VincenzioVonHook
Well-Known Member
This is what happens when you under water...if you don't wet the whole pot properly and keep putting small amounts of water on the top of the pot, the roots won't dog down and spread...the bottom of the pot becomes hydrophobic and dry and you end up a ball of roots at the top only..
The idea is to wet the whole pot to a small amount of runoff and then water again when the top inch or so has dried out, leaving the roots to branch down...there are two types of roots.. thicker wet roots down the bottom, and finer roots up the top that thrive in drier medium..
It's normal for roots to fill the whole pot though. If I cover the medium and keep it moist all the time, roots will grow up out the medium and air prune themselves.
