Quote Originally Posted by letsgetalongbrd
i keep hearing about rootbound, forgive my ignorance, but what exactly is this?
Rootbound is when your plants roots out grow the environment(pot) that they live in. Basically, your plant and your plants root mass are too big for their small home (too small of pot). Just look at it this way, the bigger the root mass the better the yield most of the time. So if you have a plant that is lets say one meter in a one gallon pot then it's obvious that the roots have out grown the one gallon pot and is struggling to find somewhere for it's roots to grow causing them to intangle with each other resulting in a smaller yield. Rootbound could also lead to root rot which in case you want to avoid at all costs as that will completely kill the plant.