growing in cake pans?

svchop889

svchop889

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2'' deep by 12'' is this a good idea there is a good volume of soil still the area is just shallow the plant is healthy no root bind and is doing better than all of my plants i was wondering if this was possibly because the roots are closer to the surface and receive water quicker and oxygen is more available in the soil also given the proximity. i believe the root are growing out instead of down and it was my original plan to keep this plant short
 
sqhschief

sqhschief

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svchop889 said:
2'' deep by 12'' is this a good idea there is a good volume of soil still the area is just shallow the plant is healthy no root bind and is doing better than all of my plants i was wondering if this was possibly because the roots are closer to the surface and receive water quicker and oxygen is more available in the soil also given the proximity. i believe the root are growing out instead of down and it was my original plan to keep this plant short
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Actually your theory seems to make a lot of sense.
 
svchop889

svchop889

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lol thanks for sounding surprised yeah i was thinking of going with a 4''x15'' maybe just cut the bottom 4inches off or a 5gallon bucket
 
svchop889

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AirAnt said:
hell, try a cupcake pan, then you could get like 12 of them in there.
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lol yeah then when there done i can pop em in the oven to dry right? j/k seriously though the theory was high volume of dirt but shallow and the pros vs cons
 
AirAnt

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hahaha that was just what I thought of when I read the thread title.

In my latest grow I used jiffy pellets for the first time and made the mistake of leaving the sprouts in the humidome for too long. I even had it uncovered, letting the plants grow like that for awhile. Well, that caused the initial taproot to dry out and die, killing one of the plants, but I think I may have ended up with stockier plants as a result. I experimented with a weak solution of takeroot when they were just seedlings because of a thread I had recently read, and one of my plants only grew one true set of leaves before it started branching. Not sure if it was because of the takeroot or its early growing conditions, but it was the weirdest thing watching it grow, because it looked like at one point it had stopped growing, and was just a mass of green right at the top of the plant, like a ball of leaves. Well, it started branching out immediately and it only ever grew that one set of leaves on the main stalk. It now has four true tops, and the center is still a cluster of leaves, and some of the branches are now branching. The best news? I found out tonight it was a female :) She's now my top contendender for trying my hand at cloning.
 
svchop889

svchop889

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AirAnt said:
hahaha that was just what I thought of when I read the thread title.

In my latest grow I used jiffy pellets for the first time and made the mistake of leaving the sprouts in the humidome for too long. I even had it uncovered, letting the plants grow like that for awhile. Well, that caused the initial taproot to dry out and die, killing one of the plants, but I think I may have ended up with stockier plants as a result. I experimented with a weak solution of takeroot when they were just seedlings because of a thread I had recently read, and one of my plants only grew one true set of leaves before it started branching. Not sure if it was because of the takeroot or its early growing conditions, but it was the weirdest thing watching it grow, because it looked like at one point it had stopped growing, and was just a mass of green right at the top of the plant, like a ball of leaves. Well, it started branching out immediately and it only ever grew that one set of leaves on the main stalk. It now has four true tops, and the center is still a cluster of leaves, and some of the branches are now branching. The best news? I found out tonight it was a female :) She's now my top contendender for trying my hand at cloning.
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congratulations bro
 
sqhschief

sqhschief

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svchop889 said:
lol thanks for sounding surprised yeah i was thinking of going with a 4''x15'' maybe just cut the bottom 4inches off or a 5gallon bucket
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I don't foresee any problems with this as long as the roots have sufficient volume. Why are you wanting to do this btw?
 
svchop889

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sqhschief said:
I don't foresee any problems with this as long as the roots have sufficient volume. Why are you wanting to do this btw?
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trying to find a way to make tall plants shorter I like sativa strains but grow in a small spot in my closet for now so im trying to cut the height in half. my theory is that if the depth of root growth is limited the vertical growth will be stunted. That being said i would like to not have the plant become root bound and still produce substantial quantities of bud so eventually the plan is to find a good sativa female place it in a 5in deep by 24''diameter pot and top lst and prune the hell out of it and keep it under 3.5 feet tall
 
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