AusBonsai

Hey all
Lets see... at the moment I have quite a number of 1 year old Casuarina seedlings (over 70-80 I think lol and from seed) in only a few pots, reason being that repotting time happened to be the most busiest time for Uni... so I just quickly separated the seedlings in bunches into pots (around early Spring) and then ran back to uni to camp for work
WELL BIG MISTAKE *face palm*



So as you can see from the picture, there is overcrowding in each pot and the pot is inadequate in size for heaps of root growth.
Now, perhaps a few weeks ago it might have been cool to separate each seedling? (can someone please confirm this for me? ) but now that Summer has shown its glorious face here in Melbourne again, I am not too certain whether it may be still alright to separate each seedling into individual pots?
The seedlings appear to be very healthy though.

If not then I was thinking that perhaps I can either slip them into a bigger pot?
OR just place the small pot (with seedlings still inside) into a bigger pot/ground? The roots are emerging from the bottom


MY lesson is that Time Management is good and that the results of procrastination will come back and bite you.

I think it should be ok, I just repotted two trees and they never skipped a beat, budding like crazy. Granted they werent casuarina's, but as long as you keep the water up to them they should be ok.

Shouldn't be a problem wait a couple of hours you will be back to spring again or autumn.
Seriously.
It should not be a problem I have posted when I re-potted my group the days following were quite hot mid 30s and above.
As has been said just watch the watering. Pup

Thanks for the quick replies!
So that means I can simply go on with the usual repotting procedure? Untangling each seedling from the mass of roots, chucking em' each into individual pots and keep the watering super?

Yea, the day before yesterday was almost a reminiscent of Melbourne Winter/Summer/Spring/Summer

Hi B_P, I too have a few similar pots at my place from Cas seeds planted about 5 months ago. I am going to separate mine tomorrow if I get a chance.

If you don't do it, what will you have?

S.

Well I assume that there will be a lot of Casuarina for very little pot!
I probably will separate them, I guess I should have more faith in our Aussie natives