Transplanting from hydro to soil?

cocobitzz

cocobitzz

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First of all, I'm not really a n00b at growing. And I am also far from a n00b at forums, I understand the "search" concept and have yet to find anything proving worth while, if you can find a thread please link me and feel free to close this. But I have a simple question, which hopefully has a simple answer. I have seen comparisons between hydro vegging and soil vegging, and understand hydro grows faster, but good soil is better for budding. I have a cheap, one night, bong toke induced hydro system set up, and am thinking of putting my 10 babies in it to veg. This gets to my question, before I switch to 12/12 for budding, I was thinking I could transplant the root ball into some good soil to flower. I'm guessing it would shock the plant for a few days or so, but what would be the least traumatic method for doing this. Gently remove the rootball from the perlite(or whatever medium) and gently put it in soil? Give it some light watering and healthy light and it will come back and flower?
 
Woomeister

Woomeister

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cocobitzz said:
First of all, I'm not really a n00b at growing. And I am also far from a n00b at forums, I understand the "search" concept and have yet to find anything proving worth while, if you can find a thread please link me and feel free to close this. But I have a simple question, which hopefully has a simple answer. I have seen comparisons between hydro vegging and soil vegging, and understand hydro grows faster, but good soil is better for budding. I have a cheap, one night, bong toke induced hydro system set up, and am thinking of putting my 10 babies in it to veg. This gets to my question, before I switch to 12/12 for budding, I was thinking I could transplant the root ball into some good soil to flower. I'm guessing it would shock the plant for a few days or so, but what would be the least traumatic method for doing this. Gently remove the rootball from the perlite(or whatever medium) and gently put it in soil? Give it some light watering and healthy light and it will come back and flower?
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You will find that the rootball holds onto the growing medium and if you try to gently shake it free you inevitably lose bits of root. I know of somebody that tried this and the plants didnt do very well for several weeks but then picked up, the best advise I can give is dont water for a while before transfering so any medium is dry and will fall away more easily. I have great doubts about your belief that soil produces better buds as with hydro the rootball is far more greatly oxygenated. Im sure you have good reasons for your beliefs though and dont take my comment wrongly.:joint:
 
cocobitzz

cocobitzz

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I have seen different grows personally that were using comparable materials (read: lighting, soils,hydro mediums, nutes, etc etc), and each one I have seen the payoff was noticeably greater from soil. Maybe there were other factors I didn't notice from one or the other, but the way it seemed to me is that soil had a greater yield. Any veterans have input? I would really rather this not turn into another Soil vs Hydro thread that will waste bandwidth and eventually turn to nonsense bickering and get locked.
 
cocobitzz

cocobitzz

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And also, would some perlite dingleberries really be all that bad? I mean if you think briefly about it, wouldn't that just be more perlite in the soil?
 
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