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Transplanting 101

CANNABIS CULTURE - Master grower Subcool shows you how to transplant your babies and get them ready to grow!

Here's how it's done: Clones and new seeds are always placed into 1 gallon nursery pots without any Super Soil or added nutrients. Use only a good, balanced potting soil that won’t burn your baby plants. They will only stay in these smaller pots for a few weeks while the roots get established and you shape and top them.

It's very important to not procrastinate when it is time to transplant out of these smaller containers. If you get lazy and let your small plants sit around in their starter containers, it will slow the transition process after transplanting. I have seen first hand the huge difference when I gave some clones to a card holder. The day I transplanted I had 4 extra clones that I passed to him. Instead of transplanting right away he waited until they were root bound and looking poorly. I was able to harvest 30 days before him and the quality and quantity difference was hard to believe. My method is not for the lazy or procrastinating type; the more on top of each technique you become, the better each harvest will become as well.

When I'm ready to transplant into the final pots I use #10 nursery pots that will hold a full 7 gallons of liquid. Seven may not sound much bigger than a 5, but let me tell you these slanted #10 pots hold a bunch of soil! Make sure to lift properly using your legs and not your back when moving one that’s just been

I fill each pot 1/2 full with the Super Soil. I then fill the top half with plain potting soil. This buffers the roots and gives the plants time to get used to the hot soil I use.

I set up our pots on our trusty tarp, the same one I used in mixing this soil. We line all the pots up and place between 1/2 and 2/3 of a container of concentrate into the bottom of each container. Strains that have heavy nutrient requirements get more concentrate and short, slow Indicas that require less food get less concentrate.

Remember, it's better to under-feed and fade a bit too early than to over-feed and burn your plants up. Plants grown in this organic soil that fade early produce amazingly potent, smooth and tasty buds and the loss of yield is small. Some strains can grow fast and have heavy nutrient requirements. For these plants, top dressing half way through the flowering phase can be beneficial. We will discuss this more in a later blog post.

After the first steps, layer some plain commercial potting soil on top of the concentrate - about 2" worth. Use your hand or a small trowel to lightly mix the two layers. This allows the plant to be buffered as it hits the hot soil on bottom. Make sure the roots do not touch direct super soil use your hand to mix the plain potting soil around with the super soil. Then go ahead and fill the container with plain potting soil, leaving a small hole in the center.

It’s important to water the plants well before transplanting. This helps prevent shock. A nice damp root ball will make a happy plant. Gently flip the plant upside down. Wack the bottom with the palm of your hand to loosen the root ball. Support the plant by placing your hand on the pot allowing the stem to protrude though your fingers. Remove from the pot and support the base. Flip upright and place in the hole made into the soil making sure the root ball is even with the top of the soil. Gently pack the soil level and don’t forget your label.

Subcool is an expert grower and breeder, and author of Dank: The Quest for the Very Best Marijuana, published by Ed Rosenthal's Quick Trading Company. He and is a regular contributor to Cannabis Culture and other marijuana magazines. Read Subcool's Blog.

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In my quest to green our fashion designer on the show, I took her to the L.A. showroom of Stewart+Brown, one of the top green fashion lines available today, where cofounders Karen Stewart and Howard Brown showed us the latest in green fabrics. Perhaps my biggest shock so far this season came when Karen and Howard presented their super-soft, luxurious garments made of hemp. Considered one of the greenest materials in existence because it grows rapidly without the need for pesticides or insecticides and requires relatively low amounts of water to cultivate, hemp has historically been coarse to the touch, typically possessing more in common with frumpy potato sacks than with stylish fashion items. To witness hemp’s evolution into a desirable clothing fabric (our non-green fashion designer really liked it, too) is to witness the evolution of the green fashion industry. I assert as much because it takes significant capital investment and years of development for designers and manufacturers to undergo enough “trial and error” to learn how to best work with hemp — or any another green material for that matter — in order to develop attractive products that the marketplace will demand. Ultimately, to replace conventional, synthetic fabrics that are derived from crude oil with more natural alternatives such as hemp on a truly large scale, this is the type of commitment, evolution and innovation required to get us there.

Yet, Stewart+Brown’s success with hemp illuminates a sticky point for the green movement, which is the uncomfortable reality that not all eco-friendly companies and brands are created equal. Some are outstanding while others are still deficient in terms of delivering green products that Americans will realistically gravitate toward. While we may laud the environmental commitment and effort of all eco-entrepreneurs, it’s important to identify those who are creating green products that not only match the attributes of the conventional competition, but, more often than not, surpass them.

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