hi and welcome back to garden ninja now a few of you online have been asking
about pricking out and potting on seedlings so I thought today would be a
great day to give you a quick guide on how to pick out a pot on your seedlings
so come on let's go to the greenhouse! So here we have a seed tray now these are
full of Scabious that I've grown from seeds and this is all part of my gardening without
plastic journey so I'm using wood and recycled containers
what we're going to do today is we're gonna lift these Scabious carefully out of
the seed tray, which is known as pricking out into individual pots and that way they
can grow far bigger and stronger and if we're just constrained within this so
depending on the size of your seedlings you're gonna need a dipper like this or
a pencil or even a lolly stick like the nametag then you're going to be using
that those to make the hole in the pot with the new compost and also to
loosen the plant and carefully lift it into the other pot.
First things first you need to fill you pot with some compost I'm
just using a general-purpose compost there and then if you've got a tamper
like this you can give it a bit of a tamp just remove some of the air
pockets so you basically going for a nice consistency. Don't fill it
to the very top because when you water it's gonna spill out it's a mess so
gonna pop that and then carefully I will grab my Dibber
or lolly stick and just to start to loosen and the seedlings out the tray so if we go for
this one at the back now when you're grabbing them or touching or I should say you
always want to be touching them by the leaves never ever the stem.
I'm going to dig that in, just give it a bit of work around you can actually feel the roots thats
good. So carefully carefully. If you look close see so you can see just
how strong those roots I look at that that's brilliant that's really
well-established. So what I need to do now is very quickly with the dibber
move it on to its next pot you don't want that to dry out. So put the dibber in the new
pot. I'm going to make a hole I tend to like this carousel action take a
little seedling just let it drop in ever so slightly and don't put the roots on
the surface so I need them in the holes carefully use your finger again don't
touch that stem just cover that over I'm not gonna be too vicious we're just
gonna give it a quick hold down just to secure it and then we're gonna water
it straight away. When I water it the water will soak through will cause a
little vacuum and fills for all those spaces you don't want to cram it in
because you'll damage the roots however is use room-temperature water so I don't
shock the plant then you literally just want to give it a really good soak. If it
starts tomove about just hold another leaf give it a really good stoak
the water will be pulled down throughout the plant there we go
pretty much that is all you need to do for potting on so that's how you prick
out a plant so I've got a load more to do now I'm going to show you a few more
examples just until we get hang them!
So there we go a really easy way for pricking out some plants into pots if
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