Raptor's Tutankhamon

Hi @raptor65! For sure, these are young plants, the rootmass won't exceed its 4L container for the next 3-4 weeks. I highly recommend airy containers such as AirPots / SmartPots / or DIY geotextile pot. They help the rootmass to breath, they make overwatering impossible, and they also allow you to see how far/fast the roots have spread, and find your perfect transplantation day. Good luck with these beautiful babies, keep us updated and happy growing! 👊

the point of air drying is to get a really slow dry because the plant "stays alive" for a quite a while afterwards anyway, the dry and cure is when most of the THC happens . So anything that makes the drying longer is a good, for example if you hang the plant whole the plant has more juices flowing for longer as they retreat into the stem this will make the drying that much longer. Other things you can do to get a good dry is to time your last watering and your chop based on your ambient humidity for example chop after a good watering if it's dry or chop dry if it's humid. Beyond that the most important thing is darkness and air circulation, you dont want mold getting in there. Hope this helps ! 🚀

I have done the stem splitting and it really didn't make any noticable difference from the plant I didn't split the stem on. It isn't worth the risk of opening your plant up to infection in my opinion. The theory is to stress your plant into bigger buds. Looks like you have plenty of nutrients to build those fat buds already. My whole outlook on growing after trying a lot of controversial methods is the simpler you keep it, less chance you are going to screw up. Good luck whatever you decide to do.

I know plenty of people who use them, low maintenance and easy to use, you just put them under the soil near the root balls or under the root ball and it grows around it. Every time you water it dissolves a bit and spreads nutrients to your medium, never too much, pretty much all organic. The starter kits on amazon are great as they contain all the other stuff you’d need and last for 5-10 plants