Kerowacked
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Is the fan pointed at them? Still look overwatered imo.
Is the fan pointed at them? Still look overwatered imo.
You will find out how wet the soil is when you transplant.
Root bound and down. They should respond well to the new room in the pots. Hard to tell how wet they were until I saw the water dripping off the root ball![]()
Root bound and down. They should respond well to the new room in the pots. Hard to tell how wet they were until I saw the water dripping off the root ball![]()
That is not terribly root-bound. You want it like that or even more so the rootball holds together nicely when you move the plant. I wait until it's at the point where it needs watering as the drier it is the less chance of the rootball falling apart.
Look at the guys that grow in those red party cups right up to harvest as a challenge. Those plants end up with nothing but roots in the pots and they get nice harvests.
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Watch them take off now, they definitely needed more room/fresh food source, and hopefully the deficiencies sort themselves out.Yeah wasn’t concern that it was a harmful amount, just figure since I could see some roots on the bottom it was about time. But they came out super clean. I’ll have to try removing a layer, next grow. But I’m 100% gonna look at ordering some square pots to make that faster then try to deal with the circle.
Watch them take off now, they definitely needed more room/fresh food source, and hopefully the deficiencies sort themselves out.
I don't know about transplanting dry though, each to their own I guess. I always transplant after I water.
Watch them take off now, they definitely needed more room/fresh food source, and hopefully the deficiencies sort themselves out.
I don't know about transplanting dry though, each to their own I guess. I always transplant after I water.
Yeah wasn’t concern that it was a harmful amount, just figure since I could see some roots on the bottom it was about time. But they came out super clean. I’ll have to try removing a layer, next grow. But I’m 100% gonna look at ordering some square pots to make that faster then try to deal with the circle.
Doesn't really matter if it's a circle or square pot when slicing a bit off the bottom. Square pots do fit in closer and I bought 25 - 10L ones for a project SoG grow one of these days. I have 25 round ones the same size but they won't fit in a 4x4' space where the square ones do with a few inches to spare. Plan is to make a square pool with 1x4 boards and line it with a plastic sheet so I can water all at once by just pouring it in the pool and letting them suck it out. I'll remove any excess with my shop vac.
I've since decided that 16 would be enough and the round pots will fit just fine for that many. Should sell the round ones and just keep the nice square ones. They were only $3 each.
Those fabric or smart pots prune the root tips by design as the roots branch out when the tips die or are cut off like your plant does when it's topped.
That creates lots of fine feeder roots that get into every little bit of the pot and deliver more nutes and water to the plants.
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To be honest I wanna see how this grow tent finishes, I might look into a RDWC system for it…. Lol see how the hydro side lives….