Repotting??
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bigbud2012
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dont forget any roots that are in the plant are NOT allowed any light otherwise ull kill the plant from the roots upwards...not sure about your question tho as im also having to repot mine and have height problem too...repotting can be such a f**er lol
bigbud2012
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repotting can also stress your plant and may turn it hermie which im worried about with mine
bigbud2012
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some people dont think first and have to rush into it like me lol
Yeah this is the plan!
was thinking about topping her after she Is in her new home?? What you think?
Will do dude! Thanks 4 the advice!
canefan
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Once your root tips start to poke out the bottom of your container it is time to step it up either to the next size or to the final container she will be flowered in. Do not worry your plant is not going to die from the bottom up once your root tips are exposed, the tips simply die back and stay in the container. I doubt Bigbud has ever grown anything before.Yeah this is the plan!
Is in her new home?? What you think?
Unless you have a big mishap during the transplant process your plant will suffer little if any stress, usually they will respond in a positive manner within hours. If, they don't it is normally something you have done wrong. When transplanting with dry soil where the entire rootball slides out you need to scar the sides of the roots and also on the bottom roots to stimulate more root growth into the new soil. How much? comes down to practice but they are rugged plants in veg.
Just a general rule of thumb for newer growers would be 1 gal per ft of plant, it is more complicated that but for starters. Allow your plant to grow good roots again before flowering, 2 wks if you can. More roots, more bud possible. Depending on strain you will double the size of the plant in stretch some more some less, clones don't stretch as much as seedlings normally.
Your are looking at about 24 inches or so in height flowering now you can lst to make it bigger but shorter or selecting a method of topping for her. So just figure your final height you need, try to findout how much your strain is known to stretch and figure from there. Then figure your method to get the most plant for your growing conditions.
Good Luck with your grow
matthebrute
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repotting will not stress out a plant and cause it to hermie, many of growers for many of years have started in small pots and repotted sometimes up to 4 times throughout the life of the pplant. get your facts straight please.
if the plant is about the size you want it then repot it into a slightly bigger pot like a 10" and then flip it, also you can top and LST to keep the height down so dont let height issues slow you down, if you have the sapce for a bigger plant just not a tall plant repot in a much bigger pot and start topping and LSTing her to get it to bush out and let it continue to vegg for a while longer.
all in all its up to you what you do but the longer you vegg the more buds your going to get ...well generally speaking.
if the plant is about the size you want it then repot it into a slightly bigger pot like a 10" and then flip it, also you can top and LST to keep the height down so dont let height issues slow you down, if you have the sapce for a bigger plant just not a tall plant repot in a much bigger pot and start topping and LSTing her to get it to bush out and let it continue to vegg for a while longer.
all in all its up to you what you do but the longer you vegg the more buds your going to get ...well generally speaking.
PeyoteReligion
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Where did you hear repottin causes a plant to go hermi? That's kinda silly. Maybe if it was during flowering, and you dropped the plant and slapped it around or something. When I transplant, I do it so the plant hardly even knows it happend. Hempy bags are what I suggest, they are wide pots and of very tall, could help your size problem.
Like I said though, it will not herm a plant or even close. I transplant twice before I flower every time, and not one herm. You will do more damage not transplanting it before you flower.
joey555
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I'M SO SORRY THAT MADE ME LAUGH SO HARD- lol- dude said.........................i can't , ah man can barely type....
ah, dud
e talking about smashing his plant & slapping it around.....................got a visual!!!!
Imo, i don't think there are many stupid questions, but an abundance of stupid answers. PEYOTE is right tho, and so are u about ur question. like u I was always afraid of stressing or hurting the plant, but as I learned from some great ppl. on the DOGGIENUTS thread these plants are VERY TOUGH.
