Quote Originally Posted by mspofford032579
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...
Is 4 months of your time really worth yielding 1 oz of bud. It won't be near the same quality since you'll be growing under minimum lighting, cooling, ventilation etc etc.

Yes a scrog would be the best way to maximize your yields.

Clones have a head start on plants started from seed, so typically, your clones will be bigger than seeded plants.

PC cases only have room for about 1 plant inside of them, how many clones are you planning on trying to do. See the problem here is that plants grow. Eventually you'll have to take out clone after clone until you have no room left and only one plant.

It's totally counter productive in the way you are trying to do this.

IF you want to go for it then go for it. I'm not advocating for you to not do it. Simply trying to show you that results from growing in a PC case would be more than disappointing for all the effort that goes into it.

Why are you so set on a micro grow? If you're set on compact and stealth then why don't you get a couple of rubbermaid tubs and set them up in your closet.

They just look like storage containers, you can fit more lights inside of them, have better ventilation, don't take up much room (you can toss them in a corner), allows you more vertical and horizontal space for growing, and they're still stealthy.

If you decide to go your route I'm sure you'll see what I was talking about when I Said you'd just end up having to remove all the clones anyway until there was only 1 left.