new plant roots went straight down??

umm my new roots went straight down to the botom of my pot they came ou the lil hole but i dont think the roots spread outword.. what should i do? dose this mean i have to replant it on another pot or what i mean its bee 4 days lol and its like almost 4 inchest tall but i think its to early to transplant idk ill post some pics up in a sec

see its small but the roots came out the bottomi think its becouse i have them set up like this i have the pots on top of some cups with water in them so im thinking its my fault the roots seached for water straight down what can i do to fix this do i simply just take them off the cups and water normally?

Try to evenly water the pots when you are watering, perhaps the water just went straight down and didn't wet the sides of the soil. Have you actually looked at the roots to see if they have spread out?

leave it alone its fine its 4 days old once it cant grow down itll go to the sides.............

yeah i just thought is was werid the root went straight down lol i mean i water the top too but im guessing it was searching for a weter source idk at least it isnt dieing lol but donyt ou think the root will keep growing down in the water lol? or will it start spreading out? i did the cup thing so i wouldnt over water but its giving me more obsticles now lol

sorry for the mispelling lol im high as shit

and yeah i just noticed what you did..........the water cup thing bad idea........just water the plant really good like untill there is run off and dont water again till the top inch of soil is dry

ok i took the water in cup out and waterd the soil aroind the pot ope this makes it search for water outwords

Yes, it's VERY important to make sure that tjhe ENTIRE medium has been moistened, when watering or feeding. It's a common mistake I see here, after seeing all the warnings about overwatering, scaring the crap out of all the new guys, to the point that they're afraid to water them properly. Grr....


P.S. That soil looks terrible, as far as drainage properties go. Get 'em in something with lots of perlite, or you'll be having lots of headaches, in the future.

Just make sure you water around the edge of the pot since you have one drain hole directly in the middle, but usually the taproot shoot down and then spreads out so no worries it happens. You can repot it in a few weeks that will do just fine.

k ty all and yeah ill transplant them into better soil once they are a lil farther apart i have to buy it lol cuz all i have atm is mg soil and that has killed my other plants do to nutrient burn before so i dont want to put them in mg soil anymore

jairocompany2 said:

k ty all and yeah ill transplant them into better soil once they are a lil farther apart i have to buy it lol cuz all i have atm is mg soil and that has killed my other plants do to nutrient burn before so i dont want to put them in mg soil anymore

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Check my "Test in Progress..." thread in the Newbie section, and you'll see that there's nothing wrong with MG soil. I can guarantee you that it's much better that what's in there are, and if you add enough perlite, will perfom as well as anything out there(practically).

and dont let run off water stay on a tray , the root will see that at the bottom theres water to live on and will continue to drawing its roots towards the tray