Healthy Roots
Without a healthy root system, your cannabis plants can never reach their full potential. For a heavy harvest full of spectacular buds, you'll want to do everything you can to support the health of your plants' roots.
Plant roots interact directly with mycelium, the substance that mushrooms sprout from. Mycelium helps make nutrients available to plant roots and helps roots find water. In exchange, a plant sends down carbon, helping the mycelium grow and expand its own network.
This symbiotic relationship—called mycorrhiza—is vital in keeping roots healthy so they can access all available nutrients.
Can’t have the fruits without the roots
Keep Roots Healthy?
Healthy cannabis roots are a milky white color and don’t have a particular smell. If you’re growing in pots, your roots should be growing throughout your medium but should never be wrapped completely around the sides of a pot. If you’ve ever seen a plant with sick roots, you’ll know exactly how your roots shouldn’t look: brown discoloration, a strong smell, and slime around your plants are telltale signs of root rot or other root problems.
The roots of any plant, including cannabis, need 4 basic components to grow properly; oxygen, the right temperatures, water, and nutrients. Here’s how to give your plants everything they need to develop healthy, happy roots
