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Cultivation Corner Brought to you by Smokey Okies Cannabis
By Travis Smith Founder Smokey Okie’sCannabis
Last month we talked about mapping out a New Year’s plan for your 2023 grow schedule. We specifically discussed how you might go about setting up a cultivation plan for a small grow space, such as a grow tent. In this issue, let’s discuss what you might do with a larger space. Re-Capping the Cultivation Plan for the Small Grow Space As we discussed last month, if you have a small space, you will need smaller plants. But with small plants, you can usually run more of them (because they are small, duh). So this could mean more strains and more flavors. Sounds like win for the small set up.
With two grow spaces, you can maintain a stable of moms in your veg space, thereby preserving genetics for future runs. You can also run more strains and alternate when you decide to flower them. Time to Maximize your Yield in 2023 The main advantage of a larger grow space is that you grow larger plants, and get a lot more weed per plant to smoke on. So what’s the plan to grow larger plants. First, decide how many harvests you want this year. And then figure out how long you will need for each veg cycle. Here is why you need to figure that out. If you want to harvest five times this year, you will need separate veg and flower areas. In your veg set up, you will have some moms, and about two batches prepared for flower, spaced out with a few weeks between. Basically, you will cut your clones (more than the number you intend to flower), and veg those clones (Batch 1). A few weeks later, you will take another round of clones ( Batch 2) and will get those plants into a veg cycle as well. After about 4-5 weeks of vegging, you are ready to put Batch 1 in your flower space. The flowering period will last about 8 weeks. During this time, you are veggin’ Batch 2, and cutting clones for Batch 3.
In order to have small plants, you will need a short veg time. And a benefit of shortening the veg time is that you also shorten the entire time-table from clone to harvest. Therefore, you are able to get more runs/ flips/harvests per year. Sounds like another point for the small space grow.
You should be able to repeat this process several more times.
Are there any downsides?
So you may want 5 medium sized harvests or two to three larger harvests. The choice is up to you.
Conclusion: The Length of your Veg Phase determines the Yield per Plant
Your yield will be determined by the length of your Oh, and small spaces are usually easier (and cheaper) vegetative phase. So a 5-week veg phase will result in smaller plants than a 10-week veg space. The plants to control environmentally. that vegged for 10 weeks will be huge going into the flowering phase, and will therefore yield much more. Not a bad plan for the small tent grower, eh! Well, with small plants you will get a small yield per plant. With this type of tent situation, with a short veg time, you’ll be looking at like an ounce per plant.
No matter what you do, with a larger grow space, you will be able to grow larger plants and achieve a greater yield. It’s up to you whether you decide to So the score is 2 to 1 for the small grow space set up, measure your yield on a per harvest basis, or annually. not bad. If you are just looking to harvest the most possible But what if you don’t grow in a tent and what if you on an annual basis, you can decide if you want to run got lots of space? Well then, we need to come up more frequently with smaller plants. Or, whether you would rather harvest a lot each time, but only harvest with a better plan for you! two or three times per year. A Cultivation Plan when you have more space to For more on this subject, grow check out this video: When you are not so restricted on grow space, you definitely have more options. Especially if you have two grow spaces, one for veg and one for flower.
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