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pipeline · 02-17-2009, 06:03 PM

I would think this method could promote root rot problems too. Having stagnant water sitting down there while the root system develops won't help anything.... Cannabis roots need oxygen in order to live.

I would think you could improve your yields and overall plant health by drilling multiple drain holes in the corners and bottom of the bucket. This would increase root surface area because roots could now grow down into the last 2 inches of the bucket. If you are watering correctly this shouldn't be a problem...

Maybe I'm just an old dog.... I can see how there could be the possibility of a small reservoir at the bottom being beneficial to a large mature plant as a source of water. Again, the bottom roots may be prone to root rot diseases in this type of environment though... I transplanted a mature plant from a 3 gal to a 5 gal container and saw the bottom 2-3 inches of roots were completely dead. They smelled because they were beginning to decay. Not a healthy environment. The grower had been leaving the plants each in a plastic tub and watered until it came out the bottom every time, and the water was just left in there to evaporate. This plant was in the process of foliar decline.

Your powerhouse looks happy though and has a phattt stem!

After harvest could you please inspect and photograph your root system for any disease or deformity? I'm curious about his method.

Endo · 02-17-2009, 06:28 PM

i think the key is to water appropriatly, if your just sluggin water down there everyday, your definitly going to get rot. however if you water correctly, and the plant uses up all the water and has a chance to dry out inbetween, i think it will be fine. its about not overwatering. but i will take pics of the roots when done and we will both find out. thank you for your thoughts on the matter.

ps buckets are round and dont have corners. lol

pipeline · 02-17-2009, 08:53 PM

Very true, I didn't see how they were watered, and they need to kind of dry out. It was a new grower, and I would assume he was glugging water in there every day, judging from how he handled other parts of the cultivation....

Every bucket has an infinite number of corners....

Think of the edge of the bottom I guess... yeah that....

Endo · 02-17-2009, 09:00 PM

i got me a new fancy black bucket. im wondering if there is anyways to transplant to that bucket without destroying or stressing the shit out of her.

pipeline · 02-17-2009, 09:07 PM

Give a gentle tug on the stem and see if the root mass wants to break free of the bucket... You will be able to feel how rooted in it is, gentle though... With so much perlite and vermiculite the rootball may tend to want to crumble so have things ready so its quick and painless... Whats the size of yer new bucket, and what was it in before?

pipeline · 02-17-2009, 09:09 PM

Be sure and have the plant horizontal or even upside down when doing this!!!! careful...

Endo · 02-17-2009, 09:20 PM

the new bucket is a bit bigger. i more wanna use it cause its sturdier, and shes getting taller so i wanna bury some of the stem so she has some support.and its black and lets no light in... the one its in now is blue, and only has 1 coat of spray paint. might try and flop her over tonight.. see how it goes. thanks for the tips.

i think im going to have one bucket ready and just kinda plop her out of one and into the other.

Sleepy · 03-03-2009, 07:28 PM

i'll follow along from the recliner...

interesting method...

happy looking plant, too!!

PureSativa420 · 03-05-2009, 08:35 PM

Any updates on the sole surviving Power House? or did it turn out to be male?

Endo · 03-05-2009, 09:22 PM

started flowering 7 days ago. update soon.

