Packed Growing Areas (Good or Bad)?

Hey all!

I am sitting here pondering, stuff, as most of us do...

I am thinking about grow areas and how practically everybody has their plants packed into the area, as many or much as possible.

While I understand the necessity to cover all our area, as much as possible I still think that the most natural environment is the best environment.

Do these things grow all croweded and bunched together, tied up, cut apart, or any other manner of "technique" we all use, in nature? In other words, wouldn't a plant give better, if it had more room, ability to branch or stay short/grow tall?

I never let leaves from another plant touch each other.

Maybe I have simply wasted space, or area, or canopy. Whatever the argument may be, I think we must explore this.

How many of you simply grow the plant? Nothing done to it, aside from lights, and perhaps the company of other plants, but not crammed down his neighbors throat.

What do you think everyone?

Yield is nothing, quality is everything.

Let's hear some thoughts!

i packed alot together cuts down on weight so thined out im using 2000 watt cfl

I'd say that quality is not relative to how close plants are together. For the most part so long as light is reaching all the plants. If your concerned with quality there are many other more important factors I'd worry about first. I would love to be proven wrong tho. Please post your findings

doctorgreeneggsandham said:

I'd say that quality is not relative to how close plants are together. For the most part so long as light is reaching all the plants. If your concerned with quality there are many other more important factors I'd worry about first. I would love to be proven wrong tho. Please post your findings

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Quality of the plant? Development of the plant? You think nothing is affected by an unnatural growing environment?

Me, I dunno! I just thought it would be a good thought-provoking topic, which seems to have failed.

I think I am leaning the way of it doesnt matter, I just wish there was hard proof...

K, I just thought of something. Think of SOG. When putting the plants so close together that the lower nodes need to stretch themselves to catch up with the light...

How much energy is that plant expending on stretching, vs. making buds? Stretching must take some energy from the plant.

I dunno. I am a bit out there... ha!

finding the right number of plants and the right strain for the job is the science that takes your growing to the next level from amateur. Im still a jounreyman

Bump.... Refresher! Anybody?