are these going to get to big?
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pitbudz87
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well it wasent a very good idea to start them all off togther but you have already done it but try and salvage them by giving them their own pots think about it what if some of them are males and some r females. it is probably too far to transplant the roots are probably grown togther but try its up to you or just keep it like it is and start a few more by them selves in dixy cups or solo cups its up to you in the end thats my two cents good luck
edux10
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like he said ^^^get them in dixi cups. Grab all the roots with the soil. Like scoop a ball of soil out for each one. Then just put them in those cups and add some soil. Keep the floros close and just water them with phed water. Add lemon juice. Wait for them to get about 8inches to 12inches and start to feed at a quarter strength. After that just let them get big and flower but that is another story once you get to that point in a month or 2.
Bangers999
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LOL but true
dogglet forever
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do yourself a favor and chop all but one and start some more in seperate pots...LOL
mixin
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chop the taller ones and leave the shortest, best chance of getting a female that way
Brandon8427
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how likely is it that they'll survive if i put them all in there own pot? i don't want to just cut 'em down because i wanted to harvest as soon as possible and don't want to start from scratch.
Stoney Jake
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^^^ yeah lol
To try to answer part of your question.
I would say they will be fairly short. Based on how fat the leaves are they look to be mostly indica and they are smaller plants
Most plants have the potential to get crazy tall, you can always start flowering early if they start to get to big
To try to answer part of your question.
I would say they will be fairly short. Based on how fat the leaves are they look to be mostly indica and they are smaller plants
Most plants have the potential to get crazy tall, you can always start flowering early if they start to get to big
Brandon8427
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well i have been keeping the lights maaaaaaaaad close because i didn't want them to get to tall... but anyway this is more of a learning experience then me trying to get an unrealistic amount of weed from my first grow. i just want some pot. when is the earliest ill be able to harvest?
barrgemike
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Leave them in there together, LST them together, cut the males out by the stalk. Simple, then you can take clones from your remaining females, and start more.
this is my first grow and i was wondering how bad it would be to keep these 4 in the same thing but they are already getting kinda big...
It is very bad! I always suggest starting all seeds destined for soil grows in peat pots or the pots they will be finished in. The less transplanting you do the better. I doubt that you would have ever been able to finish even two plants in that pot to satisfactory results. I have experimented with forced crowding before, as much as several hundred plants in a 4x8 area, and i can tell you that you are much better off growing 5-10 nice big plants than trying to squeeze a shitload of plants under one bulb with severly limited available root space. Since this is your first grow let me give you some important advice i wish someone would have given me: forget everything your buddies ever told you about growing pot, buy a book about growing pot, read it, ask as many questions as possible from growers you KNOW can produce quality stuff, do NOT freak out and dump miracle grow on your shit when 1 leaf turns slightly yellow or you see 1 little necrotic spot, do NOT give in to the severe OCD that typically comes with growing pot (symptoms include: staring at your plants for long periods of time, leaving work or social events early to go check on your plants, getting out of bed multiple times to check on your plants, prefering the company of your plants to people, ect), and do NOT get discouraged when you fuck up. Almost all the growers i have ever communicated with started off will failures, dead plants, crappy plants/yields/quality and practice makes perfect.
Boneman
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Like you've invested so much into them already. You cant just throw a few seeds into a small pot and harvest soon. They have to grow properly, fed properly and cared for properly. Its a process and a long process. If you dont break them up now, you are doomed to fail.
If you want something quick and fairly easy and crazy small...go with a autoflower lowryder strain. Thats the smallest and fastest you'll get.
K1Ng5p4d3
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Lemme ask this real quick to everyone, cuz i cant find really anything here myself on it -- just as an experiment -- has anybody ever tried to grow out multiple plants in one pot?? I mean, everyone says its a big nono (including myself), but nobody has ever followed through with it that knows what theyre doin. Maybe the plants roots intertwine, and so would the stems of the plants, and they would like braid themselves into one big twisty ass plant, lol. Of course the plants wouild be dwarved, but it may be possible to get a harvest as a result of this. Anybody ever try, or no??
Illegalbreather
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I just posted in another thread on this same issue. I've planted two to a pot and grew them with no problem until the end contrary to advice received here. That was really pushing it though, four to a pot is just way too much. At a minimum you need to remove two of those kiddies . Also when I planted two to a pot I planted them far apart in a large pot. Yours are in a cup so close together, I would be afraid the roots will stangle each other to death. Good luck and hopefully you have learned from this mistake.
DaDankSTUFF
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Yes I have done this under otherwise ideal circumstances with a test group of several hundred plants. These plants were the result of a NL AK48 cross i called polar assult. I was using trays 6 inches wide 4 feet long and 18 inches deep. Each tray contained around 36 plants, they were all within 6 inches of each other. Contrary to what you might expect (dwarf plants), being close together causes all the plants to stretch up towards the light in competition with one another. Branching is severly reduced and yeilding branches are restricted to the top 30% of the plant as the lower branches are soon left too far away from the light and too shaded by the top growth to be viable. Also, branch strength and diameter was reduced due to plants leaning on one another instead of being forced to spend energy on stem development. The plants became top heavy by the end of flowering and if it weren't for the fact that they were all surrounded by each other they would have fallen over from the weight of the top colas. All this occured despite the heavy use of folar feeding to make up for general lack of root space. 99% of plants showed no nutrient issues and had no necrosis or chlorosis. However, yellowing of lower leaves during flowering was more pronounced due to deep shade. I would estimate that per plant yield was reduced 1/3 to 1/2 due to the crowding. The drastic reduction in per plant yield was mostly made up for by the sheer volume of harvested plants per square foot. I believe the yield would have been higher per plant had the lights been switched over when the plants were around 15 inches tall instead of 30 inches however i have never repeated the experiment in order to confirm or disprove this suspicion. After havest i exposed the roots and found that the intertwining was not nearly as bad as i expected but was still fairly severe from 4 inches to 12 inches deep. The large roots were nor intertwined much but the small feeder roots formed a zone 8 inches this that was so thick with roots it could be lifted out of the trays like a long skinny piece of sod. All in all, it was an interesting experiment that yielded some very high quality bud but not worth the trouble of caring for so many plants.
dogglet forever
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its like baby birds in a nest... the dominant baby bird will kill off the weaker siblings when food and space become too competitve. thats whats happening right now in your pot o pot!
Eh just separate them. Doing that by soaking that cup or whatever it is in loads of water. (Oh by the way just what's in the soil, not the green part) Then take said plant and root ball and all out in your sink or tub.... with your stopper in and a filter of sorts over your drain then slowly make sure that whole plant is completely soaked. Separate the root system. You minimize a lot of damage this way and wind up with several single plants with their root systems intact just no longer all scrunched up they can be pretty long.
My opinion and done several times, works like a charm unless of course your dealing with a tree
then you need two people one to hold the plant the other to soak and remove the rooted part of the plant and soil. (not to say that can't be done either it just makes the whole process anal)
My opinion and done several times, works like a charm unless of course your dealing with a tree
then you need two people one to hold the plant the other to soak and remove the rooted part of the plant and soil. (not to say that can't be done either it just makes the whole process anal)Brandon8427
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so if i leave they will die?
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