Within the world of gardening, especially when it comes to growing indoors, what is known as "Scrog" technique has been experiencing great fame and use as it offers the opportunity to keep plant growth under control, allowing to control both the height and the width of the same.
This offers the possibility to make plants develop perfectly, even within small spaces such as the interior of a PC.
Using this technique, it is possible to make the plants grow to a greater extent allowing the development of their branches, which will stop growing in height in order to maintain their development under control.
Through garden cables or with twine, se will incline the branches of the plant towards down with the purpose of preventing them from growing too tall, but allowing them to grow horizontally (and it is also possible to use a network to alter their development).
Why use a PC as a grow box?
The need to create this kind of cultivation comes directly from the difficulty that you have by not being able to use a large space for those plants that you want to grow.
And is that when growing plants inside a PC you have the opportunity to achieve some discretion without having to use an entire room to grow various plants. Actually using a small corner of the dwellings, you can also achieve good crops that have an incomparable quality in the final product.
Also, another reason why you may choose to grow plants on a PC is that you want to use it as a greenhouse both germination and propagation, which would allow for example; have a space especially focused on cloning cuttings and clones, separating them from those whose purpose is vegetation and flowering.
What instructions must be followed?
Mainly, in order to ensure that the PC to be used works and is really suitable for growing plants, it is necessary to make sure that it can do the following:
Keep CFL lamps on to ensure that the plant carries out its photosynthesis process and can develop.
Use the air extractor to ensure that the interior of the PC receives clean and fresh air, which will allow the CO2 level to remain always high, favoring the rapid development of the plant and avoiding at the same time that waterlogging occurs or that the plant is exposed to very high temperatures.
What are the advantages of this growing method?
When grown inside a PC there is the opportunity to get plants a lot more compact.
El power consumption required by this cultivation method results quite low, so the cultivation will be even much more discreet and will be reflected in the electricity bills, at the same time that it allows to obtain numerous flowers.
It is possible that the plants grow throughout the year, because the lamps do not overheat the grow box and its surroundings.
Is self-flowering cultivation possible?
When preparing a plant to thrive in confined spaces, a great alternative it is usually to choose to grow varieties of plants that are self-flowering.
This is because this class of varieties usually have little height and they do not present major stress problems, in addition, to perfectly withstand light during dark stages and have a shorter curing time compared to conventional varieties.
This is why, if you are about to start growing plants inside a PC, especially in the first attempts, it is recommended choose the cultivation of any of these automatic varieties, since they not only allow you to get crops in a shorter period of time, but you can also have the certainty that they will be able to develop without problem because they are low varieties.
Employing this alternative growing method, you can have a small green corner at home that allows you to have beautiful plants.