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Friday night update, the one where I remove Grandpa's Moonshine from the SIP and replant it into a 7 gallon GeoPot, on day 67.
Here it was before the deed:
I laid it on its side and pressed on the bucket to free any roots that might have gotten stuck, and slowly pulled it out by the trunk:
There were very few roots in the wicking foot even 31 days after transplant:
You can see the soil around the res is clean of roots:
Most of the roots stopped at the top of the res:
So I took a sharp blade and sliced and roughed up the sides and sliced and broke up the roots along the bottom:
After that, I sprayed the sides with water and sprinkled @DYNOMYCO around the rootball, and put a layer in the new pot as well where the bottom roots sit.
There was about 2" around the edges to fill and about 4" of fresh soil at the bottom, and here it is after replant:
I only watered the edges where the new soil is, and I moved it out of the sun after the pic. I'll give it shade for the next three or four days while it gets used to the new digs.
Armchair Analysis: The soil was damp and the lower roots were mostly brown, so between that and the fact that the roots never grew into the soil wicking foot outside of the reservoir, my guess is it never put out the water roots that would enable it to survive/thrive in a sub-irrigated planter. So it really was waterlogged, which is definitely what the leaves were telling us. I obviously mis-handled the transition after transplant, but I'm hoping that it will recover once it dries out and starts growing new roots.
This is not my first rodeo when it comes to rescuing plants with a replant, as some of you may remember the shite soil I had to completely clear off the roots back in 2021. So I'm hopeful for this one even if the summer schedule is a bit behind!
for stopping by.
Here it was before the deed:
I laid it on its side and pressed on the bucket to free any roots that might have gotten stuck, and slowly pulled it out by the trunk:
There were very few roots in the wicking foot even 31 days after transplant:
You can see the soil around the res is clean of roots:
Most of the roots stopped at the top of the res:
So I took a sharp blade and sliced and roughed up the sides and sliced and broke up the roots along the bottom:
After that, I sprayed the sides with water and sprinkled @DYNOMYCO around the rootball, and put a layer in the new pot as well where the bottom roots sit.
There was about 2" around the edges to fill and about 4" of fresh soil at the bottom, and here it is after replant:
I only watered the edges where the new soil is, and I moved it out of the sun after the pic. I'll give it shade for the next three or four days while it gets used to the new digs.
Armchair Analysis: The soil was damp and the lower roots were mostly brown, so between that and the fact that the roots never grew into the soil wicking foot outside of the reservoir, my guess is it never put out the water roots that would enable it to survive/thrive in a sub-irrigated planter. So it really was waterlogged, which is definitely what the leaves were telling us. I obviously mis-handled the transition after transplant, but I'm hoping that it will recover once it dries out and starts growing new roots.
This is not my first rodeo when it comes to rescuing plants with a replant, as some of you may remember the shite soil I had to completely clear off the roots back in 2021. So I'm hopeful for this one even if the summer schedule is a bit behind!
for stopping by.
) but I will pass your recommendation along as soon as she wakes up (it's 4am there now)! 
on that with those brown roots cause we all know what comes next. Good job 
Shedsterino. CL
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