This is inspiring to me as my setup is a scrog under a 600w (dialed down to 400 for the one plant it is supporting) I would like to know how many gallons of soil you finish in with a plant that size, less than 2 months into veg and my roots become a solid mass in 5 gallons, I'd like to veg about a month longer then flower any suggestions there?
Vegging is key, The longer you veg the bigger she will be, longest I have vegged was 7 months and it was a mother, flowered and it did fine. Autoflowers will do their own thing. I veg in 1 gallons for about a month, then they veg in a NC #5 tall which is close to 5 gallons of soil, they veg in that for another 2-4 months and stay in that pot through flower as well, Ive tried bigger pots and really all your doing is wasting dirt after 5 gallons unless you have a very long veg time 5 months+ or the plant is bat shit crazy and is root bound completely (your plant would tell you if she has no room to grow) Its rare to be 100% root bound in that little time. I get same sizes/yields if I use 5 gallons vs a 20 gal container, both will put off the same if youre doing everything right. They are a little root bound but they dont focus on root growth anymore after about a week or 2 in flower, so no need for a bigger pot. Mine do fine in 5 gal containers all the way through bud. Soil starts to lose its food source about 3 weeks from finish so I usually just feed them heavier. Soil is everything. I used to use subcools super soil mix recipe but have since made my own specifically for each strain some like it hot some dont. Keeping the soil alive with recharge really helped my girls use all the food in the soil.
When using recharge in flower youre helping the girl absorb nutrients better, they break them down into smaller particles, its not for root growth anymore, the molasses in it is food for your plant and the microbes. As well as keep the soil from becoming dead and getting over salted. Transplanting before flower the plant will not root out very much, youre basically just giving more food if your soil has food in it.
I use a powerful aerator with stones in all my buckets. they aerate for at least 48 hours, but youre correct you cant fully distill the metals out, just the chemicals. Thats why I use a metal remover.
When is this being released? Beautiful work.
