transplanting large plants

[Red1966]

btw JJ i watched your carport grow, super plants man! i would send you a like but i dont think i can yet or dont know how....

Look for "like reply" in the lower right hand corner of the post you want to like. It won't appear until you have a minimum number of posts. I don't know what that number is, tho.

 

[Red1966]

this weekend i will try a transplant, ill let you guys know if i fuck it up or it turns out great, im shooting for 25-30 gallon smartpots, i would love to go bigger (like 100 gallon) but soil gets costly when your lazy and dont want to make it yourself.

Try cutting the bottom out of the pot. Never need to transplant again.

 

[Silky Shagsalot]

Try cutting the bottom out of the pot. Never need to transplant again.

bog did/does this.

 

[DrunkenRampage]

Try cutting the bottom out of the pot. Never need to transplant again.

actually red, this has crossed my mind, was thinking of taking my angle grinder with an abrasive blade and cutting the bottom right off, and burying it half way into the other pot to maximize the root zone. but then again at 15$ a pot i might go s'mantas route. like gr33n said, its probably mostly roots at this point i can feel them at the edges less than a half inch under the soil. this will be the first time i have used smart pots as well, my friend tells me i wont go back after i use them. i made the mistake of not staking them either and last night we got pretty much a fucking mini monsoon, i found three of them laid right over in the morning, the pots got beat on with rain and saturated and the wind blew them right over ugh.....guess ill make enough screw ups this year to learn for next. thanks for your support guys!

 

[purplegrower02]

This is why i love the airpots i use.

transplants are so easy and I've never seen roots grow like they do in these pots.

 

[Red1966]

actually red, this has crossed my mind, was thinking of taking my angle grinder with an abrasive blade and cutting the bottom right off, and burying it half way into the other pot to maximize the root zone. but then again at 15$ a pot i might go s'mantas route. like gr33n said, its probably mostly roots at this point i can feel them at the edges less than a half inch under the soil. this will be the first time i have used smart pots as well, my friend tells me i wont go back after i use them. i made the mistake of not staking them either and last night we got pretty much a fucking mini monsoon, i found three of them laid right over in the morning, the pots got beat on with rain and saturated and the wind blew them right over ugh.....guess ill make enough screw ups this year to learn for next. thanks for your support guys!

We learn more from our mistakes than we do from our successes. Plants that size should produce $2,000 or better. Who cares about a fucking $15 pot?

 

[Red1966]

This is why i love the airpots i use.

transplants are so easy and I've never seen roots grow like they do in these pots.

You don't have to use the bottom of an airpot. I've seen trees (real trees, not pot) grown this way.

 

[757growin]

Hello fellow growers! So, being new to all this, (three years deep wet behind the ears), this is my first year trying to grow under the sun. i still have an inside crop but i wanna see what mother nature has to offer. Well, there isnt a word to describe how unprepaired i was. I usually finish out my grow room in 10 gallon pots which is sufficient enough for under the HPS, and i made the mistake of throwing out 6 plants in the same pots around the beginning of July. From what i read, after plants get a certain size its not a good idea to transplant again. After looking at my garden and the size of my girls, I am 6'2, and the girls are at my neck in those pots, and where im from, Maine, there is still a good month and a half of vegging. I have never had a plant go rootbound, but i am now terrified i will lose my whole harvest or at least dramatically decrease my yields because of these pots, and i had no idea the way these things grow outside, nothing like the grow room. So i would like to know if anybody here has personally transplanted plants from 10-15 gallon pots to larger pots? or is this crazy stressful and difficult? I tried googling this but came up with nill for results, would love to hear from a person who has done this. any help would be great! Thanks....

Theres no way you have a month and a half of veg in Maine. 3 months from now ur up to ur neck in snow..

 

[purplegrower02]

Yea i was thinking the same thing about that month and a half left in veg.

I'm a couple 100 miles south and my plants will be showing flowers any day now and finish end September to mid October. I would say your plants are just starting to flower right now, so if you want to move to a bigger pot do it very soon. I personally don't like to disturb them once they start flowering.

 

[DrunkenRampage]

Theres no way you have a month and a half of veg in Maine. 3 months from now ur up to ur neck in snow..

http://www.maine.gov/dmr/sunrise_table.htm showing roughly 12/12 at the first of october. ive never grown outside so im not sure when they will flower 14/10, 13/11? either way they are growing rapidly and need to be repotted regardless of how much veg time they have.

 

[DrunkenRampage]

Yea i was thinking the same thing about that month and a half left in veg.

I'm a couple 100 miles south and my plants will be showing flowers any day now and finish end September to mid October. I would say your plants are just starting to flower right now, so if you want to move to a bigger pot do it very soon. I personally don't like to disturb them once they start flowering.

plants showing no flowers, but yes i would like to get them moved before they do so

 

[DrunkenRampage]

We learn more from our mistakes than we do from our successes. Plants that size should produce $2,000 or better. Who cares about a fucking $15 pot?

good point man, im sometimes guilty of having a dime hold up a dollar

 

[purplegrower02]

When outdoors they usually start flowering at 13.5hrs of sunlight. It's not like growing indoors where you switch it to 12/12... even though my indoor plant get 1 3hrs of sunlight and flower perfectly but I also use 730nm to make them "sleep" faster.