I had an idea the other day...i saw a pic in the random pix section of this guy standing beside a 6 ft tall pot plant that only had a top...no lower branches whatsoever...i wondered if he planted that outside like with the 4-5 feet of main stem in the ground if it would eventually grow a massive root system and do anything for the plant. IF someone vegged their plant to grow in that fashion them transplanted it outside into a 4-5 foot deep hole what would happen?

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more than likely if you planted that deep you would lose the plant to set rot.

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interesting thought......only way to know is to try it....cannabis seems to be so incredibly adaptable....it might just rot like said....but it might not? maybe you could score the stem and put rooting/cloning gel on it? anyhow....interesting question.

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well not even necessarily that it would have to be that deep, but say even 2-3 feet...just a much larger root structure than a "normal" plant

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yea...take a look at the Root and plant development thread that Skunk has just comleted....root "size" does NOT have a direct replationship to above ground productivity.

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do you have a link by chance?

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what! the mass of your roots directly affects the size of your plants, and its fruits

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Root Development vs Plant Growth

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just for the record i have done this on some bad clones and seems to work ok i suffer about a 20% loss when i bury a clone 4 inches or lover in dirt.

i use this planting method to lower the nodes close to the soil in a attempt to keep the plant shorter and more busy

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I agree.....but only to a point...then any further root development (and the energy required to undertake this task) does not directly translate into above ground production...

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