AWESOME THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! Hey I'm gonna post another thread but why I got you here I will just ask you cause yo seem like you've done this for awhile.. I have decided to beg for another 2-3 weeks possibly a month so I want to transplant my girls into 5 gallon grow bags.. They are in standard 3 gallon pots at the moment that are really cheap and I hate them.. I was wondering how to go about doing it and if I even should or will it cause to much stress on them and be detrimental?? I have never transplanted anything in that big of pot so I'm stumped on how to do it.. My girls are about 38 days old and right under a foot tall... Very bushy though
After youve done a thousand or so it comes pretty easy lol. The way i seeit is you need to plan the end height and the desired canopy by the size of the light your useing and the amount of plants you are running. This will determine the size of pot you will want to use. I generally do eight five gallon grow bags under a 1000 watt, or six 7 gallon bags, or four 15 gallon bags.
Mechanicaly transplanting goes like this, mix your soil with pearlite in a tote or muck bucket or wheelbarrow, or if your in soiless just break it up into something and add the nute water to moisten it slightly. Then lay the bags all out and use a scoop like an old pot or a shovel to fill them about half way or a little more up. Make a spot for the plant to sit with your hands by moving some dirt to the sides and your ready to start.
I water a day or two prior so your not transplanting wet root balls, anyway, pick up the old pot with the plant and squeeze it all around and push up on the bottom. Then turn the plant to a 45 degree angle facing down with your hand supporting the stalk. Most people want to flip it right upside down, dont, because when you turn it over the all the dirt will fall into the plant and stick in there which sucks. At a 45 degree angle you can stand above the new pot and all the dirt falls out and into the new pot and not on the ground or into the plant.
Slide the plant out and tip it right side up and examine the roots. If they have been circling the pot badly i rough them up a bit esp the bottom so they arent stuck and then drop it intothe hole. Cover it all up with dirt and replace the plant marker youve been holding in your teeth so you dont loose it. Then water it in. Watering it in the first couple times is important because the dirt will shift and move so you want to create a basin around the stalk. Kinda tough to explain but i like to have a ridge along the outside of the pot and lower in the middle so the water doesnt run down the sides of the pot and out, instead its caught in the mini round dam youve constructed around the outside perimeter of the pot.
And your done.
