Day 20 : seedlings are all holding their places and well into shooting a third node, growing strong and steady laterally with short internodes. Starting to see some roots through the blue cups ( next time I do clear and cover with dark cup , easier to monitor roots). Hoping to get them in flower by end of the month.
When when I transplant out of the rooter into qt pot on strains I havnt grown I like to use clear container ( I save all my construction screw box’s ) it lets me observe root development and gauge density for final pots. Nice thing is they fit right inside a black qt flower pot to block any light and prevent root rot. Arborist told me that a trees structure above ground will only spread wide and tall relative to its root growth With lateral development being around 1:1. So in turn if we take in to account we are training them just by limiting them to pots, and we plan on limiting the stretch, our goal is to create the most efficient mechanism ‘a pump’, to move water up to the tops of the plant. By growing it smaller than it would grow over a natural outdoor cycle and having a great root system. if we don’t make the stems as robust as the roots it will get rootbound and lock out because the roots are now a big sucking ball but they have no where to send the nutrients. Just what I have Learned and come to observe.