Had To Transplant 4 Weeks Into Flowering

Hey guys,

I realized what was killing my plants.... the Miracle Grow perlite and or kinda root bound. Its all they had at the store and it has fertilizer in it as well. Well long story short, my plants rooted enough to start going near the bottom of the pot which was like 2 to 3 inches of pure perlite. So they were getting burned bad because of it.

You can see the damage here

https://www.rollitup.org/marijuana-plant-problems/432467-3-plants-flowering-problem.html#post5738995

So instead of letting them die a long death by the overpowering perlite, I decided to transplant them. I hope I picked the better option, than letting them die slowly? I just hope I didnt hurt or shock them too bad.

I took them out of their pots. Saw that the 2 to 3 inches of perlite on the bottom was still intact and had roots growing in it. So I tried my best to scrape all the perlite off while trying to keep the roots intact. Then filled them back up with the soil and wetted them down.

Here are some pics so you can see what I was talking about. You can see the roots in some of them.





















Any opinions would be much appreciated.

Thanks.

Where did you get that soil?/??

Miracle grow gots it's name because it is a Miracle anything grows in it.

You should be fine. I have taken plants and VERY carefully washed the soil off with luke warm water from the roots and had minimal trouble

Lord Dangly Bits said:

Miracle grow gots it's name because it is a Miracle anything grows in it.

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I think your move was redundant and could only hurt your plants at this stage of flowering.

Like you were told in the thread you linked to here, your plant didn't really have a problem, and we can also see that in the pics here - your plant was not root bound - it reached a very good holding position of white healthy roots, and 4 weeks in flowering, the plant would/will not grow any more roots anyway.

a root binding situation that requires interference (which doesn't help much this late in, anyway) is one where you can hardly see the soil behind the roots holding it, and roots are so thick that they start choking each other and turn brown. This was obviously not your case:

http://hort.ufl.edu/woody/images/rootsoutside.JPG

A few weeks back I transplanted 4 plants 3 weeks into flowering due to defs and smallish pots and it did wonders for my plants. I know most people probably think it's unnecessary to take such drastic action but I was given advice and acted on it and I can only say it worked well for me. I'm new to this and used miracle gro which I won't be doing again. I'm harvesting next week but I've already sampled the goods (only a couple of the minor buds tho) and WOW, the strain is cheese, the hairs are getting brown but I'm just waiting for the trichs to amber up a bit.

Check out my below thread and look at the last couple of pages and you'll see my pics of how they looked 3 weeks after the transplant with a before and after pic. Good luck man, it's a bumpy road when you're new at it all but it's so rewarding when you pull it off..(that's me stating the obvious)

https://www.rollitup.org/marijuana-plant-problems/425594-cheese-yellowing-all-over-but-4.html

Splendid,
I looked at your thread and the photo in Post #31 looks to me like the plant is doing it's normal thing during flowering. The flower nutrients are low in Nitrogen and the leafs sometimes start to yellow from thwe bottom of the plant moving up. I think you could have just given them a small dose of Nitrogen and it would have stopped it, instead of replanting. When you replanted them, you gave them soil with a fresh does of nitrogen.

You may very well be right LordDanglyBits (heh, like that name) but I thought it would be better anyway for the roots to have more space to play around with regardless.