[Crazy Composer]

Container Gardeners

This thread is intended to document your transplanting techniques and the theory behind those techniques. We want to know what clues you go by when deciding when to transplant, what you're particularly careful about during the process, how you're regimen benefits the plant, or any other idiosyncracies you have noticed.

Most container gardeners have a transplant regimen between seedling/clone stage and finish.

If you are one of these growers with established transplant regimens, we'd like to hear how you transplant, and why you transplant when you do.

Start my beans in cup of water for 12hrs. or when they sink.
About a 99% rate this way. Then plant them in a 16oz. cup with dirt and holes in the bottom for drainage. Buried them about 1in. deep. When they pop up place them under 400w for about two wks.

Then transplant them in 2 gal. buckets. When they get about 8 to 10 inches I and switch them to 12/12 with 800w After I sex them which is about 10 to 14 days. Transplant into 5 gal. bucket and they get 1800 watts till done!!

[admiralcornport]

any one else like to chime in on this?

[JJScorpio]

I start out in small peat pots and transplant into 16 oz cups at about 4 days. I then transplant into 6 inch pot at around three weeks, into 3 gallon pots at 5 weeks or so and then into 5 gallon pails for flowering. I like to transplant a lot because it gives me a chance to loosen the roots and keep them with a lot of fresh soil.

Transplanting is very easy if you set up ahead of time. Just take your next larger container and fill it with soil and dig out the indentation of the old pot. Then tamp the soil lightly, dump the plant out of the old container, loosen the roots a little and set it into the new hole and fill around with soil. I only water lightly so the roots will reach for water and fill in. After 2 days I give a good watering....

[minds_I]

Hello all,

I try to break away any of the old soil fromt eh rootball. I then use my fingers to loosen up the root ball and actually spread it out so that the roots are on top of fresh soil instread of being buried in it. I put fresh soil over the top of the roots and water in heavily and leave alone for a week.

I use superthrive

minds_I

[Closet Funk]

Seedlings- small pots (2 weeks)
Rooted Clones and Vegetative- 1-2 gallon pots (2-4 weeks)
Flower- 2-3 gallon pots (final home until harvest)

*each transplant will get a shot of SuperThrive and Root Juice to ease transplant shock and make more vigorous roots.

[Maj.PotHead]

like to start off in either 2x2in or 3x3in square containers
if ya buy flowers for outside your home like these where from you'll have nice containers for many starting grows. i like to add 20-25% perlite to my potting soil for freshly planted seed

these flats will hold the plants 2-3 wks n/p from seed when i transplant is when the leaf tips just start to curl under and roots are in the bottom. this time around i transplanted into 2 liter soda bottels tops cut off drainage holes drilled in bottom and airation holes in sides for roots, holes in the sides help air get to roots and pass through soil easier the pot drys faster also as a result. transplant into 2-3 gal square containers to finish veg then 4-5 gal for flower. my soil for a veg stage transplant contains 1 cup bat guano 1 cup blood meal per 5 gal soil also added 1 cup whitney farms dolimite lime. for a transplant for flowering i use 1 cup seabird guano 1 cup bone meal 1 cup lime per 5 gal soil, for veg the soil has a hi N for flower has hi P med K under no circumstances will i use mirical grow soil continous feeder type. really nothing special just the above and lotsa love

the reason's why i use this type of transplant regiment is because ive found it to produce nicely formed root balls each transplant. the roots grow out towards the edge of the container then down and consume the soil within, ive gone from a nicely not to compacted 2 inch pete cup rootmass to a 22 gal rubbermaid sectioned in half for two plants and 2--11 gal very solid rootball's

I germ with paper towels and then once taproot shows they go into 16oz beer cups with holes in the bottom. After about 9-14 days I transplant into 6" pots, they stay there untill they show preflowers and then they go into 2.5g pots for flowering, they are usually badly rootbound by the end of flowering, but I'm very limited on space so whatever.

At every transplant I innoculate the soil with EN/EA (a beneficial fungi and bacteria tonic)

another thing, if I start from clone, I start them in peat pellets and once rooted they go into 44oz drink cups and then 2.5g pots to flower.

[Guest423]

i do all transplanting in clear cups...when i see alot of roots it's time to transplant either outside or in 3 gallon pots...all get some superthrive or B-1, grab the cup, tip upside down so the plant is between my middle and ring finger, give a gentle squeeze and maybe a shake and the whole plant, root, and dirt comes out in one nice solid ball...then put it wherever she's goin