Courgettes - broken roots

Just had to re-pot some courgette seedlings - hadn't noticed that the roots had exited from the bases of the individual cells and had become completely entangled with each other underneath the cells.

They've now been planted in individual pots, but naturally most of the roots that had come out of the bottom of the cells broke off (it was the only way to remove them from the cells as the roots couldn't be separated let alone pushed back up through the drainage holes in the cells). However, they all had very good root bundles inside the cells, so will breaking off the tangled roots that exited the cells cause any problems?

 

They'll be fine

 

Thank you, that's a relief.

 

I know everyone says that you should plant them in seperate pots/cells, or put two seeds in a pot, removing the weakest.

I'm afraid I do the latter, but can rarely remove the weakest. I find that they germinate within 24 hours of each other, so I tend to carefully split the two seedlings apart, as soon as the true leaves are visible in the centre of the seed leaves. I shouldn't, I'm a bad, bad girl, but it works every time, and I have a spare plant in case of slug attack...

 

Yes, continuous checking would be required for the roots as they do tend to materialise pretty fast!

Thanks for the advice Sian and Shiney.