How do plants stay small?.. Party cup size small , up to harvest day???

itinkitook2much said:

Sorry for late answers....... I'm planning on having enough of them to have AT LEAST 14G-1OZ, so like, many but I will let them veg til like 2nd nodes and then turn to flower... sounds good?
Height & width is a concern for me... I really need em to be fuckin TINY as fuck. . .My seeds are mostly feminized & none autos

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Why not use a large (wide and shallow pot? ) and grow a single plant? .You tie her up in veg (LST) and you gain in height ,and grow several healthy colas instead of several plants with single colas?

meenigrow said:

check my sig ,I grow in 1g rectangular pot ,lots of pics and you can see how stretching has evolved....

I didn't do any root trimming ,I only kept the light as close as possible at all times.

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i accidentally did this on some autos... just my keeping them to close to the light..... kinda screwed myself in the end... but its cool though their preflowering now all about 8 to 10 inches tall.!! lol gast and vast and 1 nycd. also didnt trim roots... used cfls

itinkitook2much said:

I remember seeing posts on RIU of people growing ganja from day one to harvest in a party cup.. I just need some headers on how that is possible !!!!! They stayed super small & Produced very little bud.. but I found that so extremely awesome & if I could have many of them I could end up harvesting at least 14 g's to an oz ..?
So.. yeah, if any of you got XP or know anyting bout dis , DO SHARE INFO THANKS yallllllllllll

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i accidentally did this on some autos... just my keeping them to close to the light..... kinda screwed myself in the end... but its cool though their preflowering now all about 8 to 10 inches tall.!! lol gast and fast and 1 nycd. also didnt trim roots... used cfls

meenigrow said:

I was afraid of that too.....in my case I've grown a dwarf strain (SS#1 ) ,and used a 1 gallon pot.
I didn't take a look at the roots yet ,but I will harvest in a couple of days and take a pic of the root mass ,I'm also curious about what happened down there.

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haha im waiting on same thing... i wanna see those roots...! ill take a pic in a min to show you.

skyyhigh said:

haha im waiting on same thing... i wanna see those roots...! ill take a pic in a min to show you.

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thats actually one of the fast and vast in my profile pic.... i trimmed it as soon as i noticed flowering1-7 grams is better than no grams at all!! haha

I'll just leave this here. The official winner of the last competition got 43 grams out of a 16oz cup. 10-15 grams is not uncommon with the right strain.

7th official party cup competition registration
6th official party cup comp

bicit said:

I'll just leave this here. The official winner of the last competition got 43 grams out of a 16oz cup. 10-15 grams is not uncommon with the right strain.

7th official party cup competition registration
6th official party cup comp

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i had no idea there was a comp for this................ cool beans

itinkitook2much said:

How do you negate the effects of being root bound? Because I thought having a small pot or big pot allows moisture to either stay longer or drain quicker... amirite?.. not so irrelevant to me..

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By keeping the cycle as short as possible and feeding. No veg time, just straight 12/12 from seed. You can top to keep the height down. Then just let it ride till she's done. It's actually a pretty space efficient way to grow.

If height is an issue, use food storage containers. They're much shorter and wider than party cups.

Just don't do what I did last comp and douse your plants with concentrated silica solution...

when will next comp be??

If you want them to be as tiny as possible though you can just go 12/12 from seed like others have said rather than bothering to veg them but youd need like at least 10 plants prolly to get 14-28g out of plants seeing as itll be your first time growing, if your trying to hide this from your parents though thatll make things harder cos you cant just leave them on the window sill or anything so youll need lights and hiding lights from people is a pain in the ass without having a separate grow room. I'd suggest you looked into guerilla growing if you have a way to get out into the country cos then you could just grow out 1-2 plants properly and youd easily get an ounce, probably more

skyyhigh said:

haha im waiting on same thing... i wanna see those roots...! ill take a pic in a min to show you.

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I harvested the Short stuff today ,here is a pic of the rootball ,in a 1g pot ,from underneath.On the sides of the pot I could barely see them....74 days total.

thanks for all the info guys really !