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After I reread it I noticed it’s not the op’s plants, but yeah looks like a black mold factory!Sheet of plywood with cutouts over a trashbag, love the ghetto stuff
This has me reconsidering everything. I’ve got 5 gallon pots now and wanted to go up to 7 or 10s. But is it really worth it??
These guys are growing nicer plants in solo cups and getting higher yields than I got out of a 5 gallon bucket.
I veg for two months in 5 gallon smart pots.
I had a buddy do autos in a 5 gallon and his looked pretty rooty on the outside. Not sure if that’s considered root bound or not.
how long does it take to be root bound?
No. Not my plants. Just some I found in a solo cup 2020 competition thread while googling it and really has me wondering.
So these are basically root bound with holes in the cup and kept submerged in fertilizer water their whole life?
Those are my solo cups Ruby, spirit Walker Which are Strains from the Autoflower Portal(of which I am a member) bred by Stone.You can see on the cups the water line where they probably sit in a tray of fert h20 and it's like wick hydroponics, im trying something similar.
Definitely not kept submerged! Watered multiple times a day, especially so for the 4' Critical Orange Punch Auto. I'm just about to start a new Solo Cup show&grow with Seedstockers Wedding Glue Auto, somewhere on the net but it's not right for me to say where, that would be disrespectful to THCFarmer forum.Key word is competition. You can good yields out of tiny cups, but its not super easy, which is why its a fun competition.
Brown Solo Cups are my plants!Key word is competition. You can good yields out of tiny cups, but its not super easy, which is why its a fun competition.
Ruby and Spirit Walker both yielded 46g dry apiece, i never bothered to weigh the Critical Orange punch.Brown Solo Cups are my plants!
Shame they don't do solo bags huh?Based on experience “rootbound”happens in buckets. The roots circle around reaching greater lengths that become inefficient compared to cloth bags where the root reaches the edge, terminates and shoots off lateral root branches, shorter and more efficient, less prone to heat stress too.
Yup you have to be on point with solo cup grows, ph'ing isn't difficult, I'm sure people here, do it all the time.I regretted going 7 gal fabric on my first run even though I was trying for big plants. I found one problem was just too much wet media in the tent at any given time. That plus a lot of foliage = rh nightmare. Im trying 3 gals currently.
Solo cups just leave you no room for errors. Every thing has to be just right with ph/ec and perfect watering because they are going to basically live most of life root bound. Im doing a solo cup experiment recently too because of an awesome thread on here but I just started. Trying something either crazy or genius idk we'll see haha
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