I wish i still had the pictures but i lost them when i dropped one of my hard drives literally no more than 3 inches. Back when i was running a 150 watt hps i had a room big enough for 4 5 gallon buckets and it just so happened i had a 3 gallon ice cream tub that fit perfectly in the center space.
Which reminds me a helpful hint for anyone looking to source cheap pots is to go to an ice cream shop and ask if they have any empty tubs.
Anyways i did a mixed strain run, bunch of barneys farm strains and nirvana's white castle and i started with about 8 seeds. Lost 2 and another two were just runting it up. IIRC they were liberty haze and tangerine dream from barneys. I dont like killing plants, and like i said that 3 gallon fit perfectly between my other 4 plants that were all growing quite nicely so i decided they could share it.
Then i decided something... sinister
Taking a page out of joseph mengels book i decided to experiment. I had no twins so these two would have to do.
I wanted to see what would happen if i were to intertwine the two plants. Weve seen siamese twins and we've seperated them successfully, but have we ever made them?
I LST'd the main stalks around each other in the best spiral shape i could manage. I did the same with the branches. In the end the two plants ended up staying together through the drying but naturally when you went to break it up the two strains would seperate.
They didnt yeild much and were both about 3/4 of the height of my other 4.
My favourite part was the subtle distinctions hetween the strains. It would have been a lot cooler to have like a purple strain and a green one and have marble cheddar style weed but there was enough of a difference you could tell where the tange stopped and the liberty haze started.
If i did this again i would experiment with what i guess would be whole plant grafting. Id love to see what would happen if you cut some skin off both plants and joined the cuts together. Could two plants be grafted together as one and not just branches from one growing off another? Would they share root systems? What about the gentic differences and the roles they play in what nutrients the strains want, how they process those nutrients?