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Originally Posted by Lil Neutrino
Hmmm...I wouldn't go to a larger pot just yet. You could try and mix the lime in to the top layers of the soil without going too deep and possibly damaging the roots. Might try the forum search engine and see what pops up, seems like I've read another thread or two pertaining to your situation...probably in this same subforum (Indoor Soil Cultivation), or maybe in the Pests & Problems subforum.
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Have to agree. A four inch pot is good for a 12" plant. Keeping plants in smaller pots 'till near root bound then moving them to pots about 3x capacity makes for a fuller root ball. Move them again if you have to.
Putting small plants in big containers gets them to send tap roots down and fan out the side roots. Leaves lots of roots in the top of the soil and lots wrapping around the bottom of the container with huge pockets of great medium chock full of nutes and no roots to feed.
Major problems result. If you water from the top and don't get run-off the tap roots starve and they are the roots that go big for water. The side roots are the scroungers that are looking for nutes. Without a good spread of both roots throughout your grow medium you'll end up over fertilizing your plant because they'll look like they're starving while lots of nutes are sitting doing nothing.
I was out tonight hooking up peas to the fence and relating my decades of cannabis culture to my wife's garden.
Sure am glad I don't have to deal with all those bugs in my world! LOL
Get everything straightened out with your girls in the pots you've got before you start moving them to a place that may hinder their future growth. JMHO