Transplanting
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OLDSKOOL707
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You need to use microbes when you transplant to reduce stress also you can lower the watts on the lights only do a 1 gal water for a 7gal-10 pot typically if youre indoor.
MickFoster
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Explain your transplant procedure.
Nik-E
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So, I been transplanting my seedlings into gallon pots when they out grow the red solo cup. An I put about a quarter of the bottom with soil, spray it down with reg. Water an then place my plant in the pot and slowly add soil around it. An spray it here an there as I add soil. 2 came out fine an the last one wilted an drooped, an the other drooped an had orange brown edges like it burned maybe idk.
Doug Dawson
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The biggest issues I find with transplanting are either not being gentle with them or not having the same environment. The gentle part explains itself. I grow in coco. I use coco plugs so when I am going to transplant I water the coco with the same solution I use on the coco plugs. The idea is that when you move them there is really no change in medium. Same soil, same strength nutes etc. The plant really doesn't know it's been moved and only reacts to stress. If you were gentle and the medium is a duplicate of what it's already in than it will show no signs of any issues. Well at least that's what works for me.
MickFoster
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I don't quite understand your technique.
Are you making an impression of the solo cup in the one gallon pot so that the hole is the exact same size as the solo cup.
This isn't a solo cup obviously, but this is what I mean.
Nik-E
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Ok, so that makes a lot of sense. I'll definitely keep that in mind. Thanks for the help.
Nik-E
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No, I take it out of the soil it's in an place it fresh soil. I had double checked though and my pots aren't gallons at all hahaha, they're like maybe half gallon maybe...
Nik-E
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That explains a lot, and I will have to take note of that. I'm new to this an trying not to grow more than I can handle. At the same time, I have 4 plants, 2 healthy ones and 2 coming back from being droopy and wilted. I almost think I should get a couple more seeds going. J.I.C. the droopy ones don't work-out
DoubleAtotheRON
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Like @Doug Dawson said... and I have a similar technique. I use the same soil in my small pots as my big ones. I dig a big enough hole, and place it in there and feed it the same thing it has been feed. I'll even leave the hole open a little on the sides and get the feed down in there, but not too much...cover it. Then let them search for water. Just feed around the stem, and make your circle bigger as they grow more roots. Pretty soon, you'll be saturating the whole pot. If you do this too quick, they'll drown on you.
JimmyJackCorn
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Wait a minute. Are you actually pulling the plants out of the soil, or are you sliding the whole chunk (roots, dirt and all) out of the solo cup and planting that whole thing in the new pot?
MickFoster
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That's the impression I got when he tried to explain his transplant procedure.
No wonder he's having problems.
Nik-E
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I slide them out of the cup, but take most 9f the old soil away.
twentyeight.threefive
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That poor plant. Probably not worth saving. When you CAREFULLY remove the plant from the old container, as a whole, place it in a hole in the soil of the new pot. ALL the old soil stays with the plant as you move it to the new container. Disturbing the soil and roots is what causes stress to the plant.
Hold the plant upside down and slid it out of the container. This whole entire rootball goes into the new container undisturbed.
Make a space in the new pot the same as the old container.
Place entire rootball in new container. Done.
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Herb & Suds
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DOA next
xtsho
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Decades of growing and transplanting thousands of plants without using microbes and never have any issues from transplant shock that many seem to have. The main issue people have that are struggling to grow cannabis is overcomplicating things, bad watering practices, and over feeding. Microbes are not going to do anything to eliminate those issues.
Forget it's cannabis and treat it like any other plant. There is nothing special about cannabis with regards to what it needs to grow being any different from thousands of other plant species. There may be an industry that specifically targets cannabis growers with a bunch of products but that doesn't mean they are needed. I planted my first vegetable seed 50 years ago and have been gardening and growing plants ever since. I've never used or needed all these products people seem to think they need.
And as far as microbes go I raise my own since I'm transitioning my garden to KNF and JADAM growing methods.
twentyeight.threefive
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Overfeeding and extra supplements is one of the hardest things to get over. Bro science myth after bro science myth, coupled with nutrient companies pushing bottle of this or that has perpetuated the idea that cannabis needs all that. More EC equal more buds, right?
People overfeed or think they have a "CalMag" deficiency and pump more shit into their plants compounding their issues. I was amazed with my results feeding no higher than 1.2 EC my entire last grow. Less is more.