Transplanting from DWC to outdoor soil

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I have a mother plant that I want to transplant but it has a huge root structure in the bucket.
I understand that root pruning is fine but have never tried before.
How much can be safely removed?

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i used a saw and cut a rootball in half and potted it and it bounced back, this was in soil though
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Wow! I wasn't planning to touch the ball, just trim the length for ease of repoting, but if I could get 2 3ft plants out of one I might consider splitting it vertically.

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Get bigger pots or plant them in appropriately sized holes, root mass is too valuable in an outdoor situation to be significantly pruning off.
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It is going in the ground plus about 1 foot in a raised bed. I have a feeling you can't just dump a huge root system from DWC into the soil. I want to trim it back and let it grow into the soil.

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on soil plants i have trimmed roots.
when i used water cloner to root.
to transplant i used very dry soil to get best
coverage around the roots. then watered heavy.
kept very wet a week or so then let dry out a bit.
so the water roots would change into soil roots.
hope this helps in some way.
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That sounds like a good plan 007, thanks!

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years back was told tapered pots was a big deal
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Upon closer examination, the roots passing through the holes in the basket are stuck there and I don't think severing them is a good idea.
So I am going to just flower it inside but as an experiment, I went ahead and reduced the root volume by 50% and I am going to watch it for a couple of weeks before flowering.

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