Has anyone heard of root pruning from sprout/clone to veg?

BobCajun said:

Yeah once it gets to a large plant. I meant like early on. I suppose the same effect could be obtained by putting perlite, or other medium, in a plastic mesh type bag or basket.

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no I am really serious here, you MUST follow his instructions exactly if not understand the concept itself... AGAIN...these are VERY specific for a REASON, the roots must be trained properly...we are talking a pretty small time window in which you must follow these steps CLOSELY to achieve what he does... I'm not trying to be an ass here really, but you are just not understanding you need to watch the WHOLE video and take notes if necessary, please trust me, this is not a simple process...which is why I put it in the Advanced Section of the forums...

BobCajun said:

I just don't want to have to deal with RW cubes myself. Can't really get rid of it without it being noticed in the garbage. What the hell are you going to do with it? Gotta dump that shit somewhere. That's why I only use perlite. It's reusable.

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BobCajun said:

Yeah once it gets to a large plant. I meant like early on. I suppose the same effect could be obtained by putting perlite, or other medium, in a plastic mesh type bag or basket.

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First off, I really owe you an opology for going off like I did

In response to these quotes, you don't have to use the RW if you get the tree farmers pre-fab containers....then you could use whatever medium you wished, they are very reasonable, that is actually covered late in the video...I would probably use litte pieces of smart pot fabric to cover the air holes, as well, just a thought.

WolfieLee said:

First off, I really owe you an opology for going off like I did

In response to these quotes, you don't have to use the RW if you get the tree farmers pre-fab containers....then you could use whatever medium you wished, they are very reasonable, that is actually covered late in the video...I would probably use litte pieces of smart pot fabric to cover the air holes, as well, just a thought.

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If anybody sold the special pots around here I'd get some. Just not a common item in my area. However, I do trim the roots of seedlings whenever I transplant them. I just manually cut off the tips of the tap root and any other long ones. Guess I could poke some holes in regular pots and make my own. Might try that.

BobCajun said:

If anybody sold the special pots around here I'd get some. Just not a common item in my area. However, I do trim the roots of seedlings whenever I transplant them. I just manually cut off the tips of the tap root and any other long ones. Guess I could poke some holes in regular pots and make my own. Might try that.

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Oh I thought they were easily available if you ordered online, but it's been so long since I watched this whole thing I don't recall for sure...

Uberknot said:

"Four inches is all you need --Make her explode"

lmao! the title of this video is pretty funny!

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Yup, I got a pretty good chuckle out of it myself...

WolfieLee said:

Oh I thought they were easily available if you ordered online, but it's been so long since I watched this whole thing I don't recall for sure...



Yup, I got a pretty good chuckle out of it myself...

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Could order them but then there's shipping costs. I guess just little baskets with landscape fabric in them would work.

alrighty...let me know if you put up a thread for that grow, I'd like to tag along on that... I may be trying this with a Dutch Passion Auto White Widow using a 5 gallon dwc with no medium but the RW... actually make that a probably...been planning it a while, but the right time hasn't yet come up. I will let you know if I get that thread/grow started...

WolfieLee said:

alrighty...let me know if you put up a thread for that grow, I'd like to tag along on that... I may be trying this with a Dutch Passion Auto White Widow using a 5 gallon dwc with no medium but the RW... actually make that a probably...been planning it a while, but the right time hasn't yet come up. I will let you know if I get that thread/grow started...

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It would be interesting to see if you get huge yields from your autos like Neil from Grow Pot Cheaply did. It'd certainly be nice if anyone can get monster yields just by root pruning.

I've been doing root pruning when I transplant clones to big containers. Instead of just pulling them from the small pots and plopping them in the holes I pull the roots down, teasing them out if you will. They're usually about 4" longer than the main rootball when hanging straight down and I cut them all off just below the rootball. I've noticed more vigorous growth afterwards and they didn't appear to suffer at all. I don't think special air pots would be needed after that though. They'll only be in there for a couple months anyway, unlike trees. The single root pruning at transplant should be enough of a boost I think.

I also root prune, something I picked up doing bonsai and was curious if it would help with growth

Nenno44 said:

I also root prune, something I picked up doing bonsai and was curious if it would help with growth

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Did you notice a difference? I just started doing it recently so I can't tell yet what the final outcome will be. Growing better than ever so far though. Just that you don't do it to extreme like with bonsai.

WolfieLee said:

If not, I stumbled across this looking for a clue as to wtf is wrong with one of my plants... Anyway, I found this extremely cool and useful, thought I'd share: (p.s. the guy gives credit to/shows originator of this technique.)

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At 23:58 he says he does it with autoflowers.

Dr.Pecker said:

At 23:58 he says he does it with autoflowers.

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Yeah I know but it's the same. Roots are roots. He just happens to grow mostly autos.

Honestly I have cut about 30-40% of the roots and the plant seem to pick up quick. I do it when transferring from my cloner mostly. It helps with the transition to my soil coco mix

Nenno44 said:

Honestly I have cut about 30-40% of the roots and the plant seem to pick up quick. I do it when transferring from my cloner mostly. It helps with the transition to my soil coco mix

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Similar to what I'm doing then. Might as well. It doesn't seem to hurt and probably does help. When you're transplanting you have the roots exposed anyway, might as well give em a bobbing.

I prune my roots at each transplant if there is lots in the bottom of the pots. I find the plants don't mind and the roots branch out like when you prune the top of the plants so the pot gets full of roots from top to bottom. I just take a bread knife to them and saw off the bottom half inch or so of root ball. Just moved my root-bound girls from 1L pots to 10L ones a few days ago.

OldMedUser said:

I prune my roots at each transplant if there is lots in the bottom of the pots. I find the plants don't mind and the roots branch out like when you prune the top of the plants so the pot gets full of roots from top to bottom. I just take a bread knife to them and saw off the bottom half inch or so of root ball. Just moved my root-bound girls from 1L pots to 10L ones a few days ago.

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Nice job Happy gardening