how to transplant from 5 gallon too 10 bucket?

How can I transplant my plant's without snapping my plant's from a 5 gallon bucket to something lager? My plant's are at a stand still I believe its root lock. I took one of my smaller 3 gallon plant's and snapped the damn thing in half trying to put it in a 5 gallon bucket, now there almost 5ft tall how the Fu k do I pull this off without losing my flowering plant's?

Place a layer of soil a few inches deep in the bottom of the 10 gal pots. Then cut the bottoms out of your 5gal pots. Once the bottom is cut away place the 5gal pot in the center of your 10 gal pot and fill out the rest of the space with soil. Once the 10gal pot is full then just work the 5gal pot up and over your plant leaving the root ball in its final resting place. If your plant is too bushy for your 5gal to slide over then just cut your bucket top to bottom. Yeah you sacrifice a pot but its better than losing a plant. Good luck

Like Dgringo says, cut the bucket. Or, if you let the soil dry out well, you may be able to pull the whole thing out by the main stem. Some easy pressure should tell you if it will work or not. You're going to water them after the transplant anyway, so a little dry time beforehand should be ok.

I would strongly recommend not disturbing your rootball! Beneficial fungi likely has a very complex web established. When roots grow out away from a central point, they find different food and water concentrations. When you pull a plant up from the soil you are doing a number of things that are unhealthy to your plant. You will inevitably break many fine roots, you will destroy the food web and when you transplant into your new pots your plant's roots will once again have to spend the energy growing away from a central point. Long story short..don't pull the plant up by the main stem!

If the soil is dry it is much easier.
Squeeze the sides of the bucket a little bit to loosen the roots from the edge. then place the entire mass onto the BOTTOM of the 10(since they are nearly the same height. you will NOT have room to put soil on the bottom of the bucket.
Here's 3.9 gallon to 10 gallon 2 days ago.

Remember to let your soil dry out enough. otherwise you tear the rootball into a tiny clump and leave allthe roots and soil behind in the bucket. If it's dry pull it out SIDEWAYS(this reduced any extra weight on the stalk.). When she's 3/4 the way out of the bucket, then put on hand under the root mass, and the other on top. Then you can place it gently into your 10 gallon.
This is what i do. Often.
I have not had to cut anything but a grow bag in over a year.

I did it. A different way much more riskier but it worked pretty well. I taped my plant's with V s in them so it wouldn't snap off when laying down such a big plant then, I put one arm up on the plant's higher side as I laided the plant down on its side alone with the bucket very slowly and very easily ,once I got the plant on its side I took a hammer and taped all around the bucket on the out side from top to bottom then, came the tricky part, "getting the plant out of the bucket " I slowly picked up the bottom of the bucket about 3" high and used my other arm to grab the stem at the bottom closet to the dirt then, shook the bucket rapidly up and down and pulled on the stem at the same time an out comes the plant an dirt.

Very simple and very good way i feel then cutting buckets. In a couple day's will see if my plant's are fucked or not? I Do cut my 3 gallon nursery buckets as u guys said, that's for the comments every buddy: )

i just transplanted a small tree outside i think a lace leaf maple
was in about a ten gal - up poted to a bigger pot
i looked at its present root ball size - put the difference of dirt into new pot to bring it to top of it

i put on a bench on its side with new pot waiting below

rolled it around pushin on pot sides - then i stood it up grabbed the trunk lifted it to new home filled sides and a little on top

do this dry or very dry


and walla


glucktoya

pick up bucket, turn upside down while supporting the plant, smack the bottom of the bucket, with dry enough soil, it should "pop" out.

Works great on 1 and 2 gallons. Oh, and try to press the bucket inward and all sides, so that you can sorta break the bucket away from the soil, prior to popping it.

hope this helps

Read two Post b4 yours BASS.

sk8ter2424 said:

Read two Post b4 yours BASS.

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Not concerned with it. That doesn't describe what I said at all. You asked me what to do, I told you. Turn the damn thing over, slap it on the bottom and it will pop out. End of story.

SxIstew said:

If the soil is dry it is much easier.
Squeeze the sides of the bucket a little bit to loosen the roots from the edge. then place the entire mass onto the BOTTOM of the 10(since they are nearly the same height. you will NOT have room to put soil on the bottom of the bucket.
Here's 3.9 gallon to 10 gallon 2 days ago.
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I would argue that there is indeed room for a few inches if soil there. It's a great opportunity to introduce a fresh food source to your roots that have been starved in the bottom of your pot. Also when you put your root ball in the very bottom of the pot they have no room to grow downward..