I was wrong above about that plant not being root bound..!
I really wish I had 'before' shots because I'm having trouble believing what I'm seeing from just 24 hours ago?!
Transplanted an Indian Bubblegum yesterday because I was seeing reverse canoes on quite a few upper leaves happening all of a sudden over just a few days
But if you read above as soon as I slipped the pot off it didn't look root-bound at all, I almost put the 3-gallon pot back on it and not transplant it at all
But this morning to my amazement almost all of the reverse canoed leaves were
absolutely normal looking!!
Had to poke around to find two or three leaves still canoed to get that picture above
I was watching these sequoias closely for signs of being root bound, and when all my readings were perfect one week after another yet the leaves were reverse-canoeing I took that as a sign of being root bound..
..and I was correct!
But (there's always a but
LOL) but when I saw the roots I would have bet the ranch that the reverse canoeing wasn't caused by being rootbound, good thing I don't gamble!
Sorry for going on but this is my first time in five years of soil growing that I've dealt with being root bound
But I would not be surprised if on a few of my earlier grows of larger plants I also had some issues from being rootbound which I may wrongly have attributed to other factors?
Anyway 2 more will be transplanted; they got spread out and several bamboo sticks were added, taken out and adjusted today so in other words they got a good jostling during there feeding today and both also required routine flushing today
I was going to transplant one today & one tomorrow, but because of all the handling today I held off; Will transplant one tomorrow and the last one Saturday
The good news is there was no transplant shock on the one I did yesterday, in fact it looked incredible! To see 99% of the reverse-canoed leaves straightened out was both surprising and encouraging!
I still hate grow bags LOL I'm going to grab a few 5 gallon hard pots next time I'm up the hydro store ~Thanks for reading
Mazzy Star today, she gets up-potted in the morning