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hempy4life
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Thank you FOG!
As for being time to transplant, not yet. Yes while they do have quite nice root growth I prefer to have a bit more of a root mass prior to transplanting. the reason being that I run hempy buckets and if i transplant now with out much lateral root growth the roots will shoot strait to the bottom of the bucket. this will result in a tipsy plant. and would require more time to induce lateral root growth for support and suffer growth in height in girth. SO what I do is allow the seedlings to grow into the rooters as much as possible that way when i trans plant I can encourage all the lateral roots to stretch out by watering around the conformance of the rooter. thus making them hunt for the water and grow nice support. If I plant now with mostly vertical root growth and few lateral root growths it will grow the roots deeper to the bottom of the bucket faster and once it hits the water reserve will grow those roots out larger and give littler energy to the later root support structure. If any of that makes any sense at all. haha.
also they are still to small to feed directly from the roots yet. which is why I am foliar feeding them. to optimize the benefits of foliar feeding its best to have them in a humidity done. the will help slow the evaporation of the feed from the foliage since the air in the done is already saturated. If i transplanted before they are ready for direct root feeding too mush of the foliar feed will evaporate before the plant is able to absorb the micro nutes its needs right now. I could feed to the root but being as young and delicate as they still are I would have to go with an even milder solution than what i can give them via foliar feeding.
I'll swing by and check your grow out!
As for being time to transplant, not yet. Yes while they do have quite nice root growth I prefer to have a bit more of a root mass prior to transplanting. the reason being that I run hempy buckets and if i transplant now with out much lateral root growth the roots will shoot strait to the bottom of the bucket. this will result in a tipsy plant. and would require more time to induce lateral root growth for support and suffer growth in height in girth. SO what I do is allow the seedlings to grow into the rooters as much as possible that way when i trans plant I can encourage all the lateral roots to stretch out by watering around the conformance of the rooter. thus making them hunt for the water and grow nice support. If I plant now with mostly vertical root growth and few lateral root growths it will grow the roots deeper to the bottom of the bucket faster and once it hits the water reserve will grow those roots out larger and give littler energy to the later root support structure. If any of that makes any sense at all. haha.
also they are still to small to feed directly from the roots yet. which is why I am foliar feeding them. to optimize the benefits of foliar feeding its best to have them in a humidity done. the will help slow the evaporation of the feed from the foliage since the air in the done is already saturated. If i transplanted before they are ready for direct root feeding too mush of the foliar feed will evaporate before the plant is able to absorb the micro nutes its needs right now. I could feed to the root but being as young and delicate as they still are I would have to go with an even milder solution than what i can give them via foliar feeding.
I'll swing by and check your grow out!