Roots growing through pot

[Ragphoto]

I'm 6 weeks in to veg and my roots are starting to grow through my 5 gallon green pots at the bottom, is this ok?

 

[DTFuqua]

Thats almost the way I learned and started DWC. I was laeving for a couple of days and use some rope to "wick" water up to my plant and when I got back, the roots were deep into the water in just 5 days. Just keep the light away from the roots and either repot or set your "green pots" down into another bucket with water or a nutrient solution

 

[Ragphoto]

What will happen if I don't repot?

 

[Snype]

I'm 6 weeks in to veg and my roots are starting to grow through my 5 gallon green pots at the bottom, is this ok?

How many plants are you running per light? How big are the lights? A 6 week VEG would fill up a 5 gallon pot. If I'm running 9 plants per 1000 watt, I leave them in a 5 gallon pot but if I'm growing less plants per 1000 then I need bigger plants so I would have them in a bigger pot in that case and in the other case I would probably be in flowering right now with 9 plants in a 5 gallon pot.

 

[Ragphoto]

My question is will the roots growing through harm my grow if I just keep letting them grow through without re potting? I have 3 plants under. 600 watt mh and about 400 watts of t-5 supplemental lighting.

 

[cambodianqueen]

That depends if you're doing it in a tent than it could be problematic seeing as how the ladies get nutrients from their roots and exposing them to light can cause them to burn and not soak up nutrients. If you dont have bigger pots to transplant you could build a little bed to fill with dirt under your ladies pots to allow them to expand in the darkness or just transplant into bigger pots