How do your roots look at end of flowering?

[PoopyTeaBags]

Are they still all white and beautiful or do they get like yellow and look over watered?

i usually come out with the later.. im thinking im over watering?

 

[Mitch Connor]

Usually depends on the nutes used, mine end up white with a barely noticeable yellow tint. I use h3ad's 6/9 and cut the micro out for the last 3 weeks. As long as your roots aren't on the brown side of things you should be fine.

You can't overwater in coco, especially that late in flower when your roots have formed sufficiently. Actually, providing a constant supply of fresh oxygenated water should give your roots more ability to fight anaerobic pathogens, which would cause tainted roots.

But again, it could just be the nutes used.

 

[Guest 18340]

Same here, white with a slight yellowing.

 

[PoopyTeaBags]

ive over watered a 6 foot tall plant in 2 gal coco pot when it was 3 weeks away from being finished... that cant over water in coco shit is a lie lol...

 

[whodair]

When the grass is amber so are my roots !!

 

[Mitch Connor]

ive over watered a 6 foot tall plant in 2 gal coco pot when it was 3 weeks away from being finished... that cant over water in coco shit is a lie lol...

I'd hate to have your setup/environment then, must be hard having to worry about "overwatering" in coco.

 

[Lack]

ive over watered a 6 foot tall plant in 2 gal coco pot when it was 3 weeks away from being finished... that cant over water in coco shit is a lie lol...

You considered doing a coco hempy? Would solve your over watering problems. I use hydroton in the bottom of the bucket just about an inch or two above the overflow hole and then add coco the rest of the way. That way it creates a little res in the bottom and after your plant gets established it uses up the res rather quickly. You cant really over water at all. You could also use perlite, coco dan or whatever.

 

[PoopyTeaBags]

I'd hate to have your setup/environment then, must be hard having to worry about "overwatering" in coco.

haha yea must suck to be me -=P

 

[PoopyTeaBags]

Nah im good with what im doing i was just wondering if people come out with pure white roots like before they flower or if they get the water down roots?

 

[Lack]

Cool with what you're doing? Oh ok then, so you're cool with over watering your plants all the time, even the ones that are very close to harvest, good sounds like you have an awesome system there.

To answer your question. No, never. Never over watered in coco, never over watered period, why drown the plant? Roots are always clean and healthy looking, no brown or nastyness. Just give em a little water, what's with all the over watering? I cant imagine how this could be a problem, specially growing in coco. Seems like the best thing to do would be to not water the hell out of your plants.

 

[PoopyTeaBags]

Cool with what you're doing? Oh ok then, so you're cool with over watering your plants all the time, even the ones that are very close to harvest, good sounds like you have an awesome system there.

To answer your question. No, never. Never over watered in coco, never over watered period, why drown the plant? Roots are always clean and healthy looking, no brown or nastyness. Just give em a little water, what's with all the over watering? I cant imagine how this could be a problem, specially growing in coco. Seems like the best thing to do would be to not water the hell out of your plants.

lol bro you come on with 15 posts and talk shit for real? this post was nothing about overwatering coco i asked a simple question and the trolls come out if you think i have a problem growing check my threads im sure i grow circles around you... i simply asked a questoin for all i know the roots got brown when they were still alittle wet and i let the pot sit for a couple days after i chopped... I C is getting full of alot of queers lately...

 

[petemoss]

Poopie,
Good question you posed! My roots always end up brown even on my best plants. right now I'm doing a cab E&F SOG in coco and watering once or twice a day depending on humidity. I always assumed that the roots got brown because I let them dry out too much. But they are not dead or rotting, just brown colored like tea.
Early in flower, the roots are white; I can see them poking through the holes at the bottom of the pots. Maybe they got dried out at the end of a two week flush when I usually let the coco dry out. I'll have to watch them closely to see when I'm losing the whiteness, but it's not from overwatering. More likely from underwatering I think.

 

[dunkydunk]

I've been growing in coco for 3 years, and when I harvest my plants the roots are nice and white and dense. I use Canna A/B - P/K with no amendments, watering to minimal runoff as the plants demand.

 

[Apache123]

I've been growing in coco for 3 years, and when I harvest my plants the roots are nice and white and dense. I use Canna A/B - P/K with no amendments, watering to minimal runoff as the plants demand.

No Boost?

 

[SOTF420]

My roots, or the plants roots for that matter are always too fucking big to reuse the coir lol

 

[ThePizzaMan]

I wouldn't say they are Ivory white. They are just on the plain looking side. If your plants are turning out fine, then I wouldn't spend too much time on it.

btw, I too am using the REzipe...with the addition of Floralicious...so that may be the reason why they are a little brownish.

 

[dunkydunk]

Apache -- I don't use boost because all the reading I did came up with a lot of money for questionable results. What's your take?

SOTF420 -- My roots are the same. Sometimes I can't even break the root ball apart.

 

[herewego]

BAD ROOTS

BAD ROOTS

Hey i understand your concern. I just got to this page after 20 minutes of searching the same question. I attached a pic of my roots, im ashamed of them lol. I figured i gotta be missing something here with everyone saying they cant overwater their coco. When my roots finished on this round they were garbage, no real structure, brownish color.

Do you guys use just coc or coco perlite in what percentage just between those two ? Do i need to mix in more the the 5% perlite to get more air in there ?

After reading this thread I really think i was just overwatering them since they were born but they grew decent anyway and looked healthy, just low yield and low density compared to what should be there. water 6/9 mix nothing else really.
Please tell me ive just been abusing my plant for the last few months and this wont happen to me again ? Otherwise any ones input on this is great, its like a 4 gallon pot plant was 3-4ft or so and these are the shitty roots...

 

[anomolies]

those roots look fine. I think when you water less frequently the roots become dried out like in soil.

then i've found that if I keep the coco constantly moist I get white fuzzy roots and almost none of the soil roots which are more yellowish/brown.
So I believe your plant will grow different kinds of roots depending on how you maintain the medium.

Anyone know of a science article or something explaining this phenomenon?

People always say that plants in hydro grow "water roots" but how come in coco my plants seem to have what appears to be hydro roots? (never seen hydro roots in person)
Then if I let the coco dry out the hydro roots seem to disappear and magically/instantly be replaced by soil roots. *scratches head*

So I'm thinking maybe water roots and soil roots are actually the same thing except one is just expanded from constantly having water.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Root#Types_of_roots
which one of those are "hydro roots?"

 

[puff adder]

I do "rootopsies" after every run. These days I do FTW in catch trays, no runoff. Root balls are white and so dense you can't even kick them apart.

I used a drip system that constantly overwatered some plants. Yields were the same compared to plants that were dryer, but the roots in the "dry" pots were always bigger, whiter, and more substantial.

I think the plants grow custom roots for each situation. In my case, keeping the coco dryer made for much bigger root systems. It seems either wet or dry works fine, they stay happy as long as things stay consistent. Not happy when I do a "changeup" and suddenly go wet-to-dry, or dry-to-wet.