Transplanting

Hey, I just transplanted two plants today, and was wondering if there were any better/less stressful methods of transplanting than just getting a shovel and digging it out.
Cheers.

teleportation

once in ground, they should stay there

Haha, I guess if you're planting in the ground, sure.
But if you have to grow in pots its a useful thing to know.

hmmmmm......what's the shovel for?

hold the plant and flip the pot upside down

Shovel is for holding the plant's root system together while I change the soil in the pot, so it doesn't die.

So you use a shovel on potted plants? Interesting.

Prepare the new pot (buy another, don't fook about with one). The best way to avoid undue stress when transplanting is to transplant directly into the same growing medium. So make sure the soil etc is the same type as the first. Then flip her over, slide her out and sit her in the new bigger pot, water, job done.

If you're growing indoors, only time you should need a shovel is to hit anyone who tries to enter your growroom, lmao

Derple said:

Shovel is for holding the plant's root system together while I change the soil in the pot, so it doesn't die.

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I don't get it. That doesn't exactly sound like transplanting to me... sounds like you butchering the root ball to switch out the soil as it stands.

Transplanting is when you take the plant from it's current container and put it into a larger (preferably 2x) one with fresh soil. But when you transplant you don't have to strip the soil from the root ball or anything at all, you just take the plant; root ball, soil and all and place the existing soil\roots into the larger container which should be filled up with enough fresh medium to accommodate it. Fill in the sides with more fresh media, water and you're done.

In my current case I'd over fertilized.

Thanks for the input though.

Take a butterknife and run it along the inside rim of the pot. That will dislodge any roots growing
into the pot itself. Then flip her over.

BigSteve.