Making my plant smaller.

edwardvanhalen123456

edwardvanhalen123456

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I can't have big plants growing in my room because of too much smell.
So my buddy on here said to start my plants in a plastic cup and let them veg for a week or two and then switch them to 12/12 light schedule to keep it small.

Is this a good idea because I was going to get a 2 gallon bucket for the autoflower seed I have coming in and I was thinking about getting a 1 gallon size pot so the plant doesn't get too big.
It is a 3 foot auto flower so that's pretty big. What do you guys think?
 
In Shape Vet

In Shape Vet

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plant training, and if your stuck with soil then a fabric pot to air trim the roots but the soil will dry out rather quickly with such a small container depending on your mix.

practice plant training. here is a plant in a 5 gallon bucket dwc thats been trained. still has more training coming up but as you can see i already have several tops on an even canopy in less than a foot of space plant wise. photo 1 (1).JPG photo 2 (1).JPG photo 3.JPG
 
In Shape Vet

In Shape Vet

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there a people on here who manage to fill out a tent with massive plants, iv been a hug fan of training and keeping things small. i also end up with small flowers but they are still very nice flowers. i can train stems well, just practicing on getting the leaf clearing thing down as i tend to over defoliate, and recently completely did. but plant training works great at making a small compact bush. that is a haze strain which normally would have grown tall and lanky. in flower, it might end up exploding and wanting to pull the lid off the bucket and fall on the floor but in the mean time its a tight gal.
 
GroErr

GroErr

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The way you described your problem is smell, not the size of the plants. You can flip a plant from seed or a clone as soon as it's rooted. It will be smaller, but it won't smell any less.

What are you trying to achieve? Sounds like odour control is your issue, not training or flipping small plants...
 
In Shape Vet

In Shape Vet

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there are small carbon filters you can get. they work great. you dont even need that crazy of a fan either. as long as the are being filtered out is a small area you can get away with a using a booster fan on a filter since it wont be used for cooling purposes.
 
edwardvanhalen123456

edwardvanhalen123456

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In Shape Vet said:
plant training, and if your stuck with soil then a fabric pot to air trim the roots but the soil will dry out rather quickly with such a small container depending on your mix.

practice plant training. here is a plant in a 5 gallon bucket dwc thats been trained. still has more training coming up but as you can see i already have several tops on an even canopy in less than a foot of space plant wise. View attachment 3755108 View attachment 3755110 View attachment 3755112
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Ya I used to train my plants just for curiosity and it's a cool way of maintaning the way the plant grows. Kind of like a bonsai tree lol.
I think I am just getting paranoid about the smell. I used to grow all the time and never had too many problems.
The thing I want to know more about now is how small of a pot can I grow a full plant in.

I have a seed that will sprout in a couple days and I'm going to put it into flowering right away. I want to keep it in a plastic beer cup and not transplant it into a bigger pot. Do you think I can grow a full plant in a beer cup or is that just too small?
I am worried about root rot or root bound so thats why I like to ask you people because you guys always help me out.
Thank you for your reply.
 
edwardvanhalen123456

edwardvanhalen123456

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GroErr said:
The way you described your problem is smell, not the size of the plants. You can flip a plant from seed or a clone as soon as it's rooted. It will be smaller, but it won't smell any less.

What are you trying to achieve? Sounds like odour control is your issue, not training or flipping small plants...
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Hey man, thanks for the reply. Right now I am concentrating on growing a full plant in a beer cup. I want to see if I can actually grow it without transplanting it.

My auto assassin seed will be here in about a week and I gathered all the info I needed from different sites and asking you guys questions. I will have to post a pic of it to show my progress. Thanks again for the reply.
 
GroErr

GroErr

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edwardvanhalen123456 said:
Hey man, thanks for the reply. Right now I am concentrating on growing a full plant in a beer cup. I want to see if I can actually grow it without transplanting it.

My auto assassin seed will be here in about a week and I gathered all the info I needed from different sites and asking you guys questions. I will have to post a pic of it to show my progress. Thanks again for the reply.
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You can grow from seed in a cup, some folks in here have grown seeds in 16 oz. cups and yielded 40+ grams but your average yield would be in the 10-15g range from seed, maybe a little more if you flipped a clone in a cup. It's a pain in the butt though for watering, if you watered by hand by the end you're watering a couple of times/day. If you used blu-mat's you might be able to manage it better. I've done males up to 2ft. tall in cups, but not something I'd normally do without some automatic watering system like the blu-mat's or drip.

You could try an auto but you're really limiting yourself for yield regardless or whether it's a photo or auto.

I've grown 1gal clones and averaged an ounce per plant, it's a little more practical but even then I'd be watering pretty well daily towards the last couple of weeks of flowering.

Check out this thread, last party cup competition for some ideas on what you can grow in a cup:
https://www.rollitup.org/t/the-8th-official-party-cup-grow-competition-update-thread.899563/
 
Punk

Punk

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Howdy,

Keep in mind, growing from seed will produce bigger plants because of the time needed to reach maturity, but the clones from those plants can be kept smaller because you can decide when you want to start flowering. (not feasible with autos)

At that point, size depends on how much stretch you'll encounter, some stretch very little, some never stop growing.

You can mitigate that vertical stretching (because you don't want it growing into your lights, you'll fry the plants) by pinching the stalk where you want it to bend, causing it to tip over, it will recover and be spread out more horizontally. (don't pinch it off, just let it hang...and you should do about 12" or so) You do this in the first few weeks of budding, after that, the stalk become too brittle for this.

Many small home growers have limited up and down space because they're growing in attics, stairwells, crawlspaces, etc. By bending the plant, you're getting it to spread out more.
 
edwardvanhalen123456

edwardvanhalen123456

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Punk said:
Howdy,

Keep in mind, growing from seed will produce bigger plants because of the time needed to reach maturity, but the clones from those plants can be kept smaller because you can decide when you want to start flowering. (not feasible with autos)

At that point, size depends on how much stretch you'll encounter, some stretch very little, some never stop growing.

You can mitigate that vertical stretching (because you don't want it growing into your lights, you'll fry the plants) by pinching the stalk where you want it to bend, causing it to tip over, it will recover and be spread out more horizontally. (don't pinch it off, just let it hang...and you should do about 12" or so) You do this in the first few weeks of budding, after that, the stalk become too brittle for this.

Many small home growers have limited up and down space because they're growing in attics, stairwells, crawlspaces, etc. By bending the plant, you're getting it to spread out more.
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Ok I will have to do this, thats a good idea to train them.
 
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