When is the best time to upsize your plants pot? I noticed when I stuck a small jaboticaba seedling in a 3gal pot it went into shock and is growing slower than the ones I up sized to a 1gal pot...I talked to Richard Wilson and he said it was normal for jabos to go into shock when upsizing. Is this your experience? Also what are the problems with planting too small of a seedling into too big of a pot?
Yeah, always upsize by increments, never huge leaps.
Signs that it's time to upsize:
* Significant attempts by roots to grow out of the bottom of the pot
* Watering needs become overly frequent
* Soil becomes hard-packed with roots under the surface (or even on the surface)
* When you try to take the plant out a little bit, it tries to take everything out of the pot
If roots circle around the pot too tightly, it's often a good idea to loosen up some of the outer roots, even if it means doing a little damage to them. It'll help the plant's root system as it expands.
I often end up going on sort of an incremental repotting spree, where I do the biggest plants first, which frees up their pots, and then I move the next largest things into those pots, then the next largest into their pots, and so on down the line.