Today is the day. Time to Transplant!
The first thing I need to do is mix up some soil. I decided to use the rest of my light warrior to mix into the Ocean Forest instead of perlite, since It will be a while before I germ again and I hate using old soil for that. I did a 4 to 1 mix, the majority being Ocean Forest.
The I will pour a little perlite into the bottom of each pot. A little will spill out. I will normally cut some screen out and place it in the bottom of the pots, but I ran out and I am on a tight schedule today.
Next I will fill up the pot most of the way and then take an empty cup and
place it in the middle at planting depth. This will create a perfect fitting space for our seedlings.
Next, I pack down the soil around the cup very lightly. I pull the cup out leaving a cup-shaped hole in the middle.
I take a seedling, and place my fingers over the top,
supporting the stem between my fingers. I pull the cup off leaving the seedling and its rootball upside down in my hand.
This works much better when the starter cups are bone dry.
Then I put my other hand over the bottom and flip it into the hole we made earlier. You can see in this picture that it is a perfect fit and our seedling is very happy. If you are careful you can do this over and over with no problems. But sometimes the rootballs do come apart just as you get them into the hole. I had a few come apart during this transplant. It will be fine. I didn't pack the dirt down too tightly.
Then I just add a little more soil to top of each pot, and water with some Ph'ed distilled with SuperThrive in it to help with the light and transplant shock. One down, 11 more to go.
I did all the WR first, and put 2 toothpicks in each pot to mark them.
I am now done, and all the seedlings are in pretty good shape. I put them in a shady spot to adjust and recover for the next few days while I am out of town. My girlfriend will be watering them over the weekend for me.
I will be backlogging the next few days of my journal when I get home on Tuesday. Hope you are enjoying my journal so far. See you next week!
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