Can you cut roots that are tangled if it would be very helpful to move a plant. I need some opinions though I am thinking to go for it.

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Hello,
I dont know the answer but I have been wondering the same thing as I think I will have to move some also, I would think there would be some type of shock but it shouldn't kill them... hopefully

You have a greater risk of turning the plants hermie from the stress of cuting roots.

you don't want to cut roots, the plant won't recover.

root trimming is very common in hydro it might set you back a few days but thats about it.

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Trimming roots are one thing. Cutting roots to untangle and remove a plant WILL stress your plants. I've done it.

Tell me more Zed, I'm looking for an answer like yours, lol. Yeah I am all tangled up in there using Stealth Hydro bubbleponic tanks.

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I just completed a DWC grow with four plants in a single rubbermaid. One of the plants was male, so I chopped the plant out and cut out the roots from the tangle in the reservoir. I added extra superthrive and H2O2 to the reservoir to help the lady plants. The super thrive was to help the plants deal with the stress and the H2O2 was used to add extra oxygen to the water to help reduce stress and also to kill any decomposer microbes in the reservoir (to avoid root rot). Two of my plants were just fine, the third one hermied. The hermie only had a few sets of pollen flowers, so I trimmed those off and still got an ok yield from that plant, like 1.25 oz. So from my limited experience, I would say it is fine to cut out roots in DWC systems.

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You can always chop the plant and leave the roots & stem in there. But you will have to get some hygrozime or some enzyme product to eat away the dying roots. It will turn dying plant matter in to food for your living roots.

But what about cutting roots for transplanting???

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