pot roots in sitting in runoff

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Hi,

Had some issues with these plants, changed lots of things among lowering my EC which worked somewhat, but still something's not right.

 

Just wanted an opinion on something.

The roots are coming out the bottom of the pots, and quite a few at about 10 cm long from each hole. They've been sitting in the runoff pot which sometimes has runoff sitting in it from last water, i really couldnt say how old it gets etc etc, this has only just occured to me tonight. Could this be doing bad things to the plant? I guess the residual water that doesnt quite drain out of the runoff pots does dry up in there and leaves salts so, for the next runoff.

 

Bad?

Not so good, but not much to worry about?

Really bad do something about it?

[El Gato]

yeah bad bruzzy. You will be getting dome sorta lockout.

[uncle chron]

sounds like ya need to transplant em into bigger pots for starters ...but if thats not an option, just setup an air stone in the runoff pot and adjust its ph and ec