In a 5 gal pot and wondering if I can transplant into a bigger pot or if I should just let it finish. Should go into flower in the next week or 2. Up in Northeast Ohio.
You can pot it into another 10 gallon or similar, just leave it in the 5 gallon bag and pack soil around it til full.
Should I cut the 5 gal pot before I put into 10 gal?
Not necessary. You can still recover the inner bags after harvest.
Put some decent sized rocks in the bottom of your larger pot prior to moving and filling. As your plant fills in it won’t take much of a breeze to knock a plant that size over.
Recover the pot? After roots run through it?
I had a few plants that air pruned a pot along the bottom. Trying to remove those is a real task of Hercules and I would rather muck out the Augean Stables.
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I totally agree, but some folks don’t throw away any that can be saved, even if it’s a PIA.
Why not dig a hole deep enough to burry the 5 gal pot half way down? The roots will grow through the pot and anchor it into place. Possibly bend the top over and then stake it to the ground to remove top dominance and bush out some with the stretch that’s coming.
I can do that. I’d have to dig a big hole though. I’m using manure in the rest of the garden so I’d have to add my soil then put the plant in the hole. Think I’ll do that. Thanks!
You wouldn’t have to add soil to the hole. Once roots grew into the ground, it would get the share the resources of the plot plus any nutrition you feed directly into that pot.
Edit: I’d just put down a thin layer of lava rocks in it to get some drainage/aeration under that pot and encourage the roots through and down. That would also help to create an anchor point for the developing roots to grab onto.
I think I’d prefer the mobility of the potted plant to protect from thieves and weather.
I’m all for another bigger pot if it was on hand and security was a threat. I just presented gorilla growing practices that would give another, simple, option to the OP to choose from.
Even with manure? I use Fox Farm Happy Frog for my pot plants. Wouldn’t the strong manure hurt the roots? That’s why I was thinking of digging a hole and putting the Happy Frog soil below the pot
You wouldn’t be putting the root ball into the manure at all. The pot would be sitting down below the manure amended garden layer, so the plant gets to keep its existing soil while the roots eventually grow out through the bottom into the native soil underneath. You’re basically giving that 5 gal root zone a much larger volume of ground to expand into without exposing the existing root mass to the manure all at once.
