Rootbound in mid-flower, Transplant or leave it alone?

[ds8802]

Okay, i have a big beautiful Mexican sativa girl who is finishing up her eighth week of flowering and she's root bound as all Hell. i've flushed more than once in the past couple of weeks and it did seem to make a few minor improvements but after a couple of days, her problems reemerge.

Should i go ahead and take my chances with transplanting her to a bigger pot or would that cause too much stress this far into flowering? i'm not sure but i'd guess that she has at least another three-six weeks to go (if not more) and she still has a lot of fattening up to do (provided she survives) and i really don't think that she'll be able to keep going strong being as root bound as she is.
Or should i just leave her as is and continue to flush the crap out of her on a weekly basis and hope for the best?

Any advice, experience, or suggestions?

i really want her to be able to finish when she's ready to and be as healthy as she can be given all of the stress she's been under but i'm worried that moving her now might just fuck things up even worse and make her herm out if not straight up die. That would be upsetting. Like whoa.

Any feedback would be greatly appreciated and totally welcomed. i really need help with this and i'm hoping that whatever course of action i end up taking is in her best interest.

Thanks in advance to whomever may reply.

 

[hapgrowy]

well im not a expert by any means but i know alot about plants, and considering we are dealing with a pretty hardy plant here, theres probably a 75% chance everything will go good with minimum loss, 20ish% u might make her hermie, and probably less than 5% chance you kill her all together... jus be a careful as you can
research
good luck

 

[Ms.Fox]

Sure, if she still has that many weeks to go, I would do it for sure. I like to just barely dampen the soil, so it all sticks together when it comes out of the pot. This creates less stress for the roots. I always transplant this way and never see any signs of stress afterwards. ;-)

 

[ds8802]

Thank you both, very much.
i figured that transplanting was inevitable at this point but i wanted to be as sure as i could that i wouldn't be making a huge mistake.

Again, thank you.
i hope this goes well...

Moral of the story: If it's a sativa and more than a foot tall when you start flowering, five gallons probably won't be enough. Hahaha...

 

[poker shark]

Hmmm..perhaps this is my problem too...

 

[WeedRyder]

Sure, if she still has that many weeks to go, I would do it for sure. I like to just barely dampen the soil, so it all sticks together when it comes out of the pot. This creates less stress for the roots. I always transplant this way and never see any signs of stress afterwards. ;-)

that is a very good method to go with, i usealy do the same its realy good for the plants.

 

[BWC BayArea]

Since no 1 asked how big of a plant it is I'd like to suggest this. If ur using cheap plastic pots u can remove the bottom and plant the old pot a couple inches down into the new, the roots would love it. U can also get larger plants this way, dunno what type of vertical space u have. I said this because if ur half way thru flower u probably have some nice sized plants, unless u SOG it. So transplanting a large budding plants because it involves turning the plant upside down. Which can cause branches to breaks, stick buds to rub against things, or dirt/media to fall into/onto flowers. Do what's easier for u. I just transplanted two girls a couple week in and had no probs.

 

[ds8802]

Thanks for all of the responses guys.

BWC- i thought about doing something very similar to what you mentioned, but the pots i'm using are old sheetrock mud containers and are made of very strong plastic. Unfortunately, all of my construction equipment (including the circle saw i'd need to cut through said plastic) was stolen a couple of years ago.
i ended up going with the typical, flip it upside down and drop it in as fast and safely as possible method and everything seems to have worked out great. i moved her into an old, huge rubbermaid bucket (approx 20gal) that i hand-drilled a bunch of drainage holes into Friday night and she's doing alot better. i also trimmed off all the dying/sick leaves and alot of the ones that were just starting to suffer are already showing massive improvement.

With that said, thank you guys. Seriously.
i was about 90% sure that transplanting was inevitable but that little bit of doubt and worry was racking my mind and you guys took that away for me.

Thank you, very much.

 

[BWC BayArea]

No prob. Good luck with ur grow. If ur comfortable with it, post a pic.

 

[ds8802]

FYI: she's about 3'9" tall but bushy as all hell. i've been topping and LSTing the crap out of her since she was six inches tall and i've gotten a good 24 colas off her. They aren't very big colas because i could only afford a 150watt HPS and a couple of cfls but she still takes up quite a bit of space.
i'm sorry, i'm talking her up...
She's my first and i'm feeling all proud and paternal. Damn i wish i had a working camera.

/edit/ Accidentally hit 7 instead of 4. 24 colas. Damn 10 key.