sorry for qouting n not responding to the quote...just cought up on your big grow journal and the one thing i have to say in efforts to prolong and make benificial your endevors over the long haul... you mentioned this on your own also..start with bigger pots...i think your prob using something less than or arround 1/2 gall for those starter plants i would suggest 2 gals of hydroton to start and then up to the 19 gals from that... i have busted the roots on some potted plants before and they have grown very similar to plants that i un potted and repotted...i can tell you that the coco is miles ahead of the soil when it comes to repotting and time for shock...but i suspect you already have that insight as i suspect that dwc hydro and true coco reg watering are very similar in there respects of watering and nute/o2 intruduction
Right on Bro...
Glad you stopped by...
I totally get the little pot thing... and I know I am hurting, in comparison to having her in a big pot...
BUT.. big but there...
This plant used to be a mom...
She lived to give me cuttings... I didn't need a big pot... when she got big, I would chop her down to nothing... and in 2 weeks she was ready for another pass of cuttings..
That plant has been in veg for 8 months now... I have taken literally hundreds of BIG clone off of her...
So yeah Big pot is in the works... but these plants were all moms...
and they were all CRAMMED into a single 2x4 tray...
Different purpose altogether...
But she is filling in the big girl shoes pretty good considering this was all but an afterthought...
The next generation will start out in bigger pots...
But in all honesty... I believe that by the time I harvest, the 19 gallon tub is going to be FULL of roots...
If you scale things down... in size.. and look at my zero veg clones...
They barely have a root popping out of the RW cube, I mean not even an inch...
And they go straight to flower.. I often have to hand water for a day or two until the roots reach the flood level...
By the time I chop them the pot area below the flood level is packed solid with roots...
So ALL those roots grow while the plant is in flower...
I know... I know.. they are little plants...
But this girl already had roots.. and I have provided her with a very good environment to spread those roots...
I honestly believe that with the veg time she is getting and the good stable environment she has... this plant will have more than enough roots to flower adequately...
But we will see in about 2 and half months...
And as for the "root bound" comment made earlier...
I have flowered plants in my ebb flow in a Rapid Rooter Plug in one of those RR holder thingys...
Basically I had a pot big enough for the plug and MAYBE 20 clay pellets...
It yielded the same as the rest of the clones that were that size, but in full pots...
Using ebb flow as I have, I do not believe a plant can become "root bound" in that sense of the word (IN HYDRO)... IT CAN CHOKE ITSELF... but size of roots in hydro is not nearly as big a factor as in soil for example..
As long as the roots are getting nutrients the plant will grow...
Here is a picture of some roots.... these roots gave me 10 grams of dried dank...
Yup I got 10 grams from THAT.. which does not seem that impressive until you consider that my fully potted best performers rarely go over 28grams...
But we'll see when she is finished..
Cheers Bro...
And thanks for dropping by...
gypsy how do you get them so crystally? molases?
I like to cook with molasses...
You give it to your plants???
I have massive aircooling on my lights, way over-powered... so my plants can be REALLY CLOSE to the light...
Right now I actually have a few taller buds touching the glass...
Kinda squished, but otherwise unharmed by the 600 HPS 6" away...
He sold he soul to a whirling Brazillian dervish, which, coincidentally enough, had but one leg.
Who? Saci..?
He is just a friend... he doesn't want anyone's soul... he is a protector of the forest and can be very mischievious sometimes... especially if he doesn't like you..
But he's not the devil or anything...
just a forest spirit...
Well... now I'm gonna stick this in my pipe and smoke it...