Quote Originally Posted by emilya
lol... patience he says. Not my strongest quality for sure. After I know I am not killing my babies I will find more of it I am sure... but for now I worry.

Lets say I get back from my drive today with new 1 gal and 2 gal pottery containers and some fox farms soil and I wanted to transplant these complaining little dears out of the miracle grow. They are in these stupid 8" clay pots now. What would be the best way to extract them? Just do the upside down shake and see what falls away from a root structure that surely isn't nearly as large as this container? Use some kind of large spoon and try to scoop them out from the edges? How much of this miracle grow should I try to bring with them, as little as possible? At 3 weeks and still no more than slightly stressed plantlings, is it too early to put them through the stress of a move, or is the risk worth it to get them in a better soil?

Impatient Emmie
Hey Em looking great:thumbsup:. I use a clay pot sometime and have never had an issue with any re pot, even 5gal re pots. I made a ''how to re pot without stress'' in my Sig if you want to look at it, but it is a plastic pot. I have grown bonsai trees and re potting is just something done a lot if you have lots of trees.

But the main thing is to let the pot dry out, then turn it over and use something to tap around the pot, which should loosen up anything attached to the pot. If it gives you problems still, just turn them, the pots upside down and use a bit of force to pop it out in your other hand. You will use the edge of the pot to hit your palm and with fingers spread, the plant will pop out with all dirt/root ball intact. Then just add soil to new pot, drop the plant with root ball in new pot and fill in around it. In a week or two, the roots should have grown into the fresh medium. If you look at the thread i made you can see how fast my plant recovered.

Do not spoon it out, you have no idea where the roots start and stop and stress will follow. But i grantee my way, there is no stress. Some people think a re pot will always give stress, never in my case.



Great thread:rasta:
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