Keeping plants small...

hey m8 if i was you idd minimize everythink slightly and keep your lights closebut no to close because they might strech and paint your grow box white as this dose not reflect lots of lite on to your plant this will stunt the groth nd also dont use nutes until 2 weeks before flowering i had exactly the same problem and just make sure they get lotss of air m8 and u shud have sum healthy plantss i also got toldd if you kepe a plant in gernmination for longerr the chance of female plants rises by about 20 % happy gorwing

Merciless_One said:

Great..thanks for the quick reply. I just wanted some confirmation from someone who knows what they are doing. I realize that this is not the ideal setup, and may very well end up being a complete failure at the end, but I like the idea of growing 3-5 small, single bud plants ( maybe 1/8 or 1/4 oz of dried bud from each plant ?) in a little cupboard above my bedroom closet almost completely autonomously.

The strain's i'm using are all unknown, from very stinky nasty bags of chronic that happened to have a few seeds here and there that I've collected and saved.

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I believe I saw it mentioned before and IMHO the best way to go is to grow your plants as tall as you can in the space available and then top them using the tops as clones and scrap the rest of the plant. This will solve several problems. 1) You will be able to control the size of your plant much much better. 2) The root system on a clone is much better suited to being grown in less medium than a seed plant.
Doing this I would probably want to start 12/12 on the plants as soon as they become hardy as they can still gain a considerable amount of size once they begin budding. Most of my plants usually manage to climb as much as another foot in the bloom room. Keep in mind though, that a lot of that height is the cola bud at the top, so don't cut it again. If the plants out grow the container again, then I would suggest bending the plants. Instructions for doing this can probably be found easily enough with any search engine. Hope this helps any new growers looking for answers.