Make a transplant of plant means to move it from one container to another (usually bigger one). This at first look can seem to be something simple, has its advantages, but also its inconvenient, so it is important to know when to proceed with a cannabis transplant, and how to do it so plants suffer the minimum possible.
Benefits of cannabis transplant
Cannabis plants have a natural tendency to send their roots to the bottom and sides of its main root center. Plants grow their root system this way same as buildings need foundations to hold the aerial part. If we place our seed in a container, after some days we’ll see how roots have colonized the bottom of it, besides the sides, creating a dense root system in all the perimeter of the pot, what allows plant to know which are its possibilities of vertical and horizontal growth. Due this reason we can notice a different morphology when plants are grown in different shaped pots (rout or squared) as well as in different size pots. This appreciation tells us that plant’s morphology goes by hand with how roots have formed the root system.
As we said, the natural growth of root system of plants has a tendency to search for the ends of the container but… What happens in the central area of the container? Even though it is true that main root, as well as its secondaries, will pass through the center looking for the ends, its mission is not to fill the center, so the center will be unattended of root mass (this detail is easy to check once plants are chopped taking the plant out of the pot and doing a transversal cut). So here it is the main mission of a cannabis transplant, and the highest benefit of a cannabis transplant: Get the root system to fill the whole container and not only its perimeters.
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Another secondary benefits of cannabis transplants could be offering new substrate to plants (with more nutrients available), give larger space to roots in order to get bigger plants, enlarge the distance in-between irrigation…
So it is clear then that cannabis transplant is a global benefit for plants that directly derives not only in its aerial growth, also in its root growth, what helps getting larger yields.