keep in mind that roots will only grow into moist soil - they will not populate dry soil. You should probably water it some more and get all of the soil in the pot moist - and then let it dry a bit before watering again. All mix will be reasonably well drained so you shouldn't have a problem. That said, i agree with the advice that it is easier if you up-pot more gradually, and you will get more root mass overall if you do it that way.I have been very gentle with the watering. Like 99% of the medium is bonedry
be this guy 
Yeah nothing really left for me to add the seedling in question is fine, the container is a bit big and it is better/ easier to start in a smaller container and then move up to bigger ones as needed. The only advice I can add is to relax a bit I mean there was no obvious problem and you were already considering the possibility of killing it and starting over. You also said you put it in a bigger pot when you saw the root growth was exploding that plant is barely sprouted whatever root growth you saw should not have been visible in the first place in soil (clear containers are no good for plants) and a plant can get along in a 12oz drinking cup for almost a month before it needs to be transplanted. I can promise you, whatever you saw was not exploding at that age compared to what it's capable of full grown. What get's most growers in trouble is over thinking things, over worrying about things and trying to force a plant to grow faster or bigger then it's growing. They do this by giving to much water too often given too much fertilizer too soon as if they think they can force feed the plant into getting bigger and in reality they cause the soil to get toxic or the roots to rot and that ends up killing the plant. So you need to learn to relax and while you're waiting for it to get bigger you need to learn how to read when your plant is saying it needs more water or more fertilizer or a bigger pot because it will communicate all those things and more to you if you know how to read it properly.
Also this might come back to bite me in the ass but I'm going to make a judgement here. You sound to me like you're very new to growing cannabis but you're trying to come off as more experienced. You don't need to do that here, we were all new growers at some point and we've all made rookie mistakes that's all part of learning. If you go around trying to act like you're experienced when asking for advice people might just assume that you know certain things and then they might leave holes in their advice that trip you up. Not on purpose but just because you made them think you knew more then you know. Sure some may tease you a bit if you don't know much but guess what those people are hacks and probably don't know much more then you. Just let that sort of stuff roll off like water off a ducks back most here don't put up with the crap and eventually someone will come along to tell that person to piss off. Anyway that's it, good luck and enjoy your grow.
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Hi! Appreciate your answer. And i thank you for noticing my overthinking. It is something i tend to do with most things. The heads up on that is ussualy what gets me on track again. Propably my ADHD spookin around and triggering me.
The root growth i saw was due to me having the seedling in a see thrue cup inside of another dark cup. I have done this before to be able to see when to switch pot and yeah it was tiny but the seedling sprouted good and started to curl in the bottom. The reason for switching up is due to old failures with stunned roots and other problems with nutrient burns early. But i take all good advice to heart.
And yeah, i am very new to growing. This is probably my 8:th grow? I grow once a year(ish). And while not growing i spend alot of time reading this jungle of knowledge of cannabis. Trying to learn most of what intrest me. My intention is not to act like knowing stuff i do not. But thanks for pointing it out, when i read my posts again i understand what you mean. I am hungry for knowledge and appreciate all answers.
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Damn man! Appreciate the long explanation! Very good information
What is the biggest benefit of transplanting in stages? Or even doing it at all?
I mean, i have read alot about it but it seems ppl got very different opinions about it. Like most in growing…
I forgot to mention that i only grow auto strains. And the information about doing what is best for a auto seem to differ even more.
Big ups!
