What you call root bound, I'd probably call something else. I'm not going to say it doesn't happen on occasion, but there is almost no way any plant got root bound within a few weeks, cup or not. I've personally kept plants in 16oz cups for about eight months, no root trimming. I've flowered plants in cups, I've kept mothers for over a year in less than a gallon of soil.
So before you make it out to be cold hard fact, do some investigating. I have a strong suspicion that your plants weren't actually root bound, and that you just needed a scape goat.
Might want to edit that out, makes you sound hypocritical
youve kept a mother in a gallon of soil for over a year and your trying to tell me that plant wasnt rootbound?
you have a strong suspicion that my plant i posted isnt suffering from rootbound symptoms?!?!?!?!? you fucking for real?! have you done any rootbound experiments yourself or are you just rambling about things that you think you know???
im useing this as an excuse because i needed a scape goat?? THIS IS A FUCKING TUTORIAL
im just so fucking tired of people who get pissed when they are wrong. if im wrong i will admit it, i will change it and i will thank you for giving me the right information.
i dont think im a better grower than you or anyone else for that matter, im just trying to help people and you making it very hard for me to do that, just because you acquired some information you might have come across on the internet, without any personal experience or experiments or documention.
ok hubart, i have 20 plants going right now in plastic cups, a few are bagseed. im am going to leave one of the bagseed plants in a plastic 16oz cup.ill be taking pictures of that plant throughout the grow compared with the plants that i am growing right. you are wrong, plants can and do get rootbound in 10 days depending on the size of your container and how fast your plants roots actually grow, as ive been doing experiments with rootbound plants, ive found out that different plants grow roots differently. i bet youve never done any experimenting on rootbound plants, letting plants stay in small containers and switching one out that you are growing exactly the same into a bigger container...you havent?! no fucking way?! because if you have you would understand and empathize with me on what rootbound plants start to look like and what they start to do. the picture of the plant in my thread is a rootbound plant, weather or not is has different deficiencies was not the subject,. its about rootbound plants. you tried to tell me that my plant looks the way it does because of reasons other than it being rootbound, well your right theres a small chance that there could be a slight nitrogen defiency, but i dont know, i havent done experiments on nutrients and defiencies yet. (as time flows i will) but the fact of the matter is that this plant is fucking ROOTBOUND and that is why it has stunted growth and everything else i explained at the start.
if your biggest problem was bugs, dont you think you would want to know everything you possibly could on how to make it better?
the same goes for anything that goes wrong with your plants, for me the biggest problem was that my plants were rootbound and i have taken the time and energy to learn and experiment as much as i possably can about plants being rootbound.
this isnt about plants or weed or anything for you, for you its about your EGO. am i a pro on rootbound plants? no i am not. do i have more information and knowledge and experience with figuring out how rootbound plants work than you, probably yes. you have to pick your battles man, yours is a loseing one. yes im a dick i know that and i really am sorry that i offended you, but when you comment about my tutorial with stupid comments like "but there is almost no way any plant got root bound within a few weeks, cup or not" you are wrong and it makes me angry. it makes me angry because you remind me of the kid i got the rootbound info off of when i first started growing. i wouldnt have posted this shit if i didnt do experiments man, i wouldnt have posted anything if i thought it was incorrect information or that this woulnt help people. i also wouldnt post anything in a thread without doing PERSONAL EXPERIMENTATION to figure out for myself.
there is so much false information out there and with comments like the ones you wrote, you are not helping the cannibis growing community but hindering it. think about that before you post again.
If you actually read what I wrote I never said plants don't get root bound, what I said is that it generally takes a lot longer than what you're describing. Why would I need to experiment with root bound plants when I'm telling you I can keep them in 16oz cups for half a year? I have had plants growing side by side in different sized containers, and I'm not saying that small containers produce the same growth at all...but it's not because they have some condition, it's as simple as more roots=more plant.
