A Word or Two on the Pot Setups
It would seem to me that both these pots are pretty straight forward - you guys certainly “get” what I’m hoping to do here. But the first chore, and the one that pretty much determines if it’s going to “work,” is to get the roots growing outward in the lower pot of the pyramids. This was my main concern/wonder-about thing. Would the roots just grow down in a cylinder as begun in the upper pot? Or could I get them to fill the upper pot and EXPAND in the lower one? That was pretty much the deal right there, besides all the long tap root and such. If they would expand outward and I work towards filling BOTH pots with roots - that’s the whole idea.
So is it working? By now we should know.
Whoa.
Yeah, it’s working. My mouth is on the floor.
I’ve been watering them big down the middle of the upper pot, and smaller around the line where the upper pot meets the dirt (coco) of the lower. The ring around the pot if you will, lol.
These pictures show you a couple things. Firstly they show you two plants going completely apeshit in veg. And secondly they show you how wide out the roots are, so far, in the lower pots. Tested with the stake, it’s easy to tell. It’s only an inch or two, but it’s solid in a ring all the way around out to the stake spots. Note that the air pot roots are further out than the water pot roots. I attribute this to the fact that the air pot is significantly smaller than the upper pot on the WWC, so the roots got to the lower pot faster. All that means we are on our way and it’s working!!! Oh, and it also shows you a little more clearly the vision for the training, which by now is pretty clear. Those upper colas are going to be long. I can’t wait to see.
When the Watermelon WeddingCake hits that res the day I get back I think we are going to see something crazy. I know this plant now. I can speak to her. And she’s ready to show us everything she’s got. I can’t see it but I know that the roots have reached that plate inside where the water line will be. I suspect there’s a good volume of roots down there just waiting for water.
Anyway, hadn’t addressed this since the beginning, and since it’s pretty much the entire deal and chance for success, I figured it was time for the update. If the lower pots didn’t fill out, the benefit of the setup would be lessened and more questionable. A month in I figured we’d know.
Fricking NOICE.
