Oldsmokey Grows Blue Cheese & Blueberry With Promix

[oldsmokey]

I have heard that but never tried it next time. Happy solstice to you too

 

[HunterHunt]

Heya Smokey!

Next time, if you make several shallow (1/4-1/2”) vertical cuts through the sides of the root ball, you will see explosive root growth into the new media.

The root ball should never be cut. You will see explosive growth with just the transplant.

Love the root porn Smokey!

 

[oldsmokey]

I am in no hurry as long as things are healthy I am happy.

 

[HunterHunt]

Transplanting and the reason for doing this, is to build up your root ball and mass inside your pot. As you keep up-potting you keep building that mass more and more. By the time you are ready to flower you have your whole container full of ready to feed roots that will uptake water/nutrients. Otherwise everyone would just plant in a large container from seed... Your root mass would be very small if you did this and your plant would suffer in the long run. Thats why fabric pots have become very popular. =)

 

[oldsmokey]

I start in .5gl pot then up pot to 7gl.

 

[FelipeBlu]

The root ball should never be cut. You will see explosive growth with just the transplant.

Love the root porn Smokey!

It’s standard horticultural practice - why not try it?

Only One Example

 

[oldsmokey]

I have heard of that before not just in cannabis growing but in horticulture in general. Sounds like a good experiment for next time try it on 2 the other two roots untouched.

 

[HunterHunt]

The method you are speaking of FelipeBlu, is a standard Horticulture practice with root bound plants and trees that sit in pots for months and months, not cannabis. Ex: shrubs, rose bushes, and trees. You will not find any scientific article, any commercial grower, or any cultivator that cuts roots on cannabis. The only time cannabis roots need to be cut would be for LONG term mothers if something got rot bound and started to root rot or causing problems. Your recommendations are coming from shrub growers and other plant practices that don't really apply to cannabis.

Yes it would be a great experiment smokey!

 

[bebecillo]

Maybe a side by side if someone has seeds and space to sacrifice. Plant in solo cups until rootbound and cut the roots of one or two plants in the control room while up potting and voilá.

I would do it if I had the space.

 

[oldsmokey]

I would do it now but I am trying to be a good boy(and it's not easy) and staying within my legal 4 plant limit. That's why I said maybe next time.

 

[FelipeBlu]

You are prob right, Nitro. And I use perlite hempy for cannabis, so I have no direct experience with doing root pruning cannabis specifically.

There’s something else I have used for many years on other potted plants, and it might be of some possible benefit to the soil/ProMix/coco grower, and that is to tease out the roots (without any cutting necessary if you don’t let them get too potbound), so that they spread out more evenly into the new soil.

But I‘m a gonna go over here and listen for a while..

 

[oldsmokey]

I agree with you FelipeBlu and that's what I'm planning on doing. Initially when repotting I like to saturate the whole pot to encourage root growth into the new soil. Now it's probably going to take them a week to to suck up all that water. So I plan on litely water with a couple cups are so around the outer edge of the pot to try and encourage the roots to grow outwards instead of just down.

 

[oldsmokey]

Me and the wife went on a road trip today checked out a couple of waterfalls.

I got a couple small videos of the falls i might post them tomorrow.

Have a great night

 

[Canadadoes]

Wow, that’s beautiful! Super Jealous.
How far of a road trip was it?

 

[oldsmokey]

Wow, that’s beautiful! Super Jealous.
How far of a road trip was it?

It was probably about 350 km we made a day of it and took are time. Brought lunch and refreshments i am trying to cheer her up. We are supposed to be on holidays right now but the trailer was just written off from the hail storm. I got a ccouple ideas for next week that might work.

 

[oldsmokey]

Day 41 Veg Update
good morning everyone and happy Friday not much to report today. All plant are adjusting to there new homes just fine. Still feeding 4.5gm/gl.

Temp & Humidity 1 hour before lights out

Group Shoot
Blue Cheese on the left
Blueberry on the right

Blue Cheese#2

Blue Cheese#3

Blueberry#1

Blueberry#2

That's all folks have a great day

 

[oldsmokey]

Couple vids of the waterfalls yesterday.

 

[HunterHunt]

Wow what some beautiful country. I love the outdoors! Plants are looking awesome as well. When are you going to flip them to 12 /12 (hope I haven't ask you that yet lol)?

 

[Head1982]

I would do it now but I am trying to be a good boy(and it's not easy) and staying within my legal 4 plant limit. That's why I said maybe next time.

That sooooo hard

 

[UltraEndurance420]

Excellent. Late to the party but I brought my chair! Happy growing! And love the waterfalls!! I did a 3 day mountain bike trip to Iceland and was fortunate to see a bunch of awesome falls and glaciers. Cheers.