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Root Bounding / Stress Test in Cups 🌿 Cultivation

A deliberate technique where plants are left in small containers beyond the ideal transplant point to stress them and reveal how they respond to suboptimal conditions during pheno hunting.

Dakota credits this technique to Brad from Raw Genetics, learned on a podcast. Keeping pheno hunt plants in small cups reveals which plants are resilient under pressure and which show excessive sensitivity, acting as an additional selection filter before committing to large containers.

Discussed in: Ep 004