16 oz cup grow contest?

Ethnobotanist

Ethnobotanist

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Jtoth3ustin said:
haha naaa. he WAS USING18 oz cups... 2liter mountain dew bottles cut down... idk. i just remember him sayin some weird shit like 18 oz cups.
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Look at the picture that was posted again, my friend. Those definitely are not two litres. They are your run of the mill vending machine bottles.

He harvests about a half ounce from each.

~Ethno
 
OregonMeds

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They are 20oz cups cut down to 18oz, not sure how much soil they actually hold though.

Either way it's an example of how to do it, 16oz cup is not that different man.
 
joeyjoejoe

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here is a summertime buddha clone that flew right in the flower room before it was even rooted. seems to be doing good now. this counts right?
 
OregonMeds

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rickythepitbull said:
why the fuck have i been wasting time ans space on 5 gallon buckets??????
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There is a difference when you use too small of a container aside from all the care and carefully giving low doses of nutrients often. They simply grow slower.

Any plant in a 16oz cup could be bigger had it been in a larger container, often MUCH bigger.

Don't get carried away going too small if you don't have too.
 
squints68

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so to grow in these cups you have to water and feed every day??18/6 light cycle for 4 weeks?? 12/12 light cycle for 4 weeks?? then harvest?? is this right??
 
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3fingerlid

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Question: I"m hopefully going to be starting an indoor auto ak 47 grow soon and was wondering if the solo cups are the way to start them and once they show their sex, transplant them to the larger pots I want them to finish in? Can you also start the seedling outdoors and them transfer them inside?
 
squints68

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i'm in with bubble gum clones and two different kinds of bag weed. just need to know light cycle veg and follower times???can we use any kind of nutes we want??
 
OregonMeds

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squints68 said:
so to grow in these cups you have to water and feed every day??18/6 light cycle for 4 weeks?? 12/12 light cycle for 4 weeks?? then harvest?? is this right??
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To grow full term like fdd2blk in these cups you need to be a very experienced grower caring for them even more than once a day. He had to be on top of that thing giving exactly what the plant wanted and no more every minute of it's life to get it to turn out like that.

Anyone else would be lucky to get half that size if not 1/4.

If you are going to do it, you need to know how to watch the plant and know exactly what it's asking for at all times with the slightest of clues. leaf tips even begin to point down and you are too high on the nutes. Nutes need to be started at very low doses - every - other - watering. Plant has to have just enough water at all times but never too much and watering schedule will go from every week as a seedling or barely rooted clone to every day at the end. Cup has to go dry between waterings so mold etc doesn't form but plant has to have water as soon as is ideal so it gets the size his did.


His plant would have needed more than water once a day, and my guess is he had that in an ebb and flow tray or something like that. May not even be soil in that cup.

I have this mother in the picture below in similar amounts of soil and it took nearly a year to get this size caring for it the standard way and mostly ignoring it. Nothing like what fdd2blk did.

Had I had this in a 5 gallon container it would be bigger than my whole closet by now. If I flowered this thing in this pot it would flat out dwarf fdd2blk's plant and double in size. This is just in veg. It has 1.5" of sand on top and a bunch of rocks in the bottom. At most it has 3-4" depth of actual useabe dirt.
soil is shitty old mg pre-nuted soil, when the nutrients ran out in the soil it started to get shultz regular plant food. I still don't feed it anywhere near often enough. Runoff water in this pot looks so clean and clear that it's like water straight out of a purifier, there's nothing left in this soil to support the plants growth.
She's really healthy and not diseased or anything but infested with spider mites and I'm still fighting them trying to save this one plant. It's all I have left at this point.
 

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kid cannabis

kid cannabis

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i grow in little tiny tubberware containers for a wider root system...... height is very limited in my grow so i have to resort to that and half milk cartons
 
420weedman

420weedman

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i gotta remember this thread for later .... i got 3 goin in small cups ... ill post em up, ill try to remember !!
 
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