I try to grow multiples every time.. Unless it's a one gal pot or something.. Then just one.. 95% of the time its multiples. My preferred mindset is organic.. I try to mimic nature as much as I can. In nature, nothing grows alone. Roots communicate with each other and exchange needed nutrients, the soil has many more waterways and less "pockets", the plants compete for dominance.. There are so many benefits to adding cover crops and growing more than one plant in a pot. When I think back, I feel bad for the plants that I grew without cover crop and without another plant.
Science is just scratching the surface on root intelligence. But cannabis roots can tell if other cannabis plants are near by and can tell if cannabis had been previously grown in the soil. They can tell each other if they need something.. Kinda like the card game go fish.. If one plant needs a little N, the roots can ask the other plant if they have any N to spare.. If so, it's released into the biosphere.. If not, the roots keep moving and find that needed N in another area of the soil. But yeah, I do it because that's how nature does it, lol.
