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ccloudgray said: Hello to all...I use a product called Vitamin B1 by Liqunox, (0-2-0) for every transplant or change of soil, indoor or outdoor plants. I have had incredible luck with planting and transplanting. It doesn't take much (read the label). I worked as a gardener for 2 decades and now retired I continue in my own garden. It has never failed to help in planting, separating plants grown too many to a cell, planting trees, shrubs, groundcovers, annuals, perennials...you name it. Indoors too. I buy the biggest bottle they sell. It's wonderful and the plants love it. Happy gardening to you all. 😎

Plants can not use use refined vitamins (like B1). Their roots can not utilize them. This is a kind of snake-oil that has been peddled for decades, and has been scientifically disproven for just as long. The same goes for "Super-Thrive". Science is the answer.

On the positive side, plants make many of the same vitamins on their own.

I have been a gardener for more than 50 years; I also have degrees in horticulture and botany.

As many above have said in so many words: stripping the roots off a plant and putting it in water is a trauma. Don't be surprised when they go into a prolonged period of shock.