im wanting to know

i know they need a bigger pot but i tried to transplant them and the roots were all the way down to the bottom and my friend tried to transplant his that were the same and they all died....no i didnt get to harvest any of the past well in a way i got a harvest last year but nothing that really gave me a buzz, the year before that someone found my hiding spot and snacthed all of them except one that was near a pine tree(cant see how they missed that one since it was easier to spot then the other six)...i know i shouldnt be using this kind of light but im using a incandescent clamp light that i bought at wal-mart for like 5 something and just a 100 watt...as you can see its doing pretty well, i tried a florescent grow light that i bought for like three days and i got tired of it and went back to what im using now and i had to raise the light 2-3 times that day.....whats the deal with molasses?...this is my first indoor too so dont feel to bad

They are going to die if you DON'T transplant them.
Molasses is a carbon source.
Hmm sounds like you are due for a grow area upgrade... next time, individual pots, no incandescents.... and under lights, you want to keep them shorter and bushier for light efficiency.

so you tell me how am i supposed to do that without risking my crop?

if you topped it(take the top set of leaves off to the next node) it would fill out and get bushier, and stay a little shorter.try it next time, it will help some this time too if you havnt started flowering yet. i dont know what your friend did to kill his plant but normally the do need to be transplanted into a bigger pot, and lots of people do it with no ill effects. if you do this, do it before flowering too.like maybe a week to let it recover from the topping and transplanting. good luck with it. just do a lot of reading, you will get lots of info. and not all of it good. but you will see that there are some things that most everybody agrees on.

well the problem my friend had was due to part of the root ball thing breaking on him and him picking at it too much(found that out tonight) well i transplanted them last night into a 42-45 qt tote damn thing took nearly 50 pounds of dirt to fill it good thing that i bought 60, but their looking good, should i still let them go on 12-12?

sorry to repost sooo fast but i just remembered that it was a bitch to get it out of that pot because the roots went from just under the soil to all the way down to the bottom....was very worried about not breaking the roots....took me about half an hour to 45 mins just to get it out

lol, that is like a 10 gallon plus container, which i dont see any problems with though ive never went that big. how big was your old pot? 1 gallon? how tall can you let your plant get? id let it sit for a little while, a few days (week?)to get acustomed to the new container, then yeah go for it, there is lots of root room in there for sure. also, i would definately use your flourescent light, plus the other one if no one else see any problems with it. youll need it to get enough light for budding, if it is a female. thats your only plant isnt it? 50/50 chance of male or female. good luck. think girl ,think girl. the other thing is i dont know what you have been feeding it, but it should have been high in n- and possibly -k but now (in flowering) low n- high p- and low -k for budding. again i would top it before trying to flower it, but thats just me. especially as tall as that might come out and not enough light to bud properly.

p.s. the molasses are for the microbes and benificial bacteria to help the soil, it also has nutrients of its own? plus for flowering it supplys sugar to your plants for hopefully a fatter more filled in bud. 1 TSP a gallon, but i added two, oops. it was pleasant and havnt had any bad effects except my room smelled like a big ginger cookie for a day. you can smell it through the leaves for 2-3 days later. ill definately stop that a few days before harvesting. it was a strange mix of the plant smell and gingerbread. i think illl only use it bi weekly.

i got two of those lights up in my room, so in general i have 200 watts of light on my babies...i know i got one or two females but i aint risking any of them byu killing one or two of them, i know people dont like males but i do know they are still smokable might be less of a high but itll still fit in a paper....to tell you something i only started to grow to see if i could save some money since gas is so damned high...hopefully i can get that high...to answer they can get as tall as 10-12 foot i dont know exactly how big the last pot was but i do know it was no where near to the tote that im using now is...i think i might try molasses..ive been feeding mircale-grow plant food but ive been looking for a 10-30-20 mixture havent had any luck, but today im going to call the farmers co-op and a few other places..i think that the floro doesnt work as good as it should but ill try it

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Originally Posted by sublimebudsmoker

so you tell me how am i supposed to do that without risking my crop?

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By doing it right next time. I'm not trying to point out the obvious, but here is where reading before you sprout your seeds comes in very handy.

Repotting is not as tough as you make it out to be. Support the main stem, upend the pot, whack the bottom really hard with your palm, and the whole thing should slide right out. It's even easier if you let the soil get a little dry first - it shrinks.