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I have read many a forum or E-mail from people love to grow plants, but the part that they hate is  transplanting them. Using the trays described in propagation, it's easy. This is the next step. I went to the local kitchen store and purchased a small pair of tongs for about $2.50, like you see here at the right. I then ground them on an abrasive wheel to customize one  end so that it would fit nicely into a cell
of a 512 cell tray. Then I straightened it
out a little bit, as you can see here on
the left, and I was ready to transplant.
You can use this new found tool to lift the
plug or  seedling out of the tray. If you have done
everything correct, you should have a great
little root system on your seedling, then
you could also try to gently take hold of one of
the larger leaves and give a little tug,
and your seedling should be able to just
pop out of the tray as a square plug, ready
to go to it's new home. Be very gentle with
your tug, if you pull out the seedling and
left behind the root system in the tray,
then you use the other method above. If everything works
well, you should have a nice little plug
as shown below. Now that you have your little seedling, with it's root system, it's easy to place it into a depression in the soil of a larger tray, let's say a tray of 48 or 60 as shown below and drop the seedling in and press it gently into  place, as seen on the left. When you are
done transplanting your 48 or 60 seedlings
they should have enough room in the new tray
to grow for the next couple of months. |
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