Seperate Vegetative/Flowering Plants

[nl16]

I am a first time grower using a 300 watt LED to grow Northern Lights Auto-flower from Nirvana. I planted all 5 seeds, 4 germinated, and after about a month of growth I germinated the freebie seeds as well (no idea what they are). I have them all in a small grow tent and was wondering, will there be any negative effects from leaving photo-period plants or seedlings in the same area as my feminized auto-flowers during the flowering stage?

[furrysparkle]

Only if one of your photos are beyond beast and grow in males before you harvest your autos and give you seedy buds

[Weed Pharma]

I place my auto's in any tent which has room-I use them to fill open tent space and not waste any light.

At the moment I have 4 photo's vegging @ 20/4 while an auto is finishing flower. (then I will flip @ 12/12 to flower out- those vegging plants).

The important thing is your LED's must stay in the veg cycle 18/6 -20/4, for all to be happy. If you find you need to flower the photo plant- your auto's CAN be under 12/12, but yield may suffer.

In a couple of months I will be doing an all auto perpetual harvest, which will run at 18/6 or 20/4 light schedule.

And yes to the above post- be very vigilant it's not a boy!

[nl16]

Thanks for the responses. I have had to move the photo seedlings out due to limitations of space, so the question may be moot so long as there is no damage done (I don't think the largest photo has even revealed its sex yet, and the others are seedlings.) With regard to the limitations of space....

I unfortunately have all of my NL Autos in the same tub that acts as nutes reservoir, as I did not have the proper equipment/time to do things right (i.e., about 12-14 gallons of solution in a tub with 3 larger plants and 1 dwarf, with a 2 airstones fed from a 15 liter/minute pump at half or full strength 24/7 ). The root systems are all tangled at this point and don't think that this is negatively affecting the plants right now but am worried about potential problems come harvest.

Question: Is it possible to harvest a whole plant without killing it and creating further problems for this rat-king root system that I have now? I'd imagine I'd just harvest the branches and leave it, but will the lack of photosynthesizing leaves kill the plant and increase rot potential before I can harvest the late-bloomers?

Thanks again