If I can identify the sexes early then I can plant all the females into the 4’x4’ planter and pamper them with all the possible space they can get. Then I can take the males and plant them into 5 gallon smart pots in a different area. When it’s time to pollinate I’ll just run each male out to the girls and shake him all about.
I want to do it this way for a couple of reasons. The first is that I’ve witnessed, and read about, plants being far healthier when they planted together in the same soil. All the plants, cannabis and clover in my case, work with the mycorrhyzal fungus to provide each plant with what it might be lacking.
The second is that I believe the ovary possessing plants (our females) are passing on their methylation of the epigenetics to the resulting seeds. Methylation coding for the epigenetics of a seed are transferred ONLY by the mother plant and therefore I want it to have as little stress as possible. Studies have shown that reduced stress in mother plants (all organisms coded by DNA in fact) can result in a reduction in previous stress induced methylation of the epigenetics and it prevents further methylation linked to stress responses.
A seed that has stress induced methylation is more likely to be primed for a life that will require it to survive increased environmental stresses. This causes the plant to produce chemicals that will allow it to survive those stresses, but also takes energy away from other things like the trichome production pathway.
It’s been a few years since I studied up on Evolutionary Genetics, so if anyone sees anything wrong in this summary please speak up! I love to learn new stuff so I have a lot of gratitude for people that teach me new knowledge