4th wk Flowering Q:

[icky420]

I have been having a few problems lately LINK-(Old Post)-LINK so I decided to take a look at the roots after someone suggested it. Well they are surely root bound and I was wondering if it would be a bad thing to maybe repot them into something a little bigger. I know its not good but I dont know what to do and I really cant believe they got this bad. If I remember correctly I did let these veg a little longer then I normally do.

 

[Guest]

repot it at 4 weeks? hel no!! too much shock your about to chop it anyways

 

[kush07]

I agree with ZERO here. Transplanting at this stage is stress inducive and as such could cause a hermie. Just curious, but do you know the approximate flowering time that you plant requires?

Happy Toking

 

[guineapig]

icky unless the plant is absolutely extremely rootbound and showing signs of stress,
you might want to leave it alone......however, i have seen this done at week 4 with
no problems whatsoever in a situation where 2 plants were growing in the same 5-gal
container and had grown to monstrous proportions......

its not the best thing in the world to do, and if you are a beginner at re-potting there
is a chance you could make a mistake like drop the plant or damage part of the plant
somehow or another.......but if your plant is suffering this can be done....

yer pal guineapig

 

[Verite]

Rootbounding can stress a plant to hermie also.

 

[icky420]

My grow info is in my Sig. I do think they are a little to root bound to stay that way for another 3-4wks. The mothers of these seeds went about 9wks. I think I'm going to re-pot, I'm no noob... Thats basically what I was asking. So hypothetically, as long as I dont disturb the root mass, I should be ok?

 

[Guest]

you can even disturb the small root hairs but dont jar the big taproots .
use some organic b-2 or a full-range B vitamin to combat stress. rootbound can cause stress to i agree with everyone when they say that. the roots do actualy keep growing at this point so it might not be so bad of an idEA.

 

[dre86]

Double pot?

 

[MTF-Sandman]

The only problem is that root growth has pretty much stopped at that point of flowering, so repotting will have a very minimal benefit for them. At this point, I'd just ride it out and use the knowledge you gained from this grow to make your next one better.

 

[TNTBudSticker]

Cut the bottom off your pot..and fill another pot with soil and sit the one you cut off and put it on top of the new pot...so the roots go straight into the new soil...rather than take out the whole rooty fruity And see fruity rooty go to pooty

 

[Blackmelo]

depends how much you stress it really.

Alot of ppl here reckon it will hermie if you do so, I say it could possibly hermie.

Depends on how good you can transplant. Generally the smaller the plant, the less stress since it is easier to transplant.

Up until recently I didn't even consider the term transplanting stress to be too important until I saw some1 I am teaching to grow give it a go...

There is clumsy and then there is just "drop it and hope for the best..."

Anyway, to transplant with the least amount of stress you need to first of all get the pot you are transplanting into and a pot in the size your plant is in atm. Next, fill the big pot with soil till the smaller pot fits into the bigger pot with the top level to the other pot. Then with the smalller pot positioned in the center of the bigger pot, fill in the outside with more soil. Water the soil down to prevent it collapsing. Remove the smaller pot. You should now have a nice pould for your plant to go into.

Now the next step is where I have seen it all go wrong. My first advice was do this next step fast but I should have probably said carefully instead.

Loosen the rootball of your plant by massaging the pot all around, turn the plant upside down and pull it out by the stem, placing your other hand over the bottom of the rootball. Turn the plant round again, supporting it with a hand under the root ball, hold it over the hole, then, very carefully, while holding the plant at the stem, take away your hand and gently lower the plant into the hole.

 

[Dirty]

Double pot?

my thoughts exactly.

it's like TNT said, provided you can cut through the pot.

i've replanted in flower everytime i did grow in dirt (which wasn't many, sorry, hehe) and i was extremely careful. I'm sure i did stress the plants somewhat, but it was never noticable to me to the eye, never any hermies either.

if you repot though, use the double pot technique, thats for sure

 

[icky420]

Loosen the rootball of your plant by massaging the pot all around, turn the plant upside down and pull it out by the stem, placing your other hand over the bottom of the rootball. Turn the plant round again, supporting it with a hand under the root ball, hold it over the hole, then, very carefully, while holding the plant at the stem, take away your hand and gently lower the plant into the hole.

This is how I have always transplanted. What I ended up doing is something I had done once before.

When I put my plants into new pots I always leave about 1 1/2-2in of rim above the soil. Well that leaves me just enough room to remove the root ball and add around 2in of soil to the bottom. I came up with this as a last resort on a previous grow, but it was a little earlier in flower. I'm hopeing it will work for me now. When I cut down the old grow, they had grown into the new soil I added so I guess it worked some.