Trying my best to not top them.. I want to.. just learned from past GrowDowns.stickman said:
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Mystery solved on why none of my plants are getting the vertical growth Id expect
They've been in those 5.5" tall pots since 2/5. Moved this one to 6" tall pot but much wider. I'll probably get crazy and pot up all my other plants. Yea, I did clip side leaves
Plants will be much happier once they get acquainted to these new shoes.
They've been in those 5.5" tall pots since 2/5. Moved this one to 6" tall pot but much wider. I'll probably get crazy and pot up all my other plants. Yea, I did clip side leaves
Plants will be much happier once they get acquainted to these new shoes.
Is that common knowledge that a root bound pepper plant will have stunted vertical growth? I was thinking that if a plant was root bound, it would not be growing new roots so perhaps it might grow above ground. If you up-plant it to a larger pot, wouldn't it start out producing more roots since now there is space available for the roots to grow? Over the course of time, the plant in the larger pot would out perform the root bound plant... I guess there are many factors that go into what makes a plant grow...
In general I've found that there's a rough correlation between the size of the root ball and the leaf canopy. I'd say that each supports the other fairly equally, and limiting one will limit the other. That's why cropping the roots in a Bonsai stunts the plant's growth and miniaturizes the leaves.
Also, I tried topping half of my Chinense varieties one growing season, and didn't really see much difference in output in my short growing season. True, topping the plants forced axillary growth and made for more flowering sites at the nodes, but there was a time cost while the plant grew out the axillary nodes.
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Also, I tried topping half of my Chinense varieties one growing season, and didn't really see much difference in output in my short growing season. True, topping the plants forced axillary growth and made for more flowering sites at the nodes, but there was a time cost while the plant grew out the axillary nodes.
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Temps are warming up here in zone 8a. Getting ready to pot this one up in the next couple of days, so this will be the last pic while they are living under the lights. I sent my backup outside ahead of this one to test out a new soil mix that I am trying this year. I will update in a couple of weeks, unless I kill them before then. [emoji51]
You're doing great for 6 1/2 weeks.. the air pot seems to work very well.stickman said:Hi folks, here's my growdown plant at 6-1/2 weeks... looking pretty good with the seventh node just beginning to show.
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How's everybody doing?
