PC Case grow - Stealth + Perpetual + LST

do you use clear pots so the roots get a lil light and dnt grow as much resulting in smaller growth?

Dr.Blunt said:

do you use clear pots so the roots get a lil light and dnt grow as much resulting in smaller growth?

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that sounds odd...

you can get smaller growth by placement of lights

Hey SketzoH
Nearly all the bulbs around are 2700K. Try Focus. Think they are the ones with the deep blue stripe across the pack at the top right of their bulb display. Glad you got that nugget in time

Thanks needhelp. Always appreciate kind words. Hope there's something of value in here for you too.

Greets again Dr.Blunt
The clear pots are more about seeing what the roots are doing. Fitting all the soil, plants, lights, fans and temp monitor takes it's toll in such a teeny space.They don't affect anything in my experience, just let me see if I need to give the girls bigger shoes. You know what girls are like with shoes

Thanks KaliKitsune. I got the case maybe 4 years ago and there's nothing written on it. It was just a cheapo Chinese box available at the time.
One thing it does have that I found to be very helpful in trapping light but letting air in is a hinged door at the front.

needhelp said:

you can get smaller growth by placement of lights

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That's a new one on me. Do you know how it's done needhelp?

i meant the closer the lights were, the smaller it grew... and the further you kept them away, the taller the plant grows to reach for the light...

i was saying roots dnt like light and it makes them smaller. smaller roots equal smaller plants, but im jus going off of what iv read thru my many travels thru bud mountain, and i was high the whole time.

v12xjs said:

Hey there rlax106. Thanks for looking in.

I treat the girls like real women. Keep em in the dark and bend them over a lot

As they are grown in 12/12 they never actually get a veg stage, so this restricts the height a lot. If I grew them like that they would get between 18 - 30 inches tall. This is still too tall for my case, so I also bend them over to encourage the sidebranches to grow like the main top. I aim for 8 - 10 tops which means the plant can only give 10% of that upward growth to each top and the result is very short plants like Granita.
I also use very little soil which probably helps too.

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Thanks for the response lol treat em like women... Ok so when you say bend you mean use twisties to bend the top down by the side of the pot. Also if my plants been sprouted for two weeks and its been on a 18/6 cycle could I still switch to a 12/12 with out any problems?

Next chance you get I would recommend getting a taller PC case, like one of those old 90MHz Pentium Pro servers that were like three feet tall almost and loud as all hell. Perfect cover for high fan noise, and they were damn-near lightproof.

You could prolly find one for like 2 bucks somewhere.

man despite havin such a small space you have some beautiful girls, I cant wait to see granita when shes fully grown

Thanks for the reply needhelp.
What you say is spot on but sometimes the plants don't want to be short and they will happily grow onto the light

I've heard the same thing many times Dr.Blunt but I needed to see what was going on so I tried it and it doesn't seem to affect anything.
If the roots in light died off but hidden roots continued to grow I would expect trailing roots at the bottom of my pots but this doesn't happen with the genetics I use.
I may cover up the CH9 plants once I'm used to the strain and am happy they have enough room, simply to replicate nature a bit more.

Hi again rlax106
Yes I just bend the tops down and fix them to the sides of the pot.The pots I use now have lids which are great for use with those screw-in hooks. I either bend the plant under a large hook or tie it down with a smaller one. Got some pics of Pandora that may illustrate better than my words
I think that plant will show it's first flower tomorrow night as you can see a tiny pistil in the centre of one of those pics.

Think you are showing your age there KaliKitsune
Bet you still remember DOS 6.2
An old server case would be perfect for my project to fit a working motherboard in but I really like the hinged front I have on this box and I don't remember ever seeing them on the old kit I worked with.
Also the 12/12 means that plants stay small even if left to grow with a single cola so unless I change my style there's probably no need to go for max headroom.

Thanks LOLsauce. The system is pretty simple and very repeatable as you can see. The hard bit is getting the odour under control and keeping temps in the right kind of range. You'll have similar pics up here in a few weeks and a great big smile on your face

And a couple of other pics of Granita from last night plus the case again:

great pix...... in the one where the case is closed are the lights on?

Thanks FS.

Yup, the case is in full flight
Got a little peep show for you that illustrates things even better.
1st pic there's just a small white spot which is usually covered with a small flap of tape or a blob of blutack but I removed it just to show how good the light proofing is. The other 2 are self explanatory.

thats great man, awsome job on the light proofing. you are the master of the pcgrow.

Appreciate the sentiment FS but I think anyone doing it over a long period like I have would have a good reliable system.
We're starting to see some really nice cases cropping up and with the inventive nature of the folk on here I reckon Granita & co will be eclipsed soon enough.
I thought the grow in your sig was outstanding and just goes to show what can be done after mulling things over with a fat blunt

How's that arachnid of yours? I always loved the look of the red kneed tarantula. They look like some mad sketboard dude
Do you ever let it roam in your grow?

"Think you are showing your age there KaliKitsune
Bet you still remember DOS 6.2 "

I remember DOS 3.

KaliKitsune said:

"Think you are showing your age there KaliKitsune
Bet you still remember DOS 6.2 "

I remember DOS 3.

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Me too. Just didn't want to make you sound like an old codger

I'm only 26.

I feel like I'm about 46.

Wow 26?
Are you sure you remember it? DOS 4 was release when you were 6!

v12xjs said:

Thanks for the reply needhelp.
What you say is spot on but sometimes the plants don't want to be short and they will happily grow onto the light

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thats true...but thats why you LST... i haven't tried LST yet, just bending and FIM so far... but i like how you have your plants looking, so i will definately have to steal some ideas from you, ha...