Sipping Super Sativa Seed Club Strawberry Cookies In Sanlight

cbdhemp808 said:
I've come to the conclusion with some grows, SIP or otherwise, that a root-bound condition can signal the end of things... premature senescence. I just did a postmortem on my comparison grow and found the SIP plant's roots had packed the medium, and the medium never dried out toward the end. Another SIP plant that I harvested the same day, which was a lot more successful, had a looser root mass and was fully dried out. It was the same SIP design, same soil. Looks like some strains/phenos just do better in SIPs, in the root zone.
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I've been thinking too that it's the cause for why they sometimes go a bit wonky halfway through flower.
Is what I suspect now too bottom half of the pot is roots & more roots as SIPs do grow roots really well and all the medium is on top.. there's no more interplay between the two for feeding like this.

Or well I just need to be a lot faster cause now I'm vegging until she's a small bush, just veg for two weeks and flip. make use of most of what's in the bag as well, then I might not need to feed much.
Or I've seen 12/12 grows from seed that make one mega bud.. I can fit three sips in the small tent and then there's a module of each of the sanlights above one. If the plants go straight up the tent won't be too small.
That's gonna be my next experiment.

Oh and I snipped three buds from the Sugar Punch, just the top, to see if the buds below will go wilder than the others.
 
And so yeah feeling that the top is super wet, might not be a good indicator for what's going down below.
But even without the rootmass that peat is a mean wicker so I feel that pulls a lot of moisture always.
This might however not be advantageous if the mass got separated, as I'm pouring into the res, the rootmass is slurping all it can and the peat is still wicking it from the top or stealing it from the mass just to evaporate.
I'm really curious what happened down there, but I'd still need to wait a couple of weeks.
Also with the GW are the roots extra thick and fuzzy.
 
Just in general, some strains/phenos I think suffer when any pot is full of roots, because the whole rhizosphere goes wonky when there's too many roots, not enough air, poor drainage, microbes getting affected. Some strains/phenos seem to be able to handle this a lot better than others. I have a CBD pheno in a 1 gal pot that looks like she could happily flower out in that same pot. I have a hunch that this resilience comes from indica genetics, and similarly with lower light conditions. Think northern latitudes, mountain locations, rocky soil.
 
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