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Dear Fellow Grower,
In today's issue... - Learn what you need to know to grow multiple strains together!
- Check out several unique and interesting reader pics!
- Our Trophy Pic of the Week has two more bud pics!
Nebula Haze & Sirius Fourside (founders of GrowWeedEasy.com) "Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor."
~William Cowper
Growing Different Strains Together by Nebula Haze |
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Many growers want to grow multiple strains together so that they have a greater variety of bud to choose from after harvest.
Additionally, maximizing your grow space by growing many plants can increase overall yields!
Pros
- Greater variety of
strains after harvest
- Growing many plants can increase yields
Cons
- May take more time and effort to care for plants with differing needs
- More likely to run into space or height issues if not paying attention
- Plants may be ready to harvest at different
times
You will get more variety if you grow multiple strains at once, but sometimes it can get a little crowded! Growing multiple strains can be done in an orderly way with some planning! Strain Differences
Each strain has different tendencies when it comes to overall growth speed and estimated
height. Some strains grow tall and stretchy, while other strains grow short and bushy. Additionally, different individual plants of the same strain may grow differently from each other!
Each cannabis strain has unique tendencies and characteristics. For example, these outdoor cannabis plants of different strains all turned different colors right before
harvest! A Tale of Two Strains (Indica vs Sativa)
One of the biggest challenges with growing several
different strains of cannabis together is pace of growth. Different strains often grow at different rates in both the vegetative stage and especially during the flowering stretch (the quick growth that happens immediately after the switch to the flowering stage).
Let's see what happens when you grow an Indica plant next to a Sativa plant in the same setup with the same nutrients!
Left seedling is an Indica strain. Right is a Sativa. You can see the Sativa is already growing just a touch "stretchier" and less bushy than the Indica, but the difference is growth speeds will
become a lot more apparent soon.
Even though both are in the same conditions, they look decidedly different as they continue growing. The Indica plant tends to grow very symmetrical and bushy, while the
Sativa grows tall and wild. Grower tried to rein in the Sativa by bending all the tallest stems over Plants are now mostly flat again. But you'll see that the Sativa will have none of it! A few weeks later, right before the switch to the flowering stage The grower gives the two plants one last cleanup, then switches to a 12/12 light schedule by putting the grow light on a timer Nearly a month later, the flowering
stretch has mostly stopped. The Indica plant on the left has stretched far less than the long, lanky Sativa on the right. The plants may get a little taller, but by 4-6 weeks into the flowering stage they'll be focused almost completely on making buds. The grower raised the shorter plant so it could be closer to the light. As is common with Indica plants, it was more sensitive to heat and light, and couldn't be kept as close to
the HPS as the Sativa. The grower harvested both plants at the same time even though they matured at somewhat different rates. The Indica plant was taken down a little late according to its trichomes, and the Sativa plant was taken down a little early. Which plant do you think ended up getting better yields? In this case, the Sativa plant ended up getting almost 1.5x the yields of the smaller plant!
Indica Plant at Harvest (6.6 ounces)
Sativa Plant at Harvest (9.3 ounces) The strain makes an insane difference when it comes to how your plants grow and how much they yield! These plants were grown in the exact same setup, with the same
nutrients, grow light, etc, and came out completely differently from each other!
See how one grower turned these...
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Normally we pick just one reader for the "Trophy Pic of the Week" but we've been getting so many amazing pictures lately that we had to share more of them!
I hope you enjoy them as much as we have!
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Blue Dream (rare purple pheno). First grow. Week 7. Day 3. ~Sadica Before reading GWE...
(1st. Photo taken
one and a half years ago) Plant grown from bag seed in a window to start, finished in my closet under a 600w grow light. Very proud. I caught the grow bug, stumbled upon GWE, and this is what happened afterwards.
2nd photo taken today (3/8):
Grow method: followed all of your directions as best as I could. With your help I will continue to improve with time, as you can see my plant training needs to get much
better!!!
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU peace and love to you both
Pop Check out the difference between the trimmed and
untrimmed version of the buds! Lovely little Ladybug, hard at work, eating her daily fill. We bought 3,000 and now they are everywhere, but I wouldn't change a thing. I rather have beautiful harmless ladies around, then those damn microscopic whiteflies!! No insecticides of any kind until you research if they are safe for your ladies!! 3,000 dead Ladybugs is a lot to clean up!! Carol Cfl-grown bagseed grow. This is my 7th grow total and I'm pretty certain I have maxed this 3'
x1.5' tent.
My last grow with the same setup yielded me five dry ounces from one plant. This time I have six inside of milk jugs as you can see and I'm hoping for a total of 10 dry. 6 or less and I'm pretty sure I'll be disappointed ;-).
Either way I'm gaining tons of experience without much overall input for cost right now that is a shot of them at 28 days 12/12 22 days flowering.
Cflkiff420 One of the developing colas Setup
- Coco Coir
- 250w cfl blue for veg
- 600w hps red for flower
- Exhale
co2
- Canna nutrients
Veg and flower rooms both going into week 5
Some were micro topped , super cropped
The resulting phenos have a high bud to leaf ratio. This is one way to increase yields develop a strain that will flower in the middle of a fan leaf!
We got this picture without any comment. I'm not sure why the plant is in the pool, but beautiful dog and beautiful plant!
~Nebula This grower only left the name Sorntr with this gorgeous bouquet of flowers :) Please don't hesitate to reply to this email and send us your pictures! We especially love unique pictures, or pictures that tell a story and/or show a before and
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"Growing cannabis is a relaxing hobby in and of itself, but it also saves you money and keeps you from having to deal with shady characters. Cannabis is much
easier to grow than people give it credit for, and growing in water doesn't increase the difficulty much, if any. But whether you want to grow in water, coco, or a different medium, we'll show you how easy it can be!"
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