planting cannabis in soil?
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darkdestruction420
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Not unless you want stunted plants that combined wont do nearly as well as if you had a single plant in the container.
rifk
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You CAN do it if you have a big container, I've done it before with acceptable results.
That doesn't mean you should
Plants will be fighting for space and nutrients, roots get tangled, etc...
EDIT:
There's another thing I forgot to mention: if you have 2 plants in the same container and one comes out as female and the other one as male you won't be able to separate the roots... If you just cut the male at the stem the roots will start rotting.
That doesn't mean you should
Plants will be fighting for space and nutrients, roots get tangled, etc...EDIT:
There's another thing I forgot to mention: if you have 2 plants in the same container and one comes out as female and the other one as male you won't be able to separate the roots... If you just cut the male at the stem the roots will start rotting.
rifk
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Allow me to disagree... as I mentioned in my previous post, I've done this before.
If I have a 25L container, 2 plants will do better than a single one, for sure. Unless you want to veg them until they're real big (which is probably not the case in a closet grow).
cowboylogic
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If its your first time growing you will find it much easier to control the medium moisture and nutes by starting in cups and potting up a few times. And your plant will develop a much more efficient root system.....
darkdestruction420
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interesting, ive tried it with multiple size growing containers up to 5 gallons and have seen the same thing each time, the one pot out of the 10 that has 2 plants instead of 1 end up with 2 stunted smaller plants and end up doing poorer combined than the 1's who have their own pots. i'd like some more info on the growing conditions and all of those details you can give. You very well may be right. its certainly possible.
rifk
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Hey there,
I can't quite recall the specifics on nutes and stuff but at the time I was using 2x 600W HPS and some pretty big containers, around 25L (6.6 gallons). I had a big square-ish container that fit perfectly in the little space that I had left so I figured: why not put these two bagseeds (african sativa) in this?
I had another plant of the same strain growing in its own container (slightly smaller) and after harvest, I got more bud from the two plants in the other container than the one that was alone. No, it wasn't twice as much but the difference was easily noticeable.
Maybe this was a different pheno or something but this was what happened at the time. I haven't grown multiple plants in a single container since though.
missnu
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I am going to try to make some topiary monster by planting one or 2 in the same pot and then kinda wrapping them around one another for LST...As long as the pot is large enough to adequately support all plants in the container it should be fine, just like any other plant...and if you are going to be trying to keep the plant small anyway then there is no reason not to, at least not as far as I can tell...but you can tell by me posts I am not doing too hot myself, so what the hell do I know...?
missnu
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OOOhh and the reason it is easier to keep transplanting into larger pots as the plants grow is because if you put a tiny seedling into a huge pot it is hard to figure out the watering...if you add enough water to wet all the soil then the soil will stay wet on the bottom 4-ever...not really but it won't be nearly dry the next time you water which means you will be overwatering and the little plant won't have to grow deep roots because you are always watering right at the roots...so they don't have to grow to find water...Anyway it would still be a good idea to start them in cups and then maybe add them together into a larger pot when they have both outgrown their cups...it is easy to figure the amount of water for a cup...