Do Small Rootballs Always Mean Small Plant Harvest

Do you believe that ONLY big rootballs can produce big plants? Like most old methods, the answer is not 100%.YES

I have grown plants using HPA and have gotten huge, highly efficient rootballs, but the plant size did not match up, at least compared to the relatively small rootballs I have routinely gotten for several years now.

IME, the key is to feed more often (at a lower EC), so that the roots do not need to get big searching for more food. In veg I flood every hour, mid vg-mid flower every 2 hours and during flower every 3 hours

Here's my recent harvest and her tiny rootball grown out of a 3" net pot

Single plant grown under an Amare P3 (300w led)


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Some have commented elsewhere that this harvest was nothing special weight-wise

What they fail to see is not everyone has the need or space for big plants

Based on previous F & D experience using much bigger trays, I am confident that were I to simply up the size of the grow totes from 3 gallon to 5 that my system would grow considerably bigger plant/s, but it would require a much bigger rez and roughly doubling the amount of nutes, but...

I am not a daily smoker.

Just weighed without removing stems (and without weighing the trim) 68gms. Lets say 8 gms of branch= 60gms = 2.5ozs This yield will last me 6+ months

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no

the most basic differential between "hydro" and true natural soil is the root space/size necessary to provide nutrients to above ground biomass

it was the basic benefit to hydro when it was being developed by NASA as a means to colonize space as water and soil are scarce up there and can be a commodity earth side as well