Mothers hydro to soil?

[BlackVenom]

Hey everyone, so im facing a small problem where my mothers are growing too big in my hydro system and was thinking about transplanting them to soil so i can control their size easier. Can I switch from hydro to soil without stressing the plant? Or should i suck it up and prune the shit out of them?

 

[geopolitical]

The easiest method is to just take a cutting, root the cutting and that's your new mother in soil. Transplants between hydro and soil are possible, but can sometimes cause severe stress on the plants.

I would just prune them.

 

[MaLaN]

Hey everyone, so im facing a small problem where my mothers are growing too big in my hydro system and was thinking about transplanting them to soil so i can control their size easier. Can I switch from hydro to soil without stressing the plant? Or should i suck it up and prune the shit out of them?

Either, make them their own separate system, or do a cloning frenzy... Or if you dont care for those clones, just trim her bush

 

[Aeroguerilla]

either idea works well i trim back until they get soo old and barky lookin thats its time for a new mother

 

[Mr.Bill]

I just took a mother plant and turned her from a soil plant into a hydro plant. No problem. Minimum damage. No reason why I did it though, I just wanted to do it. But yeah surely would be easier to just make a new mom. But you can do it, or you might kill her, most likely she'll just geek out for a couple weeks then adjust. You should just suck it up and prune her "bush" like MaLan said. If you do do it though I'd love it if you threw some pics up in my thread. I'd love to see you do it. I love that stuff.

 

[Andyo]

lazy

lazy

geuss you been lazy with the pruning bro, prune hard i take cuttings every 2 weeks but still have to prune the week in between.
plan to make new mothers in soil that fit your program schedule as well as the hydro mothers

 

[Bud_Soldier]

correct me if i am wrong but my understanding of hydro was that the reason you can grow large plants in small containers is because the plant has everything it needs provided to it 24/7 the roots grow well and have large masses but they don't have to reach out like soil grows. You take an established hydro plant with a big root mass and throw it in some dirt i can only imagine that plant is going to be stressed severely and have all kinds of nutrient inbalances. The plants roots will all be bunched together in a root mass and by the time those roots try to spread out in the dirt your going to have issues reguarding nutrients. I would have to suggest against taking a large established hydro plant and putting it in soil. Thats my opinion.

 

[Nitrain]

What about taking a well rooted clone from 4x4in rockwool into soil? anyone?

 

[Mr.Bill]

no problemo Nitrain.

 

[Hydro-Soil]

Done this hundreds of times.... maybe you can find an old thread of mine from when I used to post, back when I wasn't disgusted with the TOU.

 

[humble1]

What style of hydro are you transplanting from?
You should take as many backup cuttings as you need, wait a week for her to recover somewhat, and then transplant into dirt.

 

[planted1]

Ive trimmed roots a few times with no ill effects, you risk losing a plant transplanting it into soil. its pretty hard on em