[Gingerbeard]

Oof crucialbunny I just posted this to another thread. You might see it...

Hey ...You will want to add perlite to your coco. 30% perlite to 70% coco. My towel sprouted went to coco on Oct 1 and poked out on Oct 2. All are starting to grow their first one finger fans. Better results than I had with FF Ocean Forest.
A popular seedling grow pot is a Solo cup. But whatever works. Some people think a second transplant and root trimming helps growth. Trimming roots is a common thing to do when transplanting vegetables from trays, if you do anything outside.
Since I have sun to use, I go with Solo cups for sprout, then into one gallons. This allows me to go from tent to sun without much fuss. Once I put them into their final five gallon fabric pots, they stay in my tent.
Since they need constant nutrients, I've been giving 1/16 tsp of veg nutes and CalMag. Since I'm using a new nute, I'll be increasing strength in a day or so.

 

[PuravidaC]

I'm assuming you have holes in the bottom of solo cups so you should be seeing some roots coming out of those holes in 10 to 14 days. That is when I transplant to final container. I used to use 5 gal fabric pots but switched to 3 gal for the last couple of grows and everyone did fine. Good luck!