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Lesson: how long does it take to grow weed indoors vs. outdoors?

How long does it take to grow a cannabis plant? 

It depends on whether you are growing cannabis indoors or outdoors. You can do either one. But each will have it’s own time period.

Outdoors:

The time it takes to grow weed outdoors is dependent on the location where you are growing. This is because you are relying on the season and the weather to change.

In general, the outdoor season typically lasts from May to October, though this can vary depending on the region and local climate.

If you are in the Midwest, United States, it is very common to plant seeds right around the Mother’s day holiday. But you can start later, if you like.

The flowering period usually begins in late August and runs through September and into October.

(If you don't know the difference between the flowering period and other stages, scroll down to our next lesson on the 3 stages of life).

How long does it take weed to grow Indoors?

The difference between indoor and outdoor is that you can control the "season" when you grow indoors. You do this by controlling the light cycles, which mimic the relative outdoor seasons.

Because if you allot 8 weeks for your veg, and 8 weeks for flowering, you will still need to dry/cure and trim your herb. The drying process will take 1 to 2 weeks. Therefore, you will need 4 ½ months, minimum.

If run a shorter veg, you can trim a few weeks off of the total, but you will end up with smaller plants.

Of course, you may want to increase the total time to six months, in order to give you a longer veg period, and therefore a larger plant to be flowered.
 

Is it quicker to grow weed indoors or outdoors?

Indoors. You can go through the entire life cycle of cannabis much quicker when growing indoors than you can outdoors.

Because you can control the length of the vegetative stage indoors, you can choose how short you want the first half of the plant’s life cycle to be. Whereas when you grow outdoors, you can’t control when the seasons change.

Indoors, you can cut your veg cycle down to just a couple weeks and then switch to the 12/12 light cycle. This will substantially shave off time, and this will allow you to get in more “flips” per year.

Understand the Stages of a cannabis plant’s life cycle

Cannabis has different stages of growth, and you must get through each stage indoors by switching light cycles.

The stages are:

1. Seedling/Clone
2. Vegetative
3. Flowering

Each of these stages requires a minimum amount of time to for the plant to flourish and develop.

How long is each stage of cannabis growth?

There is the Seedling stage, (about 2 weeks), and this is where the seed sprouts a tail, it continues to grow up above the soil. Growing seeds are great for introducing new strains, but most indoor growers start from clone.

It will take a clone at least a week to grow roots and become firmly rooted. We like to give one about 2 weeks. So we consider two weeks to be the amount of time for the seedling or clone stage.

Regarding the Vegetative Stage (4 to 8 weeks), we wrote an entire article explaining you will need a minimum of four weeks allotted.

There are also reasons for why you may want an 8-week or longer veg cycle. This amount of time allows you to top, train, and prune the plant prior to flipping. It gives sufficient time to not only accomplish these tasks but also to allow your plant to recover in between them.

The Flowering Stage (8 to 10 weeks) requires 12/12 lighting and typically around 60 days to reach peak maturity, although this will depend on the strain.

But don’t forget you still have to dry your weed. The Drying Phase (1-2 weeks) is absolutely critical to getting top shelf herb to smoke.

Until Next Time,

 Happy Growing and Smoking!