Root disturbance flower

Keighan

Keighan

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Anyone have experience with root disturbance in flowering just minor bumping around outer edges I've Hurd rumors it could cause hermies but I've never noticed wondering if there's any truth or not to it
 
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Connoisseurus Rex

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Any stress can cause hermies really. Some genetics are better at resisting herm transitions than others.

Why do you want to disturb your roots?
 
vostok

vostok

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Keighan said:
Anyone have experience with root disturbance in flowering just minor bumping around outer edges I've Hurd rumors it could cause hermies but I've never noticed wondering if there's any truth or not to it
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Guilty and so are those who use flexible grow bags or even aero pots

if you are like me and be moving ur plants around in a flexible pot

give some consideration to the roots

or be like me on harvest just examine that tap root

bent and squashed outta shape

I'm working on a solution, as I wanna stay in my flexi pots and aero's

thinking of affixing sponge rubber to the base

maybe..?

ps it should not cause a hermie, unless ur in late veg or early flower

less it hasn't happened to me yet ..lol
 
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Connoisseurus Rex

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vostok said:
Guilty and so are those who use flexible grow bags or even aero pots

if you are like me and be moving ur plants around in a flexible pot

give some consideration to the roots

or be like me on harvest just examine that tap root

bent and squashed outta shape

I'm working on a solution, as I wanna stay in my flexi pots and aero's

thinking of affixing sponge rubber to the base

maybe..?
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I made my own aero pots but it doesn't disturb the roots to my knowledge. I don't move them in flower though. Smart pots I can see that happening though.
 
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Connoisseurus Rex

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mr sunshine said:
I have.. nothing happened. My timer always fucks up and sometimes my light stays on way more then 12 hours .. still, nothing happened.
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I dunno. I've had shit hermie when I first started. I assumed it was stress, hear stress in particular. I suppose it could have been genetics. I haven't had a hermie with my stable strains, though I'm a much better grower now.

Some folks say stress of any kind can cause a hermie. I dunno for sure, but I'd still try to avoid stress during flower if it can be helped. Especially with the roots.
 
mr sunshine

mr sunshine

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Connoisseurus Rex said:
I dunno. I've had shit hermie when I first started. I assumed it was stress, hear stress in particular. I suppose it could have been genetics. I haven't had a hermie with my stable strains, though I'm a much better grower now.

Some folks say stress of any kind can cause a hermie. I dunno for sure, but I'd still try to avoid stress during flower if it can be helped. Especially with the roots.
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Roots don't deal in stress they only know damage.
 
Keighan

Keighan

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I've only had hermie in early veg and no I Hurd it from. Local nonsense grower I've never particularly read about it I know stress leads to hermaphrodism but nothing in particular about roots.
mr sunshine said:
I bust roots open when I transplant.. nothing happens.
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I always bust roots from seedling to veg too was taught then in a local greenhouse they do it on everything they transplant from veggies to perennials and even trees. I've always just went with what I noticed worked? I was taught based on the logic it gives them a shock and breaks them to give a better surface and spread from a compact seedling root ya know.
 
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Connoisseurus Rex

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mr sunshine said:
You have to damage roots for anything bad to happen.. a person physically damaging roots isn't stress. Like if I get kicked in the head I'm not going to be stressing I'm just going to be hurt.
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Understandable analogy I guess, but here's my rebuttal.

Fuck up your roots, growth is effected. Much like getting kicked in the head can cause a concussion aka stress. You may be physically damaged but you can be psychologically "stressed" as well.

Much like pumping to many nutes to the roots. It's going to stress your growth.
 
mr sunshine

mr sunshine

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mr sunshine said:
Roots don't deal in stress they only know damage.
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That's actually not correct, I said it wrong. Abiotic stress is caused by non living factors.. ph, temperature, underwatering, high salts.. biotic stress is caused by other living organisms like diseases or bugs.. handling your plants to rough and hurting your roots is just human error/damage.
 
mr sunshine

mr sunshine

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Connoisseurus Rex said:
Understandable analogy I guess, but here's my rebuttal.

Fuck up your roots, growth is effected. Much like getting kicked in the head can cause a concussion aka stress. You may be physically damaged but you can be psychologically "stressed" as well.

Much like pumping to many nutes to the roots. It's going to stress your growth.
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But plants don't have brains.
 
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