Transplant Q

Hellou and good morning IC!

Ok heres tha deal..Santaclaus came visit me this year early and gave me a waterfarm.And i wanna try that thing right away,but problem is i dont have any clones right now...so i thought what if,i put my soil plant in there?

I know it must be clean very well b4 wf.That soilplant is in 1 gallon bucket and bout 15" tall..just wonder is it too big to transplanting? And how easy is rinse all dirt away without harming rootsystem too much? anyone do this b4 and how you did it ? any advice i can use,thx!


*Weedom*

If you really can't wait, here's what you do.
Take your soil plant very carefully remove it from the pot, dirt and all. Rinse the root ball off with a hose nice and gentle. If you can do this under a green light, all the better, less stress. Move your plant into the waterfarm unit and get her going. I find it best to do this sort of thing after lights out and letting the plant wake up in its new growing unit after being in the dark for its normal dark period.

Weedom,
That plant is way too big now to successfully transfer to hydro.
Imho and ime, you'd be much better off just starting a new sprout for that waterfarm bucket.

Normally a small seedling sprout can be transferred to a grow rocks medium by carefully holding the smallish soil ball in a sink full of water and letting the soil fall away from the root system. The sprout can then be carefully supported by hand in the container (planter, net cup or whatever) while very gently filling around and over the root system in the container, until the sprout is supported by the rockage.

A small sprout with not much root system formed yet, is the best candidate for this since its root system will be able to adjust to a hydro environment with little or no stalling or stress. However, a big plant like yours Weedom, will suffer major stress and stall hopelessly in the process.

That being said, it's really easier, and healthier more robust, to just sprout your seedlings in a small plug tray filled with perlite or the 1" plug tray type rockwool starter plugs, then transplant it 'plug & all' into the grow rock filled station. The small 1-1/2" mini-cubes work great too.

hth

To add to what I said,
The root systems on soil grown plants is very different from the root system a hydro grown plant forms. With a well established soil root system like your 15" plant now has, it will have a very rough time adjusting to its new situation and most likely 'at the very least' stall while it stress's through the transition to developing a hydro root system, if it dosent just die from the stress and overwatered-like condition its soil developed root system suddenly finds inself in.

Do that nice seedling a favor and leave it alone.
Starting a new sprout in that waterfarm WILL grow like gangbusters and probably outgrow that soil plant in a few weeks time anyway.

In other words weedom, you are NOT going to 'save any time' trying to do a soil to hydro transplant here, because of the hardships you'll be causing on that 15" plant and the time it will waste in the transition if it lives thru it.

I know this probably isnt what you wanted to hear, but it's the right thing to do.

hth

Thx everyone 4 quick answers!

Yes,i think u are absolutly right.Just too unpatient and anxious to try that new growingmachine

Well,gotta cut few good cuttings 4 WF and get safestart.


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