[mornin dew]

hey guys,my plants sprouted on march 20 the same day i PLANTED out last year iv managed to fight the urge and use my head and hold them back till may.what do you use to transport plants which are a couple of months old? last year i used a cooler bag,which was ideal for young plants.cheers guys

[panik]

Depending on how big they are last year mine were about 18" tall and i pinched some off them brown crates from behind icelands put all pots in and wedged bamboo sticks in each corner and rapped black industrial cling film round easy to carry large numbers but bit dodgy if some one sees you looks abit hot could use a big carbourd box i supose lined wiyh a bin bag can pick them up at homebase by the tills for free....

[Fractalhead25]

those green tubes you find lyinh around the woods are a prime carriers. Can be cut to size, perfect and cammo too.

[Fractalhead25]

look out for the black plastic mesh ones as well, they are wider for bigger pots and tuff as hell!

[SilC]

Parchment paper is handy for stuffing them together .There's a bit more give in them wrapped up in parchment paper . I prick them out and shove them together on their side ..Like staff would stack plants on Danish trolleys in a nursery or garden centre .
I do it bare root . I can get a lot of seedlings out in one go , no weight of compost . This year I have a few crates full of liner pots in each pot I've five or six seed . I can grade them after ..

[HappySADhu]

i think this is a good idea also..

 grogirl, on 07 July 2006 - 03:22 PM, said:

my technique worked a treat!

unpot plant
roll tightly in a couple of sheets of newspaper
pack together as tightly as poss

not one broken!! the newspaper tubes are suprisingly strong! best of luck! x

[mornin dew]

cheers lads some good ideas there which is exactly why i love this site, free friendly advise from people who all enjoy the same hobby sid drain pipe sounds like a plan as i have some ready

[panik]

Just got back from transporting goodys to my plot in the pissing rain good time to go out coz no ones really about, thank fuck not very inconspicuos walking around in full camo with a racksack and a fuck off blue and white laundry bag need to get something abit more sly me thinks..

[doze]

You want something inconspicuous like this:

[panik]

Yeah where can i get one might buy two case the handles brake on one..

[Mr Herbert]

I transported mine in a ps3 box inside a bag for life last year..

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[Ganja•Ninja]

 Mr Herbert, on 23 April 2012 - 10:35 AM, said:

I transported mine in a ps3 box inside a bag for life last year..

That is definitely my preferred method "Box In Bag". Works especially well if you use square pots. With a bit of hunting you can find a cardboard box the right size for your required plant numbers and pot size. If you find good ones, the plots will fit so snug that they don't even rattle.

I use Waitrose green hessian bag for life bags. I have two sizes, one narrower but taller and one wider but a bit less tall. I have gone over the white embroidered Waitrose logo with permanent marker to make it a bit more stealth. Even so, it is still a largish shopping bag, which is a bit sus to be carrying on a footpath miles from any shops. (Taking some "insert innocent items here" to a mates house or on my way home from a mates house officer.) I am planning on getting a 30 or 40 litre rucksack for this year as I want to look even more subtle. Tricky finding one wide enough without it being giant. Choice of bag is important. Fishing bags/boxes are ok, unless there is no public fishing near where you grow, in which case they are well sus. Still better than brightly coloured laundry bags, that's really dodge and would make me quite para, especially in the daytime. Big bags in the countryside generally look sus. Better to do less plants per visit but more visits than take a bag that makes anyone who sees you wonder wtf you're up to. Probably not such an issue in urban/semi-urban, but be careful not to look like a burglar.

I have 4 different boxes, each with it's own purpose. One for 2x 4" pots. One for 3x 4" pots. One taller 7" square box for a larger single plant. One 4" square for a regular size single, this I put in my small rucksack with a folded up cage, a hand trowel, a carrier bag of well nuted compost mix, a 1 or 2 litre bottle of water with PM Root Stim. I call this my single hit planting pack. I can go to a site on foot, prep it and plant it in one hit. I always reccy the sight first on a separate trip.

Boxes in bags look fairly subtle and hide the shape and smell of the plants. There are almost limitless reasons to be carrying a box in a bag. Make sure you know what you will say if anyone does ask where you're going. Make sure your excuse/reason fits with what you are carrying. Boxes in bags feel safe, both from prying eyes and from crushing/squashing. You may think you can just stand plants in a bag and they will be ok. You are probably right. But, how many times have you slipped going down/up a steep bit or climbing a fence/stile or crawling through a hedge. Accidents happen, and if they happen when you're carrying precious carefully nurtured plants, you want to be sure they will survive unharmed. At least 3 times now, this method has saved my plants from damage during fence climbing / bramble tunnelling etc.

Keep those plants safe and those bags subtle.

Peace. Ganja•Ninja

[irishgrass]

Nice post ganja ninja