Should I just kill off the weak ones...

So out of my boredom and want to grow on my own, I grew way too many plants in a small area for my first time. I went into flowering because all of the plants had decent veg growth, but now I have a few dominant plants blocking out the others. If I wasn't so ignorant while planting the seeds, I would have known that ten plants in one earth box is WAY too many. I have four plants going really strong. One is a healthy female sativa growing white hair after white hair and she is pushing three feet tall, and the other three haven't shown sex yet ( 5 days into 12/12 ) but are almost two feet indicas and bushy as hell. Should I just kill off the remaining six plants that are dying out anyway? If I do I can get more light to the healthy plants, and the plants in question are withering away as we speak because they just couldn't compete. I also fear that due to the stress that they are going to be hermie at best if they do live. I'm for saving the space for the healthy ones, but if anyone else may have made the same mistake on their first grow and had it work let me know.

i wouldnt chop them. if you do your going to have a dead root ball rotting in your bed and will most likely screw the soil ph or even spread disease to the other roots. i would just take the weak ones and trim em down with out killing them. dont trim too much all at once.

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Originally Posted by laphter

So out of my boredom and want to grow on my own, I grew way too many plants in a small area for my first time. I went into flowering because all of the plants had decent veg growth, but now I have a few dominant plants blocking out the others. If I wasn't so ignorant while planting the seeds, I would have known that ten plants in one earth box is WAY too many. I have four plants going really strong. One is a healthy female sativa growing white hair after white hair and she is pushing three feet tall, and the other three haven't shown sex yet ( 5 days into 12/12 ) but are almost two feet indicas and bushy as hell. Should I just kill off the remaining six plants that are dying out anyway? If I do I can get more light to the healthy plants, and the plants in question are withering away as we speak because they just couldn't compete. I also fear that due to the stress that they are going to be hermie at best if they do live. I'm for saving the space for the healthy ones, but if anyone else may have made the same mistake on their first grow and had it work let me know.

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No gotta slaughter, brah.:rastasmoke:
Take dem fo' a ride inna countryside.
Have a li'l pic-a-nic.
Bury dey foots inna loam

Den say your goodbyes an' promise to come see 'em when dey get beeg.

Waste not want not is all I'm sayin'.

Aloha,
Weezard