Zaehet Strife
Well-Known Member
ROOTBOUND:
for some reason i lost the pics of the girls i started in 16oz cups. hardcore rootbound after 3 weeks in the cups. the picture of this plant- started in 16oz cup by seed, let veg for about 3 1/2 weeks before i transplanted into 1gallon milk jug. after being in the milk jug for just 10 days, yep 10 days. that is what the roots look like.
now some of you say rootbound doesn't exist well your wrong. im def. not a big fan of people who post false information that fucks up an aspect of my grow, my last grow really hurt because of the false info.
i was so confused about my last grow because shit was going wrong and i was doing everything perfect. rootbound plants start showing signs when the lower leaves start to yellow, making you think "fuck my PH must be off", or maybe i need to give them a nice shot of some nutes. After a few more days the tops of the plant (even the lower nods) start to thin out. the leaves become narrow and elongated. the leaves on the cola curl up making you think ahhh shit must be heat stress, or maybe my plants arent close enough to the light. your plants growth will slow tremendously, can even halt altogether. but you have to understand that all you have to do is transplant and you can save any plant, but you have to do it right if you want good results.
TRANSPLANTING ROOTBOUND PLANTS:
the pictures pretty much explain it all. you must be gentle, but not too gentle. the reason i cut away the jug is because the plant had just been watered recently, but i just got my new grow bags today so i decided to transplant while it was still wet. its easier to transplant when its dry, easier to break up the rootball without damaging the roots aswell, but can be done either way. first you want to loosen up the soil with your fingers by gently rubbing your palm across the sides to get those outside roots hanging off the sides. you want to ever so gently (yes it can be time consuming sometimes, took me about 10min of careful prodding and massaging to break up this rootball) pull apart the bigger root spots on the bottom of the plant, this is the most important part of all, and this is the part where it fucked me the most.
when you transplant rootbound plants you must losen up the root structure. as you can see im just making sure the roots arent going to keep growing in a circle around the plants. if you don't break up the roots it will eventually end up "strangling" itself and you will end up with a stunted baby or a plant that wasnt able to reach its full potential. after you break everything up and its all hanging lookin good, just gently set it in the pot/container, fill in the empty space with your preferred medium.. if dry, water with half the amount you usually do with maybe a pinch of ferts (i just make a lil worm poop tea) to give them a little extra help growing those new roots. if you water too much you could sink your soil and prevent the roots from gaining easy access to the bottom and sides of the container (you always want to water slowly, ive strangled plants before by sinking the medium, its also very hard to get oxygen to the roots when they are all mushed together) if the medium is wet before transplant just slightly water the soil you are going to set the plant on top of, then slightly water the sides when you fill it in.
roobound is real, and it will and does effect the health of your plant. yes you can grow a plant the whole way through in a 16oz cup from seed, but you will get half if not less the amount that you would get if you gave them the room they need to grow. even if you start w/seed on 12/12 in16oz cups you need to transplant after a couple weeks.
my truth from my experience, take it or leave it i just felt the need to put the correct info up because stupid info from stupid people really can affect your grows in a horrible way. thanks for reading and i really hope this helps.
be true to yourself, be positive and love your life- 311
ps. the plant i transplanted is a trifoliate female (3sets of leaves/nodes) the little plant pic is another trifoliate, with any luck i can take those two plants with the trifoliate genotype and breed them to make a trifoliate phenotype! that way all the seeds i will get off of the plants will be trifoliates!!!! what do you guys think? hopefully the little one turns into a male, been trying to stress it out as you can see from the cuttings lol. ty guys peace
RAMBLE:
So over the year 1/2 ive been growing i have figure out that 90% of the people on forums and pretty much that grow weed in general like to think they know it all. Actually 90% of the whole population in the world likes to think they know it all. The human race in general this thing called "EGO" People think they know what they only think, and if someone proves them wrong they get offended. Think about it, since we were children we have been ridiculed and made fun of for our ignorance. People dont get it that not knowing something isnt a bad thing, it just IS. Until you give someone the information how are they supposed to know? So before you go bashing oh Mr. Knowitall take into consideration that people in general are very ingnorant of EVERYTHING. if you think you know something you THINK you know something. Until you have experienced it first hand please dont tell me you know when you dont. this rambe is about people posting fucking false information, or information that they THINK is real but isnt, im here to fix the confusion about rootbound plants and transplanting. starting with seed useing a soil medium.
