5 gallon bucket,How many plants?
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MidAmber
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Yeah....a battle for root space may have deadly consequences.
0011StealTH
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you can do it all.
0011StealTH
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you gotta drill those holes for the netcups your self. i doubt they sell them cut off already.
Mental91
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Why though? I don't understand! Plants in general can have this done plus a auto ak47 stays under 2 feet so each lady would basically have the gallon per pot by foot of growth going on.Yeah....a battle for root space may have deadly consequences.
Mental91
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Cool,That's what I figured. I don't plan on doing the net pots since it's gonna be soil. I am however gonna cut out 3 holes in a shape of a triangle and try it out. Also when the seedling start growing I'm gonna put those white collars around each one.
maineyankee
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The thing that gets me here is that you fail to mention the method of grow. If you were doing Bubbles, I would say one plant per pot. Soil ... I would tend to lean towards the fewer the better. You do have a valid point if your doing soil in that one foot/ per gallon.
The MaineYankee
The MaineYankee
dbkick
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oh hell no................https://www.rollitup.org/dwc-bubbleponics/492662-un-vo-grow-21.html
good luck and happy growing.
Mental91
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It will be soil. Can it be done?The thing that gets me here is that you fail to mention the method of grow. If you were doing Bubbles, I would say one plant per pot. Soil ... I would tend to lean towards the fewer the better. You do have a valid point if your doing soil in that one foot/ per gallon.
The MaineYankee
dbkick
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soil???? goodbye!
0011StealTH
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on soil go one plant. hydro you might be able to slide 3 autos. u got a greater chance in Hydroponics than you do in soil. do a bit or search. i have ran 2 plants in small containers. Hydro
tokingtiger
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if you grow 2 or 3 plants in a 5 gal bucket towards about 2-3 feet. you will see diminshed returns on your bud. first answer in this string was your best answer. one per customer.
i grow them short, not auto but when i tried putting 2 or 3 in a 5 gal bucket and kept them 2-3 feet tall, the bucket with 2 plants produced less than the same number of plants with individual buckets.
i grow them short, not auto but when i tried putting 2 or 3 in a 5 gal bucket and kept them 2-3 feet tall, the bucket with 2 plants produced less than the same number of plants with individual buckets.
Mental91
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TY! I don't know why it was so hard for these other pricks to say what you said! You sir have common sense and common sense=rep in my book!
Mental91
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Thanks man!
Omgwtfbbq Indicaman
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yes, you can do this. yes it will affect the yield.
ink the world
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OK then, yes it can be done. I have done it a few times. ONLY when I had clones rooted that coiuldnt fit into the flowering room in their own containers. I've been growing a strain for a bit in my perpetual grow. Im getting rid of the strain and put the last 4 clones into 2 containers, so each containers has 2 plants. They are doing fine 4 weeks into flower. Be aware though, yield is gonna be diminished. I onlyu do it instead of throwing the clones in the garbage.
It will have diminished yield compared to the same plants in their own container each.
Jogro
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Of course you CAN grow more than one plant per container. You "can" grow 20 plants in one container. . .its just not an optimal way to grow, because you'll end up with more work and less yield than the same container with only one (or a few) plants.
The problem is that if you have two or more plants in the same container, then
a. Depending on the size of the pots and plants, they will potentially compete for root volume, and
b. More importantly, more than one plant next to one another may compete for light. What happens is that if any part of a plant gets shaded, it will try and "stretch" towards the light. If you have two plants crowding each other (or more than two) then they'll all try to stretch to outdo each other, and you end up with really tall spindly plants instead of short bushy ones, like you want.
If you have the ability to run these plants in different pots, then do so. I'm quite sure you'd be better off with three 1.5 gallon pots than one 3 gallon pot.
In terms of total yield, you might even be better off with just two plants in one pot rather than three. . .that depends on their size and configuration.
If you "must" run three plants in one 5 gallon pot, then do yourself a favor and make sure you space out each plant so that they're as far away from each other as practicable. Say, make an equilateral triangle, with each plant being maybe 2 inches from the bucket edges.
You'll also want to train the plants so that they don't overlap their leaves. If that happens its a killer, as that's when they'll really try to compete with one another. They can share the center a bit, but you really want to make sure each plant gets its own "corner", so that the bulk of each plant is separate from the other two.
