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Originally Posted by doomtrain

1) Is it OK to have 3 different plants in different stages of flowering growing alongside each other, or would this create problems?

Female plants in flower have no effect on other female plants in flower. It is male plants that spread pollen.

2) Can I skip having separate mother plants, by cloning my most recent plant to reach maturity?

Clones taken from plants in flower are notoriously slow to set root. If you don't have mother plants vegging to take cuttings from, your success rate will be low. Moreover, should your clones fail, which may take you 10-12 days to see, if you are taking cuttings only from plants you are now flowering, your problem is worse as the plants in flower progress. Keeping a mother or ten is no big deal It's easier than caring for flowering plants and assures you don't lose your strain/s.

3) Would LST or SCroG techniques increase yield, considering i'm only going to be having 3 flowering plants at a time?

When you have to do a very limited plant count, you're right, SoG isn't your best option. If I had a strict limit, I would probably veg up some clones for about 3 weeks, pruning back the mainstem after 1 week and then pruning off the growing tips of all the remaining branches in the following 2 weeks before flowering them. You will get a fairly short plant with a number of larger branches and good sized terminal colas, not the size of mainstem top colas, but a lot more bud per plant than in the SoG scheme.

Will come out looking like this grow, pictured in cop photos from a raid.






Unfortunately, this style tends to produce generally smaller and fluffier buds due to the location of the buds on the plant. The biggest & densest colas on cannabis plants form on the mainstem tips, which are removed in this style. Continuous production is not possible with this style unless one has separate, dedicated vegging & flowering areas. Longer flowering (~+2wks than normal) makes ops like this do a lot better.