multiple plants, one container

[Sean Tom]

so i decided to try and grow multiple plants in one container. I am trying 1, 2, and even 3 plants in one pot. My theory is that they will all share the 4 gallon container space while helping each other survive. It has been about 2 weeks veg so far under just 3 regular cfls. will be switcing to 400 watt HPS in a few days. strains are raskal og and black domina. i am FIMming and LSTn today(after this thread) and will continue to veg and tie down until about 3 ft of growth maybe 3 1/2 ft. but I know a lot of you all have wondered, well I am experimenting your thoughts.

 

[Sean Tom]

bump.............

 

[BustinScales510]

I tried it once before, with a couple of mother plants though..I didnt flower them. It got crowded but they grew fine. I mightve done larger pots if I were you,unless youre gonna flower them pretty small. Theyre sharing root space,between 3 plants theyll fill out those pots rather quickly.

 

[Sean Tom]

i am doing this to see what happens. many people such as yourself tell me but no proof or pics, not one. so for the world here comes the proof of what will happen in different scenarios.

 

[dbkick]

Un-VO! I did 5 in a 5 gallon bucket just because they told me not to . the outcome was pretty known, one or two plants will choke out the others.

 

[dbkick]

of course I was in dwc . soil probably the same outcome.

 

[EverythingsHazy]

IMO waste of time. Growing one basil seed in a pot produces a huge plant where growing 2+ in the same pt produces much much smalller plants and less total "yield" so i dont see how cannabis would be any different.

 

[Sir.Ganga]

1 square foot of growing space can only produce x amount. the number of plants in that square foot will usually make no difference to the total outcome.

 

[Uncle Ben]

Do any of you noobs bother to check out and follow what the commercial industry does? You know, "normal" people.

 

[Sean Tom]

what exactly? hella shit in small places?

 

[Sean Tom]

you all fail to realize this is not a waste of time. I have yet to see any proof of how the plants grow together. I will be providing this proof for all to see and read. fyi I believe all will be fine and equal harvest to one plant per pot. my goal is not to get more bud but to have multiple smaller plants in one container. if i have 18 plants in 6 containers i save hella time watering for 1

 

[BigEasy1]

I grew 3 in a DWC Four Banger 5 gallon bucket and one choked out the other two. The roots also got all tangled up. The smoke turned out OK but one plant was much larger and yielded quite a bit more than the other two. Had I grown them separately the two small ones would have gotten as large as the big one, yielding more, in theory.

 

[CPmass]

I've got 2 pots going with multiple plants. 1 pot has 4, the other has 3... just medium sized veg pots. Nothing big, or permanent.
This all came to be because I was forced to repot the clones, with a lack of enough media for all of them.
I by no means intend to force these kids to mature in the same pot together. But for the time being, they'll be fine IMO. These were just experiment clones I made for shits and giggles. So not too concerned whether or not they knife each other to death in the middle of the night. Either way, it's all just for fun.. They'll be seperated soon enough.

As for my theory on what will happen if left together.. The plants will all live and grow, but to a minimum. As the roots begin to battle for space, the top growth will suffer the consequences.

 

[tip top toker]

All of the above and none of the above. They could be just fine, but there are a lot of options for all hell to break lose. Why would you go about your way to increase the risk of problems all for the sake of saving a few minutes to water a plant.

And i know you want to experiment, so go ahead, but i have done it before, and i never did it again.

First question. Are they all the same clones from the same mother, or are you just planting seeds? If the later, one variation in phenotypes and you grow could be fucked.

I like the comment about "helping each other survive" though. would you care to elaborate on your scientific reasoning for this?

 

[hockeyrichard]

Why not try grafting

 

[1itsme]

Do any of you noobs bother to check out and follow what the commercial industry does? You know, "normal" people.

pfffft normal people are boring

 

[CPmass]

pfffft normal people are boring

slaves to the man..

 

[Sean Tom]

All of the above and none of the above. They could be just fine, but there are a lot of options for all hell to break lose. Why would you go about your way to increase the risk of problems all for the sake of saving a few minutes to water a plant.

And i know you want to experiment, so go ahead, but i have done it before, and i never did it again.

First question. Are they all the same clones from the same mother, or are you just planting seeds? If the later, one variation in phenotypes and you grow could be fucked.

I like the comment about "helping each other survive" though. would you care to elaborate on your scientific reasoning for this?

so all the plants are clones from same mother so same pheno in pot. N by helping eachother im thinking like this. Normally a plant fights for its own space, im thinking what if collectively they dont fight for the space instead they take up small amounts of space slowly, allowing the others more spave. Yea idk, just thoughts as i said before

 

[tip top toker]

so all the plants are clones from same mother so same pheno in pot. N by helping eachother im thinking like this. Normally a plant fights for its own space, im thinking what if collectively they dont fight for the space instead they take up small amounts of space slowly, allowing the others more spave. Yea idk, just thoughts as i said before

No, they fight for the space. This is not a thought this is first hand observation. And as/if one gains more root space than the others, it will grow larger as a result and overgrow the other plants and shadow them out. the yields from the smaller plants will be massively reduced as a result.

Sure in some instances it can work and they all grow uniformly, but it is a fools errand to needlessly add such a risk factor to the grow.

Further more, consider bugs. If one gets bugs, or an issue, you cannot simply remove it, you are stuck with it and it can go onto effect the other plants.

The only semi-valid reason for doing this is to save on watering effort, the difference being minimal, and even then, the potential risks far outweigh the benefits.

 

[Bakatare666]

As stated above, "For shits and giggles", one night I cut 3 branches off my last plant, and had a cup of soil sitting there from a seed that didn't germ., so I stuffed them in there.
A couple days later I watered when they hadn't wilted.
Soon, I was moving them to a 2 liter bottle, revegging them for over a month, and now I have them in a 1 1/2 gal. bucket, and just going to toss them outside when I start flowering my other two.View attachment 2643256View attachment 2643257