how to fix root bound plants without transplanted.

[karnavor]

had an issue with 4 white widow plants not flowering after 9 weeks, and 3 nothern lights that was flowering, but very slowly, i called a botanis freind of mine. this is what she did, inspide of my terror..she took a sheet rock saw, cut straight down about 2 inches from the stalk, and cut all the way around the plant at an angle...she said the roots that were cut will just die and decompose, and the other roots would let the plant grow, i was horrifed i would loose the plants, well its been three days and the plantd are doing excellent. they were 3 gallon pots, im going to 5 gallon buckets after this crop...hope it may help someone.....

[LoveBudd]

Top tip m8. Hat off to your friend.??

[B1unt]

I heard someone else mention this recently (can’t remember where though). I’ll take their / your word on this one.

[barney_b]

Some good ol' root pruning! Yearly maintenance on bonsai trees.

You don't by chance have some before and after shots do you? I've seen it done on some micro, solo cup, grows but never on a full sized plant.

Cool stuff man.

B

[maxkolonko123]

had an issue with 4 white widow plants not flowering after 9 weeks, and 3 nothern lights that was flowering, but very slowly, i called a botanis freind of mine. this is what she did, inspide of my terror..she took a sheet rock saw, cut straight down about 2 inches from the stalk, and cut all the way around the plant at an angle...she said the roots that were cut will just die and decompose, and the other roots would let the plant grow, i was horrifed i would loose the plants, well its been three days and the plantd are doing excellent. they were 3 gallon pots, im going to 5 gallon buckets after this crop...hope it may help someone.....

You have some pics pre and post trimming?

[thehulk]

this is how people grow bigger bonzai in small pots.. just keep cutting the roots back ? trim them... fill with soiul and let it regrow

[karnavor]

this is after 7 days of cutting the roots, they have grown about 2 inches, and starting to see signs of flowering.

[thehulk]

bro i dont see any signs of flowering andits been 9 weeks?? you should be finishing now near enough with a modern non full sativa strain..
you not just growing them from seed hoping for flowers are you?
the light cycle should be 12/12 to flower
im sorry if that sounds ridiculous to be told, but i dont think i would of known if i never researched.

[karnavor]

these were sold as autoflower, planted on october 1st....after that pic, i put outside the tent, hoping to trick them into flowering, and they did...they are at week,16 now.. and flowers are growing.....i was so fed up with these, i put back in tent and said what the hell, if they call back to veg, i will toss...they did not, figure in a month are so, ill harvest/

[thehulk]

these were sold as autoflower, planted on october 1st....after that pic, i put outside the tent, hoping to trick them into flowering, and they did...they are at week,16 now.. and flowers are growing.....i was so fed up with these, i put back in tent and said what the hell, if they call back to veg, i will toss...they did not, figure in a month are so, ill harvest/

i just recently has a barneys blue cheese turn out to be autoflower when i bought photo period.. so you cant always trust it,,
i can guarantee you that in 4 weeks you will be wasting your time to chop them...

do yourself a favour and stick them on 12/12 now and leave it... ( 12 hours of complete darkness 12 of light )
forget about reveging it as I see no bud to reveg... thats a fully vegative plant i see in your photo

if you trust me here your not going to regret it. ( 8 years experaince talking to you. ) (or ask some other people on the board who you trust no what they are talking about vbecause they should tell you exactly the same )
i guarantee in 2 weeks you will see big changes... even if its a autoflower it wont hurt it to be 12/12 i had autos run along side me photos previosly.

best wishes buddy dont stress it its not hard at all,.