When do I transfer?

bmeat said:

sounds awesome. id have a foot deep bucket if i could.

i always start in my biggest container now cause i hate waiting for the roots to unwrap themselves and start growing again like they do when you start in a 16 oz container and transplant. takes a day or two for them to reroute the roots, rather bypass that struggle.

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you can break up the root ball some when you trans plant. if there to root bound and you just plant them, they mat never grow right. look up Airpots, or air pruning. the pots are kinda messy because of the holes, but the roots go nuts in those things. i start mine in the 2.4gallon pots, and after one month of veg they have to be moved out. i could no longer flower in 5 gallon pots with those used for veg either, the roots grow so well the 5 gallon was root bound by week 3 of flower. root circling isnt good either, which is another huge plus about air pots. normally they say a you should have a gallon of medium for every month the plants alive. by that measure i SHOULD only need a 3 gallon pot, maybe 3.5 for a extra week or two of flower. i have 18 gallon pots fillup 80% of the way, so maybe 15 gallons, and it just used the whole pot perfectly, no wasted soil. finally!, first time for everything i guess

Samwell Seed Well said:

i dont ever see any transplant stress

i use myco and bennie additives and kelp soil additives, as well as hormone based growth additives based from kelp

if you see stress , you did it wrong, always room to improve

even me, im trying to transplant less . . . . down to two transplants startign in a 16 oz cup from seed

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no stress cuz you know what your doin. by bennie additives do you mean b vitamins? dont want to confuse any one.

AimAim said:

Any chance you might have a link to the root maps you have seen. Sounds interesting, I'd like to see it.

Thanks - Aim

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this isnt quite what i was talkin about but its the same really. the chart i referred to originally was from a cannabis horticulture book or video, i cant remember which its been to long. hope this helps some.
http://mycorrhizas.info/root.html#system

i mean

Ten plant-growth promoting rhizobacteria have been added to make this inoculant truly beneficial. ROOT BLOOM CONTAINS:
Endomycorrhizae -
Glomus intraradices (55 prop/gm) Glomus mosseae (55 prop/gm) Glomus aggregatum (55 prop/gm) Glomus etunicatum (55 prop/gm) Glomus clarum (5.5 prop/gm) Glomus monosporum (5.5 prop/gm) Glomus brazilianum (5.5 prop/gm) Glomus deserticola (5.5 prop/gm) Gigaspora margarita (6.5 prop/gm)
Bacteria -
-Bacillus pumilis - 2,300,000 CFU/gm -Bacillus coagulans - 2,300,000 CFU/gm -Bacillus megaterium - 2,300,000 CFU/gm -Bacillus licheniformis - 2,300,000 CFU/gm -Bacillus azotoformans - 2,300,000 CFU/gm -Bacillus thuringiensis - 2,500,000 CFU/gm -Paenibacillus polymyxa - 2,300,000 CFU/gm -Paenibacillus durum - 2,300,000 CFU/gm -Azotobacter chroococcum - 2,500,000 CFU/gm -Pseudomonas aureofaceans - 2,200,000 CFU/gm
Yeast -
-Sacchromyces cervisiae - 2,200,000 CFU/gm

this stuff is by volume bacteria and mycos, and per cost is hands down the best myco additive on teh market nothing even comes close

Samwell do you own that jug? if so can you tell me what the application rate is. they gave a huge tub as a sample but tore the label off and marked it not for resale. there hr rep never answered back, been 6 months of guessing. id appreciate it

the directions are at the website, i think

but i use it on every trasnfer about half a tablespoon for small plants and up 2-3 for bigger but i normally just use a .5 table spoon as my plants are always small when transfered

i looked and looked. maybe im not high enough.. damn ive been using it way to light then, i make tea with it at 1/4 tsp a gallon. i feed them that on clean water days

when i use a tea for drench thats what i do

you foam up? your good