Growing cannabis in a controlled environment is the best way to ensure you make the most out of your Weed Seeds purchase. But how you get the best yield is rather a matter of science. There are a number of ways to ensure you get the biggest buds and the best possible harvest, and once you’ve got the medium dialed in and the grow space doing its thing, the first step is training. Creating as many branches and bud sites as possible will boost the potential of your plants. Light is also a major player in how your cannabis performs and it pays to remember that red light helps to grow the plant and blue light makes it compact. The same is true for flowering phases and the effects of light on buds, and it pays to provide as much light as your plants can handle. Nutrients are of paramount importance when growing cannabis. Plants require nitrogen (N) to grow, potassium (K) for structure and phosphorus (P) for flowers. A high P count and low numbers on the rest during the flowering phase will ensure that your buds will turn up in fine form. For indicas, we recommend Sea of Green (SOG), whereby plants are packed together and flowered young and fast. For sativas, we suggest Screen of Green (ScrOG), where you spread branching out to balance bud sites. Ventilation is always important as well, and there is a lot to be said for CO2, if you have the experience.
Seed Selection For Bigger Yields
When you want the biggest yields from your cannabis gardens, you must start with genetics capable of delivering massive hauls. For this, it pays to know how to select seeds. Of course, there are hundreds of high yielding strains out there, most members of the Critical family for example. But the seed itself has a lot to do with how successful you are in the grow space. A perfect cannabis seed is big, dark, shiny and it will have darker veins running the length of its body. New seeds, immature seeds and often male seeds, are small and whitish green, and you want to stay away from these ones. They are either not fully matured, they’ll be duds or they will turn out to be boys. If you know that you want indica plants, you might like to know that indica seeds are generally much darker than sativas, and sativa seeds can even be a solid color, without the veins we are used to on most seeds. It is true that small seeds will grow as well as big seeds, but the big seeds are the most mature, and are therefore the most promising. For the best results come harvest time, choose something pure or relatively early in the breeding chain, and make sure it’s a yielder to begin with. Since automatic strains are so small and compact, photoperiod strains are what you want to choose if you want the truly gargantuan hauls.
Support Your Flowering Marijuana Plants
Some cannabis genetics are inherently huge, some are not sturdy and some become so laden with buds that they break under their own weight. For these and other reasons, it is sometimes important, even necessary, to support your flowering marijuana plants. Lots of light and the right combination of nutrients should help your plants attain the structural integrity they require to remain erect. However, sometimes the produce is just too much. Generally speaking, indica species don’t need help. Most of them are plenty strong enough to carry themselves happily through flower. Sativas, on the other hand, are not so lucky and many of them need a bit of help. It is also true that, when hybrid genetics become too diluted, they start to weaken and will snap under the pressure of a pound of bud. How to support your plants is up to you. Al fresco growers often use garden spikes, such as bamboo or plastic, and these do the trick if they are positioned properly around the plants. Another method which makes support more a side effect than a plan, is the ScrOG. Bending and tying or weaving your branching through a stable mesh or screen is meant first to balance buds, but it has the happy effect of supporting the crop as well. However you choose to provide support for your crop, if you are using twine of any kind, make sure it’s synthetic. You wouldn’t want it rotting mid grow.
Training Techniques To Increase The Yield Of Your Weed Crop
How to increase the yield of your weed crop is a question asked by every grower and it is one which has a few answers. We have mentioned before the efficacy of the SOG and ScrOG training methodologies, but here we will go into a bit more detail. The Sea of Green (SOG) is a training methodology which involves fast indicas and indica dominant hybrid strains. Clone, establish, veg for anywhere from two to six weeks and flip. Lollipopping at this time will redirect energy to the single cola and with this technique, you can grow a plant for every six inches squared. Since plants remain small, this is also a method which lends well to stacking. Another method which is famed and utilized throughout global growing communities is the Screen of Green (ScrOG) technique. For this to work as hoped, you need to construct a screen to place over each oversized pot. As the plant grows, top and top again, weaving subsequent branching through the screen. Use synthetic material like nylon for your screen or it may rot as the grow goes on. Since you are spreading branching out, each potential bud site, or node, becomes blanketed in light and activated, therefore increasing yield size. This technique also balances the health of buds, so each separate cola is almost identical to the others. When you master these training techniques, you will notice a difference in the size of your hauls.
Set Your Grow Light To Increase Cannabis Yields
We all know light has heaps to do with the health of our weed, but just how much influence it has and what different combinations of light and color temperatures can do is still a bit blurry for many. But first let’s talk about distancing your light from the crop. For seedlings, a high wattage LED should be at least three feet away and, as the plants grow, they grow into the lights, ending up about twelve to eighteen inches from the rig. Where a small blurple light may work with a micro grow, the larger the space, the more light you need, and it needs to be balanced. A full spectrum LED is the light of choice for most growers these days, though the traditional HID lighting is also widely used, especially the blues. The higher intensity your light, the more it will demand of the medium, nutrients, and the more it will demand from the plants themselves. Increased lighting of the right kind will increase yields, but it also demands increases in nutrients, ventilation, and temperature control becomes more important to manage. The recommended wattage for an LED grow is anywhere from 100 to 200 per square foot. Setting HID or high intensity discharge lighting is a little more work, since they get much hotter and are much more powerful. The average HID bulb is anywhere from 300-1000w and these must be placed much higher or ventilation managed much more effectively.
The Best Marijuana Strains For Larger Indoor Yields
There are tons of strains on the market which boast an enormous haul. Though the best marijuana strains for larger indoor yields are always photoperiods, our auto growers want the biggest as well. Here we have selected a couple high octane and high yielding strains which have been proven by our clients to max out the capacity of whatever indoor space you have on the go. Grease Monkey Seeds are not only popular, but they consistently produce harvests over 500 grams. This beast is known to deliver up to 600g to an experienced grower, and Weed Seeds has a few that deliver even more. For our auto fans out there, the first on our list is Purple Punch Autoflower Seeds. This strain is not only high THC at 23%, but it is known to produce as much as 500 grams per m2, massive for any autoflower and impressive even for a photo strain. Lastly, we have chosen the infamous Triple XL Autoflower Seeds. Apparently, this little unassuming autoflower seed is capable of producing up to 1000 grams, a massive harvest in anyone’s book. We have photoperiod sativas which are known for delivering a few pounds per plant and we have others known for the densest buds. Whatever type of high quality genetics you choose, when you want the biggest harvest, don’t forget to take a look at what these magic marijuana beans are capable of.
