Terrible Transplant

Postin pics later...

Today I attempted to transplant my 2 and a half week old plant from its plastic cup to a pot but it went wrong and I think I may have tried transplanting to early after watering. I watered it 2 days prior to attempting and the top was crusty but when i took it out all the soil stayed in the cup and I was left with this plant with tiny roots with dirt on them.

Today I checked the plant and it appears somewhat ok a little sad looking but green as hell.

I dont want to waste my time with this plant if the transplant makes it obviously useless... but is there any hope?

Yes. It will be ok. Give it some time and maybe water with a superthrive type product. Something with b-1 in it.

rlax106 said:

Postin pics later...

Today I attempted to transplant my 2 and a half week old plant from its plastic cup to a pot but it went wrong and I think I may have tried transplanting to early after watering. I watered it 2 days prior to attempting and the top was crusty but when i took it out all the soil stayed in the cup and I was left with this plant with tiny roots with dirt on them.

Today I checked the plant and it appears somewhat ok a little sad looking but green as hell.

I dont want to waste my time with this plant if the transplant makes it obviously useless... but is there any hope?

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I experienced this same situation not long ago.

Without pics, I can't give advice to fix the plant you have, but I can tell you how to keep this from happening again.

Fill your new container with your medium to the point where if you sit your plastic cup in it, it's to the correct height. With a razor blade or really sharp knife, cut 4" slits up the side of the plastic cup. Once 4 or 5 of them have been cut equally spaced around the cup, place the cup in the new container on top of the medium you put in there. The top of the dirt in the cup should be at the point in the new container where you want it at this point. Now, you can cut the bottom off the plasti cup and remove the scrap bottom. You can use fill medium to place around the plastic cup, in turn filling up the new container. Once you have enough around the edges, you can now remove the sides of the cup in one pull since the cup has no bottom at this point.

There is no removing of the plant from the cup with this method, so the chances of your root ball coming apart in transit are drastically lowered.

Tronica- Thanks for the advise but will this do any damage by any chance given my plant is very young, or will it do no harm?

Sandman45- Thanks a lot for the info someone a while ago told me something about slitting the side but I wasn't listening. Luckily I have it now so I wont make that mistake in the future.

My plant is sleeping right now so I'll post pics in a matter of hours