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Indeed. I was hoping someone would prove me wrong with some empirical data. I have a hard time accepting something as fact that is based on a some pictures of stressed plants and general experience of others, no matter how deep their experience is. Just as UB said when regarding hydro vs soil...

Exactly. But if you were to leave it in the cup for any real length of time so that there is nothing but roots in the cup, then we'll talk true rootbound, as the definition implies. "The roots filling every niche of the container". Now, here, it's been suggested that any constriction on roots...

Yes, ridiculously easy and already stated

Google has many sites that refer to house plants that have been in pots for years where the roots have displaced almost all of the original soil. That is not what's trying to sold as rootbound here. I've looked thru various horticulture texts and have found nothing. Wikipedia has no page for the...

Have you done this? Have any pics? Record any logs?

Most hydro apps work with very little root space, but still out perform the very best soil conditions with far reaching roots. Why is that? Roots primary functions are to collect nutes & water and to anchor the plant. If all three are meet in a short distance than the plant has no need to...

So.... Rootbound is just a soil growing issue huh? Anyone...? How does evolution apply to hydro?

Exactly what I've been thinking! Just look at some roots from certain hydro applications... straight bricks, esp water farms - they are not suffering in the slightest, actually thriving Root bound plants will have issues if they do not have adequate nutrients and h20 - that is why roots...

We recreate a enviroment for growing, last time I checked there is no bottom in the earth.. Damn fdd, that's sick, how many times did/do you have to water that bitch a day?

No I didn't notice. I fill the tub with hot water and throw a few stock pots of boiling water in as well. It's probably is only a cup o bleach come to think of it.

1.Go by directions or less. You can try and divide the recommended amount by 4 if you must for a weekly feeding. 2.Mix all nutes one at a time into your total water. 3.Hydro or soil genes are the main factor. You can use various pruning methods to keep them short. 4.I've never used mother...

Exactly. Hydroton is doomed. If this STG product does not cut it someone will come up with something better. I'm going to give the STG loose fill a go on next round. Cleaning Hydroton sucks. I've always just used the tub, h20 and bleach.

4 floods @ 30 min drown?? Will that work?

Spring storms are one the way. So power loss around my area is a given. Most of the time it's a couple hours sometimes it can be days with out juice. I can flood and drain my system manually if need be. I was just curious how many floods I should shoot for? Say 24 hour day... I've only ran...

Damnit. That was my favorite one too. :(

Nice grow... Bum deal w/ the male. Seems to me you'll pull more than 10G of that lil honey. Is a happy girl. +rep

So. The moral of the story is we should nuke libya cause it's leg is ripped off and guts are oozing out...?

Lol. what's a guilty animal?

Yep. I support peta and I am a hunter.. Ironic huh. Anyway, ya dude, you're good. Humane and ruthless are much closer than people think. Not sure why she was so upset with you..? You just cleaned up her mess.

Southeast morn sun. Head out early one morn and find where the sun shines at dawn and get at least 3-4 hours there as NL#5 suggested. When the dirt pulls from the side of your cups they're ready for water.