The "C" Crowd

I believe it would. In fact I know it would be possible. Not sure how probable though. I do root my cuttings for dirt in my cloner, then plant them in dirt sometimes. They look just like yours, only smaller. It works great, never had one die or even look close. You just gently fill dry dirt around the roots then soak the soil until it runs through well, and don't water again until it's dry. A bit of anti-shock in the water might be good too. The only problem I see with doing that with so many roots is that it will likely create one flat layer of roots instead of a nice network branching everywhere. I don't see how you could get the roots to branch out, but perhaps you could divide them into 4 groups or something. I imagine that would be better than one big lump. Why don't you want to just put her in a bigger bucket? No space?

Perlite issue?

http://boards.cannabis.com/growing-i...n-so-long.html

Opie...the problem I had was the perlite CAUSING a drainage issue instead of assisting it. I had the problem in that thread.....so haven't used perlite since in all my years of soil growing since. Op...you need to understand that I don't have normal problems like normal people so I can't explain WHY I had the problem.....only that I did.

I'm wondering about soil instead of a larger container for this reason. I think this plant has about 4 weeks to go.....it's slowed down significantly in the last week. If a three gallon hydro container won't hold it for 4 weeks, why would 2 more gallons fix the problem? I'm wondering if I'm just going to have another rootbound plant in two more weeks and am PONTIFICATING if growing it in soil would be a better answer for the roots (and ME!!) Or perhaps start looking for an even LARGER dwc container than a five gallon (i have something around somewhere)

X-crispi mentioned an airstone in the bottom so I'm off to do that.....back later....thanks everyone. :)

for a better home for this plant :D and here is what they sniffed out. :wtf: A large container that holds 50 lbs of dry horse feed; cleaned, taped and a hole cut in the top. I would guess this container would hold about 15 gals of water but we only filled it halfway....maybe 8 gallons or so.

X-Crispi mentioned airstone so we glued a six one in the bottom for extra O2 to the roots and cut the ppms back to about 700 to give the plant some time to recover.

I also posted something in hydro so I'll go over there and post the photos in that thread as well.

Thoughts? I have to thank EVERYONE.....I can name part of an idea or suggestion from everybody that helped us put this together.

Hope it works!!

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Originally Posted by Hennessy1414

WH do you think its a good idea to cut off lower branches closest to where the stem hits the dirt. i mean my plant its growing really scronny leaves and branches on the lower part of it. should i chop them to improve on the higher branches? :rastasmoke:

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I would only do it if they were crowding each other out (as mine were) or were contstantly soggy from touching the dirt or whatever.....otherwise no. I really think they draw nutes from the older leaves and if you take those leaves away without a good reason the plant will just start taking things from the newer leaves to compensate. My stuff was very crowded together and causing misshaped leaves etc...so it really took a jump when I cleared some of the crowded stuff out but I've also WAY overpruned plants as well (with poor results) and that's what made me afraid to prune things in the first place.

:eek::eek: OMG WeedHound....:lol5: this is so cool, i love it....that PP gonna shoot strait through the roof, now that it has it's own Jacuzzi....really nice....:thumbsup:

I was thinking...now that you started to do soil grows again, how bout an outdoor grow??....i am sure that you would get lot's of help from the nice ppl. around here...

OMG. It didn't dawn on me that your plant might need more oxygen because I never dreamed in my wildest dreams that anyone would put roots in a non circulating container without an air stone. Shame on you. That alone could be the problem. Good luck. I'll bet she'll do fine now.

Opie the drip system DOES pump 02 into the roots....it's not made to be used with an airstone as it is NOT a DWC system....it's a DRIP system. However....this sytem is also recirculating as the contents are pumped out and recirculated through the res four times a day due to some modifications I made to it on my last grow. :thumbsup:

I DO think the issue is rootbound/suffocation and the last inch of nute solution that won't pump out.....hopefully we have solved this problem.

PS....I'm also doing a 24 hour flush for good voodoo. ;)

Weedhound,

That Baby is huge I have never seen a root system that big. I was going to sugest a rubbermaid tub but you already solved that issue. I hope she comes back for you.

BOL JG.

Thanks Jerry. I'll open the curtains soon from the 12/12 and see if she's improved at all (or croaked overnite....:eek:)