Ever heard of bottoming?

Same idea as topping but instead of cutting the top of the plant you cut the roots from the bottom when they come out of the cloner (about 2 inches worth). This is assuming you have about a 12" long string of nice white healthy roots coming off of your cutting.

It's either going to act as a growth inducer or shock them and retard growth.

Thoughts?

Well being that if your not carefull when transplanting your plants it would shock them and stunt growth, I would assume that cutting the roots would shock them and stunt growth worse than transplant shock...

Thats just IMO?? Take it or leave it.

I'm leaning towards your POV WaGreen. Anyone else?

You pinch the longest tap root. That will cause your roots to bush more instead of growing 1 long root. Sets it up for faster growth after transplant

You pinch the longest tap root. That will cause your roots to bush more instead of growing 1 long root. Sets it up for faster growth after transplant

So it makes the root mass more coiled and spread out. Interesting....

More root=More fruit

Well being that if your not carefull when transplanting your plants it would shock them and stunt growth, I would assume that cutting the roots would shock them and stunt growth worse than transplant shock...

Thats just IMO?? Take it or leave it.

Not really, plants are stronger then most people give them credit for. Manhandling (of course within limits) roots is common practice at most nurseries when it comes to replanting time!

then again, i've always heard that female plants flourish best when tranplanted by a femaile's touch

then again, i've always heard that female plants flourish best when tranplanted by a femaile's touch

This is crazy cuz I had my gf do my first transplant an that grow came out amazing! But do we have anything to back up this theory.

This is crazy cuz I had my gf do my first transplant an that grow came out amazing! But do we have anything to back up this theory.

No, I don't think there is anything that would backup this theory besides folklore.

Same idea as topping but instead of cutting the top of the plant you cut the roots from the bottom when they come out of the cloner (about 2 inches worth). This is assuming you have about a 12" long string of nice white healthy roots coming off of your cutting.

It's either going to act as a growth inducer or shock them and retard growth.

Thoughts?

Being that the principal of smart pots is air pruning root tips to induce lateral root growth, this just might be the same principal in a manual fashion.

I'm a noob by all means, but I started 30 plants to experiment all kinds of situations so I know what's what without having to ask so many questions (I like experience better than book smarts so to speak). This was one thing I tried with only one clone and one plant though by no means did I do it because I read about it. The roots just got too big on me, so I did it.

Both clone and original seed plant roots were snipped in order to transplant at wanted height so as to have the bottom of the roots near the bottom of the pot. Both went into a permanent shock it seemed. I only watered both for about a week as no signs of nute def were showing what-so-ever. After a few more days, I gave up on them as I planted 30 seeds so time was getting occupied worrying about the good ones. I took both clone and plant and stuck by a window on a big tray. I gave them no attention for 3 more weeks other than to see what they would die of first. Neither wanted to die. Only very slowly (I mean very, very, very slowly) did they start to curl upwards as if Mg def, but without any necrosis, yellowing or anything other than the curl. I pulled the clone to inspect the roots and it looked normal. It had took grasp of the soil real well, though only just enough growth to be a bitch to pull out. Decided to water the plant (this after 3 weeks of nothing remember) and within 3 days, it yellowed, light browned and disintegrated (as in just kind of turned to dust).

I found it very weird, and after reading this post, was wondering if there's something else to this that I haven't learned from my new passion yet?