Transplanting from a Fabric Pot

[Mountainhigh]

Does anyone have experience successfully getting a plant out of a fabric pot-- without damaging plant or pot? Suggestions welcome...

 

[Rwise]

Massage the sides of the pot, you will feel the cloth loosen, pick it up and push up on the bottom to start the soil up. Then hold the soil and plant with one hand turn it over and gently work the pot off. Drop the pot (recover it later), hold the soil top and bottom turn it over set it in the prepared hole. Easier with a good helper.
Talked to my friend he is planting the pot and all, most this will work well. The "Smart Pot" made in OKC claims roots dont grow through theirs.
Also moist soil not wet, dry soil, at least mine will crumble (fall apart) easy
EDIT If you damage the roots, dont freak out, plant it as best you can and water it with something like Voodoo Juice to help it regrow roots. /EDIT

 

[SoOrbudgal]

Sorry I've not done fabric transplant i'd just cut the bottom plant it that way in soil. I know you don't want to mess up your pot. Could'nt you put that pot into the larger pot if they air prune??

 

[Mountainhigh]

Thanks, @Rwise. Kinda like I'd do with a plastic 5-gal. bucket, except for massaging the sides, huh?. (With a bucket, I flex the plastic toward oval a little, then run a metal yardstick around the inside to loosen any attachment.) Agree with the "damp, not wet" instructions... And yes-- it's easier with a helper. I use an empty, same-size bucket to form the hole if it's going in the ground outside-- that way it's a perfect fit. Thanks for the sugg on Voodoo Juice.

Thanks, too, @SoOrbudgal. Your suggestions would probably work, but I don't want to cramp the roots (possibly causing a smaller yield) or destroy the pots. Sometimes a transplant just needs to happen...

 

[quirk]

Roll it down from the top and next time go this route.

 

[Mountainhigh]

Hey, @quirk-- what's that black thing called?

 

[Gluteous]

It's an Air Pot

 

[quirk]

What Gluteous said Mountainhigh . And because of the design, you can easily reduce and expand volume allowing you to up pot with the same pot, adding soil around your root ball which holds it shape as you can see. They're very functional.

 

[Mountainhigh]

Thanks, quirk I guess the AirPots are bottomless and you attach more area to the side... Is that how it works?

 

[quirk]

They come with a bottom, but will require a modified bottom when you reduce. Outdoors I go bottomless..

 

[SoOrbudgal]

Thanks quirk I never saw the inside or bottom parts just outer rings looks great for growing.

 

[Mountainhigh]

Ever been busted for exposure? Seriously-- in the first photo, that looks like a plastic drip tray with holes drilled in it... right? Do you glue it on?