Coco to Soil

long story short. I started some seedling in coco and would like to change over to a soil grow for these ladies. When I up pot, can I just dig a hole and drop the seedling in (3 nodes)? Or do i have to knock off all the coco, and just transfer the roots? I am concerned that the coco will dry out too fast, as the soil takes quite a bit longer between feeds.

smokey

Smokey57 said:

long story short. I started some seedling in coco and would like to change over to a soil grow for these ladies. When I up pot, can I just dig a hole and drop the seedling in (3 nodes)? Or do i have to knock off all the coco, and just transfer the roots? I am concerned that the coco will dry out too fast, as the soil takes quite a bit longer between feeds.

smokey

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Don't knock off the coco. Transplant them as intact as possible.

Smokey57 said:

long story short. I started some seedling in coco and would like to change over to a soil grow for these ladies. When I up pot, can I just dig a hole and drop the seedling in (3 nodes)? Or do i have to knock off all the coco, and just transfer the roots? I am concerned that the coco will dry out too fast, as the soil takes quite a bit longer between feeds.

smokey

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If the plant is healthy and you know its not a finnicky strain.. . I would just wash you hands really good and break apart the roots and knock ofd whatever you can without drestroying too much of the main thick roots youll be fine .

I used a knife many times to cut big sections of roots off . youd be surprised .

Alot of the time they come back looking better. Sometimes theyll look shitty for a few days maybe a week . Just dont put them in full light right away and just plain water until they look like their growing fast again

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xtsho said:

Don't knock off the coco. Transplant them as intact as possible.

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Yeah you dont have to knock off the coco either, theres lots of ways of doing things.

Whatever you try record your results

I bury the coco transplant deeper so the top is well covered by soil then treat it like soil.

These would be well rooted before transplant

I do it all the time..... clones from the bubbler into Solo cups of coco, once well rooted, into 7 gal soil pots....
Never had an issue...

Not sure why you would want to grow in soil,coco is a superior medium when done right?

thanks for all the advice. i will just transfer them into 3 gal airpots.
i am doing a 3 week cycle perpetual. 3-600w hps. first 2 cycles are soil next 2 coco, one last soil and 2 more coco before summer when i shut it down til fall.

Prepping this mother for outdoor flower.

4+ month old plant used as mother from 5gal coco to 20gal soil. Plan to keep it in veg for a couple weeks.....then transition to outdoor.

So far all good. Fingers crossed.

TintEastwood said:

Prepping this mother for outdoor flower.

4+ month old plant used as mother from 5gal coco to 20gal soil. Plan to keep it in veg for a couple weeks.....then transition to outdoor.

So far all good. Fingers crossed.


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You shouldn't have any problems.