Hello everyone
Even if you grow a little with the fertilizers, no worries, but the hardest thing personally is to rinse the plant well…
And that’s always different when you run lots of seeds at the same time so I’m often too lazy to make several soups
So personally: Good genetics and good rinsing The time of harvest also plays a role, I prefer certain strains not too advanced or more advanced…
In short, several runs to really start trying to have the best qualities😅.
Edit . In the ground I always have better weed. I have already made several cuts at the same time in 2 different substrates and I always have a preference for soil…
Afterwards I cultivate in coconut just because I’m lazy.
See you
O.B
Yep, environment can have drastic effects on the plant, to the point that sometimes the same plant grown indoors vs outside can look, smell and grow completely different.
This, when they get a little crispy and turned up, they’re getting fed enough. If they canoe and curl up, too much nutes/light/heat.
All things being equal, quality and yield are 90% genetic, all we can do as growers is to provide the best grow environment and let the plants do their thing. I personally think that quantity has a quality all of its own, and no matter how good the quality of end result, I’m not growing anything that maxes out at a couple ounces. Quality and quantity are not mutually exclusive, it’s only selection that determines these attributes.
My tip is to use Fulvic acid and Kelp. They make everything better.
I love this topic… I have been after exactly this style of growing… what produces excluding yield the very best bud… I have a topic as well going about what people think about the brix level … does it matter… I think it does…
There’s evidence about altitude playing a role… 2 plants identical… 1 grown at the bottom of a mountain indoors… 1 at the top indoors… grown exactly the same… will be completely different plants in the end… all because of elevation…
I think it mentioned in what I read about it that the higher altitudes produced better weed
And as far as co2… I think co2 is just a source to not bottleneck and slow down a better grower… it does not do much but allow for speed when a super good grower can make the plant move that fast and need that much… it won’t improve the actual quality … just the need for us as growers to have to think faster and act quicker lol
Many ecophysiological things that are mentioned here were done in scientific research in cenutries ago.
Maybe reading plant physiology books will help. The scientific books explain how it was proven but reader friendly books can give a good summary. If can’t find let me know, I can recommend.
About quality
To maximize secondary metabolite, you have to lose least. Plants is not a thing you exceed a genetic potential but minimize losing its potential. That means, your climate control and irrigation strategy is the most effective and efficient way of achieving it. Also, means your smoke quality heavily depends on genetic.
In the market, quality stands for how well your flower developed. That means your smoking quality mainly lean on genetic not the growing skills. Which logically and systematically makes the most sense to me.
But if it is an effort to improve terp and cannabinoid within the same cultivar
then simple recommendation is to generally increase your feed EC. May have to cure longer for smooth smoke.
radiation will improve cannabinoid production.
drought stress will improve cannabinoid production.
both radiation and drought will negatively effect if it goes over the limit.
terpene has high chance to be lost in higher radiation and higher drought stress so it may have opposite trend to cannabinoid.
find a sweet spot or optimize it if you have data and computing skills
. In the ground I always have better weed. I have already made several cuts at the same time in 2 different substrates and I always have a preference for soil…
