How are the pruned girls doing?
Experiment Update:
I have to say, these smol plants are just absolutely adorable. They grow just like the big boys, same proportions, just smol.
But onto the matter at hand: As stated earlier, I didn't prune them by means of airpruning but manually cut the tip off the taproots at 5cm(2"). They pruned ones are now growing about as well as the unpruned ones BUT they are, every now and then, presenting signs of deficiency. It's possible that they got infected or otherwise weakened by the pruning and resulting open wound at that young age.
I have a lot of new questions for future experiments now:
Root subdivision takes energy, so having a root pruning container that is too open likely slows down the top growth; That needs to be tested, in an 18/6 scenario of course.
What would be better: Shorter dark cycle during the grow or a less porous container?! Is there an ideal ratio that can easily be adjusted to method, calculated and implemented?
Manual pruning doesn't positively modulate a plant's growth, I wonder if air/light pruning yields different results.
You know what the best thing is? With cannabis I can test these things in 2.5months, it grows so quickly but still produces usable results for arbory when you adjust the timescales. With little things I learned from growing weeds I can get the growth of a year inside half that or less for my ficus trees.
Somango Update:
They are ghosting and fattening up really nicely. Now they have that sway. Every grower knows that sway the plants get, just lovely.
I estimate that within the week they will be ready so I went to half strength feed solution now, 15% of the container volume/day. The test buds I took were a little rough so I'll let it eat up and move anything mobile by moving the osmotic pressure into the plant and increasing the vpd.
lol, whats this little button do?
