FUCK.... I'm gonna change some clocks around give myself some more time. Well actually, I am near the western end of my time zone, so I'm just going to further graduate the time zones... that makes it about 4:15 now. I got 5 minutes now. Thanks for the heads up doobie.
No worries!
My hands are nice & dirty right now after dissecting the rootballs from the four plants I chopped last week.
Used FFOF soil mixed with 40% perlite.
Yes, 40%.
Was having HUGE problems with the soil compacting too tightly somewhere during the vegging cycle so that water drainiange was nil and root growth was terrible.
Have been slowly adding more perlite throughout my grows, starting with no perlite, then incrementally adding perlite to get it up to where I am now, and finally feel good about what I saw when I tore open the root mass to see what was up.
Also seems to prevent FFOF from burning the little ones when using high perlite ratio. Have done from seed, and also 15 clones set straight into the soil with 100% success rate.
Provided real nice drainage from begining to end of grow, and had a very healthy rootsystem for being grown in a normal circular pot.
My next upgrade will be to a set of 1-gallon or 2-gallon air pots now that I'm reducing plant size and shortening the life cycle. Current grow is all in 1-gallon pots (regular pots) with the 60/40 mix if FFOF and perlite. Shooting for plants no taller than 24-inches with very little undergrowth.
Definitely needs more attention when it comes to the watering/feeding since it drains real fast now. Still holds moisture, but the roots are able to breathe like they need to now.
cool shtuff...
[video=youtube;qnDqAo6oFCI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnDqAo6oFCI[/video]
