INDOOR V.S OUTDOOR

[Wavels]

Here is a contentious thread addressing the outdoor vs indoor issue.
This was from a year ago.

IMO, all thing being equal, outdoor buds are more potent than the same strain grown indoors. However, my outdoor container plants produce buds which are more potent than their counterparts grown in the ground. The containers are portable. I can give them more direct sunlight. As well as the fact that they can be moved to shelter to protect them from the ravages of torrential rain, severe wind and hail. Mother Nature can be quite harsh to trichhomes.
No indoor lighting can match the sun.




https://www.rollitup.org/t/outdoor-bud-quality.866077/page-3#post-11471237

 

[Father Ramirez]

It's our lucky day, as I have the definitive controlled experiment with conclusive results in my pipe right now!

I grew clones from a 50/50 mother this past summer here in mid Atlantic USA. The indoor is exactly what you'd want; clean, green and sticky. Great high.
The outdoor was grown on a small family farm. A real farm with veggies, fruit trees and chickens. In a hoop house. The friend growing it doesn't know anything about cannabis, but he's a farmer, so I didn't give him much advice. After giving him the clones I never saw them again until he handed me the jars. The result is not pretty, tastes earthy, smokes greasy and is very strong! A distinctively different high than her indoor identical sisters. More of a 'stone'.
Different, not better.

 

[Budley Doright]

Definitive controlled experiment ..... ya ok lol

 

[Father Ramirez]

BD, damn right ya ok lol!
I'm here to learn and have fun. I'm taking nothing too seriously, I value the experience and opinions of others, and resist the subtle, smug bashing of strangers who offer their stories for our entertainment. So it's not the Iowa school of agriculture's clinical lab.... just one man's experience growing identical clones indoor and out. You don't agree?, move along quietly please.

 

[Budley Doright]

Ya ok lol and I wasn't trying to be subtle

 

[MerionMatt]

It's our lucky day, as I have the definitive controlled experiment with conclusive results in my pipe right now!

I grew clones from a 50/50 mother this past summer here in mid Atlantic USA. The indoor is exactly what you'd want; clean, green and sticky. Great high.
The outdoor was grown on a small family farm. A real farm with veggies, fruit trees and chickens. In a hoop house. The friend growing it doesn't know anything about cannabis, but he's a farmer, so I didn't give him much advice. After giving him the clones I never saw them again until he handed me the jars. The result is not pretty, tastes earthy, smokes greasy and is very strong! A distinctively different high than her indoor identical sisters. More of a 'stone'.
Different, not better.

What kind of results did you expect lol.. It was the Indian not the arrow

 

[MM422]

I'll take outdoor way over indoor,, you can get a few pounds off a single plant compared to a few oz's on average indoors.. the quality can be just as good outdoor if you take care of them. And the sunlight is free.. there will always be pros and cons but i'll take outdoor if i had to choose one

 

[Budley Doright]

I actually prefer indoor but I grow both indoor and out. I do like that the sun is free though lol. My outdoor stuff is pretty much organic and grown in compost and soil mix

 

[Budley Doright]

BD, damn right ya ok lol!
I'm here to learn and have fun. I'm taking nothing too seriously, I value the experience and opinions of others, and resist the subtle, smug bashing of strangers who offer their stories for our entertainment. So it's not the Iowa school of agriculture's clinical lab.... just one man's experience growing identical clones indoor and out. You don't agree?, move along quietly please.

If your going to get all butt hurt if someone doesn't agree with you here it best be you that moves along to a different site. This is not the place for sensitive types lol. Or better yet you could put in your big boy pants .

 

[mauricem00]

So ive been talking to some buddies that cropped out in October outside here in the PAC. N.W . We have sampled lots of outdoor grows some professional most not but.... Flavor and potency just isnt there compaired to indoor grown flowers. I am strictly an indoor kind of guy but have grown a whole bunch outside as well and other than size of harvest I just dont see the point. Id personally rather overpay for an ounce o.k indoor over premium outdoor any day. Maybe outdoor people we sampled from didnt have any idea what the fuck they were doing? Your thoughts ????

my summer patio grows always taste better than indoor grows but i'm a PU MMJ growers so I may grow a little differently than commercial growers. my indoor grows taste better than dispensary weed but not as good as outdoor grows.all other things being equal sunlight is always going to be better than artificial light.

 

[mauricem00]

There are things I agree with here and more things I don't!

I grow most of my "personal" outdoors, in my soil, in containers. They go out after just expressing the beginning of the stretch, and about 2 weeks before they would "flip" to bloom if they were "in the ground" plants.

