If you start your seeds in a greenhouse or indoor grow room, you'll probably want to eventually move them to their final spot in your fields and beds. You may need to move all of them, or split them into multiple plantings to track which bed you put them in. You might even use the different plant for different purposes, like selling plant starts from some, and planting others. You can use the Transplant option in Farmbrite to accomplish all of these!
How do I get started with this?
You'll first need to create a planting in a grow location. Here are a few tips for that:
- You'll create the crop type first. You'll likely select the start method of "start in trays, transplant in ground".
- You need to make at least two grow locations to be able to transplant from one to another.
- Then you create a planting in the starting location where you'll start the seeds. Maybe this is a greenhouse or indoor room under grow lights.
- Take care of those plants and watch them sprout and thrive!
What do I do when I want to transplant crops from the starting trays to the field?
Once your seedlings are ready to transplant, you'll have an easy Transplant feature to accomplish this. Navigate to the planting you want to move, and you'll see a button for Transplant on the right. Click it and a new window will pop up.
- You first choose if you want to split or move the planting.
- You can split the planting to move a portion of it to a new grow location. This retains the remaining plants in the current planting and location. If you were moving half of your seeds to Bed 1 and the other half to Bed 2, this is the way to do that! You'll run the process twice to accomplish it.
- You can move the planting to move the entire planting to a new location. This usually means that you'=ll move the entire quantity, but if you move less the remaining plants will be considered a loss. They are not retained in the previous location. This would be a great way to account for seedlings that were culled or died while in the trays.
- You can split the planting to move a portion of it to a new grow location. This retains the remaining plants in the current planting and location. If you were moving half of your seeds to Bed 1 and the other half to Bed 2, this is the way to do that! You'll run the process twice to accomplish it.
- Next, choose the new location to move the plants to. Maybe you're choose a field and a bed, or just out to a field of row crops. Or, maybe you are moving the entire tray to a new section of the same grow location, like a larger tray in a microgreens growing tower.
- Choose the amount to split or move. It doesn't have to be all of them, and reference the above bullet point for more details on what happens to the remaining based on your split/move selection.
- Supply the date you are transplanting the plants. It gets stored in the planting history timeline.
- Add any notes you'd like. These are also shown in that same planting history timeline.
Then save, and your transplant is processed! In the example below we are splitting our planting of 300 tomato starts in our greenhouse into two separate beds out in our field. We perform the process twice to move 150 plants each time. Then we mark the original planting as complete, and see it in our planting history. The last step is optional, but can help you clean up your current plantings list if there are none remaining in the greenhouse.
