A simple trick to gain 10 extra inches

Dannydavito

Dannydavito

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Starting from a seed place the plant in a deep pot allowing the root to go down unimpeded. The taproot should grow thick, as thick as the stem above. Use the stem of the plant to gauge the length and thickness of the root. When it is at the desired length simply employ my new technique. Carefully break up the dirt and pull the plant out. Make a new hole and place the plant back in while allowing some of the root to be exposed. This exposed root will become green tissue. Or at least I think it will. By doing this you can add height to your plant instantly. You will be trading root mass for height so use discretion. I don't know why you would need height but here you go.
 
90'sStoner

90'sStoner

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Dannydavito said:
Starting from a seed place the plant in a deep pot allowing the root to go down unimpeded. The taproot should grow thick, as thick as the stem above. Use the stem of the plant to gauge the length and thickness of the root. When it is at the desired length simply employ my new technique. Carefully break up the dirt and pull the plant out. Make a new hole and place the plant back in while allowing some of the root to be exposed. This exposed root will become green tissue. Or at least I think it will. By doing this you can add height to your plant instantly. You will be trading root mass for height so use discretion. I don't know why you would need height but here you go.
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Have you tried this?
 
CannaOnerStar

CannaOnerStar

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I used to play around with growing in too small different shaped containers for experiments and noticed that if the tap root goes deep the plant will more likely like to tall longer and focus more of its growth to main stem, while if the roots were able to spread wide but not as deep, the plant also like to focus more on branches and did not grow as tall. I also tested topping the tap root while young and it seemed to make it grow wider, but stunted the growth for a moment naturally. I doubt its a trick worth it, but could be worth testing more some day, i only did it to 3 plants i think(it was like 12 years ago so i dont remember exactly).

I didnt do this enough to make any solid case on it, but did it enough times to notice that there could be some truth to this, but not enough to be sure it was not just a statistical error due to too little amount of testing.

Anyways its best if your roots can grow wide and deep and if you have time for it and want to grow a monster, air prune the roots so that they can really spread wide.
 
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