SONIC187

a few weeks ago in the back of my yard i planted some seeds in the soil. my mistake is that these seeds are all in the same spot so they are very close together. well i didnt give it too much thought cause i travel a lot. anyhow i came home yesterday and found that my plants were already on there 4th stage. but they are very close together. what do you suggest i do transplant? or leave alone?any suggestions

Panama

Wow, you've got a Catch-22 situation. If you don't separate them the roots may strangle themselves. On the other hand, because they are so close together you could do some serious root damage trying to separate them.

I guess it's your call, but if you decide to separate them make sure the soil is good and wet because you want them to pracitally fall out of the dirt with little resistance. I don't know how to untangle the roots without doing some damage, but vegetable oil poured on them should help.

Toke it easy, Pan.

PinkPunk420

well seeing that you only said a few seeds, i'm guessing not that many. i dunno how many you have but if its not to much you don't have to move them away from eachother completely. you can untangle the roots without breaking them, and if you get to a stuck part, just stretch the roots out far enough but loosely so that they can breathe. If you want to separate them, i suggest you do it so that you can get the longest amount of roots on ALL the plants, not just one, because sometimes, when transplanting, you might end up concentrating at one plant at a time, which might make you keep more or longer roots for that one and kill all the others.

good luck

Jes

wolfman

SONIC187...

I agree with Panama about the way to do it, but i really think you should transplant them as soon as you think they're strong enought to handle the shock...

If you don't, the stronger ones will survive and grow (slowly), some will literaly stop growing, keeping the same size and a healthy look; the others will die.
The only way i can imagine this as a usefull thing is as a selective method...

I did that with a few ones (about 20) during 4 months in a 5L container.

They all had a lot of damage in the root system after transplanting, but they all survived, just cost me about 4 weeks...

I don't know the strains you have but as a general idea, i hope this helps


wolfman


[This message has been edited by wolfman (edited June 21, 2000).]

SONIC187

Hey thanks for the advice, i haven't done anything yet. My plants are about 8 inches tall but are definatly not ready for a transplant. what is a good time to transplant?