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Big plants in little containers

Postby twilson » Mon Mar 02, 2015 3:27 pm


What's the biggest plant you've ever grown in a small container ?

How big do you think you could grow a plant in a one pint container using any method ( soil, hydro, soil-less ) ?
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Postby bentech » Mon Mar 02, 2015 4:16 pm


kind of odd question...

like,
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if you broke all your toes first
and superglue'd them back under your tread
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Postby A Bloke Down The Pub » Mon Mar 02, 2015 8:23 pm


Surprisingly big.
I seem to remember a "shot glass challenge" on some site or other, where the challenge was to grow as big a plant as possible, using only a shot glass as the container.

I wouldn't recommend it as a very productive method though. :)

In general, the more roots you have, the better the plant, and the bigger the yield.
I'd rather grow one plant in a big container than four in tiny containers.
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Postby Earl » Mon Mar 02, 2015 9:42 pm


A Bloke Down The Pub wrote:Surprisingly big.
I seem to remember a "shot glass challenge" on some site or other, where the challenge was to grow as big a plant as possible, using only a shot glass as the container.

I wouldn't recommend it as a very productive method though. :)

In general, the more roots you have, the better the plant, and the bigger the yield.
I'd rather grow one plant in a big container than four in tiny containers.

Yep. What Bloke said. What do your state laws say--Do they count the total weight or the number of plants when you get busted? Total weight would work better to have more small plants--number of plants would be better to get fewer bigger plants.
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Postby bentech » Mon Mar 02, 2015 9:57 pm


whatever size container your going to finish in
stepping up into it during the plants growth will promote maximized utilization of the soil available to the plant.

so if your going to finish in a 12oz cup,
start in a 4 or 6oz

and transplant when the roots just start to circle the outside perimeter
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Postby jesus » Tue Mar 03, 2015 10:16 am


twilson wrote:What's the biggest plant you've ever grown in a small container ?

How big do you think you could grow a plant in a one pint container using any method ( soil, hydro, soil-less ) ?


I experimented with smaller pots this last round, 4 inch and 1 gallon, and it can be done but with a dripper system or something.

As for myself I'm going back to 7 gal pots. It lessens the time spent watering and buffers against forgetting.
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Postby Intrinsic » Tue Mar 03, 2015 4:18 pm


OG had thread/contest who could grow bring to flower in the smallest pot, if my memory right, one grown in a sewing thimble won hands down. most could not get to flower.
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Postby Butters » Tue Mar 03, 2015 4:58 pm


They're doing yogurt cup challenges on icmag these days. Walgeist is a very talented micro grower there.
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Postby twilson » Tue Mar 03, 2015 6:01 pm


Interesting. No I don't think I'm gonna try to grow in small containers. Was just wondering.

7 Gallon container sounds big Jesus. Most people I know including myself max out at five gallon containers. But yeah you are better off having fewer bigger plants in terms of the law. Most laws depend on the number of plants.
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Postby jesus » Tue Mar 03, 2015 7:05 pm


Seven gallon for me is just about perfect. Theyre wider than they are tall. Five gallon buckets are the opposite and I dont think work as well.
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Postby bentech » Tue Mar 03, 2015 10:47 pm


speaking of big plants
its was reported that one of the members back then turned ff gallon drums into DWC
and grew to near 20'
each plant having a canopy i believe he would train out flat nearly a dozen feet across
and 3 thousand watt bulbs over it on one of those turning rigs

never posted pictures though
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Postby Prawn Connery » Fri Mar 06, 2015 4:36 am


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The biggest plants I have grown in 8-litre (two gallon) pots have been up to 15oz, or just under 1lb, each of dried, trimmed bud. The Stinky Catpiss Haze above always yielded 12-15oz in the same pots, while nearly all other strains would regularly go over half a pound (8oz).

The big difference, of course, is I was growing in coco - not soil :wink:
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Postby Prawn Connery » Fri Mar 06, 2015 4:38 am


BTW, the formula I use for my grows is 1 litre (quart) per ounce. Some strains will almost double that, as in the example above.

Thinking out of the box for a moment, if I was going to enter a yoghurt container challenge, I would suspend the plant in the lid (like a DWC grow), and go aeroponic. With misters installed into the sides of the container, and a drain point (tight mesh) at the bottom, technically you could fill the entire container with aeroponically fed roots that would maximise yields. I'd then grow a Haze-type or other long-flowering variety to really max out the yields.

I guess it depends on what the rules of the grow are. But whatever they were, I'd bend those fuckers til they almost broke. The rules, that is - not the branches!
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Postby jesus » Fri Mar 06, 2015 9:09 am


Why you show a pic of maybe 3-4 oz plant and talk about 15oz?
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Postby Prawn Connery » Fri Mar 06, 2015 10:54 am


I think the real question is: Why are you such a dumb fuck?

First plant in the original post was at five weeks.

CatpissHarvest1.jpg

Bag on the left is harvest from the plant in the second pic (bag on the right is from another plant). Note one bud = 15g dried on the scales. Because you clearly don't know what half an ounce of real bud looks like . . .

Catpiss1.jpg

Bag on left weighed 311g. That's about 11oz, not including the bag itself.

Note: I never said the above plants were 15oz, but they're the only photos I have left.

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And for the hell of it, here's a half-pound Sensi Star in the same 8-litre pot.

Now let's see your plants.
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