Successful harvest, horizontal tap root ?

Reesee

Reesee

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I grew a Swiss Cheese auto in FFOF 7 gal cloth pot. The plant turned out to be a monster, and I got a good solid 3 oz in 60 days (seed to chop). I recycle the soil to my regular garden, just because I always need soil... after inspection of the root ball (after the dogs played with it for a few days), I noticed that right under the jiffy pellet, the tap root takes a 90 degree turn to the side and keeps on going. The whole tap root was straight out to the side and never turned down, not even slightly. I wonder if all my plants are doing this and why... is it from LST maybe? Soil too compact? Watering schedule? I'm going to chop a Northern Lights in a few days, I'll have to see if it's horizontal as well. Anyone else have this happen? I mean, the rest of the roots seemed ok... but this was only my 2nd grow... the plant didn't have any major problems... minor rust spots but nothing deadly... does it even matter?
 
bf80255

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Reesee said:
I grew a Swiss Cheese auto in FFOF 7 gal cloth pot. The plant turned out to be a monster, and I got a good solid 3 oz in 60 days (seed to chop). I recycle the soil to my regular garden, just because I always need soil... after inspection of the root ball (after the dogs played with it for a few days), I noticed that right under the jiffy pellet, the tap root takes a 90 degree turn to the side and keeps on going. The whole tap root was straight out to the side and never turned down, not even slightly. I wonder if all my plants are doing this and why... is it from LST maybe? Soil too compact? Watering schedule? I'm going to chop a Northern Lights in a few days, I'll have to see if it's horizontal as well. Anyone else have this happen? I mean, the rest of the roots seemed ok... but this was only my 2nd grow... the plant didn't have any major problems... minor rust spots but nothing deadly... does it even matter?
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no its an auto trait most of my plants do the same ( i love rootballs lol) I think its an adaptation to the environment the ruderalis gene developed in. usually in places with poor soil quality and extreme cold (russia, US midwest) so its developed to go horizontal. ground gets real hard in these cold regions of the world and with a limited veg time they need to root and grow quick to produce seed so rather than go straight down through the hard cold rocky ground it makes use of looser and more nutrient rich topsoil.... is what im guessing from my research lol
 
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