Accidentally planted 2 seeds in the same pot, need some help.

So I accidentally sowed two seeds in the same pot, I knew soon after bc I was missing a seed, I thought I might of churned it into the soil but now they have both popped up, thing is they are less than an inch apart, what should I do, try to take one out now and replant it, let it grow for a bit and then tranplant, should I just let them grow together, or have I lost one of them without hope.

If they are very small, you should be able to get them out easily with a spoon. Be gentle.

Ya I was thinking this might be the best time to do it, before they get too tangled.

Yep-- use a spoon... wet the soil and GENTLY scoop out BOTH sprouts and get the soil off.. then re-plant them both.

trying to remove only 1 often results in damaging the roots of both plants.

Dont take the soil off the roots. Seperate them, then replant the ball without cracking or otherwise disturbing the spoon full of dirt/plant/root.

K, I don't want to mess with the roots too much so I will just leave whatever soil on, don't quite follow what you mean by cracking or disturbing the spoon full of dirt/root/plant, do you mean try to keep one as unscathed as possible while removing the other one.

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New Age United said:

K, I don't want to mess with the roots too much so I will just leave whatever soil on, don't quite follow what you mean by cracking or disturbing the spoon full of dirt/root/plant, do you mean try to keep one as unscathed as possible while removing the other one.

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Roots have microscopic hairs on them that are important. Keeping the soil intact around the root ball protects these hairs. This keeps you from stunting the plant during a transplant (ie not handling the root ball). So leave that soil intact.

It is possible to rinse the dirt from it if you need to go into certain types of hydro but that is risky as it can kill or at the minimum stunt the plant's growth. It also helps if you water with a light B1 after transplant but at this young age I'd just use a spoon and scoop each to their own pots.
Good luck,

Yes. Just keep it in one ball, resting on the spoon. Go straight from the dig out, to your pre dug hole.

Ok I am a little worried about killing one or both, so I'm just gonna confirm this, I scoop out just one of them, and then plant that into my another pot with pre dug hole.

i just did bout 90 beans, had 3 set of twins, separated 2 successfully, lost 1 runt.

Yep Thats about it.

I wet the soil and let it sit for a min, the very very slowly and carefully pressed the spoon in and under, it did break apart, that's my fault I didn't dig a deep enough hole, it should be alright. I didn't handle the root at all.

Looks good man. I'm quite sure they will be fine.

Be very careful not to over water in such a large pot. When they are big, the roots go down and suck out the water, but tiny plants can't do that, and the bottom of the pot tends to turn to mud.

I start in 4" square pots, then go to 1 gal in a few weeks, whenever the plant tells me to. I also drill many holes in the pots. at 8 points on the compass, I drill rows of 4 or 5, starting flush at the bottom, and going no higher than 2 inches from the top. I also make a couple holes on the bottom in line with the holes on the side.

Ya I know now not to use such big pots to begin them, I'll def drill some holes, so you're talking like 32-40 holes, that would asure a nice spread of moisture.

Yep, lots of holes. 3/8" bit works. You want the soil to breathe.

For sure, I heard coir is good for holding oxygen even when over watering