So have 2 plants going...they were looking very healthy and beautiful,lush,leaves perked up towards the light almost vertically...then on the biggest one i noticed the roots were growing out of the bottom holes like CRAZY i mean hanging out far the other one was alright it was in a larger pot...but the other one was in a pretty small pot...with my lack of cash i didnt have many options...i dont know if either are female or male yet as they are from seed and did not want to kill the one that might be female so the larger one could have a bigger pot so i made a seemingly stupid decision but im sticking to it...i put the smaller one in a trash bag folded down and filled with dirt...sort of a make shift pot...i understand the potential complications and am being careful with watering and handling of the plant...but that isnt my biggest fear...the larger one with the roots coming out of that bottom had a death lock on the bottom of they pot...and even though i tried as hard as i could to be careful as fuck...on the way out of the pot i felt many-a-roots snap away from the plant...this was very sad as the plant was doing so wonderfully....but i feared it would become root bound.....so nows day 2 after the very rough transplant and they arent looking too bad as in they arent drooping at all...they arent spotting at this point....but they arent perking up towards the light and smelling as strongly as they were....have i murdered them,harmed them,or just stunted them...chances they will recover? anything i should do? i do belive the main root ball was undisturbed but the little tap roots i just felt them snapping as the dirt slid out...all the long ass roots were wrapped around little indentions on the bottom of the pot and were still in there after the transplant so i know some roots were damaged any advice or words of wisdom appreciated....

Without actually seeing what was done it is hard to say that with more than just extreme confidence your plants will be fine …. But still I’d feel pretty safe saying they likely will be just fine.
　
Just being root-bound, which your plants were well beyond the beginning of that if they had roots growing out of the pots, stresses a plant and the worse the condition gets the worse the stress gets. It is a testament to how resilient herb plants are that they could look as good as you said they did while living in such poor conditions. Imagine how much nicer they would have been had they been in a good growing environment their whole lives?
　
Anyway you have the stress of the condition they were in plus the additional stress the transplanting caused so I would not be at all surprised if they take a little time to perk up again … but they should.

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altough i am not that expeirenced, i agree with bricktop as i myself have done the same thing only i did not have a large mess of roots . i did some transplanting and some of my roots did a little ripping as well , now 3 days latter i see new growth. so it may take a while for them to repair themselves. all in all you should be fine.

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I mean the roots didnt seem to dense in the pot...there was lots of room they hadnt taken up so i wouldnt say it was root bound quite yet...i think the problem was they were the pots the plants had been in from seed so they roots just did there own thing...but the pot is at least a gallon and the plant is only about 4 weeks so its hard to imagine how much bigger of a pot ill need....whats the norm? heres a picture of plants before transplant...just one day before...you can see it was perky....now the biggest one is in the smalles ones pot...and the small one is in a make shift trash bag filled with soil (ran out of pots)

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Seems like they'll be fine. I'm with Brick Top, think how much better they could have and maybe now will be. Keep positive!!Good Luck!

heres the aftermath. . .note that they do put out some funky odor still but i find it hard to believe it was already rootbound and doing so good..also i would have had to put it in a huge pot to avoid it if it had filled up the other one so fast...should i start my next ones in small pots then transplant into medium sized and both times wait till they have filled them up so the roots remain close and to ensure they take up the least amount of space before i put them into the pots for flower? or should i just start them in fuckin huge pots so i dont have to risk another transplant...

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bump......

bump! anybody think these will be ok to bud soon? think that trash bag will work? think the big one will pull through?