Fabric pot! Can you transplant?

[TheGoldenRoad]

Also, I think it's important for the soil in both pots to have close to the same moisture content.

That what I try to do with the moisture in the medium. I feel like it helps. My plants usually don’t slow down or get stressed from the move to the new pot.

 

[Oldchucky]

It can be tricky for a week or two! If you put a one or 2 gallon plug of dense soil into a pot of loose soil! It takes a while for the roots to migrate out into the loose soil! In the meantime, the plant is drying out that root balll! So you’re watering around the drip line to encourage root expansion, and the plant is starting to fold from lack of water! Sometimes you have to kind of bottle water that root ball until the roots have expanded out and can take over! Those plugs sometimes don’t absorb much water from the sides or the top unless you do it slowly! Just two cents! I actually prefer to let the small pot dry out a bit, then pull the plant out, fluff up the roots real well and then plunk them into the big pot! But with a wet root ball that is hard to do so you have to pay attention to it after you transplant it!

 

[Ninjadogma]

It can be tricky for a week or two! If you put a one or 2 gallon plug of dense soil into a pot of loose soil! It takes a while for the roots to migrate out into the loose soil! In the meantime, the plant is drying out that root balll! So you’re watering around the drip line to encourage root expansion, and the plant is starting to fold from lack of water! Sometimes you have to kind of bottle water that root ball until the roots have expanded out and can take over! Those plugs sometimes don’t absorb much water from the sides or the top unless you do it slowly! Just two cents! I actually prefer to let the small pot dry out a bit, then pull the plant out, fluff up the roots real well and then plunk them into the big pot! But with a wet root ball that is hard to do so you have to pay attention to it after you transplant it!

Damn that's a really good observation and yeah I've been in that situation where the root ball is drying out because you're watering at the drip line and the root ball is so dense the water won't wicker in all the way. First off, that's why you're supposed to untangle end roots as you're setting it into the medium but you know there are some plants that react like a sea anenome if you molest those roots in any way... autos come to mind but I don't work with them, I've dealt with fickle roots with other plant species though. And so sometimes you don't want to disturb them. A couple things that help in that mess is stab the shit out of that root mass with a soil probe and loosen it up: Find the seam where the old medium and new soil meet and water there instead of the drip line, and top off with a little extra water well inside the drip line. I've run up against this many times dealing with tomatoes and jalapeños.

 

[Oldchucky]

Damn that's a really good observation and yeah I've been in that situation where the root ball is drying out because you're watering at the drip line and the root ball is so dense the water won't wicker in all the way. First off, that's why you're supposed to untangle end roots as you're setting it into the medium but you know there are some plants that react like a sea anenome if you molest those roots in any way... autos come to mind but I don't work with them, I've dealt with fickle roots with other plant species though. And so sometimes you don't want to disturb them. A couple things that help in that mess is stab the shit out of that root mass with a soil probe and loosen it up: Find the seam where the old medium and new soil meet and water there instead of the drip line, and top off with a little extra water well inside the drip line. I've run up against this many times dealing with tomatoes and jalapeños.

I hear you, brother! Just have to be observant! once the root spread out your golden! And I agree with the stabbing! I usually do enough of that with the moisture meter! Lol!

 

[LoveGrowingIt]

The size of the root ball and whether (or how much) it is root bound can call for different transplanting techniques. I prefer to transplant when the plants are early in the establishment stage.

 

[Ninjadogma]

I hear you, brother! Just have to be observant! once the root spread out your golden! And I agree with the stabbing! I usually do enough of that with the moisture meter! Lol!

They stab it with their steely knives but they just can't kill the beast