Quote Originally Posted by Rusty Trichome
Have you thought of using more perlite in the soil? When 'blow-drying' the medium, there is a fine line between drying the medium, and killing the roots. Likely best not to cross that line.
No I didn't think of that and yes I will be trying that sometime soon.

This experiment is officially done. On Veg Day 20 I took cuttings and needed the air pump for my bubbler. Getting the cuttings to root has much more importance to me than killing the root zone. However now that these two are in my flower box, the smaller one seems to be growing better than the larger one. Now they are about the same size. Will post pics in a bit.