2 Plants, 1 Pot

I've been reading immensely about growing in the past month and have found this forum to be a pretty good source of feedback, so I thank you for your time to reply to this thread, if you do

I recently started growing in my closet, simple but I would say, efficient set up. I had to grow 2 seeds in 1 pot due to space and time restrictions I had. So they look quite healthy (I think) but are starting to grow too close to each other. Is that ok? Do I necessarily need to separate them?

Peace

Plant one plant per pot . Two plants per pot will crowd out each other and will be stunted. One plant /pot will yeild more than two plants/pot in the same size container.

separate them
thats like two girls on one cup...hahahahahaha

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I concur. If you follow the Jack The Ripper link at the bottom of my post I have a series of pictures of separating seedlings, but yours are going to have interwound roots. Be careful not to tear the tap roots, they should survive separation.

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moash said:

separate them
thats like two girls on one cup...hahahahahaha

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looooooool!

moash said:

separate them
thats like two girls on one cup...hahahahahaha

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I needed a quick reply so I had to make it look familiar lol

I know a few guys that grow two plants per pot without problems. You will need to repot them when they get bigger, but they will not kill each other. The plants will focus growth on the parts of the plants that get the most light, the stems that meet in the middle will simply not grow much. You could always prune veg in the middle of the pot.

This is the same basic philosophy of the Sea of Green folk.

darksideofwa said:

I know a few guys that grow two plants per pot without problems. You will need to repot them when they get bigger, but they will not kill each other. The plants will focus growth on the parts of the plants that get the most light, the stems that meet in the middle will simply not grow much. You could always prune veg in the middle of the pot.

This is the same basic philosophy of the Sea of Green folk.

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Would they give me as much yield? Someone just said they wouldn't give as much.

I was wondering about doing the same thing but putting 3 plants in one of those big pots for small trees (24-30" diameter). if you had enough space then there would be no need to transplant them so it wouldn't matter if the roots get intertwined. And, if you could get the perfect lighting on them I don't see why you wouldn't yield just as much as one plant per pot. But don't expect to yield more than normal, it will be either less or just as much.

As long as the plants are the same strain so one doesn't grow faster and hog all the soil (preferably clones) and the pot is plenty big enough (and you feed enough) there is no reason why multiple plants in a large pot won't work well.

My next grow will be 4 clones in one large square pot. As I will be growing a SCROG, the 4 plants will fill the screen faster than one plant which would need topping to promote multiple leaders while slowing down the growth.

By multi planting in a large pot I expect to cut 1 to 2 weeks off my vegging time.