I've never grown auto strains so I can't fairly say if there is much if any benefit to transplanting auto strains. The main reason and or benefit to transplanting is to build up a bigger rootball which can then consume more water and nutrients by more thoroughly filling the space in the container.. As I understand it though autos are known for growing on the small side which is a trait that comes from the ruderalis part of the genetics and of course the auto flowering behavior also comes from the ruderalis genes. With most strains except maybe Sativa once you get past the first 2-3 weeks of flower there is little to no additional root development. Since with Autos the point at which it flowers isn't tied to the lights on/ lights off ratio that means there must be a set internal timer so to speak that triggers flower and that would mean you have a set period of time to develop the rootball. and therefore you could only develop the roots just so much. With non auto plants you can control when flowering begins by the light/dark ratio which means you could keep the plant in the veg phase and keep growing it bigger even well beyond the time it would be able to grow outdoors. In theory you could keep a plant in veg and steadily growing bigger for a year. However with that much time to grow the plant would get so big that it would be near impossible to make good use of the size in an indoor environment due to the limitations of lights as dictated by the inverse square law/rule which say every time you double the distance from the light source the intensity of the light decreases by a factor of 4. So with a 1000W HID (pretty much the most intense grow light) once you get above six feet or so the additional height is just a waste of time. Now you could get around this by having multiple lights at various levels keeping the intensity strong enough for good growth over the entire height of the plant but then you would run into a problem of the cost to light and the time to produce not being as profitable as far as return on investment. I mean lets say you normal grow a 6 foot plant with one light over head. Now lets say you veg a bit longer and grow the rootball enough that you have an 8 foot plant but now you need 2 lights to effectively cover that 8 feet, you've double the electricity cost but you've only gained about 33% in size to grow from. So the return on investment per gram of yielded but is going to be less on the 8 foot plant then it is on the 4 foot plant. Plus it's going to take longer to get to your harvest because of the extra veg time you spent growing it to 8 feet. You can however improve yield and therefore return on investment growing under on light if you use the traditional length or time for veg (2-3 months) but still develop a bigger rootball using a progression of transplants. When you go thru the whole veg cycle without progressively transplanting to bigger pots (typically 2 transplants) you'll either end up with a root bound plant that will negatively impact plant health and yield (if you use too small of a container) or you'll end up with wasted space in the container (if you use too big of a container). By starting with a small container and growing in it until about halfway thru veg, then transplanting to a medium size container for the second half of veg and then transplanting to a large container just before flower you'll have a rootball that more efficiently fills the large container without becoming root bound then if you just start with the large container from the beginning and never transplanting. That more efficiently root populated container will produce a bigger bushier plants then the plant grown without ever transplanting. Hopefully I'm explaining it all well enough that you can visualize what I'm say but it would probably be easier to see the benefits if I had graphical representations to illustrate things.
Now those who feel transplanting is a waste of time are most likely people who either go strait to flower shortly after the plant sprouts or who like to use a shorter veg period both being a way to control size for indoor grow spaces that have limited head room. Under that circumstance doing multiple transplants would seem like a waste of time. The scenario that would probably best benefit from multiple transplant is when you want to grow a full sized plant outdoors but in a container so you can easily move the plant if a need arose such as their being a high risk of detection if you kept a plant in one place outdoors for it's whole life. Being moveable would allow you to change locations every few days to reduce the risk of the plant being detected. There are one or two other indoor scenarios I could think of where growing a plant bigger and more bushy thru transplanting such as filling out a SCRoG with one plant instead of 2 or more but I've probably already made this post long enough that you're wishing I would come to a conclusion.
Again I could be wrong since I have no experience with autos but based in my understand of how autos function I guess I would have to conclude that if you're growing auto and you always plant on growing autos then multiple transplants is probably not practical for you and that you would be best off growing in a container big enough to accommodate the rootball that will develop over the course of the plant's growth cycle without ever becoming rootball which I would guess would be to start it off in a container no bigger then 5 gallons. The one thing with doing that is you would have to be really careful with watering until the plant got to a good size by not watering to runoff in the beginning. If you were to water to runoff with a seedling in a 5 gallon pot you would run the risk of things like root rot. Okay, hopefully I addressed everything you were perhaps wondering about?
But She seem to handle it fine.
I really appreciate the thorough answer and all the information, i truly enjoy reading it. Thanks alot for taking the time bro!
On a sidenote, the little one is getting along just fine
I was a little bit worried of the temps by night due to growing up north
16+ Celcius by night and 19+ Celcius by day. Sadly enough this is the best i can do for her atm. But all good
