Hi guys this is Karine and today my tutorial is going to be about transplanting sunflowers. I'm an avid sunflower grower every year and every year I find different ways to grow my bats, my crop, bigger and stronger. So I am going to get into how to properly transplant sunflowers that are started from a container into the soil and to the yard. First I want to show you some of the things that I have here, supplies if you will. Some gardening gloves, I like the ones that have rubber on them so that we don't worry about getting them wet. Some plant food because you definitely want to see the plant after you put it through the shackles, the transplant is from its first home to its last home. And of course these are the plants that will be transplanting today. You want to have a little shovel to help dig out the soil. And for me personally I like to have garden soil that is already enriched and of course a watering can because again immediately after doing the transplant. You want to go ahead and water in the soil so that it helps it adjust to its needs. So stay tuned and I hope you enjoy my tutorial. I find the best way to successfully grow sunflowers is to start them off in containers. I use the solo cups with some potting soil. And then once it gets about anywhere from 2 to 4 inches and height it's a good time to transplant them. I think with sunflowers it's the root. It kind of grows like spider's out. So you want to make sure the best way to transplant without what they call root shot is pretty much going to transplant the entire bowl. So you want to dig a hole about 2 inches to 3 inches deep. So they're spaced underneath and around the root. What I like to do in addition to digging out 2 to 3 inches and to prevent the root transplant or shock that they talk about is to have some soil that's already good for in around the use. And I like using mirecule grow and scots products. I seem to have very good success with them in planting and having beautiful flowersy yield from it. So again, I want to dig out 2 to 3 inches, put some enriched soil potting soil in case the pH balance of the soil is not all that great. So when you take it out you can see as I was mentioning to you the roots, this tiny flower, all these roots, there's no way to take this out without tearing roots apart. And this is what we want to avoid is it having any kind of shock because that will kill the flower. And just kind of gently place it inside the hole that you dug. And then rather than put the soil that I just removed around it, I try to put some of the enriched soil in around potting soil that's nutrient rich and kind of just place it around there. And then I press it in firmly, also giving a little bit of room for some reservoir for watering. And usually I only plant one seed at a time but it looks like one of the seeds got away from me. And so you want to have one sunflower seed per planting because it allows the plant to grow taller or bigger stronger because the roots are allowed to spread more when it's just one. But there's no harm done in, let me put this over here, there's no harm done in having more than one in a potting. But again, rule of thumb is usual one. So here you'll see what this one in particular. I only have one in the cup. So again, made my hole, put a little bit of enriched in ground potting soil, kind of loosen it up a little bit. Again, this is to give the room to grow easily. And then I kind of work this out of the solo cup. Oh, by the way, I don't know if I mentioned this before, I didn't mention it before. But in all my solo cups, I was punctured holes in the bottom for drainage. So that way it doesn't get mold or milk or any of that because the water has to have some where to go and it needs to aerate. So now placing this into the hole that I've dug. The next thing that you want to do is water it in a bit because you don't want to just leave it dry. You want to feed it. And Scott usually is, Miracle Grove is usually one of my go to, I'm finding this plant fruit's pretty good as well. So I like to put that in some water diluted in my watering fan, which I have nearby because I'm telling this by myself. So I'm trying to make sure I have everything near me and just kind of water in around the soil. So in a couple of weeks, we'll start to see a little bit more height. The blooming time for this is about 80 days. So stay tuned to my YouTube channel and what will happen is as these start to grow taller, you will definitely see some amazing, amazing. Now I'm just going to pan since I am recording this on my own. I'm just going to pan over here so you can see the ones that I've already transplanted these are all these ones that are all on the side, the ones that I've transplanted within the last two, three weeks, they all started off in solo cups. And then every couple of days I would come out here and just transplant them into the soil and then just continue to water them and you know the sun does everything else. So there's really not a whole lot to do, but this is my first tutorial about my sunflower journey. I've grown them every year for the past three years. And I just recently started transplanting them because I find that they grow more strong when they have a better foundation starting off in a solo cup with no effects of insects or peach imbalance in the soil and then from there they kind of just take off. This is Karin. Thank you for watching my tutorial on how to transplant flowers. Thank you.