1st grow.... F*@*#!! terrible!!!!

[magiccity445]

yea i mean i wanna transplant them really bad since there in the same pot and shit... but i'm sooooo scared that i will cut the roots figurein that they spread out and probably got intertwined and i would have to like surgically rove the plants from the dirt, you know what i mean....

unless i could just keep them together and move them into a bigger pot altogether but i'm afraid i just dont wanna fuck em up
does anybody have any tips on what i should do?????

[magiccity445]

just a couple pics but i really need the post above it to be answered it's like super important....

thankx

[GoldenGraham84]

yes you can still transplant. you have to have some time available after to let the plants recover if you have to damage the roots. I'd give it 1-2 weeks after transplant before flowering. love the ghetto-grow-box.

[magiccity445]

thanks bunches golden graham i think i might go aheads and do it but i just dont wanna cut the roots but i cant think of any other way to do it. I was playing on cutting the soil like cake and moving the plants out in portions but i figured the roots would be all bound up and intertwined. i know i gotta saturate the soil to pick it up and out and everything but i never transplanted before and read up a whole lot about it over time, and all they do is transfer from 1 little pot to 1 big pot. instead for my need of transplanting multiple plants from the same pot to multiple pots...

[Shovelhandle]

shit, it's really easy to divide up plants like that (only a few weeks of growing together. You can either take a garden spade and cut between the plants and lift out the plant by the roots with the spade or you can carefully dump them out and using a hose, wash the soil and roots while you separate them. Then take the cleaned roots and spread them out horizontally in the new pot of soil (filled part way). Then fill in the rest of the soil. and water it in.

Shov

[magiccity445]

yea i was thinking of using a spade too but i'm wondering now how big of a pot to put them in???

[magiccity445]

anybody got any other ideas

[MonkeyBone]

Do not divide 'em. Think of them like ONE plant. So transplant the whole thing in a bigger pot or something. They'll grow well even if they are 2-3 of them. Just put them in something that have 2-3 times the normal capacity of 1 plant.

It will work.:thumbsup:

[GoldenGraham84]

hey-
i would transplant into seperate pots. listen to Shovelhandle. planter size should reflect desired final plant size. with the grow "tent" you have, i'd go no bigger than 1 gallon planters. i re-read through this thread and noticed no one gave you any ideas for a CFL setup. here's mine. you could add some braces to it and make it a single unit for your tent. you could at least do one of the 3 bulb strips with Y splitters and run 6 CFLs.

[elskeetro]

Cool. Looks like your working your way up the ranks there, gettin your hands dirty and what not. I like your home made tent.

Here's what i would suggest. Finish this up and learn all you can from it. Hopefully you'll have a female you can take clones from. So take some clones and once they root pick out the best one and grow that one. Just keep it simple with one plant.

you have a bunch of CFLs already, so i would continue using them for veg. 1 plant with a handful of CFLs will veg fine. but come flower i would really take the advice of an earlier post that suggested a 150w HPS. They are incredibly cheap and readily available at Home Depot or Lowes. It won't throw much more heat than the CFLs and you will piss your pants when you see the buds that come up. And energy wise, 150w is NOTHING.

Once you get a bit more experienced, i would suggest looking into LST and SCROG. There are some great articles on maximizing yield with low wattage lights (Fluoros and up to 250w HPS) that i think you could really benefit from.
here's a quick glimpse: CannaStats - The ScrOG Technique

keep at it, you've done well considering the circumstances.
skeet.

PS - Just a quick search on homedepot.com gave me this Lithonia Lighting Bronze High Pressure Sodium Flood - OFL 70S 120 LP BZ M4 at The Home Depot
You can get a 150w-400w HPS light from HTGsupply.com for between $100-$150...bulb and shipping included.