transplanting coco to coco??

[ogtommy]

my veg room only allows me to veg a fixed amount of plants at a time which i have curently maxed.i can only achieve this number using 1 gallong grow bags. ive been growing in promix hp and im switching to coco.im using 1 gallong grow bags for veg and going up to 3 gallong bags before i flower. since im moing to coco i was wondering how would that work? i was still going to veg in 1 gallong grow bags but then when i want to flower them, will they transplant easily into a bigger container? can you transplant? i cant find any information on this and it's a sticking point for me. it's the only thing holding me back. please help!!!!

 

[noyd666]

yes just transplant into bigger bag as you would. simple.

 

[ogtommy]

right on thanks for the quick reply. does the coco stick to the roots like promix, or does it all break apart like dust. what im asking i guess, is it better to transplant when the coco is just watered? or let it dry out a bit? If that even makes a difference.. thanks for the answer, my big sticking point has been solved.

 

[Treetroit City]

Moist or dry doesn't really matter. Not any different than promix really.

I wouldn't do it with them soaking wet but otherwise all good.

 

[noyd666]

as above mate. not soaked. easier than falling off a log.

 

[Globule]

Let the coco dry out a bit and the root-mass + coco orgy should hold together nicely for transplanting.
You'll end up with a mess on your hands if you do it with wet coco. As Noyd and ThirdCoast say, moist yes, soaking wet no.

I know that a couple of the more experienced growers on this forum also like to gently "fluff" the rootball a bit to loosen it up when transplanting, to give the roots easier pathways through the new pot media.

Good luck!

 

[vein5]

I have had young plants that were doing bad and I ripped the plant up with only a couple roots left. I just threw it into a dixxie cup and a week later it was growing great. But I would definitely let the coco dry out, otherwise it just falls apart.

 

[ogtommy]

cool .thanx. today is my first stab at coco. transplanting100 beer cups into 1 gallon pots and in 2 weeks into 2 gallon pots.if I don't master it today there's something wrong with me.thanx a lot FOR all the help!!!

 

[mmj916]

remember that in coco, you can get away with much smaller container sizes as compared to "soil" or soil-less mixes.

if you don't mind constant hand-watering, or are on drippers, you can rock the 1 gallons of coco for flower

 

[ogtommy]

I do have dropped a.actually setting it up tomorrow. thing is I also have about 400 1.5 gallon pots.figured they were too small.u think they are ok

 

[Globule]

It really depends on your strategy for growing bro.

1.5 gal of coco will be plenty for a SoG-style grow but if you are going vertical you would want a bigger pot than that to allow you room for a larger rootball to drive the needs of a bigger plant that has seen a few extra weeks of veg.

I'm doing a 5-plant scrog under 400w and have my plants in 2-gal smart pots which was plenty big enough in my last run.

1.5 gal of coco for SoG or a short-veg should be fine.

You can always repot a few into larger pots and let us all know if it makes much difference

 

[ogtommy]

Yeah,sounds good,will do.thanx

 

[touringfunkband]

Are you giving the plants any time to adjust to the new containers before changing over the light cycle to induce flowering?

 

[ogtommy]

2 days.i try to give them 3 days,but i got a tight schedule. 2 week perpetual garden.2 weeks in cloner,2 weeks in beer cups,2 weeks in gallon pot and then 8 week flower. im cutting down and flowering every 2 weeks so its hard to really change anything.

 

[Granger2]

Do yourself a big labor saving favor and skip the 2 gal. Go straight from 1 gal to 3 gal. Hell I go from beer cups to 3 gal. -no problems. Good luck. -granger

 

[Globule]

If you are switching to 12/12 a few days after you transplant then you are missing out on the opportunity to fill up your extra pot space with roots.

More roots will drive production of bigger buds, so there is almost no point transplanting into a bigger pot unless you take a bit of extra veg time to fill the extra pot space with more roots (as many roots as you can!).

If you are going to re-pot to bigger pots then you can stand to increase your yield by letting the plants recover in their new pot for a few days then let them veg for another week or so and if space is an issue then do some training/supercropping while they grow some more roots in the new pot space.

Otherwise not a huge benefit in repotting if you aren't going to spend extra veg time filling the pot with roots.

Once stretch has finished (usually first 2 weeks of 12/12 depending on strain), there is not a lot of root growth happening. The pants switch their energy from growing roots to building buds and this is where your extra week of veg after repotting will pay off.
The more roots you have soaking up nutes, the bigger plants/buds you can drive.

It's always a balancing act though. One time you overgrow, the next you undergrow until you get it in the sweetspot. And then the rules change again if you move to a new strain.

I love growing cannabis

Good growing to you!
Globs

 

[ogtommy]

I want them to stAy longer in veg but I have a space issue. I can fit 2 trays of clones, 105 beer cups and 104 1 gallon pots in my 6x8 veg area. if I bumped that up to 1.5 gallon I can fit 67 and if I go up to.2 gallon I'm d own to like 50.the plant I'm currently growing is a really short bushy indica. it does not stretch.After veging for a month it's 12" and it stretches to 18" during flowering, so I put 25-30 plants under a 1000watter to fill in the canopy with buds. that's y I need 100 plants and can't just veg longer.I'm on a 2 week perpetual garden.I harvest every 2 weeks and flower 100 more every 2 weeks.anybody have any ideas maybe I never thought of?

 

[Globule]

Ummm... so no chance of fitting a 4-plant PPK vertical-perpetual grow into your grow space then?

 

[ogtommy]

im not too sure about vertical growing. dont have any experience with it other than what ive read on this site. im interested and intrigued by the idea but it would take a major re vamp of my grow environment to switch it all to a vertical space. if it's possible to switch 25% of my grow room every two weeks then i guess it is possible, so i can keep up with the perpetual time line. i just dont know how my very squat indica plants will react to vertical growing. they dont stretch and it takes a month for them to hit 12" so 4 of them under a 1000w? i dont know...sorry, im not too sure what ppk is. please explain more if your willing. very interested
thanks