Quote Originally Posted by daihashi
I don't know how you would fit a hydro setup inside a PC case.
I'm not. The idea is to do this using soil. As I was saying, many people who try to build these seem to be using soil instead of hydro for simplicity and economy.

What I'm trying to say is I think the best way to maximize yield from such a small enclosure would be a SCROG configuration. I've seen a few pics online of other people successfully doing this, but they all start from seed in the same box, and run into space problems as the plants try to reach up to the lights before they are ready to flower. They LST the hell out of them and hope for the best, but in the end their yield suffers because there's just NO friggin' room left. So why not start the PC case full of clones that are old enough to start flowering so that every last square inch of that case could be occupied by a delicious canopy of flowers. I figured the answer to this would be to start with a case full of clones ready to go, hence the second case with cuttings that keep getting cut.

In a way I suppose you have answered my question though, because from what you're telling me; the concept of cloning clones over and over again (Starting new clones from old clones and throwing the old clones away every time) to keep them aging without getting any bigger will work. You can see my point though- it sounds like a great way to have a bunch of clones on-hand and ready, without actually having a full grown mother plant... Has anyone here done what I'm describing before?

My biggest concern would be that so much cutting and cloning on a younger plant would stress it to develop as a male. In that instance I suppose you wouldn't know because the cuttings (which would technically be 8 weeks old or so) would be too small to show sex parts...