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I transplanted all of them this morning. They all had roots penetrating the bottom of the CowPots. Figured I might as well get them all transplanted into 1 gallon pots. I believe it was in this journal that I mentioned I was going to put a couple of them into final pots but I decided to not do that until I have verified the sexes of all of them. Only females will be going into the larger fabric pots and I am hoping I get at least one male of each variety.
So @Emilya wins this time and they will be getting the 3x-5x potting up method.
Glue Tide #3 is the one that was transplanted into this CowPot with an undisturbed jiffy peat pot.
This is the bottom of the CowPot that had the whole Jiffy pot inside. That means it has roots that penetrated through the jiffy pest pot and this pot already. I'm not certain it is fair to say that the roots have a hard time getting through the peat pots. It has not slowed this one down at all. Could possibly say it is the healthiest one of the bunch actually. I think I will need to do more experiments to have a solid opinion either way. The rest have roots punching through like this. So would it be easier to just plant directly into these or in the smaller peat pots and then put into here? Hmmmm...
Mixed up a little more of the Stutzman Farms organic chicken manure into my soil mix. Added some soil at the bottom of the 1 gallon pot. Then placed an empty CowPot into it to the height I wanted and filled it all in with more soil. Then pulled out the CowPot which left me with a perfect imprint. Added some of my custom slow release granular fertilizer and worm castings to the bottom of the hole. As I have been doing with all my transplants, I added Extreme Gardening Azos and Mykos to the hole.
Added about 1/2 Tbs of my top dress fertilizer mix and a small handful of worm castings. Topped that off with some more soil.
Mulched it with coco as was suggested by @jamexican686 . I only did a think layer of it because I didn't have room left but in their final pots, I will definitely give it a shot to mulch with a thicker 2-3" layer.
This was 3 hours later after transplant and feeding.
So @Emilya wins this time and they will be getting the 3x-5x potting up method.
Glue Tide #3 is the one that was transplanted into this CowPot with an undisturbed jiffy peat pot.
This is the bottom of the CowPot that had the whole Jiffy pot inside. That means it has roots that penetrated through the jiffy pest pot and this pot already. I'm not certain it is fair to say that the roots have a hard time getting through the peat pots. It has not slowed this one down at all. Could possibly say it is the healthiest one of the bunch actually. I think I will need to do more experiments to have a solid opinion either way. The rest have roots punching through like this. So would it be easier to just plant directly into these or in the smaller peat pots and then put into here? Hmmmm...
Mixed up a little more of the Stutzman Farms organic chicken manure into my soil mix. Added some soil at the bottom of the 1 gallon pot. Then placed an empty CowPot into it to the height I wanted and filled it all in with more soil. Then pulled out the CowPot which left me with a perfect imprint. Added some of my custom slow release granular fertilizer and worm castings to the bottom of the hole. As I have been doing with all my transplants, I added Extreme Gardening Azos and Mykos to the hole.
Added about 1/2 Tbs of my top dress fertilizer mix and a small handful of worm castings. Topped that off with some more soil.
Mulched it with coco as was suggested by @jamexican686 . I only did a think layer of it because I didn't have room left but in their final pots, I will definitely give it a shot to mulch with a thicker 2-3" layer.
This was 3 hours later after transplant and feeding.