can I switch from soil to a hempy bucket grow or is too late?

I have 2 young plants. They are 3 weeks old in in a small plant box with soil. I was wanting to know can I take them out of soil and replant them in a 2ltr hempy style bucket? If so how would I do this and what would I need?

Ok, you need a some 4" net pots and some clay pebbles (hydrotron). fill the net pot half full of clay, knock the pot off yours, place the whole thing don't touch nothing, on the clay. Put in a deep container and water to the top of the clay, every two days or so, leave for two wks, this changes the roots from dirt to hydro, (big difference) After 2wks take her out wash off all the excess dirt GENTLY place low in another net pot with clay and she's ready for hydro, still shocks them start, hydro feed right away, be patient.

You can... shouldn't be an issue...I have transplanted from soil to coco...I didn't even try to knock off the dirt. I just put the whole pot shaped root dirt ball into the coco like a soil to soil transplant, and then I treated it like coco...using the lower pH and what not..and never saw not one issue, and I don't really see what the difference is there...Except it will be really hard to get all the soil out of the perlite after it is all said and done...then again it won't really be too hard, since the soil will sink in water while the perlite will float, so I guess it would be easy to strain the dirt out so you can reuse the perlite in it's pristine white state...but a little soil in the hempy won't hurt, but you will have to water less because soil obviously holds more water than perlite...or you could just do hempy style with coco, or would that make it some other style? I don't know...but you will be fine to just treat it like a normal transplant.

grannybonger said:

Ok, you need a some 4" net pots and some clay pebbles (hydrotron). fill the net pot half full of clay, knock the pot off yours, place the whole thing don't touch nothing, on the clay. Put in a deep container and water to the top of the clay, every two days or so, leave for two wks, this changes the roots from dirt to hydro, (big difference) After 2wks take her out wash off all the excess dirt GENTLY place low in another net pot with clay and she's ready for hydro, still shocks them start, hydro feed right away, be patient.

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All of that is ridiculous. Totally incorrect I can assure you both.

I can go from soil to hydro and back in a flash and my plants never even notice...they don't even have a downtime beyond that of a normal transplant...the plant will use whatever you give it in the same way that plants use any medium. And hempy is as hydro as coco and you can mix coco and soil, and soil and perlite...and partial soil being fed at hydro pH causes no issues. I don't know if it is because the soil just adapts to the new lower pH or what...but I go soil to coco most grows...Because I start plants in soil, because the seeds end up going to deep if you start them in coco...then I just move the dirt ball to the coco and then treat it like coco, and like coco is how it acts and my plants have yet to suffer...I have also transplanted from soil to DWC, and then from DWC and Aero, to soil with no shock and what not...Lol.

One time I took bagseed seedlings from soil in solo cups and transplanted to DWC with no issues. I prepared my rockwool cube, hydroton, and net pots. The rockwool I dug out a small hole for transplanting. After gently removing as much dirt as I could, I rinsed most of the remaining dirt off the roots under warm tap water (mine is 130ppm). Then I put the tiny little root ball in the rockwool cube and covered with rockwool fluff and I filled the rest with a couple hydroton balls. In my case there was no shock or recovery period... they pretty much exploded in growth the next day.

As long as Ph is correct for medium choice it usually doesn't phase plants. Be gentle as always.