Root Modification

green_nobody

As the topic says, this is about modifing - shortening, your plants roots. Why that? Because it promotes it promotes probably an outrepairreaction in your plant that will regrow the lost material - twice over. So basiclly the same thing as with topping our plant - you cut one tip away an obtain two in exchange.

If i tried this technique? NO, not so far but i will do so with some clones i got there.
So, who in whatever did i get this idea? Actually a few normal gardening books i read the past couple days as still sick and have to stay home. and they all gave this advise to either tip of the roots or cut the root ball in half even to grain twice the root ball back during replanting. the people how wrote these books usually know a bit about what they are writting so this can't be to far off actually and will work.

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Hobo

HMM, it would be easy for me to trim my roots in my dwc buckets or my ebb and flow tray. Especially in the ebb and flow tray because that will help keep all the roots from entangling together

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videoman

To me this sounds scary. I do know that wil a marijuana plant, there is a direct connection between the height of the plant, and the size of the root ball.
If you cut the rootball, growth will stop.
If you do some research on re-vegging your plants after harvesting, there is some discussion on trimming your roots too, that will go further into this topic.
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Pappy

I suppose cutting the root length could be done for bonsai, to keep the plant short. I wouldn't cut the main rootball of a MJ plant. I think this procedure is for perrenials. It's like when I split some purple coneflowers. I dig up a clump of plants with the root ball. Then I chop the clump in several sections. Each bunch will grow and multiply. In a couple years, I do it again. This can be done with many plants. You get alot of plants, this way.

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green_nobody

why is it done there -any reason know video? and sorry to let you - know really, if fell myself like a sick dog still, coughing out my lungs now too.

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videoman

Green_nobody, the reasoning is, when you re-veg a plant, you harvest it first, during harvest, you cut the main stem down to get your main cola. This makes the plant shorter, than it is advised to trim the root ball to put it in sync with the (new)size of the plant.

If you dont trim the roots, the plant will stall for a couple weeks til they (the roots vs height) get in sync again.
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jangel

How did this work out for you Green? or did it not.

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aLLHoppedUp

I always slice my roots down the 4 sides and twice across the bottom with a sterile razor when I transplant. It helps to promote better root growth and the plants dont even miss a beat.
Trimming the rootball will stall the growth of foilage for 2 weeks or so but the roots will be growing and once they settle in the foilage will grow again with surprising vigor. The more optimal the growing conditions are, the better the plants will respond.

green_nobody

that is about the same i observe with it, at first the plant stops it drive for height and leaves and after 10 to 20 days the plant grows with double speed new shots, works great along with some mild topping of just the new tips.

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HighPhi

i work in a nursery and we do this from time to time to boost our cutting stock its works well from what ive seen, the down side is like vid said, for a time that the roots are cut to a few weeks/months later depending on the plant will grow very slowly, but if you have time to veg it throu that stage you will have one mother of a plant.
we had a few grevillas that we did this two and in two months they doubled in sized where as the normal growth to that stage would take nearly a year.

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