I thought i'd start a thread about this as when i was a Micro Grower this helped me a hell of a lot.
I used to be a 1 Sq ft 70w hps grower due to living in a small flat and had some sucsess early on but soon realized that i was going to have better results if i used clones and flowered them as soon as they had rooted.
I developed this technique after reading an old thread by Oldtimer1 on overgrow, he used to grow big bonsai moms and i thought surely i can do this on a smaller scale.
It's really jsut a form of LST so here how i did it.
Firstly take a rooted cloan and pot up into a light compost as normal.
Then top the cloane and tie down shoots to encorage latral branching. if i wanted to slow down top growth i would leave a lower shoot to take over apical domanance.
After time woody stems will form and you will find that all you need to do is trim of your top growth to promote a bonsai type MJ plant.
The only light i gave these was 2x10w floros in a white painted box with a 10cm hole cut in the bottom and a 12v PC fan circulating air.
feeding nutes was just a baby bio and occationally some high nitrogen lawn feed.
once the plants about 3 months old i would routinely give them a root trim. The root ball was about as big as my fist and i would take off 2cm from each side and the bottom with a sharp bread knife and then repot with fresh compost.
the oldest bonsai mother i had was about 2 years old.. and then it was spider mites that killed her off.
Hope this inspires someone else to give it a try was great fun.
Eggy
I used to be a 1 Sq ft 70w hps grower due to living in a small flat and had some sucsess early on but soon realized that i was going to have better results if i used clones and flowered them as soon as they had rooted.
I developed this technique after reading an old thread by Oldtimer1 on overgrow, he used to grow big bonsai moms and i thought surely i can do this on a smaller scale.
It's really jsut a form of LST so here how i did it.
Firstly take a rooted cloan and pot up into a light compost as normal.
Then top the cloane and tie down shoots to encorage latral branching. if i wanted to slow down top growth i would leave a lower shoot to take over apical domanance.
After time woody stems will form and you will find that all you need to do is trim of your top growth to promote a bonsai type MJ plant.
The only light i gave these was 2x10w floros in a white painted box with a 10cm hole cut in the bottom and a 12v PC fan circulating air.
feeding nutes was just a baby bio and occationally some high nitrogen lawn feed.
once the plants about 3 months old i would routinely give them a root trim. The root ball was about as big as my fist and i would take off 2cm from each side and the bottom with a sharp bread knife and then repot with fresh compost.
the oldest bonsai mother i had was about 2 years old.. and then it was spider mites that killed her off.
Hope this inspires someone else to give it a try was great fun.
Eggy