IS it too late to transplant 4 weeks into flowering?

I have a single female plant. She was started from seed 4-4-13 and has been outdoors since day 1. I have her in fox farm happy frog soil. I made the mistake and started her in a 3gallon pot. I think she is root bound now. So can I still transplant her into a bigger pot without any damage. Should I leave her alone and just let her finish?View attachment 2776391View attachment 2776392View attachment 2776393

she might stress a bit but if shes rootbound then i think you need to transplant. imnot an expert though so let them answer first

this is newbie central its too late dude, replanting now could make her hermie :/ that being said that is still a very decent size plant 2oz/50g i reckon

leave her be...just let her finish. Next time plan better.

outdoor plants take much longer time to finish than indoors.I have heard about transplanting 2 weeks in flowering indoors so i dunno i am a noob but i would do it,i would transplant her in a 7 gallon. Don't take my advice, just the facts, wait for the pros

when a plant goes into flower the roots stop growing and the focus is on the formation of flowers...so im told

UnderCoverAgentOrange said:

when a plant goes into flower the roots stop growing and the focus is on the formation of flowers...so im told

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Total horse shit. The roots continue to grow throughout flowering. OP: dont transplant, just feed stronger nutes and it will be ok.

well the reason I was asking about transplanting. Is because I just flushed her, looks like either nute burn or root bound. So I thought by transplanting her with fresh soil and a bigger pot would help her. But it seems since she is into flower, it would hurt her more than help at this stage.

If you're very careful then you can transplant now. Only if its a transplant emergency though.

IMO If a plant is severely root bound then doing so will be better than leaving it and just upping the nutes. A severely root-bound plant basically has fewer roots than it wants/needs to take in the water and nutes it needs to support the growth above ground (the roots basically grow as big or a little bigger than they need) and so it will be stunted and have various problems with leaves and bud development.

By transplanting you give the plant a chance to add to the root surface area quickly, allowing it to revert to healthy bud development.

As I said...only in extreme cases. 3 gallons is kind of borderline. Would probably be fine for indoor plants...but outdoors...well, who knows!

I go with the transplant side, if she is rootbound she is going to slide out of the container very easily without much stress. You are going to need two people ........wife trusted friend someone to help you though. You will need to gently score the roots on at least one side of the rootball two sides would be better. She may stress a tad but unlikely enough to hermie and your end results will be much better IMHO. Good luck and let us know what happened.

While roots do still grow during flower they don't grow nearly as much as they do in veg. I think transplanting now would do more harm then good

Hey Texas,
Roots do continue to grow at a slower rate then veg yet do still grow. Assuming your current problem is roots and not nutes. I would look at it like this If you are rootbound your growth is already guaranteed to be stunted and yield will suffer. Depending how much time you have left to flower say 3-4 weeks or more your running the risk of all kinds of other problems that equate to sickly or dead plants. Or you replant them sure it could cause stress and delay growth bfor a bit but once those roots stretch and can start utilizing the nutes and get that Xylom flowing to your buds seems worth it in a damned if you do damned if you dont situation. If your scared to do a more traditional re-pot Buddy and me came up with somthing we call LSP (Low Stress Potting lol trade mark chillnburn1* Actually did it because of a very similar situation. Cant tell what kind of pot shes in , but sure this would work with any plastic or best with a grow bag. Basically what we did is the day after a watering when your soil is damp not wet not dry, use your hands to press against the sides in a rolling motion to loosen the medium around the sides then get your larger pot or bag ready that your transplanting by putting a pot or object the size of your current pot in order to make a perfect casting after you add all your medium around your fake pot or whatever I dont suggest doing this with the pot that its in since its large and accidents happen! Anyways once you have a casting for your plant take it and make sure you roll again just like a normal re-pot. Now heres the part you need a buddy have your buddy hold the plasticmedium pot by grabbing north and south on the bucket and with some strength pull hands together so bucket creates a oval shape freeing two sides away from roots and medium. At this point you simply come in with a brand new sterilized razor preferably like a drywall blade and cut either the bottom out if possible or slowly plug large holes around the side basically turn it into a netty pot. Place the newly swiss cheesed bucket or bag in new pot and there you go. Two things be super careful obviously not to cut yourself or the roots and try not to leave any sharp corners when you water dont water the inside pot since you did this the day before but water the shit out of the outer medium so the roots stretch for it as that pot dries out. Normal watering after two feeds.

P.s. not that your a idiot but when you cut always cut from a side motion never straight in or gouge obviously simply put dont cut your roots.

You can always just chop the bottom off the pot and put it on top of a larger pot of earth. No re-potting, and space for the roots to grow into..

MajorCoco said:

You can always just chop the bottom off the pot and put it on top of a larger pot of earth. No re-potting, and space for the roots to grow into..

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sounds great. The pot she is in is a 3gallon plastic pot from walmart. Its a cheap pot, so what would I use to cut the bottom off? so I dont cut too deep and cut roots? any ideas?

I'd use a stanley knife or something to deeply score the bottom like a pizza then just snap the pieces out.

Haven't ever tried it myself though, and it could be a 2 man job with a big plant (though you could lay it on its side carefully without damaging it)

MajorCoco said:

I'd use a stanley knife or something to deeply score the bottom like a pizza then just snap the pieces out.

Haven't ever tried it myself though, and it could be a 2 man job with a big plant (though you could lay it on its side carefully without damaging it)

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This sounds like it could cause way more stress to the plant. Like someone stated above if the plant is already rootbound it will slide right out.

The only advantage you will achieve at this point if you transplant is less watering. Too late to get better yield.
I have grown many plants outdoors in 3 gallon containers...they are more portable but the tradeoff is less yield.
I prefer smaller containers because the plants are easier for me to move around and follow the sun. But they need to be watered at least twice a day.
Good Luck