Transplant gone bad, is it dead?

[Euphoric7]

It's grown it's first two spikey leaves and the roots were going thru the bottom so I decided to re-pot it.

It was difficult to get it out of the styrofoam cup so I cut the cup to the bottom. Sadly, the soil got loose and crumbled right as I put it into the new pot's soil.

In the process, I ended up breaking some of the lower and much smaller roots.


Is my plant dead or damaged beyond repair? :( :( :(

[Weedhound]

You may as well plant it and see....just depends....give it a try. :)

[Love2Chief]

thats why you always water it before transplanting it.

[GaGrown]

Water loosens the dirt or soil should I say. Let them dry out some but not all the way.Hold your hand over the top with the stem of the plant between your fingers to support it.Then gently squeeze the cup around the outside and it will drop into your grasp.Be easy,now.

Ga Grown!

[cigarettes42]

im pretty sure you will be fine. i had a plant in a styro cup and it was just a baby with prolly only 2-3 nodes on it and one day i was climbing up on a latter installing a new fan and all the sudden a screw driver hit the cup tossing it to the ground. when i picked it up it was just hanging in the cup by only a few threads of roots. anyways i just put the remaining dirt back in it and watered it and it was fine. also another time i was re-potting a bigger plant and the plant didnt need re potting at the time, anyways when i took the plant outta the pot, it started to literally crumble tearing a few roots off. again i potted it and crossed my fingers and it was ok. only thing i did notice is that there are some branches i got now that dont seem to grow anymore. im thinking its cause those damaged roots, but thats only in one spot and the rest of its thriving

[stinkyattic]

Allowing a plant to get a good healthy root ball, and then letting the soil get a bit on the dry side before a transplant, is the best procedure. This avoids the root ball crumbling, and the dryness shrinks the soil so that a sharp smack on the bottom of the pot will allow the whole mass to slide cleanly out.
Plant and see...

[Euphoric7]

It's been a day, and it's still green as grass.

[haole007]

mj is a tough ole gal.

give her time, she'll rebound with some TLC.

[Acezx]

Myself with my first growing when I repotted I did the same thing some smaller roots ripped off I read somewhere if you cut the roots an angle and repot it will eventually grow back so I did and it worked oh so well in 2days time with a little more water than usual it sprouted right back up. It also happened to my little girl (somehow she disconnected from her smaller roots...who knows???:wtf:) anyway did same thing repotted she sprouted up. Hope this helps.

[kyolic]

yup i did the same shit too. Soil was falling off as well as a bunch of roots...kept it on the outside of my light for a couple of days and shes big and beautiful now.

[stinkyattic]

Let me tell you a stupid story of desperation.

I have several Christmas cactus (Zygo sp.) plants that I LOVE and have been hauling around with me for several changes of addy so far. One of them started showing the dreaded signs of root rot- wilt, refusal to perk up with watering, funny smell. I FREAKED and gave it the backwards treatment, just on a hunch... I've never seen this described elsewhere but this is what I did:
I sprayed the leaves with wilt-pruf.
I took the plant entirely out of its pot and put it in a big somewhat squat for its volume terra cotta one, but did not backfill any new soil.
I put a plastic shopping bag over the foliage and placed it in flourescent light (=on my desk at work, lol). I blew into the bag whenever I rememberd too, just to change out the stale air under there and give it some CO2 and moisture.
The soil started to dry out rapidly, but under the bag, the plant was not losing water through transpiration. When the dirt felt like it was to the point where it would normally NEED to be watered, I backfilled the pot with fresh soil and gave it just a LITTLE drink.
When it looked like it was perking up, I took the bag off.

It worked, and if I ever get to the point of desperation with a pot plant, I might try that method.