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Originally Posted by where_with_all
What is the height of your plants when transplanting? Mine are about a foot high- usually-maybe not this year if all goes according to plan. I know they have 32" cups as well but I guess its a trade off with how much money I spend on the xtra dirt
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Of course everyone has different growing techniques. In Houston, because temperatures ramp up dramatically from plant out, we tend to grow and plant larger plants so they will hopefully take off faster. So we do pot up from 4" pots to half gallon or gallon pots when the plants surpass 8".
But in New York, I think you could probably just start seeds a week or two later and not have to fool with potting up after 16/20 oz cups or 4" pots. Because of cool temperatures around the time you plant out, the smaller plants will probably catch up quickly to the ones in gallon pots. It really comes down to soil temperature. If you can check your soil temperature at time of plant out, that will tell you if the tomato plant is going to stall or take off.
Based on no scientific analysis but just looking at my garden, I will say my plants that were in gallon pots have about a 2 week advantage over the ones that were still in 4" pots and much smaller transplants. But then again temps at the time of plant out were mid-70's during the day and mid-50's at night. And we're back to that for the foreseeable future, until the furnace kicks on.