Transplanting Autos Causes Stress. Myth?

[LeGeneGibberellin]

I don't transplant when I don't have to. Mostly because I am lazy. Starting your seeds in the final pot wont hurt and makes everything much easier. In addition I do start my seeds directly in the soil with no pre soaking or anything. Pointy tip down about 1/2 inch and a dome that covers the whole pot to get the temperature of the medium up and keep it moist. Even at lower temps like 72ish it usually takes 3-4 days until the seedling breaks through the soil. Germination rate is very good. The seedlings in the picture where planted that way four days ago at an ambient temp of 72f and 75f under the dome.

I firmly believe that the less you stress your plants the better they turn out to be. Transplanting is stress. It wont kill the plant but try to avoid it.

 

[smokeyfromau]

I have a system for transplanting, it was my first time this year, one ended stunted, others are fine as well as the new autos.

I made up their pots on the transplant day, i very lightly dampened it with seaweed, add BTI for gnats. I think get gloves and the auto which was previously watered the day before, very carefully with gloves wet down in seaweed get the auto out and then add a litlte myc fungi and seaweed water to the base and plant the auto and water in.

 

[LeGeneGibberellin]

I have a system for transplanting, it was my first time this year, one ended stunted, others are fine as well as the new autos.

I made up their pots on the transplant day, i very lightly dampened it with seaweed, add BTI for gnats. I think get gloves and the auto which was previously watered the day before, very carefully with gloves wet down in seaweed get the auto out and then add a litlte myc fungi and seaweed water to the base and plant the auto and water in.

Did you use airpots? I have some 1L air pots which make transplanting very easy. I used them for some peppers years ago.

 

[pop22]

We learn something new every day! Nice link, thank you. My personal experience with coco was not good...lol. Good to see people find a way to get the job done. If I were to do coco, I'd use those fabric starter pots, first time I've seen these! I see the solo cup transplant and I shudder.... I've not had great success with solo cups and avoid them totally.

That's just not true read dr.mj Coco's transplant guide

 

[smokeyfromau]

Did you use airpots? I have some 1L air pots which make transplanting very easy. I used them for some peppers years ago.

Hi LeGeneGibberelin, Yes, my pots are called antispiral but look very similar to airpots. That would help also, for me i start them in forestry tubes (maybe 1L) the airpots might not have the catchy sides of the forestry tubes

 

[LeGeneGibberellin]

Hi LeGeneGibberelin, Yes, my pots are called antispiral but look very similar to airpots. That would help also, for me i start them in forestry tubes (maybe 1L) the airpots might not have the catchy sides of the forestry tubes

Opening the airpots is just so easy when you have to transplant. Guess your tube are opened the same way?

 

[BII]

Opening the airpots is just so easy when you have to transplant. Guess your tube are opened the same way?

Opening Air-Pots has never worked for me (using coco/perlite). I have often 'transplanted' (depending on how this is defined) Air-Pots by cutting a large hole in the bottom, placing fine plastic screen over the hole, then filling (with the weight/overlap on the sides holding the screen in place) and using the pot like normal. If I want to 'transplant' (here add growing space), I simply pull out the bottom screen and place this Air-Pot on top of and within the next largest size pot (can be jammed in and pinned) or in the an even larger size and secure the top pot to the bottom one (filled with the same media) with the usual plastic screws, tape, wire...whatever works. For example, I'd start plants in the red-bottomed size pots, and optionally add these on top of a yellow- or larger (such as green- or blue-bottom) pot. Sometimes, maybe with 1/4 to 1/3 of the plants, the roots don't bother to grow down into the lower pot, but nothing has been lost in trying.

[But more recently/now, I am just using 1-1/2 stacked/attached Air-Pots from the very start. Cut a pot lengthwise down the middle, wrap around the top of a same-sized pot with 1 row overlap, pin the add-on piece in place, and you have a near 50% enlarged Air-Pot with very strong linkage between the two, such that can lift from the top without any worry that the bottom will come loose].

 

[smokeyfromau]

Opening the airpots is just so easy when you have to transplant. Guess your tube are opened the same way?

They are pretty good, by the way they are designed, the roots dont spiral much, though downside if the ribs inside the pot

Its good till about week 2 for the autos and photos i now start in 1 gal round pots with many holes at base and tiny ones at sides

 

[pop22]

Its a matter of how you grow and how much you grow. Transplantable seedlings for me means at harvest I have a ready supply of 10-14 day old seedlings ready to plant. I grow anywhere from 8 to 30 plants per grow. And I can choose what size pot at transplant. I don't have room to veg 30 plants in even three gallon pots while waiting for the thirty in flower to finish. If I grew 2-4 plants, I'd likely start in the final pot. Transplants are about space control more than anything else. The same with clones.

I don't transplant when I don't have to. Mostly because I am lazy. Starting your seeds in the final pot wont hurt and makes everything much easier. In addition I do start my seeds directly in the soil with no pre soaking or anything. Pointy tip down about 1/2 inch and a dome that covers the whole pot to get the temperature of the medium up and keep it moist. Even at lower temps like 72ish it usually takes 3-4 days until the seedling breaks through the soil. Germination rate is very good. The seedlings in the picture where planted that way four days ago at an ambient temp of 72f and 75f under the dome.

I firmly believe that the less you stress your plants the better they turn out to be. Transplanting is stress. It wont kill the plant but try to avoid it.

 

[THE BEAR]

Harvest the one I transplanted at day 40 on day 74,
You can't transplant ; is a definate MYTH.