Hey allAs the title describes I want to know if 3 week old plants can recover from being root bound?I transplanted my babies from a seedling tray once 2 sets of leaves started to show but when I did this I noticed the roots has reached the bottom of the tray. When I look at other plants 3 weeks old they all look a lot more developed, I have another plant which is 6 weeks in front of theese ones which is a foot tall and looking really bushy. I am hoping the babies can recover and start to catch up to my other one but it looks like it will take all year at this stage.Thanks in advance /monthly_2012_11/image.jpg.499f73ef58f3e2d2031f54ecf833bbfe.jpg
Give it time. It's just adjusting to it's new home. It'll start to take off any time now. It also doesn't sound like they were too root bound. Reaching the bottom of the tray isn't root bound. Root bound is where there is no where else for the roots to go so they bunch up together and become a tangled mess. Just make sure your light is good and you can start to feed them a light svhedule.
3 wks?! They look more like 3 DAYS! Lvstickybud is correct. They are nowhere near far enough along to be root bound. You need some root mass to be RB.
That plant is 3 weeks old? How is that even possible? My seed plants go to the second node in starter pots under flouro lighting. No problems ever.
yeah man are you counting from the time you bought the beans.... j/k. Looks like a few days old. I dont even start counting the age until they are that size lol. give em time as they are just starting their life.
I had a few that had gotten root bound and ended up looking something like that, then I transplanted and they filled out into thick bushy plants in no time at all.
It's been growing outdoors for 3 weeks 1 month into spring, it's got to be the lack of light, heaps of overcast grey days, Here is one i started a few weeks earlier. /monthly_2012_11/image.jpg.ca63d49714c7a4929890049f278d896a.jpg
ya that's not root bound. no way no how. Looks like a healthy 3ish week plant to me... I'm not sure what the problem is. It is outside of my experience that a plant would look like that when it's been up that long. I'd have to go with stress of some kind, though I'd expect to see different characteristics if it was light stress... Idk what to tell ya man. It's a mystery. I'm also wasted though so...