02-17-2009, 06:03 PM	#11
pipeline Cannabotanist Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: 39 N Posts: 4,714	I would think this method could promote root rot problems too. Having stagnant water sitting down there while the root system develops won't help anything.... Cannabis roots need oxygen in order to live. I would think you could improve your yields and overall plant health by drilling multiple drain holes in the corners and bottom of the bucket. This would increase root surface area because roots could now grow down into the last 2 inches of the bucket. If you are watering correctly this shouldn't be a problem... Maybe I'm just an old dog.... I can see how there could be the possibility of a small reservoir at the bottom being beneficial to a large mature plant as a source of water. Again, the bottom roots may be prone to root rot diseases in this type of environment though... I transplanted a mature plant from a 3 gal to a 5 gal container and saw the bottom 2-3 inches of roots were completely dead. They smelled because they were beginning to decay. Not a healthy environment. The grower had been leaving the plants each in a plastic tub and watered until it came out the bottom every time, and the water was just left in there to evaporate. This plant was in the process of foliar decline. Your powerhouse looks happy though and has a phattt stem! After harvest could you please inspect and photograph your root system for any disease or deformity? I'm curious about his method.
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02-17-2009, 06:28 PM	#12
Endo IcMag Resident Comic Relief Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Next to the Cloner, cloning some brownies Posts: 2,048	i think the key is to water appropriatly, if your just sluggin water down there everyday, your definitly going to get rot. however if you water correctly, and the plant uses up all the water and has a chance to dry out inbetween, i think it will be fine. its about not overwatering. but i will take pics of the roots when done and we will both find out. thank you for your thoughts on the matter. ps buckets are round and dont have corners. lol __________________ ~Push the Little Daisies and Make'em Come Up! ~WEEN F.U.C.K.E.M (Feisty.Underground.Cannabis.K ultivators.Eastern.Movement) ^^^^^^^^^^ ~We measure things by what we are. To the maggots in the cheese, the cheese is the universe. To the worms in the corpse, the corpse is the cosmos. How then can we be so sure of our own existence? Just because of our telescopes, microscopes, and the splitting of the atom? certainly not. Science is but an organized system of ignorance. There are more things in Heaven and Earth then are written about by philosophers. What do we know about the beyond? Do we know whats behind the beyond? I’m afraid some of us hardly know whats beyond the behind!"
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02-17-2009, 08:53 PM	#13
pipeline Cannabotanist Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: 39 N Posts: 4,714	Very true, I didn't see how they were watered, and they need to kind of dry out. It was a new grower, and I would assume he was glugging water in there every day, judging from how he handled other parts of the cultivation.... Every bucket has an infinite number of corners.... Think of the edge of the bottom I guess... yeah that....
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02-17-2009, 09:00 PM	#14
Endo IcMag Resident Comic Relief Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Next to the Cloner, cloning some brownies Posts: 2,048	i got me a new fancy black bucket. im wondering if there is anyways to transplant to that bucket without destroying or stressing the shit out of her. __________________ ~Push the Little Daisies and Make'em Come Up! ~WEEN F.U.C.K.E.M (Feisty.Underground.Cannabis.K ultivators.Eastern.Movement) ^^^^^^^^^^ ~We measure things by what we are. To the maggots in the cheese, the cheese is the universe. To the worms in the corpse, the corpse is the cosmos. How then can we be so sure of our own existence? Just because of our telescopes, microscopes, and the splitting of the atom? certainly not. Science is but an organized system of ignorance. There are more things in Heaven and Earth then are written about by philosophers. What do we know about the beyond? Do we know whats behind the beyond? I’m afraid some of us hardly know whats beyond the behind!"
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02-17-2009, 09:07 PM	#15
pipeline Cannabotanist Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: 39 N Posts: 4,714	Give a gentle tug on the stem and see if the root mass wants to break free of the bucket... You will be able to feel how rooted in it is, gentle though... With so much perlite and vermiculite the rootball may tend to want to crumble so have things ready so its quick and painless... Whats the size of yer new bucket, and what was it in before?
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02-17-2009, 09:09 PM	#16
pipeline Cannabotanist Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: 39 N Posts: 4,714	Be sure and have the plant horizontal or even upside down when doing this!!!! careful...
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02-17-2009, 09:20 PM	#17
Endo IcMag Resident Comic Relief Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Next to the Cloner, cloning some brownies Posts: 2,048	the new bucket is a bit bigger. i more wanna use it cause its sturdier, and shes getting taller so i wanna bury some of the stem so she has some support.and its black and lets no light in... the one its in now is blue, and only has 1 coat of spray paint. might try and flop her over tonight.. see how it goes. thanks for the tips. i think im going to have one bucket ready and just kinda plop her out of one and into the other. __________________ ~Push the Little Daisies and Make'em Come Up! ~WEEN F.U.C.K.E.M (Feisty.Underground.Cannabis.K ultivators.Eastern.Movement) ^^^^^^^^^^ ~We measure things by what we are. To the maggots in the cheese, the cheese is the universe. To the worms in the corpse, the corpse is the cosmos. How then can we be so sure of our own existence? Just because of our telescopes, microscopes, and the splitting of the atom? certainly not. Science is but an organized system of ignorance. There are more things in Heaven and Earth then are written about by philosophers. What do we know about the beyond? Do we know whats behind the beyond? I’m afraid some of us hardly know whats beyond the behind!"
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03-03-2009, 07:28 PM	#18
Sleepy Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz Posts: 7,590	i'll follow along from the recliner... interesting method... happy looking plant, too!! __________________ Sleepy Test Chemmy Jones Sleepy Tests Jolly Bud from Mountain High Seeds Killer Chem Freebie grow Sleepy Tests OJD...>>>Gangsta Haze *Dead Heads Unite!!* *Come Join Us!!*
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03-05-2009, 08:35 PM	#19
PureSativa420 HTC! Midwest Guerilla Grower! Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Midwestern America Posts: 785	Any updates on the sole surviving Power House? or did it turn out to be male? __________________ Member of HillTempleCollective Are you new to growing in the great outdoors? If so click here! Online Growing Book!
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03-05-2009, 09:22 PM	#20
Endo IcMag Resident Comic Relief Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Next to the Cloner, cloning some brownies Posts: 2,048	started flowering 7 days ago. update soon. __________________ ~Push the Little Daisies and Make'em Come Up! ~WEEN F.U.C.K.E.M (Feisty.Underground.Cannabis.K ultivators.Eastern.Movement) ^^^^^^^^^^ ~We measure things by what we are. To the maggots in the cheese, the cheese is the universe. To the worms in the corpse, the corpse is the cosmos. How then can we be so sure of our own existence? Just because of our telescopes, microscopes, and the splitting of the atom? certainly not. Science is but an organized system of ignorance. There are more things in Heaven and Earth then are written about by philosophers. What do we know about the beyond? Do we know whats behind the beyond? I’m afraid some of us hardly know whats beyond the behind!"
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