You mean, both of the (doubled) plants together, yielded less than one in the same pot? If so that's interesting. It implies that competition for resources inhibits the growth of both plants. Which is logical... it's known that many plant roots put out substances that discourage competition. That's a very useful piece of information, Bubba.
Well, at the time it was an extra seedling and I didnt think it would make that much difference and left 2 in that pot. My theory is simple, anything, anything at all that inhibits the plant in its early years has a impact on yield. This has an impact it's whole life through I guess.
Best yields for me are when the whole grow, from seed pop, seedling, veg stage, flowering all charge through these stages without a hick up,
or very little. Vibrant growth, no yellowing, bugs or spotty leaves, leaf tips with only the slightest if any signs of nute problems. Doesnt always work out that way, but planning can minimize problems, and experience galvanizes their solutions in your practice.
We all see, (and lord in the early years of "grow it your self" )I've had plenty of "grows" in those days that were what I call survivors, not thrivers, the success of which is the bare fact they actually survived to harvest. Yields are at lowest like this. These poor plants have been sprinkled with everything "super secret weed growing juice" wise that the internet provide on it, got the little thing all splayed out and tied down every which way.
There are many here far, far more knowledgeable on this topic than I, no doubt. That said I grow a pretty nice plant. Over the years, I started with a way too simple plan, result as per above. Low yielding survivors. Then as grow knowledge began to spread (think pre inter net) I moved into the "buy all the products, even if I had NO idea what to do with them." More dismal results. HPS was a revelation, but still potential no where near optimum.
Final phase, lots of info, internet is our friend here...returned to a SIMPLE method....noting Albert Einstein who said that things should always be "As simple as possible." "But NO SIMPLER." That is where my grow mind set is now. "But no simpler" should be studied as much as the "As simple as possible" part. Some endeavors will not be as simple as others...so this is not a statement that everything should be as simple as I can make it by any means. It is a statement that one can avoid a bad yield (and a lot of extra expense) by keeping things as simple as possible, without violating the no simpler part.
I call it Bubba's KISS. (keep it simple stupid) if I keep this in mind and apply correctly it gives great results. I'm sure many of the already mentioned more experienced folks can top these results. I try to do as close as possible with what I have to work with, and the results yield wise are above average, involvement and investment is at a minimum.
KISS applies across the entire grow, as well as selection of environment, size, lighting and ventilation. On my old computer I have a grow with enough pics (if I havent lost them) to do a short grow on this method. It is great info for a starting out person that wants a small medical grow. Also for someone starting a medical grow, who is (allowed in this state) going to be caregiver, i.e. grower for another as well. This requires and allows for increasing he grow for more that one user.
Beyond this is either professional/commercial grows or otherwise large scale growing, which I have NO experience with. Others here do
But for the little guy wanting a simple, successful grow I think it could be helpful. 2X4 or 4X4, possible increase to 8X4? is the size range.
Bubba
