In my experience, plants grow different roots depending on the substrate they’re in and how much water. Here’s what I do for avocados, pothos, anubias, and monsteras;
Get a substrate, be it soil, sand, clay rocks, whatever, for full dirt transfer I’d literally just get some sifted dirt from my yard. Either get a similarly sized wide mouthed jar or vase, something you can easily remove the sapling from later while still being able to see into the container while it’s growing. Fill with the substrate, plant the sapling in there, then flood the fucker until at least half of the roots are drowned in the substrate water mix. Better to oversaturate than under saturate for the first month. Keep and eye on the root growth and reduce the water as it puts off more and more roots so it can acclimate to dryer and dryer soil. After a few months it should be ready to transplant into a regular pot without too much shock.
Basically, those water roots are immediately going to dry up in plain soil unless it stays flooded. Too many roots die, the whole thing dies. You’ve gotta ease it through a transition from pure water, to flooded soil, and gradually reducing the water content as it puts off new root growth that’s suited for drawing nutrition from hard minerals in soil mixes, because the water roots it currently has are more for absorbing soluble minerals in the water. Neither do well with an immediate transition from water to soil or vice versa. But giving them a stanky muddy jar that may or may not grow algae during the process gives them the time to lose the gills and grow some lungs, so to speak.
Check your local counties extension office or your state universities agricultural department for planting recommendations and follow that for spring planting. It’ll die if you plant it in winter, it’s been inside, it thinks it’s spring right now. I’m guessing somewhere around May is when you’ll be planting it. Which should be a perfect amount of time to get it fully transitioned to soil and ready to go into your yard.
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I think the propagation sub will have better info for you. I will say this though: you don’t want that plant to develop much more hydroponically as it will become dependent on it which is not good for trees. Get that into a pot with good drainage for now until you can get it planted outside.
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In my experience, plants grow different roots depending on the substrate they’re in and how much water. Here’s what I do for avocados, pothos, anubias, and monsteras;
Get a substrate, be it soil, sand, clay rocks, whatever, for full dirt transfer I’d literally just get some sifted dirt from my yard. Either get a similarly sized wide mouthed jar or vase, something you can easily remove the sapling from later while still being able to see into the container while it’s growing. Fill with the substrate, plant the sapling in there, then flood the fucker until at least half of the roots are drowned in the substrate water mix. Better to oversaturate than under saturate for the first month. Keep and eye on the root growth and reduce the water as it puts off more and more roots so it can acclimate to dryer and dryer soil. After a few months it should be ready to transplant into a regular pot without too much shock.
Basically, those water roots are immediately going to dry up in plain soil unless it stays flooded. Too many roots die, the whole thing dies. You’ve gotta ease it through a transition from pure water, to flooded soil, and gradually reducing the water content as it puts off new root growth that’s suited for drawing nutrition from hard minerals in soil mixes, because the water roots it currently has are more for absorbing soluble minerals in the water. Neither do well with an immediate transition from water to soil or vice versa. But giving them a stanky muddy jar that may or may not grow algae during the process gives them the time to lose the gills and grow some lungs, so to speak.
Check your local counties extension office or your state universities agricultural department for planting recommendations and follow that for spring planting. It’ll die if you plant it in winter, it’s been inside, it thinks it’s spring right now. I’m guessing somewhere around May is when you’ll be planting it. Which should be a perfect amount of time to get it fully transitioned to soil and ready to go into your yard.
I think the propagation sub will have better info for you. I will say this though: you don’t want that plant to develop much more hydroponically as it will become dependent on it which is not good for trees. Get that into a pot with good drainage for now until you can get it planted outside.