Well...... I decided to transplant. And to straight OF with perlite. I did this just because of the myth about HF being very acidic, like 4.5-ish and because I'm doing all this to learn. I really wanted to peep the roots and see what was going on, too.
First, I stitched up a few small fabric pots that I cut from a 15 gal fabric pot
I should have taken pics of the transplant, but I just wanted to get it done....
The Dinamed had just one main long root with a few tiny, thin roots coming off of it. This main root was hanging about 1.5 inches below the bottom of the RR. There was one bigger root that had developed off the tap root and was shooting out of the side of the RR. I carefully removed as much of the Rapid Rooter as possible and gently placed it in the OF.
The Honey Peach had a full on rootball coming out of the RR, so I left it on and put it in the OF.
All roots looked white and healthy.
After the transplant, I watered to runoff with straight water at 6.8ph. Despite how sick they look in these photos, they actually look better than pre-transplant. The leaves aren't hanging in the soil anymore. Fingers crossed, we will see.
I also popped a seed in a paper towel and planted straight into the OF as an experiment––albeit a poor experiment since I changed too many things to ever know exactly what happened (no RR, all OF soil, and 6.8 water). lol. Still, excited to see if that has any difference.
Oh yeah, I also ditched one of the lights and switched up the arrangement inside the tent. Currently running one light at @45w 20" from plants.