Does anybody have experience with holding clones in "fridge stasis" for a few weeks to buy extra time? microgrowery

(Steps outlined here: http://ift.tt/1Bc7T5h & http://ift.tt/1rfq0r2)

Hi, microgrowery! I'm currently running 600W in a 4x4 tent with an air-cooled reflector and an air conditioner. Along with a four-bulb T5 setup in my closet for clones/seedlings, I'm already pushing the electricity consumption to the edge of what my shitty apartment can handle without blowing fuses.

Still, everything is running beautifully with one tent and I would love to add a second one to my room, but unless I get rid of the AC and inline fan (not possible due to heat; 550 CFM fan already turned down to 50% power), a second tent isn't an option for me right now.

I'm growing some Qrazy Train that I'd like to clone before switching to 12/12, but if I'm flowering for about 10 weeks, I don't know if I could get away with keeping those clones growing on my closet shelf for that long without them getting out of control and needing more space. However, I recently learned about using the bottom drawers of a refrigerator to hold clones in "fridge stasis" for up to two months to buy time, but I couldn't find anything about this process on microgrowery.

Basically, I'm planning to cut clones one week before switching to flowering, keep them alive in the fridge for four weeks, root them for two weeks, and then use the final month or so of flowering to pre-veg and train the clones so they can move into the tent as soon as I harvest and continue to veg under stronger light; this way, I'm only really losing one month of time to the fridge instead of losing two months waiting on the full flowering cycle and then starting again from scratch.

Would it be possible to avoid this whole fridge process by just letting the clones get root-bound in Solo cups under the T5 bulbs to inhibit vertical growth until I'm ready to fully veg them? Aside from the fact that stunted growth would actually be a plus for me, would there be any other unwanted side effects from keeping clones in Solo cups and heavily trimming them for two months? If not, it would be nice to have a dense root ball when I transplant instead of losing a month of growth to stasis in the first place.

I'm thinking about just trying it both ways as an experiment, but if anybody has any tips for inhibiting clone growth for a couple of months, I would love some extra input before taking cuttings in a few weeks. Sorry for the wall of text and thanks in advance!

Submitted September 25, 2014 at 10:51PM by HagNasty http://ift.tt/1Bc7U9e microgrowery