What would cause the myco not to take? If it establishes in the solo shouldn’t it automatically colonize the larger pot?
You would think but sometimes the microbes in the larger pot eat all the new myco you added and the roots want to stay in the original rootball.
One day you will encounter what I am talking about. At harvest the old rootball will pop right out when you tug the stump with only 1 or 2 roots into the bigger pot area.
After you encounter it you learn to recognize it so you remedy it, but it takes time. Time eats soil.
Ever since I went solo to 10gal a lot of my pains in the arse disappeared. If myco doesn't take in a week, I have time.
I'm not sure what GG means about smaller plants though, as I have stated already, small isn't the issue. Too big too fast is the issue.
GG if you have a hack to healthily slow the buggers down please share!
My tent is only 8 ft tall so I only have 6 feet of space to grow. If I dont slow them down they are well into the light by day 56 when I grow from seed.
Going straight to the big pot slows veg but not roots, and manifolding slows it again but widens it out.
Wide is good, I want no more than 18" from the top of my top bud to the bottom of my bottom bud.
All that veg slowdown leaves the nutes in the pot for flower.
And when I say 34" tall thats from the soil line so 50" from pot bottom.
If I don't do all that work then I just end up hacking a few feet of plant off and throwing all those nutes into the worm bin at flip (or the very nasty supercropping I will never do that to one of my girls again) so this works very well for me.
My flower tent is only 5 x 5 so 8 tops each is all I can handle but I have done 16. You can get that extra topping in before the nodes stagger, but 64 tops in a 5 x 5 is very crowded.
But hey... a lot of shit I do makes people scratch there head. I just follow the science and see where it goes. It surprises me all the time.
My newest project, the 2 headed clones, they popped roots sooner than any single headed ones. Who knew?!
Your sexing experiment... who knew?!
And then theres the "Drop a clone straight into a 10gal" thing I stumbled onto with bottom watering. (Well Azi's bottom watering but with a swick cuz it made more sense) , the one I linked in my signature.
That flies in the face of everything linear that we have been taught. A massive plant without uppotting.
Who knew the fastest way to grow a big plant with massive roots was to drop a clone straight into a 10gal. If I had a 20gal I would try that too.
You gotta try new things. Most of what you have been told is very linear. Thats the product of prohibition.
My newest problem is larf. I hate the stuff. I want prime nugs only so I am learning to prune side branches out asap. They are a waste of soil nutrition.
Its nerve wracking as I think I am causing grief, but the Prime Colas just keep getting primer
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I would rather grow 4oz of total prime nugs than 8oz of nugs and larf, but I have the luxury of a huge stash.
4 plants 4oz each every 70 days is basically a half pound a month of no-larf prime bud. lol thats a bit more than the wife and I need. My buddies love it tho.
I also meticulously cure my weed so curing all that larf to just end up putting it in my worm farm is a waste of my time.
So thats how I got to manifolding and solo-to-10gal. Its nutrient efficient and the plants just barely fit, but they fit
And I have to deal with sativas, but the clone-10gal is a 50/50 hybrid so I would guess it works with indicas too. One of you indica folks should try it so we can see.
note: any nug less than 1" diameter I consider larf, as I will never smoke it and the worms get it.
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