If you’re an intermediate grower with a few runs under your belt, this guide will help you boost your yield and quality and take your garden to the next level. Let’s begin!
What Drives Growth?
-Understanding photosynthesis. Light, heat, and C02 drive nutrient uptake.
-Biomass, terpenes, cannabinoids all result from this process.
-Cultivars differ in their specific needs. Genetics are the most important factor.
Yield
-How to think about yield metrics. Grams per square inch, or grams per watt always.
-A full canopy is our goal no matter what style. More plants = less veg time. Time is money!
-Training and support. Support early and often. Avoid “overtopping.”
-Tips for increasing yield: Add microbes, add triacontanol (Mammoth P, alfalfa), install a trellis, increase calcium delivery, increase heat/light/C02/feed combo. Use a good light!
Increasing Quality
-What compounds do we want more of, and what are they made of? Terpenes and cannabinoids are made of carbon and hydrogen. Carbon based inputs are a great option!
-What causes plants to produce terpenes and other aromatics? This is an immuno-response by the plant. Stimulate the plant’s immune system with additional microbes, and products that contain chitin.
-Fine tune your environment. Heat drives growth, but volatilizes terpenes. Reduce your temps late in flower and dry and cure your plants slow and low.
Conclusion
-While genetics are important, there are always things you can do to improve. Get to know a strain over multiple runs to learn more about it.
-Find a style that works for you and change one thing per run. Use controls to determine if your new change actually improves things.
-Do your best to improve, but remember, it’s not a race and every grower has bad runs sometimes – no matter how talented they are!
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