Is This Going To Be a Problem??

[RewTheJew]

I have some ebb and flow ladies. I decided to use smart pots, give it a go and see what happens. Well, i noticed the roots shooting out the sides of the pots, and am curious if this is going to be a problem, or not. I could see it going both ways.

Thanks in advance for the help

 

[Green Supreme]

Looks awesome, you will have to plant them into a bigger pot if ya want those to continue growing. Otherwise they will shrivel and die, won't be too harsh on the planty. Good luck. Peace GS

 

[RewTheJew]

thanks, I thought that might be the case. A bigger pot probably will end up the same problem.

 

[Lazyman]

Smartpots are designed to air prune roots, inside roots will branch and head back into the medium. This is perfectly normal and the interior root mass will be dense.

 

[Flying High]

Looks awesome, you will have to plant them into a bigger pot if ya want those to continue growing. Otherwise they will shrivel and die, won't be too harsh on the planty. Good luck. Peace GS

I used to think this, mostly because Cervantes said so in his book....

Personal experience has has shown that I can(and have) veg to 24" tall,tight node, branchy, multi topped plants in 31/2"sq. pots with no work other than training. In two recent ebb/flow runs I had plants lagging behind in the bloom room which caused a chain reaction crash into my veg areas. First room is a 2x4 flood tray/25gallon res. combo underneath a different room aka 4x4 botanicare tray. Anyways, I use 31/2" pots and top twice before the plants hit the T-5 12" away and move upstairs into the 4x4 tray for two weeks. Since I had a lot of plants that run I couldn't transplant into the #2 Smart pots I have been using because all of the plants wouldn't fit in the 4x4 tray; and those f*cking plants were lagging in the bloom room. So there they sat in the 4x4 tray for another 4+weeks until I could transplant and move into flower. Overall, most of the plants were taller than I would like with a lot of crap I had to remove to maintain my no popcorn police Pain in the ass to remove all of that crap before flower...

Yeah, some stragglers died out from being light starved, but overall that crop had a lot of really interesting lessons I had to learn from it

H

 

[FreezerBoy]

All right you roots, you. Don't make me come back there

Seriously though, Lazy has you covered. The exposed parts of the roots should die off but, the part of the same roots inside the pot will explode with new growth. Some base their entire method on this.