Nice plants bud.. you just have to picked them up a lil or bury her more by adding some more dirt till about 1 1/2” from the rim of ur bucket.. Seems like all 3 can use more dirt in them.
Roots dangling beneath the top into runoff held in the bottom container offsets the need for extra soil (which makes the eventual upgrade more cumbersome). Seedlings spend about three weeks in a smaller (eight inch octagonal - same design) then into these 2 gal versions for the remainder of veg then into a 5 gal at the flip. Experimenting with this sequential system for a while, though still misjudge the progress and occasionally have the root ball collapse but things seem to recover pretty rapidly. There is a plateau when they get to the 5 gal so I'm sensing a need for better drainage and aeration at that stage.
A tease of the upcoming system (another heavy gauge steel deal); finished model will have same wooden exterior as the other two it mirrors. Configured as a dedicated scrog through the bottom rack with a 30 inch canopy for potentially flowering three at a time (depending on how crowded things get). An initial run through with the new 150w COB with room to add the paired 75w units from the closet if needed. The skinny box in the corner might be rebuilt as well with an additional shelf I spotted when I picked this one up.
The new 150w will run these on short hours at the first of the month; backed myself into a corner on this round and forced to accept the smaller containers but will reconfigure to give more space below the scrog shelf for the next try.
The Anorexia Twins slipped back into shortie-sips to offer the next in line the bigger pots for their start on short hours.
The smile of success is wiped from my face by the fact that I'm constantly losing the race where is my rainbow after the storm where is Valhalla for a poor tired Gorn
The weight on my shoulder is the strength of my will there is only this boulder . . . and only this hill . . .