Adding more soil to pot

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Beautiful Plant! Well done. Be careful leaving your pots on concrete if you are leaving them out to cut down your light bill. Where I'm at it'll hit 100°+ for weeks on end which heats up the concrete which will cook your roots if you aren't careful. As long as you lift it up off the floor you should be fine but direct to concrete can stunt them if the temps in your area are extreme.

Looks like you're in a 3 gallon nursery pot? If your grow space allows for a large plant I would transplant into a larger pot and keep vegging until you get to a size that you know will finish using the space provided. Sounds like you are in a tent? If so what size tent are you in?
Yea its ina 3 gallon pot but how would i transfer the plant over? when i did it while it was still in the solo cup was a breeze flipped cup over whole lump came out together then threw into 3 gal pot.
I got the plant inside my closet its 5ft wide and height before it hits shelf is 5ft 3 in. And 2ft deep. I should probably get a tent lol
 
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Yea its ina 3 gallon pot but how would i transfer the plant over? when i did it while it was still in the solo cup was a breeze flipped cup over whole lump came out together then threw into 3 gal pot.
I got the plant inside my closet its 5ft wide and height before it hits shelf is 5ft 3 in. And 2ft deep. I should probably get a tent lol
Damn! Sounds like you're going to need to bend that thing over.

I usually go from solo to 1 gal to 7 gal. When I transplant from one pot to another I like to fill the new pot with enough soil so that when I place the transfer pot on top of it the soil line from the transfer pot lines up with where I want the final pot soil line to be. I then sidefill, making sure to gently pack the soil so that there are no air pockets. Once I'm satisfied with the sidefill I'll carefully slide the transfer pot out of the soil leaving a perfect mold of the transfer pot. CAREFULLY, lay the transfer pot next to the hole and try and slide the plant out of the pot. You might need to loosen it to unstick it from the sides of the pot before you lay it down. Once you see you can slide it out easily try and slide it out so that when it comes out you are right next to the hole so if the soil starts to crumble it doesn't have to travel far. Be careful you don't push dirt into the hole when you are doing this.
Also, I like to dust the hole prior to transplant with some Mycorrhizae so that once the root system has developed a nice fungal network will also have developed.

I've found that the best times to do this so that the plant slides out easily is when the soil is barely damp. Not dry but almost.
 
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