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Yamon
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It started when I wanted to top dress some Gaia Green into my soil grow. Normally I rough up the top of the soil column and add the dry amendments and mix them all together and water it in. A couple weeks ago I thought "I don't want to do it that way" Maybe I want to add some more soil and worm castings and vermiculite and mix that together and add it as a top dressing which would result in my main WOODY stem being buried.
That's when I learned that you can totally do this.
I was 2 weeks into flower.
So I did it. I buried the stem. I also watered in worm casting tea over to two or three days.
Yesterday at 4 weeks into flower I was moving a couple millimeters of the topsoil and noticed all these white roots gorgeous white roots at the top surface.
I moved a little bit of soil at the stem and sure enough roots were coming out of what was the woody stem.
I decided to double down. I mixed up a whole new batch of soil and worm castings and some more Gaia green and I buried the rest of my stem and the lowest branches that were trained horizontal.
I'll let the pics show you what I mean.
So I found out that this is called hilling.
Cannabis puts out adventitious roots if you bury the stem.
So why I bring this up is I'm doing this now 4 weeks into flower. My plant grows very vigorously I'm not worried about it interfering with flower development. But what I've learned is that what this creates is a secondary root system that is very robust.
These young white roots are very efficient.
They seek out this newly aerated soil and biology.
And all of this will result in even more efficiency and vigor and in the end a more perfect harvest.
Anyone else done this?
So the pics will show where you can still see the stem and then you'll see a pic of when I buried the stem and then a third pic will show when I buried everything down below.
I also should point out that I had the rim of my fabric pot folded iover so that I was able to actually extend it back up again and fill the planter with more soil.
There's one more pic of the roots themselves.
I love the way the plant looks now growing out of the soil the way it does only vertical branches directly out of the soil.
That's when I learned that you can totally do this.
I was 2 weeks into flower.
So I did it. I buried the stem. I also watered in worm casting tea over to two or three days.
Yesterday at 4 weeks into flower I was moving a couple millimeters of the topsoil and noticed all these white roots gorgeous white roots at the top surface.
I moved a little bit of soil at the stem and sure enough roots were coming out of what was the woody stem.
I decided to double down. I mixed up a whole new batch of soil and worm castings and some more Gaia green and I buried the rest of my stem and the lowest branches that were trained horizontal.
I'll let the pics show you what I mean.
So I found out that this is called hilling.
Cannabis puts out adventitious roots if you bury the stem.
So why I bring this up is I'm doing this now 4 weeks into flower. My plant grows very vigorously I'm not worried about it interfering with flower development. But what I've learned is that what this creates is a secondary root system that is very robust.
These young white roots are very efficient.
They seek out this newly aerated soil and biology.
And all of this will result in even more efficiency and vigor and in the end a more perfect harvest.
Anyone else done this?
So the pics will show where you can still see the stem and then you'll see a pic of when I buried the stem and then a third pic will show when I buried everything down below.
I also should point out that I had the rim of my fabric pot folded iover so that I was able to actually extend it back up again and fill the planter with more soil.
There's one more pic of the roots themselves.
I love the way the plant looks now growing out of the soil the way it does only vertical branches directly out of the soil.
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