They are kept in direct sun for 90+% of the day! Hiding a grow in the woods and less then 75% direct lighting doesn't get the job done to well!

This makes for closer nodal spacing and no real stretch as she just attempts to reg veg before going right back to bloom. I get massive buds in length.

The outdoors supplies the wonderful natural light spectrum that has those fantastic UV bands that actually increase the potency!

The only real problem I have. Is the season is too short for a real solid finish sometimes. Even when I bring plants in and out after dark and right before the sun starts to come up. Till it gets too cold...A greenhouse would be nice but, it would attract to much attention on my properties if running late season! We have a small one for starting celery/onions at the muck farm.

I have never had any indoor other then ones run with UV supplemental lighting come close to out-door potency!
I have never had any indoor, in any non organic method run, taste as good as organic soil run plants! IN or OUT doors!

@vostok You are so very correct there V! The make-up of the soil and it's available nutrient profile, along with differing bacterial profiles, from my experience, make for differing Terp profiles!

IF, you are growing indoors and adding any P sulfates, or K sulfates or simply S in any way. You are "enhancing" the terp profiles of the plant. By the use of P sulfates, your expressing a more "berry" profile and with K sulfates a more lemon and citrus profile...The use of S it's self will increase trichome production and thus, enhance the natural terp profile of the plant by volume increase of terps..

So then. Building your soil, even for in-ground (if the season is long enough) and with a little micro management.....Will kill indoors!

UNLESS you run organic and supply supplemental lighting in the UV bands. If you run HPS, you'll need some more blue spectrum to help out too!

IF you know what your doing! It can be hard to tell! But I have old school friends ask specifically for my outdoor, even over the same strains run indoors......It seems to have a more "trippy" quality to it, and the buzz seems to last longer too.
It's my party weed and the Hash I give out at a local growers/friends Christmas party is all made from outdoor.....The outdoor shatter is for New Years....

Outdoor RULES in my book!

we have a short growing season up here too so I start my summer patio crop indoors then move them outside in mid june.many of my neighbors do the same thing with their vegetable gardens

 

[mauricem00]

It's our lucky day, as I have the definitive controlled experiment with conclusive results in my pipe right now!

I grew clones from a 50/50 mother this past summer here in mid Atlantic USA. The indoor is exactly what you'd want; clean, green and sticky. Great high.
The outdoor was grown on a small family farm. A real farm with veggies, fruit trees and chickens. In a hoop house. The friend growing it doesn't know anything about cannabis, but he's a farmer, so I didn't give him much advice. After giving him the clones I never saw them again until he handed me the jars. The result is not pretty, tastes earthy, smokes greasy and is very strong! A distinctively different high than her indoor identical sisters. More of a 'stone'.
Different, not better.

sounds like an experienced indoor grower VS an inexperienced outdoor grower. big variable that was not controlled for. growing good cannabis is a little different than growing tomatoes.commercial farmers are a little different than PU indoor growers.a lot of poor science on this site.but many people do not have the training to properly perform a controlled study.

 

[Lucky Luke]

sounds like an experienced indoor grower VS an inexperienced outdoor grower. big variable that was not controlled for. growing good cannabis is a little different than growing tomatoes.commercial farmers are a little different than PU indoor growers.a lot of poor science on this site.but many people do not have the training to properly perform a controlled study.

The word here is "controlled". nearly impossible when one is outside and one inside. You also need a controlled sample group (users of the product) with a few other flowers thrown in, plus scientific analysts of the flowers in question.

I think most would agree outside tastes better and yields more per plant.

I would imagine strength of the end product would have to do more with genetics that anything else. ??

Those who do inside for a hobby love it for its hobby and can be a little biased which is fair enough and understandable. They contribute a fair amount of time and costs.

 

[mauricem00]

I grow indoors all year round and it is a fun hobby but sun is free so a couple of extra plants in the patio for a summer grow only need a little soil and food and a couple of clones. very cheap and an extra treat in mid fall

 

[Lucky Luke]

I grow indoors all year round and it is a fun hobby but sun is free so a couple of extra plants in the patio for a summer grow only need a little soil and food and a couple of clones. very cheap and an extra treat in mid fall

I do the opposite.
My main grow is outdoor but last winter (and probably this one) i mucked about with a Fridge grow

Tis all good fun.

 

[Odin*]

The answer was is plain and clear, to argue it is beyond ridiculous, but variables are too great to give an objective answer on such a subjective subject to so diverse an audience (in both preference and available supply).