Mirco grow advice
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Mak'er Grow
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Photos you can control when it flowers and how long you want to veg...autos are like 3 year old children...everyone one of them has a mind of its own and at any given time it changes, but never the same as the others. 
Mak'er Grow
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I may be wrong here, but I think the term and grow style that your looking for and is suited for short cabinets/tents is "SCROG" aka "ScrOG"...it involves tying the branches down as well as topping, fimming and manifolding.
Kinda looks like this...there are tons of other grow journals and examples though.
Thank you very much, I think I know how to setup the SCROG, I’m not sure if I can grow as many plants, but it looks like it’ll fill up the tent all the same.
Mak'er Grow
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From my limited experience, yes you can grow 1 plant in a 2x2' space nicely...just veg a few extra weeks...and it is much easier to manage 1 plant compared to 4...they are like little kids...too many and they drive ya nutz.
The pic above is my kinda micro box...its 48" (W) x 24" (D) x 40" (H) with nothing inside...subtract 7" for hydro tote and panel...subtract another 12" from panel to scrog screen (for air flow and I need to be able to fill my tote easily...lol)...and then lights are 4-6 off top of plants...not a lot of room left to grow, but it seems to do what I need...+4-5oz/35 days.
CannaOnerStar
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If you are new to plant training, when is the perfect time to switch to 12/12 etc, then it might be better to go with autos. If you have some plant training skills or are willing to learn at the cost of potentially fucking up, then photos are better because you get better control over them. Ideally you would want clones of the same plant there.
If you dont plan on training and just would flip to 12/12 as soon as possible, then i would say autos are better, because they do just that but are able to get longer lights per day during flowering, so they can grow a bit bigger in comparison.
The problems with autos is that some are small and some not that small and also there seems to be quite a bit of pheno variation with autos in general, seems like more than with photos in general, but i cant be 100% sure.
There is no reason to use only 1 gallon pots, pots that small will only cause you more work and problems. Im sure you can fit larger ones there.
If you dont plan on training and just would flip to 12/12 as soon as possible, then i would say autos are better, because they do just that but are able to get longer lights per day during flowering, so they can grow a bit bigger in comparison.
The problems with autos is that some are small and some not that small and also there seems to be quite a bit of pheno variation with autos in general, seems like more than with photos in general, but i cant be 100% sure.
There is no reason to use only 1 gallon pots, pots that small will only cause you more work and problems. Im sure you can fit larger ones there.
i was going to grow Alaskan thunder fuck from msnl
Northern lights is a good one. https://sensiseeds.com/en/blog/difference-micro-growing-regular-indoor-growing/
I think I’m good at training the plants I just have to think it through a bit more.
Thats a sativa dominate plant It may do just fine. I personally would not do it, but that's me. As i said there's no wrong way. When i think of micro growing i think of most bang for my buck. And ease of care. However I bet theres growers who have had great results doing the opposite
There’s like these furniture stores that are cheap and sell used furniture maybe I’ll get a desk and trick it out. Lots and lots of possibilities. Thank you for the link also.
Ive seen some impressive micro grows with a few CFL bulbs. i was truly surprised. i hope you are able to start it soon. I would like to follow it.
CannaOnerStar
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Yea then definitely get photos and preferably clones. Something that obviously doesent stretch too much, makes tight and big nugs and has low leaf to bud ratio.