POLL: Rootbounding- Fact or Fiction???

nice job, does look nice. I really cant talk shit about that, all I can say is mj is found in nature, In nature, plants have plenty of room to grow. You can say "improper growing techniques" like treating a plant like it was in nature is improper...

Okay I went and measured to be exact. 4foot9 and change on the cheese and 3 foot 9inches on the great white shark

kronic1989 said:

Its proof, WHy isnt it needed? And thats totally wrong. It wouldnt help that plant much at all to be transplanted, unless the new container had better drainage.

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Ok I got other shit to do, but that plant could and would be bigger with more room to grow... How long u veg it? Like 3 months? Probably longer huh... I give u props its healthy.. If you want to treat a plants soil like its basically hydro and want to give it exact amounts of water and nutes everyday..

I understand what your saying, the more room the better. I totally agree it can increase yeild and develop a bigger plant, but overall, You can maximise output minimize soil and room.

JN811 said:

Ok I got other shit to do, but that plant could and would be bigger with more room to grow... How long u veg it? Like 3 months? Probably longer huh...

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Uhm no, It was vegged for 5 and half weeks and flowering for just over a week.

kronic1989 said:

I understand what your saying, the more room the better. I totally agree it can increase yeild and develop a bigger plant, but overall, You can maximise output minimize soil and room.

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true, you've proven it to me.. peace guys, thanks for participating!!

kronic1989 said:

Uhm no, It was vegged for 5 and half weeks and flowering for just over a week.

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damn dude, looking nice, you water it everyday though right?

I'd say the poll shows the percentage of growers on RIU that dont understand plants roots and how they work.
That being the higher percentage, sounds about right in this world. My pics are proof positive, and you can say FDD did his in 2 gals or 5 gals, blah blah blah(his is just ona much bigger scale). But this is 1 liter, right there for you to see. A nice big plant full of life and love, living off 1/8th of the soil from the picture you posted before(claiming rootbound). Rootbound rarely happens. Idiotbound is where most plants are headed with owners.

Don't know if you can grow a 6' plant in a gal of soil. I have a 3 foot in something less then a half gallon. It was doing very well untill the atack of the killer mites. I don't think it's root bound, but it's a pain to water.

JN811 said:

damn dude, looking nice, you water it everyday though right?

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Every other at the moment, but once they pick up production of buds, Im sure it will be once a day. But I have bottom watering methods to combat this neucense

kronic1989 said:

Every other at the moment, but once they pick up production of buds, Im sure it will be once a day. But I have bottom watering methods to combat this neucense

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dude, ill give it to you, u have a understanding of botani, but it seems like u will be treating the soil almost as a hydro method, like a drip system.. I think its just a lot easier to give plants roots room to spread out...and without some type of system set up you cant leave ur plants alone for more than a day.. very inconvient in my eyes..

You could compare it to hydro, the only thing hydro about it is the soiless medium. I water by hand, add nutes to the water like any other soil grower.

kronic1989 said:

You could compare it to hydro, the only thing hydro about it is the soiless medium. I water by hand, add nutes to the water like any other soil grower.

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haha, ill have to give it a try one of these days..Id imagine you have to be very percise with nutes..

hmm coo, thread ill let know what i think in a couple months i have some mother that have been going for over a year with no transplant that i just started new 1s of and am flowering they seem to be going just fine then when they r done im going to throw them outside for a reveg and cee what they do in the ground but they neevr seemed like suffered being root bound to me. oh i didnt vote either way cause i dont realy know

As long as the plant gets what it needs, pot size is not an issue...how much soil you want to use? People with a lot of experience with nursery plants will say yes...but that tree is a long lived annual not a perennial! The plant is going to be chopped in a matter of days.

Fdd got ~1.5lbs off this "root bound" plant

JN811 said:

haha, ill have to give it a try one of these days..Id imagine you have to be very percise with nutes..

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On the contrary. They usually get about 3/4th a litre every other day with a turkey baister I just squirt about 10-15 ml in the bottle when I know they need some feeding(not feeding nutes every watering either).

Hayduke said:

As long as the plant gets what it needs, pot size is not an issue...how much soil you want to use? People with a lot of experience with nursery plants will say yes...but that tree is a long lived annual not a perennial! The plant is going to be chopped in a matter of days.

Fdd got ~1.5lbs off this "root bound" plant

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...I literally just dropped my fucking jaw! Out'fuck'nstand'n! ....wow! I'm envious.

Hayduke said:

As long as the plant gets what it needs, pot size is not an issue...how much soil you want to use? People with a lot of experience with nursery plants will say yes...but that tree is a long lived annual not a perennial! The plant is going to be chopped in a matter of days.

Fdd got ~1.5lbs off this "root bound" plant

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its in a 5 gallon bucket though.. I dunno if id consider that rootbound..

trichlone fiend said:

...I literally just dropped my fucking jaw! Out'fuck'nstand'n! ....wow! I'm envious.

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lol its not his its fdds. really anyone can grow a plant that size if they are legal

JN811 said:

another user and myself were having a debate whether rootbounding is possible. I say it is... He says its an urban legend... What do you guys think? Thanks for the responses!!

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i read that thread JN and it is true and im here to tell you IVE SEEN it!!leave a plant in a party cup until its root bound and the let it be for 1-2 weeks then transplant it and it will answer yur questions w/o a doubt !!