Surgery

Today I moved several seedlings from the brown cups to the long PVC tubes. While doing that I decided to look at the roots by carefully removing the soil, here is what I found.

#39 while being re-planted:

The root was almost transparent, strong and very flexible. I ended up washing the dirt away from it and then planting carefully in a longer term tube.

Now more confident, I used second brown cup without applying a lot of water, just carefully removing the peat moss. I found a very nice look inside the cup: notice how deeper and closer to the center area of the cup is wetter than the rest. It makes the top of the seedling root dry, while providing moister to the lower part of the root: