so it turns out i was wayyyyyyy off. i feel bad for thinking the guy im working with fucked up now...these mother fuckers are so rootbound its fucking crazy.. there barly over three weeks now. and some got started alittle later. so after many bags of perllite n vermiculite with alittle more perlite. and put them right in five gals.
only eight were able to get put in. the rest are going under low wattage cfls
got my mix in the five gallons, then i poured a bit of water all around the sourronding of the pot some what close to center making a circle.(if you were look at a bulls eye id say colored in the third circle ha) and just a little bit in the crater where i placed my the plant with a a half strength feed (which i kinda burryed up clydons.. or how ever the fuck you spell it) wattering it like this to try and encourage the roots to go out
before i dropped this big ol root cluster . i kinda genitally squeezing the cluster enough to kinda knock the roots that were trying to grow out loose a bit. not hard enough to damage any roots... twas a gential caress
so a before and after pic... in the pic that showing the roots... that was like the one that wasnt too bound . out of the 9 id say two that made it were super like pretty freakin bound 3 were in the medium zone and 4 were not super bad (still not to good) the roots were pretty freaking white also i must add so damn... i bet theyll bounce back from the bound shit. but i hope there not fucked... with how starved they are!