Ok, semi experienced grower. My third time around, but, i've learned YEARS of knowledge from others and forums.
I won't call this bagseed. I got the seeds from some buds i got from a friend grower. she was given clones, and, somehow, one was a male and it wasn't chopped and pollinated everything. These seeds are a cross of a mother plant, which has been developed by the grower, and a clone of a seed from a bank. (not sure on the exact strain) they called the mother plant "fruit loops" because the buds taste like lemon when you smoke.
so the plant is from seed, but, not just random seed.
anyway. It was started in, gasp, just some random store bought soil, miracle or scotts. i didn't start it, but i took over. The plants started outdoors for flowering, but then were moved indoors under a 150w HPS. we are only talk 4 plants now. 2 were male and were killed long before any polen developed.
JUST before flowering, the plants were transplanted into equal sized pots, and i basically changed the soil to about 50-60% perlite. when i did this, i noticed, the root ball/structure, was MAYBE the size of a softball. nothing really going DOWN, no sideways growth, i mean, we are talking taking up less than 25% of the available growing medium. nowhere near rootbound.
NOW, they are 2 weeks into flowering, and looking great. strong growth, and just a LITTLE nute burn because i started with full strength technaflora, but then heard you should go 1/4 strength, then 1/2, and then FULL, near the end of flowering. regardless, the nute burn only killed off some lower leaves, but the new growth FROM the nutes, is reallly reallly obvious.
white hairs everywhere, at almost every "interesection" or node. upper leaves are nice and lush. so i am wondering, are the roots not being fully established going to eventually lead to problems?
can a plant root more during flowering?
if the plants look PERFECT, healthy, and are doing fine, should it even matter how big the root structure was?
I won't call this bagseed. I got the seeds from some buds i got from a friend grower. she was given clones, and, somehow, one was a male and it wasn't chopped and pollinated everything. These seeds are a cross of a mother plant, which has been developed by the grower, and a clone of a seed from a bank. (not sure on the exact strain) they called the mother plant "fruit loops" because the buds taste like lemon when you smoke.
so the plant is from seed, but, not just random seed.
anyway. It was started in, gasp, just some random store bought soil, miracle or scotts. i didn't start it, but i took over. The plants started outdoors for flowering, but then were moved indoors under a 150w HPS. we are only talk 4 plants now. 2 were male and were killed long before any polen developed.
JUST before flowering, the plants were transplanted into equal sized pots, and i basically changed the soil to about 50-60% perlite. when i did this, i noticed, the root ball/structure, was MAYBE the size of a softball. nothing really going DOWN, no sideways growth, i mean, we are talking taking up less than 25% of the available growing medium. nowhere near rootbound.
NOW, they are 2 weeks into flowering, and looking great. strong growth, and just a LITTLE nute burn because i started with full strength technaflora, but then heard you should go 1/4 strength, then 1/2, and then FULL, near the end of flowering. regardless, the nute burn only killed off some lower leaves, but the new growth FROM the nutes, is reallly reallly obvious.
white hairs everywhere, at almost every "interesection" or node. upper leaves are nice and lush. so i am wondering, are the roots not being fully established going to eventually lead to problems?
can a plant root more during flowering?
if the plants look PERFECT, healthy, and are doing fine, should it even matter how big the root structure was?
