Yesterday, I potted up 10 seedlings from half pints to 1 L foam cups.
3 Peach Bhut, 2 Beth Boyd, 2 Alan Boatman, Schneider Farms, BOC x Brain Strain, BOC
The media is approximately half burpee premium organic growing mix and the other half is reused organic potting mixes which were about 50/50 amended with perlite. Also, I added worm castings to the planting holes and misted them in, shaped the hole deeper and with firmer walls, then repeated. Because the media was not wet enough to hold together, moistening it with ewc makes it more shapable. It also serves to wet the area immediately surrounding the transplants' roots so that I didn't have to water-in immediately. Also, the castings provide slow-release N and much like compost, cause the soil to retain moisture.
Basically, they got the same treatment as the Scotch Brains I potted up to a half gallon. Except, that one had ewc mixed into the backfill soil. Also, it was watered-in and got orchid bark around the crown. Some growers do this with bonchi, having the shallow/exposed roots splayed out across a rock and all that. I just want to keep the tillers healthy and anchored in the soil. I used a garden tie to stabilize and fasten it to the pot's edge. I was not meaning to repot like this, but the roots were long.
I've also heard of burying plants stalks deep, in order to grow adventitious lateral roots. I haven't tried that much, because I don't want to risk pathogens. I like to let the topsoil dry out, but I might lightly mist this one until the roots take hold. Then I'll probably mound more organic matter around the rootball.
I'm pretty happy with the root development at the time of this pot up. It's the first inoculation for these, other than AACT.
