OneCanSam
Well-Known Member
You can use one pot for two plants but preferably, one plant per pot is best.
Not everything is black and white, and this site has no shortage of mavens that have me shaking my head at times. Luckily this site has members like Filthy fletch and others that really know their stuff, and they genuinely try to help their fellow Rollit members.. Which is all I ever try to do. I don't berate people for being new, even though I'm new here.
Here's an example regarding misinformation, this Rollit member has 1000+ posts and high rep & pretty much blasted me and called me a noob for giving this new user ACCURATE info. (notice he never came back to apologize for being an moron, it's ok as I don't hold a grudge)
Post count and sometimes REP has zip to do with what a person knows. That member Pinksensa has no clue that I know a fair amount about horticulture. I've studied Hydroponics formally and by experience on several continents where I learned a great deal in the field. I may have 20 posts, but I don't think I'm a noob. I've probably been growing since PinkSensa and other in that thread were most likely in diapers. He still gives good advise, despite his inability to read the problem an inexperienced person may have, and the advise given to the new inexperienced person.
Anyway, lets get back to this question about one pot per plant.
One of the reasons it's not advised is in the event that one plant is a female and the other is a male, when you pull the intertwined roots to remove the male, it puts some stress on the remaining plant, plus remaining root rot issues....
With that said, with Ebb and Flow or soil grows with traditional non net pots, (i'm referring to normal square hydro pots and normal soil pots)
I try to use one pot per plant. At times where I have more plants than pots, I'll use one pot and two plants. BUT, I take prevenative measures. I simply take a piece of plexiglass and cut it to shape with a dremel, I cut it so that it serves as a divider inside the pot, this method keeps most all of the plants roots seperated, if I have to uproot one plant, it's less apt to stress the remaining plant in the pot, and I'm able to remove 99% of the roots so root rot isn't much of an issue. I then remove the divider.
(I've even had success with with more than two plants per pot, but I only do this with clones that I know are female, but 'quartering' the pots and putting in the plexiglass is a bit more difficult, its much easier to just stick to one pot per plant and use smaller pots if necessary.)
With Aero 'net' type pots this isn't really feasable as the roots suspend and can intertwine and a divider is not as easy to implement. For Aeroponics, one cup or pot per plant is best, you could always use smaller pots and keep the ratio 1 to 1
Anyway, thats all the noob advise I can give.
Not everything is black and white, and this site has no shortage of mavens that have me shaking my head at times. Luckily this site has members like Filthy fletch and others that really know their stuff, and they genuinely try to help their fellow Rollit members.. Which is all I ever try to do. I don't berate people for being new, even though I'm new here.
Here's an example regarding misinformation, this Rollit member has 1000+ posts and high rep & pretty much blasted me and called me a noob for giving this new user ACCURATE info. (notice he never came back to apologize for being an moron, it's ok as I don't hold a grudge)
Post count and sometimes REP has zip to do with what a person knows. That member Pinksensa has no clue that I know a fair amount about horticulture. I've studied Hydroponics formally and by experience on several continents where I learned a great deal in the field. I may have 20 posts, but I don't think I'm a noob. I've probably been growing since PinkSensa and other in that thread were most likely in diapers. He still gives good advise, despite his inability to read the problem an inexperienced person may have, and the advise given to the new inexperienced person.

Anyway, lets get back to this question about one pot per plant.
One of the reasons it's not advised is in the event that one plant is a female and the other is a male, when you pull the intertwined roots to remove the male, it puts some stress on the remaining plant, plus remaining root rot issues....
With that said, with Ebb and Flow or soil grows with traditional non net pots, (i'm referring to normal square hydro pots and normal soil pots)
I try to use one pot per plant. At times where I have more plants than pots, I'll use one pot and two plants. BUT, I take prevenative measures. I simply take a piece of plexiglass and cut it to shape with a dremel, I cut it so that it serves as a divider inside the pot, this method keeps most all of the plants roots seperated, if I have to uproot one plant, it's less apt to stress the remaining plant in the pot, and I'm able to remove 99% of the roots so root rot isn't much of an issue. I then remove the divider.
(I've even had success with with more than two plants per pot, but I only do this with clones that I know are female, but 'quartering' the pots and putting in the plexiglass is a bit more difficult, its much easier to just stick to one pot per plant and use smaller pots if necessary.)
With Aero 'net' type pots this isn't really feasable as the roots suspend and can intertwine and a divider is not as easy to implement. For Aeroponics, one cup or pot per plant is best, you could always use smaller pots and keep the ratio 1 to 1
Anyway, thats all the noob advise I can give.
