What is the smallest you could make a plant, and have it flower?

Thanks to the info here, I had a great plant about two years ago or so. But it was tall, and took up too much space.

I'd like to try growing again, but just to see the plant go through it's cycle. To make a plant small enough that it could decorate a desk.

I know that some strains are taller than others, but I'm wary about ordering online (though I'd love to). So are there general techniques to really make a tiny plant. Like I said, I'm not interested in yield, more interested in making it tiny.

i have one thats 9 inches

fried at 420 said:

i have one thats 9 inches

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Yeah, that's what I'd like to do. I've been reading up on pruning, which I'll try.

Should I keep it in a relatively small pot, so it doesn't have much room to grow?

Although I have read of straight from clone grows being 2 ft...I have done 2 strains, 9 clones and they finished at an average of 9" with 1-4 grams/clone.

What a horrible waste of time and $$! I have seen pictures of what would not be a g dry on here of the same thing.

If space/height is an issue, just tie her down as much as you need...you could make a large plant, essentially flat. My K-Train is so weak in the stem that it has to be supported once heavy budding starts. When I cut one yesterday and took it out of the tomato cage, she is like a spider.

you wanna look into lowryder strains, auto flower strains and Low Stress Training

ive seen the picture of a plant with a joints worth of weed on it too

Sharpie get you some autoflowering seeds. They grow really small, produce a good amount of great bud and go from seed to chop in 60 days. My beans should be here in a week and I'll be starting my grow.

fried at 420 said:

i have one thats 9 inches

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I had a friend who asked me "whats the shortest you can make a plant" and i said "24 inches tall but 5 feet wide" and he thought I was nuts and dared me to and bet I couldn't do it. At that I stipulated this was 'finished height before harvest' and he agreed. Then I let the plant stay in Veg stage 30 days from taking clone and the top of the plant was 4 foot tall. When I showed my buddy the progress I was making, he immediately said "pay up" and I said "no way you just watch".

The total side bracts at that time where about 20, so I trimmed 10 of them and took them as clones. Then, while he was watching I put surgical tape wrapped around the newly formed area of incisions 4 inches from the bottom up to 12 inches. Then I slowly squished the hollow base of the stock all along the surgical tape so it was flattened out and bendt easily without breaking. Then I bent the plant over until it was actually lower than the base of the plant and I installed a web like trellis system to hold it there. Within one day it went from a 4 foot plant producing one main cola top and 9 smaller cola tops to all 10 of the remaining bracts where producing Main Cola tops. He almost came unglued when he saw the outcome.

The funny part is I still lost! The side bracts grew up to 36" in 45 days of 12 on and they where all like solid (the original top was the smallest with 6 dynamite dominators). But that was definitely a bet I didn't mind losing!

i just topped once
the other plants i topped are growing fast and have like 30 new branches
i hope my stem is strong enough....

Here ya go; this is what you're looking for:
https://www.rollitup.org/general-marijuana-growing/199319-autoflower-thread-resource-guide.html

Thanks for the replies guys.

It's not so much that I'm looking to grow something large horizontally...though it's good info in case I can't keep it short.

I have this huge bag of seeds I've collected over time...problem is I never organized them by types of weed. So I'm excited about seeing what comes from what I got, though I'm afraid if I end up with some strain that must be 8 feet tall to flower

The last plant I grew, I had to harvest before it was done flowering, but it was about 4 feet tall, and I'd say I got 3/4 oz out of it. No pruning on that either. So what I'd like to do now is, like I said, grow something short enough that while flowering it could (in theory) decorate a desk, or I can hold the whole thing up in one hand. I realize how hard this will be without knowing what strain I'm working with.

EDIT: Is there anything I can tell by looking at a seed? The ones I have, some are lighter than others, some are pretty dark, speckled. From what I know, the lighter seeds are less mature, right?

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and these were vegged for 12 days

Sharpies said:

EDIT: Is there anything I can tell by looking at a seed? The ones I have, some are lighter than others, some are pretty dark, speckled. From what I know, the lighter seeds are less mature, right?

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Yep, that's right. Don't even bother with the green or light colored ones; they are not viable.

Well, I got the project underway. While it may end up being unrealistic, I picked up at nice 6" pot for whatever plant makes it through the germination strongest.

I also was limited in where I could shop...so the only soil I could find was Miracle Grow. I heard against using that, but the one I found is for Orchids, and comparatively low nutrients and is also Nitrogen heavy of what's there. So that seems good from what I read for the early stages.

So...we'll see what happens!

Ive heard lighter seeds have less or little chance of sprouting, it's the darker ones you want. i would try them anyway and that's all i can tell you about seeds.

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and these were vegged for 12 days

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How tall is that? I'm not an expert on strains, or anything like that...but that looks most similar to how mine was going on my first try. That's the one that ended up about 4 feet tall.