The pot size isn't really gonna help increase your results if your using the same light setup as you were using with three gallon....what are your yields?
The pot size isn't really gonna help increase your results if your using the same light setup as you were using with three gallon....what are your yields?
Plants undergo many physiological and morphological changes in response to reduced rooting volume, which can affect transplant quality and performance. Root and shoot growth, biomass accumulation and partitioning, photosynthesis, leaf chlorophyll content, plant water relations, nutrient uptake, respiration, flowering, and yield all are affected by root restriction and container size. Plant responses to reduced soil volume have been reported for a wide range of crops with some conflicting data among them. There are differences in responses reported between species and even between cultivars within a species. In general, as container size increases plant leaf area, shoot biomass and root biomass increase (Cantliffe, 1993). Growth rates of shoots and roots are interdependent (Tonutti, 1990). Roots rely upon plant aerial portions for photosynthates and various hormones, while plant aerial portions rely on the roots for water, nutrients, support, and hormones. The delicate balance between roots and shoots can be upset when the root system is restricted in a small rooting volume. The resulting imbalance can have short term, as well as long term, effects on plant growth.
Tl;dr - small buckets = small roots, big buckets = big roots, small roots = small plants, big roots.=big plants, actual science > what Rex says
I mean yeah you should be in 10 gallons....but I don't get why you would be budding in 3? Your clones should go from the cloner to little buckets and then around 2 weeks later be in 10's for the rest of there days
I'm just here to drop some science to help people get better results if I can and to stop bad info from getting passed along when I see it. No need for butt hurt.
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was it your first time being charged?
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Good results?
Plants undergo many physiological and morphological changes in response to reduced rooting volume, which can affect transplant quality and performance. Root and shoot growth, biomass accumulation and partitioning, photosynthesis, leaf chlorophyll content, plant water relations, nutrient uptake, respiration, flowering, and yield all are affected by root restriction and container size. Plant responses to reduced soil volume have been reported for a wide range of crops with some conflicting data among them. There are differences in responses reported between species and even between cultivars within a species. In general, as container size increases plant leaf area, shoot biomass and root biomass increase (Cantliffe, 1993). Growth rates of shoots and roots are interdependent (Tonutti, 1990). Roots rely upon plant aerial portions for photosynthates and various hormones, while plant aerial portions rely on the roots for water, nutrients, support, and hormones. The delicate balance between roots and shoots can be upset when the root system is restricted in a small rooting volume. The resulting imbalance can have short term, as well as long term, effects on plant growth.
Tl;dr - small buckets = small roots, big buckets = big roots, small roots = small plants, big roots.=big plants, actual science > what Rex says