Ever since I first started taking my own cuttings I have encountered every thing that could go wrong cause I did not know what I did not know... :)~
Well I have recently decided to switch my technique from keg cups to pond/water baskets and here's why.
I am still rooting cuttings bare in a turbo c. and also rock wool cubes but since I use both dirt and hydro to ensure I don't lose everything, I end up putting some of them into dirt and in the past when I used the keg cups that everyone had passed around and one thing that would happen almost every time and I didn't even know what was happening, was that I would inevitably end up taking too long to up-plant them from those easy cups and then the roots were wrapped around the inside of the cup and also what happened was that some would take off and others would just sit there and do practically nothing for sometimes 2 months or until I gave up on them and just flowered them and those never seemed to really provide much medicine. But everything was keeping to busy to understand what was happening. Of course I was doing it but didn't realize that it was the roots being dizzy from wrapping themselves that they would, after inspecting many again and again the roots would just keep growing inside that little area of space inside where the roots had wrapped in side the keg cup.
So I forget what caused me to think of this but I am a DIY lover of RDWC and everything that I encountered on that path, but once they started making the buckets with lids I began using the 6 inch lids for the 5 gallon buckets and now after making many trips to REGEN, every time I find another new way to improve or just learn, I now use 6 inch all the way down to 2-3 inch baskets to use for my young rooted cuttings as they will last much longer if I need the time to be up-planted by air pruning the roots which will always leave the plant in the correct state to be able to take off after up-planting.
Now I have even started rooting them in these with great success. I just use large clear cups on top for each one.
I say go to REGEN because they have a huge supply of all kinds of misc sizes of stuff DIY'selfers will get giddy over. I like the ones with small holes but gotta have holes to be air pruning, which prevents those roots from wrapping around and creating a root barrier that can prevent further beneficial growth after transplanting.
So after years of doing things the same way I am going to attempt to change this pattern to another useful one that will wake me and be fun too!
Please share any fun things you have found to be useful in your garden folks!
Before I would take so many cuttings I would ensure my needs being met but then I realized that was more work than I needed in many ways, so just a few at a time now because they can stay in that same container as long as I need. You know in case I wake up throwing up that day cause I just had to eat birthday cake or have a spooky treat.
Either way letting the freshly rooted cuttings sit too long in those party cups could be a death sentence waiting for the patient waiting for those meds to ripen and cure... Sorry for the harsh toke but it's a reason...
Well I have recently decided to switch my technique from keg cups to pond/water baskets and here's why.
I am still rooting cuttings bare in a turbo c. and also rock wool cubes but since I use both dirt and hydro to ensure I don't lose everything, I end up putting some of them into dirt and in the past when I used the keg cups that everyone had passed around and one thing that would happen almost every time and I didn't even know what was happening, was that I would inevitably end up taking too long to up-plant them from those easy cups and then the roots were wrapped around the inside of the cup and also what happened was that some would take off and others would just sit there and do practically nothing for sometimes 2 months or until I gave up on them and just flowered them and those never seemed to really provide much medicine. But everything was keeping to busy to understand what was happening. Of course I was doing it but didn't realize that it was the roots being dizzy from wrapping themselves that they would, after inspecting many again and again the roots would just keep growing inside that little area of space inside where the roots had wrapped in side the keg cup.
So I forget what caused me to think of this but I am a DIY lover of RDWC and everything that I encountered on that path, but once they started making the buckets with lids I began using the 6 inch lids for the 5 gallon buckets and now after making many trips to REGEN, every time I find another new way to improve or just learn, I now use 6 inch all the way down to 2-3 inch baskets to use for my young rooted cuttings as they will last much longer if I need the time to be up-planted by air pruning the roots which will always leave the plant in the correct state to be able to take off after up-planting.
Now I have even started rooting them in these with great success. I just use large clear cups on top for each one.
I say go to REGEN because they have a huge supply of all kinds of misc sizes of stuff DIY'selfers will get giddy over. I like the ones with small holes but gotta have holes to be air pruning, which prevents those roots from wrapping around and creating a root barrier that can prevent further beneficial growth after transplanting.
So after years of doing things the same way I am going to attempt to change this pattern to another useful one that will wake me and be fun too!
Please share any fun things you have found to be useful in your garden folks!
Before I would take so many cuttings I would ensure my needs being met but then I realized that was more work than I needed in many ways, so just a few at a time now because they can stay in that same container as long as I need. You know in case I wake up throwing up that day cause I just had to eat birthday cake or have a spooky treat.
Either way letting the freshly rooted cuttings sit too long in those party cups could be a death sentence waiting for the patient waiting for those meds to ripen and cure... Sorry for the harsh toke but it's a reason...
Something about a common issue in many gardens...
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