re-pot during flower period?

[duggy]

Would you ever re-pot during flowering period? Some have been put into 12/12 three weeks ago, some just a week ago. I was intending to take them all the way to harvest in 4" nursery pots, and will do that with most of them.

I suppose there will be a little give and take, that is, the advantage of more soil and more root space, and the disadvantage of re-potting stress.

Any experience or words of wisdom?

duggy

 

[Guest]

There is no repotting stress when done correctly,only a big sigh of relief from the root system.I wouldnt transplant after 30 days of 12/12 when the stretch is basically done and the roots will grow very little,I would transplant if 2-3 weeks in though if needed

 

[duggy]

Thanks, smilin b,

that makes a lot of sense.

duggy

 

[Guest]

I thought you may have problems trying to flower in a 4inch container even with no vegtime,1 gal is really the minimum because most 1 gal pots are only just over a half gallon of soil.You could veg for a couple weeks under flo's in a 4 inch,then transplant to 1 gal to flower.Thats the smallest i'd go

 

[thegrower]

i just repotted my ladies in my current grow from 1.8gal to 4gal containers in week 2.5 of flower [vegged for 7 weeks].

Just be gentle with them, i prefer to water the soil and then let it dry out for 2 days so its not completely dry but its moist enough to stay in one mass.

...after the transplant my ladies literally doubled in size, they were very rootbound! [roots had circled bottom of pot at LEAST 6 times]

 

[Guest]

Grower did you start them in the 1.8 gal containers?If so,that explains the swirling at the bottom,you'll also have an empty unused space in the middle.I've done it both ways and find ot so much better to start seedlings or clones in 4 inch nursery pots,grow to 8-12 inches in height or when you have to water every other day,then transplant to 2 gal(NSI classic 600 1.6 gal)Sorry if thats what you did but you shouldn't have had the swirling in the intermediate container or any container for that matter.

 

[adorno]

do you have to shake the soil off or anything? or jsut pop the soil+root intoa larger pot ?

 

[JJScorpio]

I like to make sure they are dry and then just lightly tap the base of the roots to loosen them up. Dont remove all of the dirt or your stalk will be weak and you will have to support it......Just get some loose roots at the base and they will take care of themselves.....

 

[Guest]

I've heard of people scarifying the rootball and such but I try not to disturb any dirt from it,after transplanting and saturating along the sides of the new container,I hit the centyer rootball hard a few times with bursts of water,you want total saturation with the soil surrounding the rootball then blast that puppy like its a pressure washer,let the water seperate,"scarify" the rootball

 

[blynx]

I had a bunch of small plants in 3" pots, two per pot. I transplanted them during flower to a much larger plant and while they did keep flowering, they also put out new growth (which was single leaves and calyxes).

 

[Guest]

Were they clones or seed? How long did they veg? Indica or Sativa?

They only plant I'd try to flower in a 4" pot would be a clone that I put to flower with basicly no veg time.

If they are a Sativa, they still have 8-9 weeks left, I would definately re-pot to at least a 2 gallon. Indicas could go in a one gallon.

Any small transplant shock should be made up many times over with more root mass.

 

[Guest]

blynx I dont know if you transplanted in early flower,but the fastest vegetative growth occurs during the first 2-3 weeks of 12/12,A high N fert is preferred during this time.As for single fan growth I've seen it it two instances,one natural one not.Some strains will naturally decrease in fan leaf number as it grows and matures in flower,from the middle of the plant to the top it may go from 7 fans to 5 to 3 and to single fans protruting from the cola.This is definately strain dependent.The other time single fans appear is when a cutting is taken after 12/12,and put back into a veg photoperiod,or during revegging.

 

[yellowthumb]

thc labs has a video where they tell you to take scissors and make 3-4 cuts @ the bottom edg of the plant. they say it helps plants root. i've done it and it didnt seemm to hurt the plant. i don't really know if it helped it either though. just make sure it's damp enough . i did it when they were a little dry and a lot of dirt fell off the bottom

 

[Guest]

thc labs has a video where they tell you to take scissors and make 3-4 cuts @ the bottom edg of the plant. they say it helps plants root. i've done it and it didnt seemm to hurt the plant. i don't really know if it helped it either though. just make sure it's damp enough . i did it when they were a little dry and a lot of dirt fell off the bottom

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hey yellowthumb, could you give a lil more detail on the 3-4 cuts and where you make the cuts. i'm kinda confused on what ya mean. or too stoned to get it. heheh. thanx man.
wm

 

[Guest]

I believe he's saying to make the cuts equidistant from each other along the bottom circumference of the rootball..How's that for stoner talk lol