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Issue #361 - Sunday, March 17, 2019
Dear Fellow Grower,
In today's issue...
- How can a grower get a reasonable idea of what kind of yields to expect? Today's article will use the 'limiting factor' to show you how to do exactly that!
- Although current breeding practices have produced monster yielding strains, it's good to remember that yields aren't all-important...
- A grower said he'd like to see his pictures as trophy pics of the week! For some reason, I just couldn't say no!
Nebula Haze & Sirius Fourside (founders of GrowWeedEasy.com)
"Planning is bringing the future into the present
so that you can do something about it now."
~Alan Lakein
What Determines Your Yields?
(aka "The Limiting Factor")
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by Sirius Fourside
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One of the most common questions we get asked by new cannabis growers is “how much bud can I expect to yield with my setup?”
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It’s a tough question to answer accurately since there are so many variables that affect your yields. Plus, as a cannabis grower, you are the most important variable that affects your yields!
That being said, it’s a totally valid question! People can be – understandably – timid about starting to grow cannabis and they want to make sure they know what yields to expect. No one wants to invest time and money into something if they feel they won’t be happy with the results.
That’s where the “limiting factor” comes in.
In nature, a limiting factor is an environmental condition that is key in restricting the size of a population. For example, the number of healthy foxes in an area plays an important role in the rabbit population in the same area. Foxes are a limiting factor to rabbit populations, or, foxes are a factor that is limiting the maximum population of rabbits in their area.
When growing cannabis, a limiting factor is something that is key in restricting the amount of bud a grower can harvest. For example, if you grow a high-yielding strain of cannabis under a 600W LED light in a Solo cup, the Solo cup becomes a limiting factor in that it’s the main factor that’s limiting how much you can harvest.
What cannabis yields can you expect to harvest from a specific grow light or setup?
It would be tough to guess exactly how much you’re going to harvest even with detailed information about a grower’s entire setup because experience makes a huge difference. However, by identifying the limiting factor in a cannabis growing setup, we can get a good approximation of what a grower can expect for yields provided everything goes smoothly.
How This Works
In the next section, we’ll go through 5 aspects of a grow setup that have a major impact on your yields: grow space, grow lights, container, strain and plant training. Although all five of these aspects affect your yields, we only use the grow space, lights and container to give you an expected weight range for yields. I’ll explain that part a little later.
There are two very important things to keep in mind about this info:
- Each grower’s unique set of skills can drastically change the amount of bud harvested from a grow. This guide is meant to give you an idea of what ballpark figures to expect; they’re not set in stone!
- Every item in each of the topics we discuss will have a range, for example: 1oz – 10oz. The low end of that range (1oz) assumes the grow didn’t go so well and that you’re using equipment in the lower end of the range you’re in. Conversely, the high end of the range (10oz) assumes the grow went great and you’re using equipment in the upper end of your range! So, in the 1oz – 10oz example:
- 1oz would be close to what a grower should expect to harvest if the plant was unhealthy and grown with less-than-reliable equipment.
- 10oz would be close to what a grower should expect to harvest if the plant was healthy and the grower used quality equipment.
Let’s get started!
Grow Space
Your ‘Grow Space’ is the area your plants call home. This could be a grow tent, a cabinet, a closet, a PC case, a room in your house or the great outdoors! Basically, it’s the area that physically limits how big your plants can grow (with walls, fences, etc.).
Note: If you’re growing outdoors, I’m jealous and I hate you. Awww…I take it back. I could never hate you!
Stealth (PC cases, tiny cabinet grows, etc.)
- Solo cups also belong in this group
- Expected yields: Up to 1oz
Small Tents & Larger Cabinets – up to 9ft²
- Larger than a PC case, but not larger than a 2‘x4’or 3’x3’ area
- Taller than 4 feet
- Expected yields: 1oz to 10oz
Hobby Level – 10ft² – 25ft²
- Larger than 3’x3’, but no larger than a 5’x5’ space
- Taller than 6 feet
- Expected yields: 7oz to 2lbs
Large Tents/Rooms/Etc. – 26+ft²
- Larger than a 5’x5’ tent
- Taller than 6 feet
- Now we’re nearing the ‘grow operation’ size, so the yields can vary by a wide margin as the tents turn into rooms
- Expected yields: 2lbs+
Outdoors
- Outdoor yields vary wildly depending on the grower, container size and the amount of growing space available. The hours of direct sunlight a plant gets each day also plays a huge factor!
- Expected yields: A few ounces to many, many pounds
Yields are great,
but your taste is more important!
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It's easy to get caught up in the game of trying to yield as much as possible...who doesn't want lots of bud?
But it's important to take a step back and remember the old adage: 'quality over quantity'.
That's not to say that high yielding strains aren't high quality; several strains have notoriously high yields and potency to match!
But some of the best strains were bred with other things in mind and are just as worth your time. A good example of such a strain is:
With a distinct pineapple-y citrus smell and high potency,
there's a reason 2 of the 6 plants in one of our current grows
are pineapple chunk!
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Which LED Should You
Get?
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Hello everyone,
Nebula here. You may have heard about my upcoming online grow course. Registration has been delayed because we were rejected by both Paypal and Stripe due to the fact that the class talks about cannabis. Who knew they could reject a person just for teaching people how to grow?
Luckily, we were guided to a trustworthy company who supports freedom of speech and the right to teach about growing. But it will take a little extra time to get set up. We're tentatively planning to launch the class in April.
For all those looking for growing help right now, I decided this was a perfect opportunity to create a series of short videos about growing cannabis for beginners. Here is the first one:
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Reply to this email and let me know what you think of the video. I'll be making more free videos as we lead into the class opening in April :)
~Nebula Haze
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Subject: Praise
I think you do an excellent job.
I look so forward to your post every Sunday morning. The day and time you chose is perfect.
And you are so precise, accurate and comprehensive with your information it's very admirable.
~Marty
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Trophy Pictures of the Week!
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"I would love to see these as trophy pics; grown under the Aussie sun 2018/2019"
~AusBent420
"Done!" ~Sirius
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"Growing cannabis can be a relaxing hobby in and of itself, but it also saves you money and keeps you from having to deal with shady characters. Cannabis is much easier to grow than people give it credit for, and growing in water
doesn't increase the difficulty much, if any. But whether you want to grow in water, coco, or a different medium, we'll show you how easy it can be!"
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