Well my roots are all bound together in one brick basically. They get plenty of air and water appropriately, because I designed the hydro rig to be two chambers. The bottom container is a resevoir and the upper contains the plants. When the watering cycle stops everything drains to the bottom and within an 20 minutes the top has completely dried. I have two huge air stones in the bottom res always pumping air in the mixture. This has been a big pain for me over the past few weeks because I clean the containers every weekend and the plants are getting heavy and cumbersome. I'll most likely design and easier way to do this on my next grow depending on my yield. I'm hoping for a decent yield after all the time and money I put into this but we'll see.....I'm not going to go overboard in my hopes....just slightly wishful!

As for bending, no matter which way I bend I'm definetly going to cover the light going down to the bottom. Do I just let those die off normally?

When you say they are going to have a party in the end then I assume you are meaning they are going to get larger and swell? So basically I am waiting until I have about a 50% color discoloration in the trichomes?

Next time I do this I am going to cut clones from the current two plants that I have. How long do I veg those for? After what I have been reading in comments and such I will keep them topped off at about 12 inches and when I go into flowering I let them get as large as they want....does that sound right?

Thanks for all the advice and comments!!!

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