STRESS GENERALLY SPEAKING IS NOT A BAD THING, US HUMANS LIFT WIEGHTS & EXERCISE- FOR A LITTANY OF BENEFITS- ALL OF WHICH, W/ REGARD TO LIFTING & EXERCISING, INCLUDES SOME STRESS. SO TO IN THE VEGATBLE KINGDOM- WHEN U lst, therein lies the word STRESS, FOR INDOOR GROWERS WE SUBJECT OUR PLANTS TO STRESS W/ OUR FANS TO SIMULATE, NOT JUST AIR-CIRCULATION, BUT WIND.......WHY?.....I THINK U KNOW THE ANSWER= STRESS, so the plant can grow stronger & better branches.
so for the poor articulation...........but that made me laugh hard! + i'm not big on typing! hence my vids!
golddog
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How could I grow so much weed if I was worried about hermies ....I start my clones in Rapid Rooters (upside down) in a Humidity Dome with a temperature controlled heat pad.
1) When they show roots it into a Party Cup (16 oz) with - straight Fox Farms Ocean Forest - into my CFL veg box.
2) When they show roots through the bottom holes in my cup, I'll wait a couple of days (so all can catch up) then they go into 1 gallon - with FFOF & Perlite.
3) If I am going to veg them longer - they go into a 3 gallon - with FFOF & Perlite and veg them under 600 watt HPS.
3b) If I am not going to veg them, they go right under the 600 watt and go 12/12.
I prepare the pot I am going to transplant in by filling it with soil with the same size pot the plant will be coming form.
Oh and if you want to cause a female to grow nuts ...... colloidal silver ... and all of the offspring will be female.
resinousflowers
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stop getting para about your plants herming,plants should easily be able to take the stress of repotting.
golddog
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I didn't take any pictures yet. When the roots come out of the sides I will. The Rapid Rooters are in a Bell like shape so they can fit into a holding tray (small side in the tray). I have used them with the tray, but you cannot see the roots very well without taking them out of the tray.GOLD, i read about that; the upside-down part, but i never saw it. do u happen to have pix!
thanx in advance, best wishes......................joey
ttys
If you turn them upside down, with the large part on the bottom, they stand by themselves and you don't need a tray to hold them up. I actually put them on little plastic trays, which float on the water in the humidity dome. Otherwise they will become waterlogged.
When they show roots, they will be sticking out of the sides and they are easy to see.
matthebrute
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from what i understand about using hermie pollen to creater feminized seeds you have to use the pollen from one hermied plant on a totally different female, thus when people perform this act they use 2 females and collect they hermie pollen sacs and administer it to the opposite female plant.
I start my clones in Rapid Rooters (upside down) in a Humidity Dome with a temperature controlled heat pad.
1) When they show roots it into a Party Cup (16 oz) with - straight Fox Farms Ocean Forest - into my CFL veg box.
2) When they show roots through the bottom holes in my cup, I'll wait a couple of days (so all can catch up) then they go into 1 gallon - with FFOF & Perlite.
3) If I am going to veg them longer - they go into a 3 gallon - with FFOF & Perlite and veg them under 600 watt HPS.
3b) If I am not going to veg them, they go right under the 600 watt and go 12/12.
I prepare the pot I am going to transplant in by filling it with soil with the same size pot the plant will be coming form.
Oh and if you want to cause a female to grow nuts ...... colloidal silver ... and all of the offspring will be female.
good chance im wrong, good chance im right, you choose. or look it up before trying it lol
golddog
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You start with 2 very stable plants, ones that won't hermie... like my Pre-98 Bubba
The you use Colloidal Silver to force male pollen from 1 of the plants. This does not hermie the plants as does light poisoning or letting them just get old and produce last chance pollen sacks.
Then you pollinate the other female - all female chromosomes - all female seeds. No different hermie tendencies than the parent.
The V Ape
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You definately need to repot. I just did on my first grow and it did not stress the plants at all. It was quite the opposite with dramatic results. Check out my journal for more details but here is before repotting with major root growth against the cup and out the sides:
18 hours later this is what she looked like:
Quite the opposite of stressing the plant. (my newb 2cents)
18 hours later this is what she looked like:
Quite the opposite of stressing the plant. (my newb 2cents)