Space Man!

Now then, now then.

So I'm now five weeks into flowering and apart from a little yellowing, which I think is normal at this stage my plants look great. The problem is that I'm concerned with the size of the pot's there in.

I did ask the same question about transplanting at about 2 weeks flowering and got the general impression is wasn't a good idea so left it. But whilst watering this morning I noticed that about half an inch under the soil, inch from the top on the pot. There are big as roots. So I'm guessing there root bound. The plants are about 26 inches high and in 1 gallon pots. Would there be any advantage to transplanting now or would I just lose out on yield. The plants seem to be budding along nicely, but if bigger pot means bigger buds then I'll happily throw them into a bigger pot.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Boistly Boist.

sorry i can't help with your question but i'm interested in how your plants will turn out without xplanting. i'm using 1.5 gallon pots but i've not really got much space to go bigger.

I had a similar situation where I normally grow in 3 gal containers. 2 weeks into flowering and the plants decided to be overachievers. I took the smallest one and carefully unpotted it. I had already prepared a 5 gal container for it to go into if it needed it. I wouldn't normally transplant after going to 12/12 but the plant was root bound and needed more room. I had 4 others that were the same way. I transplanted all of them and they all showed no signs of even slowing down. My story has a happy ending. They are all doing just fine. You have to be careful and try to move the whole root mass without disturbing it too much.

This works best if the soil is fairly dry. I try to do this when it is ready for a watering or feeding.

1. Have the new container handy and filled with necessary amount of growing medium.

2. Place one hand on the top of the soil on the old container and turn it upside down. If it is rootbound it will come out as one large mass.

3. Carefully rotate the plant and place it in the new container trying not to compress the new medium.

4. Fill in around the root mass mith more medium resisting the urge to compress the root ball.

5. Water in well and tell the plant it will be much happier now.

Hope this helps.

Yeah cheers guys. I just want to know if it will be beneficial this far into flowering. For all I know the roots could stop growing at this stage and wont need to be transplanted.

Anymore help greatly appreciated.

Just me, I wouldn't transplant. If you have lots of em try one or two and see how it turns out. I let mine be. It's true though if you are neat with the work the growth won't slow down dramatically.

By the way do you really transplant with dry soil ? I do the opposite.