Funny thing happened ...
Ive been following your thread and your work for a while. Ive read you here and in the Art of the Auto (
most of it, your posts only on rollitup). I respect your work and how you carry it out. I could in fact be called a
follower if I follow anyone at all. Your work is good and thorough and personal.
Hooray.
Enough.
Interesting thing happened recently.
78 days ago I planted
3 Barneys Farm Little Cheese Autoflowers. The yield is going to be phenomenal. Im being ushered through my harvest by members of the Indoor Growing Forum at my post "
Oldest problem in the World".
On Labor Day, I transplanted the former seedlings into their final 3 gallon pots from their 3 in. starter pots. It seemed to me these babes (
no longer seedlings) would feel a little abandoned and may like the security of a finite wall to their growth. So I had placed this plant in a 4 in.
NetPot, I had lying around (plastic net like - made for hydro, I think) in the center of the 3 gal. soft sided pot.
(After a rough start on the Autoflower Network and before I found this thread and read your work).
I recently chopped that Auto. The roots were
tres interesting. There was no evidence of a single strong root - that I had continually seen and you had mentioned often - just a mass of very fine white roots that you might see on a hydro plant. There was no evidence that there had been a strong root who was frustrated in its attempt to get out only fine white roots everywhere. This was obviously some sort of survival tactic by the plant itself. I know there is a single major root - I have adjusted my auto planting technique to reflect yours, cup and all - in a soft sided 2 or 3 gal pot. Waiting to chop the next 2 and see what they did without the
Netpot.
Just dont completely understand these roots and what it means.
