Dbl Root Zones

kochab

New Member
thanks for the posts. i guess i am talkin about layering in a way, but kinda different. in layering you do pretty much everything i said, but you do that to make clones to be cut from the mother plant. what im thinking about is never removing the 2nd set of roots. have the plant have 2 root balls to make 1 plant grow better for the rest of its life. im wondering if the plant would gain anything from having the 2nd set of roots at all.
heres my line of thinking im sure some will get all up in arms about it, but bare with me. hydro will out grow soil. (most the time) you can get better yields, have better control, and do it all faster with hydro. (most the time) the reason you can do this is because the roots of a plant can take in the nutes from water so much more easily than they can with dirt.(most the time)
as im sure every1 knows you cant get huge yielding plants with tiny roots. roots can only take in "X" amount of nutes in 1 day to feed 1 plant. so if 1 plant has 2 root zones does that mean the plant will be able to take in 2x "X"? if it can wouldnt that mean 2x as much growth/bud? we can pump up the CO2, lighting, or temp to get more growth/buds. seems to me like the uptake of nutes should be the next step.
i got what you were saying and i understand what you mean. the whole part about the plant being in hydro threw everyone off. No matter the medium being used a plant will only grow as fast as its roots will allow it to do so. a plant with two root systems is going to grow better no matter what the medium it is growing in.

i may do this and put one of these in a dwc. We have all seen the results from normal plants in dwc....... imagine what a plant with 2 root systems in dwc would look like.....:)
 

kochab

New Member
sorry jus noticed the other pages and read em. it shouldent hurt them to have 2 root balls. should be exactly like having one big ass root ball.
 

JESSE

Well-Known Member
i dont understand how cutting down to the cadium layer and growing more roots from farther up will help at all since they would still fight for the same nutes in the same pot with the original roots...finding a way to make a plant be able to root seperately from the preexisting ones is the only way i can see any benefit coming from it at all.which requires making another area of the plant root by bending over to another pot,or the original roots being seperated to be able to grow without being crouded.
 

th3bigbad

Well-Known Member
in hydro the roots wont have to fight for nutes. there is more than enough to go around. you cant have to many PPMs or the plant will burn, but if you could make it where the plant could soak up twice as much nutes at a lower PPM then the plant wont burn and should grow twice as fast/big
 

Grap_Sknk

Active Member
if ur puln ur clone and accidently cut across the branch cutting thr comple node of giving u 2 end for the clone ..buring both ends in rootjell and it roots from both ends..seen it
 

JESSE

Well-Known Member
Not sure if that was english so its kinda hard to know what you mean...did you mean where the branches are connected at the v?
 
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