for some reason i lost the pics of the girls i started in 16oz cups. hardcore rootbound after 3 weeks in the cups. the picture of this plant- started in 16oz cup by seed, let veg for about 3 1/2 weeks before i transplanted into 1gallon milk jug. after being in the milk jug for just 10 days, yep 10 days. that is what the roots look like.
now some of you say rootbound doesn't exist well your wrong. im def. not a big fan of people who post false information that fucks up an aspect of my grow, my last grow really hurt because of the false info.
i was so confused about my last grow because shit was going wrong and i was doing everything perfect. rootbound plants start showing signs when the lower leaves start to yellow, making you think "fuck my PH must be off", or maybe i need to give them a nice shot of some nutes. After a few more days the tops of the plant (even the lower nods) start to thin out. the leaves become narrow and elongated. the leaves on the cola curl up making you think ahhh shit must be heat stress, or maybe my plants arent close enough to the light. your plants growth will slow tremendously, can even halt altogether. but you have to understand that all you have to do is transplant and you can save any plant, but you have to do it right if you want good results.
TRANSPLANTING ROOTBOUND PLANTS:
the pictures pretty much explain it all. you must be gentle, but not too gentle. the reason i cut away the jug is because the plant had just been watered recently, but i just got my new grow bags today so i decided to transplant while it was still wet. its easier to transplant when its dry, easier to break up the rootball without damaging the roots aswell, but can be done either way. first you want to loosen up the soil with your fingers by gently rubbing your palm across the sides to get those outside roots hanging off the sides. you want to ever so gently (yes it can be time consuming sometimes, took me about 10min of careful prodding and massaging to break up this rootball) pull apart the bigger root spots on the bottom of the plant, this is the most important part of all, and this is the part where it fucked me the most.
when you transplant rootbound plants you must losen up the root structure. as you can see im just making sure the roots arent going to keep growing in a circle around the plants. if you don't break up the roots it will eventually end up "strangling" itself and you will end up with a stunted baby or a plant that wasnt able to reach its full potential. after you break everything up and its all hanging lookin good, just gently set it in the pot/container, fill in the empty space with your preferred medium.. if dry, water with half the amount you usually do with maybe a pinch of ferts (i just make a lil worm poop tea) to give them a little extra help growing those new roots. if you water too much you could sink your soil and prevent the roots from gaining easy access to the bottom and sides of the container (you always want to water slowly, ive strangled plants before by sinking the medium, its also very hard to get oxygen to the roots when they are all mushed together) if the medium is wet before transplant just slightly water the soil you are going to set the plant on top of, then slightly water the sides when you fill it in.
roobound is real, and it will and does effect the health of your plant. yes you can grow a plant the whole way through in a 16oz cup from seed, but you will get half if not less the amount that you would get if you gave them the room they need to grow. even if you start w/seed on 12/12 in16oz cups you need to transplant after a couple weeks.
my truth from my experience, take it or leave it i just felt the need to put the correct info up because stupid info from stupid people really can affect your grows in a horrible way. thanks for reading and i really hope this helps.
be true to yourself, be positive and love your life- 311
ps. the plant i transplanted is a trifoliate female (3sets of leaves/nodes) the little plant pic is another trifoliate, with any luck i can take those two plants with the trifoliate genotype and breed them to make a trifoliate phenotype! that way all the seeds i will get off of the plants will be trifoliates!!!! what do you guys think? hopefully the little one turns into a male, been trying to stress it out as you can see from the cuttings lol. ty guys peace
RAMBLE:
So over the year 1/2 ive been growing i have figure out that 90% of the people on forums and pretty much that grow weed in general like to think they know it all. Actually 90% of the whole population in the world likes to think they know it all. The human race in general this thing called "EGO" People think they know what they only think, and if someone proves them wrong they get offended. Think about it, since we were children we have been ridiculed and made fun of for our ignorance. People dont get it that not knowing something isnt a bad thing, it just IS. Until you give someone the information how are they supposed to know? So before you go bashing oh Mr. Knowitall take into consideration that people in general are very ingnorant of EVERYTHING. if you think you know something you THINK you know something. Until you have experienced it first hand please dont tell me you know when you dont. this rambe is about people posting fucking false information, or information that they THINK is real but isnt, im here to fix the confusion about rootbound plants and transplanting. starting with seed useing a soil medium.
