Transplanting

[cannon]

I am in my first week of flowering. I think my pot are like 1 1/2 gallons. I wonder if I should transplant into 3 gallons. First grow so any help would be helpful. Or just leave them and let them flower. I do have small flowers at this point just don't want to send them into shock or go backwards.

cannon Reviewed by cannon on 07-11-2006. Transplanting I am in my first week of flowering. I think my pot are like 1 1/2 gallons. I wonder if I should transplant into 3 gallons. First grow so any help would be helpful. Or just leave them and let them flower. I do have small flowers at this point just don't want to send them into shock or go backwards. Rating: 5

[GaGrown]

I'd leave them alone!Your right about the shock and stress! That pot they are in will be plenty big! Use them next grow! Or for a mama plant. How tall are they?

Ga Grown

[locomark]

Well Cannon,

You should just keep growing as you are this grow. If you can spare the cash get a bigger light or a new fan. Your next grow do like my lazy ass and start them off in 5 gallons. You want big buds you need big roots.

Loco

[GrowinGreen23]

leave them cause you have a greater risk of stressing at this stage, live and learn

GG23

[Binzhoubum]

I transplanted mine two weeks into flowering and nothing bad happened...actually quite the opposite, the plants started to grow like no tomorrow and the buds started filling in...

However, my plants had become rootbound in the smaller pots, so I had no choice.

:smokin:

I probably got lucky too!

[GrowinGreen23]

yes i'm not saying that BINZHOUBUM's situation was def luck but some plants are already ata greater risk of stressing compared to the plant next to it so i mean do it ONLY if you def need to and knwo now cause if you do it later it will be even worse off i believe. At leas if you have it needed to be doen now the most that will happen is that you need to revert back to veg to stablize it then go back tot eh 12/12 later

GG23

[Binzhoubum]

yes i'm not saying that BINZHOUBUM's situation was def luck but some plants are already ata greater risk of stressing compared to the plant next to it so i mean do it ONLY if you def need to and knwo now cause if you do it later it will be even worse off i believe. At leas if you have it needed to be doen now the most that will happen is that you need to revert back to veg to stablize it then go back tot eh 12/12 later

GG23

Maybe I am wrong but wouldn't reverting a plant back to veg from flower stress it more than transplanting it into a bigger pot? Or wouldn't the combination of the two cause more problems than just waiting for the plant to kick back after transplanting even if there are stunting issues?

:smokin:

[Garden Knowm]

if you can get the entire rootball and soil out of the container smoothly and easily.. which you should be able to do, I would transplant...don't try anything tricky... just pull the plant in one smooth motion and position it in a prepared 3-5 gallon pot... water thoroughly...

iloveyou

you always are at risk of shock.. but it is unlikley when th plant is mature and has a good solid rootball..

iloveyou

[justaseed]

TRANSPLANT TRANSPLANT TRANSPLANT. done properly it will not stress the plant at all. 1 1/2 gal is 2 small 2 flower imo. i always finished in 5gals, and a few times i finished in 3gals with a noticably smaller yeild. people on this forum seem to think transplanting is bad. that is totally untrue. your grow will be much better if you transplant 3-4 times instead of starting and finishing in the same pot. my 1st grow i transplanted 1 time. ever since i transplanted at least 3 times usually 4 times and the root systems were much bigger/healthier for it. as long as you don't manhandle the plant/roots while transplanting and use something with a little b1 like thrive alive there will be no stressing the plant. it is much more stressfull imo to have a rootbound plant or a seedling sitting in 5gal of sopping wet soil for 5-6 days till it can dry out thoroughly. mj hates wet feet! i like it to take no more than 3 days for the soil to dry out no matter what size pot it's in. good luck.