Tigershoes said:
As the plant grows bigger will this eventually cause issues with restricting the plant?
If you look at the posted pic, you will notice that most of the roots have grown around the plastic, not too many have grown through it...
I don't know what kind of plant that is, but if it's an annual, I totally wouldn't worry.
Going by my experiences with plant roots and plastic... I start a lot of plants in plastic pots... They send their roots through the pot into the sand below, and I stop watering them.
Later... Like several years later... I get tired of the spot where the tree is growing... Dig it up and try to get the pot off it's roots....
Usually must cut it off, as the plastic gives enough that the roots gets large as needed... Never had a plastic pot to cause the plant to die by root constriction.
Had plenty of plants die from pots... Fire ants move in, plants die from lack of moisture... But, never from root constriction.