hydro to soil help

[Rose56]

Hi All, I needed to transplant two of my plants from an aerogarden into soil today. I know it wasn't the best thing to do but I had no choice. Anyway I had to be pretty rough on the roots. Does anyone have any suggestions on what I can do to help them out by minimizing the shock I know they are going to suffer from?

 

[Secret Squirrel]

Be very carfull with the root system and add some B vitamins to reduce stress.

 

[moses224]

A little super thrive and fish emulsion will always help. I usually can prevent 90% of shock with a fish emulsion and water mix. Stuffs cheap at any garden store

 

[Rose56]

Thanks. I'll pick up spme fish emulsion tomorrow. I did add a little super thrive when I transplanted. Unfortunately I had to be pretty brutal to the roots the two plant's roots were all knotted together with the airstone buried in one root ball it wasn't pretty and I figured I probably have less then a 50/50 chance on their getting over this.

 

[master shake]

Make sure not to over-water and you should be ok.

 

[Hydro-Soil]

The most important thing when transplanting from hydro to soil is to make sure you don't end up with a mass of roots all touching each other.

You can hack off nearly all the roots and it will still recover (take longer though) so don't worry about hacking roots.

What you really wanted to do was to sprinkle the roots with dirt to cover as many of them as possible. Wet root packed next to wet root will rot. If there's too much rot, the plant will die. If there's only a little it will grow badly and then recover.

If you powder your roots with fine dirt first, you'll get the fastest recover time.


Good luck!

 

[Rose56]

Thanks I'll remember it next time I did it wrong this time because they were touching. One is looking a little punkish but the second is still looking good the good news is that the two clones I took before transplanting are looking good and the AF's gifted me with some healthy looking beans.

 

[Rose56]

Well its been a week so far so good I set them out in the sun for a couple of hours today there's a few minor signs of shock but I think they'll be fine I imagine the odds are high they'll hermie.