I am interested as well. I am experimenting with the
smart pot knock offs from
Earth Juice, aeropots. I am running them now in a tent with the 3G size. I picked up some 10G pots for outdoors to see how they go.
As far as transplants go I think that as soon as you get roots you put them in a plant w/o a bottom and holes on the sides, to promote the roots to prune from the get go. From what I have heard, for instance, is that if your roots don't reach the sides of the pot then there isn't any magic happening. So, if you don't transplant up from a 4"-1G-10G pots won't the roots just grow the same but stretch out more because there isn't a "wall" stopping the roots? In other words I guess if you take a well rooted clone lets say in RRs and put that little lady straight into a regular 200G pot what happens? The only problem that I have experienced/heard was that if you have too big of a pot it will stay too wet due to the roots only extending out so far. That being said, if you are using an air root pruning pot, like a
Smart Pot, wouldn't the excess medium dry more evenly due to the well breathing pot? Because I have heard that these pots dry out faster then conventional pots.
I think that using "too large" a SP and useing a drip system in or outdoors DTW would work well. I am working on finishing my indoor drip system for this experiment. I'm using Leadsled's design and Sunshine Advanced Mix #4(yellow bag). We'll see what happens I guess.
Good thread Primeform! Now show us your cards Farmers...
Cheers,
Crom
PS
I almost cut the tip of my finger off today with these bad boys!