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Sweet Cindy Demo's how Double Potting beats transplanting normally for yields.

BushyOldGrower

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I have always known that cutting the bottoms off my pots to allow further elevation when transplanting produces more per plant than my regular method or elevated transplanting. This thread demonstrates this principle using 2 seed grown Sweet Cindy plants. Only one was double potted the old way while the others were all done my normal way. It just became a hassel to run out of pots so I changed but this makes me reconsider. Perhaps this one was the best of the plants but all 5 of the others look pretty much the same as the regular transplanted plant and they are also shown in my current dual demo thread of Sweet cindy and Bogbubble in my demo forum.

I didn't want any of you to miss this though so this is being done before my absence for you to ponder.

In those first two pics you see the regular plants with the special double potted plant in the 2 plant pic. Thats the one on the left. Below...

This pic coming is one of the regular potted ones at 4 weeks flowering and those plants are doing fine too. They were transplanted from the 2 gallon pots to 4 gallon pots when sex was identified. They had my normal slightly elevated transplanting.

But now at 5 weeks in flower it has become evident that without any topping or training that the double potted plant will outyield the others by a long shot. Possible as much as double! :eek: What ya think?

5 weeks pics...


Note the potting on the left. The sleeves can be kept to place on the rootballs later without cutting more pots. Save the cut pots to transplant into again later and once you have enough it is no waste.


The difference is evident but it was the best plant and these werent clones. I can say that this method does excell over normal transplanting and I hope you will test my theory for yourself.

It could be done on a smaller or larger scale too but what do you figure I may yield from that one big one? It was only vegged like 6 weeks and it has only 4 gallons of soil in the pot. BOG

This is not a contest, it is a tutorial. :alien:












 
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G

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damn BOG, I had that idea once but was afraid to do it for fear of damaging the root system while cutting off the bottom of the pot.

Do you think also it might be less stressful on the plant not to be pulled out of its pot and plopped into a new one?

Whatever it is that is an amazing difference.
 

earlyish

New member
I tried this one grow when I ran out of larger pots. The tip is to cut the bottom 3" or whatever from an empty pot. Remove rootball from existing pot, place it into cut off pot. Put new compost at the bottom of original pot, place the plant in its cut off on top and fill in sides. I reckon this turned my original 10" two gallon pots into 3 gal pots. I am having trouble uploading pic, but it might have got into my gallery ... might.
 

yoda48

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great tuto BOG. happy that my first post here at icmag is concerning your post.

well, ive seen you pull ~5oz off the bogbub; so im going to go with 3.75 ozs. im guessing that you will harvest more from the plant that you made, but i could be wrong. hopefully i am.

both those cindys have their G.E.D.(good enough dammit). i cant wait for mine to come in the mail courtesy of gyp.

keep spreading the knowledge.
 
G

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same idea as KBS/Freedom buckets

keep the roots growing downward, and the plant will keep growing upward and producing larger.

nice
 

earlyish

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I've always thought that it was better to have taller pots of the same size rather than shallower and wider ones. Is that right?
 

Harry Gypsna

Dirty hippy Bastard
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thats debatable...ive had similar results both ways...ive been trying loads of different pots over the last year, ....im experimenting with layers at the moment...although thats a bit off topic....
Earlyish, lol, another UKC'er, .... Welcome to IC
 

earlyish

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Thanks Harry. Have been looking at this site for ages, but haven't posted. I think there's a lot more around, but, for some reason, they use different names.
 

Harry Gypsna

Dirty hippy Bastard
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lol, so do i, but Im Growguy23 over at UKC....

Hey BOG....Im gonna join in if you dont mind.. got a couple of clones to play with..why not experiement some more, lol.
 
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