Warning! Verbose PreTransplant Jitters Inside.

[latewood]

Check out the Mouth on that girl!!

[Rezinator]

Harddon - thanks for fessing that even you have to weigh the risk factor.
The crap of it is -- btw, roots pictured were her Brother's guys -
She's still in her pot (Sund noon) --
Crap of it is at this age, a few (feeder??) roots had made it down
and were showing around the bottom circumference. I did not trace those back
during my little autopsy.

Lol, Like as if a butcher job like her bro's disection would fly.

!!!IMPORTANT!!!

!!!DO NOT STRIP ROOTS LIKE ABOVE FOR FEMALE PLANTS
OR ANY PLANTS YOU WANT TO MATURE!!!

I will not scrape root ball at all. Bottom of
root ball will be flat - good because less apt to rock around
in new looser soil recompression, Any rocking or rolling could snap
whatever roots develop from here forward.

Mark Benson - Did you say on another thread you had done a
single plant scrog?? Could you name some good threads? tks. also for
weighing in on not scraping. Check. Had forgot to mention the
bounded lower perimeter roots - very few but - could have been
outermost of brotherplant's main feeder roots for all I know.

Thanks, TthStingyStoner, Nochouderforyou.

Joel: The 8 other seedlings went into 2 litre bottles. Didn't read til later
that you need to cover the clear plastic - to keep roots in darkness.
Actually could see roots recede on a couple of those.

4 others got abandoned in wild when a beaver ruckus near my
well hidden kayak 85' away made it sound, at least through brush
and trees anyway, like someone was grabbing the kayak.
Just enough to get me thinking what if....y'know. Also learned
small shovel wasn't the best for diggin in dense watershed silt.

Indoor 4 - 2 litre seedlings went yellow. The one I didn't trash is in pic above.
Hasn't sexed yet. Growth went to zero. Very yellow. It was also my
first only branching prune so waiting to see what nutes will
do

Have to make a grow box then go 12/12. Gotta go do single plant scrog research.

MB - Harddon - let me know if I should start another thread about my scrogging plan?

Thanks to all.

Thanks to whoever said not to fert right away.

[Rezinator]

Thanks again for transplanting support.

Mark Benson - and whoever reads

My plant is too tall for conventional scrogging as per what I have seen so far.

Need to ask questions like how much vertical space is needed
after screen is used to set the beginning canopy height.

Need this info to design lowest profile grow box possible.
Want to stay around 5' for the scrogging box height if possible.
Best Canopy to Lights distance also appreciated.

[Mellow Man]

I "think" what Rezinator was asking....

When transplanting plants, yes, you can take the outter roots and "RIP" them open, or "TEAR" them apart on the outside surface.

THis practice, in theory, exposes roots tips that have become ingrown or otherwise "locked in" to new soil medium and thus accelerate the transition to the new soil.

THis is a very common and effective technique used by many 'old-timers' who garden.

I do this very thing to my garden plants......

I take them out of the container and literally RIP APART the OUTTER and BOTTOM roots...not rip them OFF, but aggressively rip them open......

I do this to small plants or small yard trees that I grow...every season.

It does work.

But i have never done this to MJ. Nor would I ever.

I just dont have the balls to risk it

If a little flower plant dies, I just get a new one.

If an MJ plant dies, a part of me dies as well

Yes when ever I transplant into a bigger pot,I scrape a little at the sides of the root ball breaking some root tissue,which enhances growth for the new soil,kinda gives the roots a new end tip,alot of the roots grow inwards after awhile by breaking or scraping slightly along the side of the root ball exsposes more ends,which now become root tips...it works for me!....

[Rezinator]

Guys, MellowMan,

Thanks to all.

Harddon, read new thread on root balls. But to wrap this up am going to ease this baby into a 5 gal - smile - right - because that's been drummed into my head and that's what's hanging around.

Unless the 2 gallon root ball has roots like in Harddon's root ball thread I will scratch in a little but not anywhere I see where roots had gone out to edge of pot.

Am deciding this because I didn't fertilize at all yet and I had not laid in nearly enough perlite = dense root ball - so want to give the roots some room and better oxygen - etc - as much as possible while she's flowers -

It'll be a mock (since a little late for radical bending) scrog of sorts. Will get into the posting pics thing when it's looking respectable. xx xx << my fingers crossed -- not kisses.

Oh what the heck okay hugs and kisses all around, what the hell....