thanks for the posts. i guess i am talkin about layering in a way, but kinda different. in layering you do pretty much everything i said, but you do that to make clones to be cut from the mother plant. what im thinking about is never removing the 2nd set of roots. have the plant have 2 root balls to make 1 plant grow better for the rest of its life. im wondering if the plant would gain anything from having the 2nd set of roots at all.
heres my line of thinking im sure some will get all up in arms about it, but bare with me. hydro will out grow soil. (most the time) you can get better yields, have better control, and do it all faster with hydro. (most the time) the reason you can do this is because the roots of a plant can take in the nutes from water so much more easily than they can with dirt.(most the time)
as im sure every1 knows you cant get huge yielding plants with tiny roots. roots can only take in "X" amount of nutes in 1 day to feed 1 plant. so if 1 plant has 2 root zones does that mean the plant will be able to take in 2x "X"? if it can wouldnt that mean 2x as much growth/bud? we can pump up the CO2, lighting, or temp to get more growth/buds. seems to me like the uptake of nutes should be the next step.
