Hi Guys!
Ok, so if anyone I tagged or anyone else sees this post who might happen to have some first hand experience with this, I have a scenario and a few questions, so I'm just tossing this out to the wind to see if I can learn something.
For my next grow I am considering trying to grow just one plant, from seed, in soil, in a 5x5 with height extender (Gorilla tent, so I have 8 full feet under the low profile professional light to play with), in a 10 gallon pot. The goal is to see how full I can get a 5x5 with one plant, specifically without a scrog net or anything, using only LST and potentially/probably HST like supercropping, and also (more importantly) to see what kind of yield I can get from a plant in a ten. I'm thinking the up-potting for that might potentially look like this:
Dixie Cup > One Gallon Pot > Five Gallon Pot > Ten Gallon Pot
The scenario is that simple with one twist. As you consider any of the questions below, if you don't know (and why would most of you?), I am paralyzed from the waist down and in a wheelchair. Which I only mention because it creates certain realities that must be observed for me to be physically capable of growing a plant that big, and which I would think one would want to please consider in the answers. For example, the plant MUST be on wheels and I MUST be able to rotate it 90 degrees inside the tent. With just a 90 degree rotation I can work from the front or back door and cover tending to the plant in one 90 degree turn which allows me to access all of it. So perhaps that limits the size of the plant. It's easy to turn a plant of any size if it's on wheels. The other important thing about that is that if I grow plants any taller at the end than about five feet, I will be looking up to my buds the entire time once they stretch and set. This is fine and ok, as I have that eventuality covered. But I mention it because I don't WANT to cut it off at a five or six foot plant. I want a 7 1/2 foot tall plant when it's done. So I'm not going to switch to a hydro system or anything else for this grow because this is likely my last grow in this house before I move, and all that will have to wait. But I think it would be cool to try for my sayonara grow to this godawful state. I'm 100% certain one can fill a 5x5 in a hydro setup based on what I've seen here from people's journals. But for this I'm talking only a straight soil grow just as I described. I have no idea what's possible in soil in this regard. My questions for anyone (preferably with some experience doing this, lol) are:
- Does that seem like a reasonable scenario in terms of up-potting, or is there a different order that would work better?
- How long would I realistically have to veg a plant to max out the potential of a 10 gallon container, if the goal is to end up with a plant about 7 1/2 or 8 feet tall MAX? (You can assume a sativa or sativa heavy hybrid, and that I might know just the tiniest bit about training, btw)
- Is there a bigger pot size than a ten, like a 12 or 15 or something, that would work better in this scenario? Or is ten about as big as you can go in a 5x5 with one plant?
- Assuming LST from the start where I top using Uncle Ben's method and try to end up before the flip with a "scrog plant without the scrog" kind of plant, where she's got a relatively even canopy and is very well spread out, is it possible to basically completely fill a 5x5 with that plant, a la as much as you might with a well done scrog?
- Assuming I could pull this off without messing it up and raise a relatively healthy plant start to finish, what is a realistic potential yield in this scenario from one plant in a ten?
- Has anyone done this exact thing, or know someone who has/does, who can direct me to a grow journal or the person who did it?
- Is it completely unrealistic and straight up crazy talk to think you could pull two full pounds dried and cured from one plant, tent-grown in a 5x5, in a ten gallon pot, grown in soil? Or is it possible in a 12 or what?
That's everything I can think of. Thanks in advance to anyone who might happen to have some input on this scenario. I appreciate the education very much.
Jon
Ok, so if anyone I tagged or anyone else sees this post who might happen to have some first hand experience with this, I have a scenario and a few questions, so I'm just tossing this out to the wind to see if I can learn something.
For my next grow I am considering trying to grow just one plant, from seed, in soil, in a 5x5 with height extender (Gorilla tent, so I have 8 full feet under the low profile professional light to play with), in a 10 gallon pot. The goal is to see how full I can get a 5x5 with one plant, specifically without a scrog net or anything, using only LST and potentially/probably HST like supercropping, and also (more importantly) to see what kind of yield I can get from a plant in a ten. I'm thinking the up-potting for that might potentially look like this:
Dixie Cup > One Gallon Pot > Five Gallon Pot > Ten Gallon Pot
The scenario is that simple with one twist. As you consider any of the questions below, if you don't know (and why would most of you?), I am paralyzed from the waist down and in a wheelchair. Which I only mention because it creates certain realities that must be observed for me to be physically capable of growing a plant that big, and which I would think one would want to please consider in the answers. For example, the plant MUST be on wheels and I MUST be able to rotate it 90 degrees inside the tent. With just a 90 degree rotation I can work from the front or back door and cover tending to the plant in one 90 degree turn which allows me to access all of it. So perhaps that limits the size of the plant. It's easy to turn a plant of any size if it's on wheels. The other important thing about that is that if I grow plants any taller at the end than about five feet, I will be looking up to my buds the entire time once they stretch and set. This is fine and ok, as I have that eventuality covered. But I mention it because I don't WANT to cut it off at a five or six foot plant. I want a 7 1/2 foot tall plant when it's done. So I'm not going to switch to a hydro system or anything else for this grow because this is likely my last grow in this house before I move, and all that will have to wait. But I think it would be cool to try for my sayonara grow to this godawful state. I'm 100% certain one can fill a 5x5 in a hydro setup based on what I've seen here from people's journals. But for this I'm talking only a straight soil grow just as I described. I have no idea what's possible in soil in this regard. My questions for anyone (preferably with some experience doing this, lol) are:
- Does that seem like a reasonable scenario in terms of up-potting, or is there a different order that would work better?
- How long would I realistically have to veg a plant to max out the potential of a 10 gallon container, if the goal is to end up with a plant about 7 1/2 or 8 feet tall MAX? (You can assume a sativa or sativa heavy hybrid, and that I might know just the tiniest bit about training, btw)
- Is there a bigger pot size than a ten, like a 12 or 15 or something, that would work better in this scenario? Or is ten about as big as you can go in a 5x5 with one plant?
- Assuming LST from the start where I top using Uncle Ben's method and try to end up before the flip with a "scrog plant without the scrog" kind of plant, where she's got a relatively even canopy and is very well spread out, is it possible to basically completely fill a 5x5 with that plant, a la as much as you might with a well done scrog?
- Assuming I could pull this off without messing it up and raise a relatively healthy plant start to finish, what is a realistic potential yield in this scenario from one plant in a ten?
- Has anyone done this exact thing, or know someone who has/does, who can direct me to a grow journal or the person who did it?
- Is it completely unrealistic and straight up crazy talk to think you could pull two full pounds dried and cured from one plant, tent-grown in a 5x5, in a ten gallon pot, grown in soil? Or is it possible in a 12 or what?
That's everything I can think of. Thanks in advance to anyone who might happen to have some input on this scenario. I appreciate the education very much.
Jon