I got myself some plants about a month ago during the black friday/cyber monday sales. A few rose plants, marjoram, sage, elderberry plants, and clematis plants. When I got them I quickly realized they already outgrew their containers and would need to be transplanted before spring comes around. With some new pots in hand I move over the smallest of the potted plants. And will focus on the others soon enough.
I started off moving the rose plants, they are mostly dormant though the lights and warm grow room may wake them up. Our water heater and wood furnace plumbing comes through this room so it stays pretty warm.
The marjoram looked the most confined in their little pots. Though just about everything needed to go a size up.
Even with their little pots they are shooting off new growth. I am unsure if these will survive where I live, but its worth a try next spring and see if they will become established perennials.
A few of the rush bushes came in bigger pots, but a couple were in some small ones. So I moved the smaller ones to new pots.
All of the sage as well needed to be moved. Those are the bluish colored plants.
Moving the rose plants seems like they would have much more space. All I need is for them to be happy for around 4 months and then they can go in the ground.
Ah looks much happier in the bigger pot.
Another one moved, its dirt retained the shape of the old rectangle shaped pot.. lol
We can see the roots reaching the sides and bottom, a sign they have outgrown their pots.
I add some benefical fungi and bacteria to where the roots will rest, hopefully they will colonize and form a relationship with the plant roots helping them grow better.
That is quite the root ball, examples like that are what I was after. Putting them in bigger pots will help.
I am mixing the bags of garden soil with seedling mix, so hopefully they will like the mix of both.
We can see some dead asian lady beetles inside. They have found the plant and gone after any pests brought over from the nursery. Now dead they will add to the soil.
Another root bound plant, hopefully they will come back from this without issue. Probably a good idea to pry apart the root ball but honestly I did not do that.. It can cause the plant to go into shock sometimes.
Should have much more space in these bigger pots.
The Clematis plants were really hit or miss, seems like not every one survived. But I moved them anyways, this one is doing pretty well. With a asian lady beetle hanging out on it.
We can see the roots coming out of the bottom.. They really need to be transplanted.
Eventually I get them moved over and give them a good watering.
Quite the happy plant there.
I may need to get some bigger pots for these four rose bushes. Maybe put them in some one cannabis cloth pots until spring.
Moving them seemed to shock them a bit, so I hope they come back. But a bigger pot is a good idea as long as they recover a little from their big move.
Probably a good pruning would help as well. All that dead growth does not help out the plant.
I moved all the rose plants in the smaller pots though, so I am sure they will be happy.
Hoping the pine seedlings bounce back soon. I started new seeds just in case.
The elderberry plants will be difficult to transplant. They are vining plants and quite tall. So I may need to train their branches down and put them in some bigger pots as well.
They are coming out of dormancy since they are in the warm room with the grow lights around them.
So for now the smaller pots have been removed, and the plants that were in those have more space. But soon I will probably need to move the elderberry plants, along with the larger rose bushes. Need to make sure I have enough space for them. I do not want to put them in my grow tents, in case they have spider mites or something like that. Do not want to introduce pests into my clean grow areas. So it will be best to just keep them in this room away from my cannabis plants.