Do rec. stores/dispensaries sell auto flower weed?

[tstick]

First of all, I am not an advocate for auto flower weed. I never grew up with it and I don't see the point of it. The limited experience I had with it was that it tasted funny and looked funny. This was years ago, though, and I understand that a lot of work has been done to improve it. Sorry, I'm still not interested in it. It just seems....different from what I was indoctrinated with back in the 70's. It's become kind of a specialized deal, now, though and some of the people who are behind are really passionate about it. I think of it more like a completely different plant that grows in a completely different way.

My main question is in regards to the commercial production and distribution of it. Would anyone have to disclose that it was auto flower weed if it was to be sold? I wonder.

 

[OldMedUser]

I doubt they would have to disclose it but probably would.

Autoflowers have their place like up north here where regular plants won't start flowering until mid August and we used to get killer frosts by mid Sept so they didn't have time to finish. I grew autos outside that I started inside the first of June and would plant into the ground around the 20th or so depending on the weather. They would finish up around the 2nd week of Sept just ahead of the cold weather.

Now there's hemp fields just a few miles away and they got all seeded up in my 2022 crop so I didn't plant any this summer. Didn't like all the bugs I would find while trimming so no great loss. The smoke was just fine tho and I got 6oz off each plant. This year I went and got a garbage bag full of hemp tops to make oil with. Probably only 6% CBD but should get a few oz of good CBD oil out of it. Drove by there on Friday and half the crop is all baled up in huge round bales. Hope they got the rest done as it's snowing today. They chopped it all down Sept 21.

Got two bags packed full like this that once dry filled a standard garbage bag. Talked to the man working the field with his tractor putting it into rows and he said it was OK to take all the tops I wanted as they were just growing it for fiber.



They hit 11ft when they were cropped.

 

[Greenman68]

I doubt they would have to disclose it but probably would.

Autoflowers have their place like up north here where regular plants won't start flowering until mid August and we used to get killer frosts by mid Sept so they didn't have time to finish. I grew autos outside that I started inside the first of June and would plant into the ground around the 20th or so depending on the weather. They would finish up around the 2nd week of Sept just ahead of the cold weather.

Now there's hemp fields just a few miles away and they got all seeded up in my 2022 crop so I didn't plant any this summer. Didn't like all the bugs I would find while trimming so no great loss. The smoke was just fine tho and I got 6oz off each plant. This year I went and got a garbage bag full of hemp tops to make oil with. Probably only 6% CBD but should get a few oz of good CBD oil out of it. Drove by there on Friday and half the crop is all baled up in huge round bales. Hope they got the rest done as it's snowing today. They chopped it all down Sept 21.

Got two bags packed full like this that once dry filled a standard garbage bag. Talked to the man working the field with his tractor putting it into rows and he said it was OK to take all the tops I wanted as they were just growing it for fiber.

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They hit 11ft when they were cropped.

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those look great! I wonder what nutes they use?

 

[Willy B. Goode]

I doubt they would have to disclose it but probably would.

Autoflowers have their place like up north here where regular plants won't start flowering until mid August and we used to get killer frosts by mid Sept so they didn't have time to finish. I grew autos outside that I started inside the first of June and would plant into the ground around the 20th or so depending on the weather. They would finish up around the 2nd week of Sept just ahead of the cold weather.

Now there's hemp fields just a few miles away and they got all seeded up in my 2022 crop so I didn't plant any this summer. Didn't like all the bugs I would find while trimming so no great loss. The smoke was just fine tho and I got 6oz off each plant. This year I went and got a garbage bag full of hemp tops to make oil with. Probably only 6% CBD but should get a few oz of good CBD oil out of it. Drove by there on Friday and half the crop is all baled up in huge round bales. Hope they got the rest done as it's snowing today. They chopped it all down Sept 21.

Got two bags packed full like this that once dry filled a standard garbage bag. Talked to the man working the field with his tractor putting it into rows and he said it was OK to take all the tops I wanted as they were just growing it for fiber.

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They hit 11ft when they were cropped.

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Very cool, thanks for sharing.

 

[OldMedUser]

those look great! I wonder what nutes they use?

Very likely the same kind of nutes they use to grow other crops here. It's all just mineral salts mostly applied dry except for those farmers that use anhydrous ammonia as a nitrogen source. I used to deliver the ammonia to farmers in the field and worked ten seasons doing that. Dangerous stuff.

Some apply it in the fall and some in the spring so could work a few weeks twice a year doing that. I also worked blending the various dry chem to specific formulations depending on the results of soil samples from various farms.

Not much topsoil here in what used to be boreal forest and muskeg so it's fertilize using salts or no growing anything.

 

[Thundercat]

Most dispensary weed I've encountered was grown indoors. It really wouldn't make sense on a commercial level to run autos indoors. Even in greenhouses, it would be better to light dep a photo crop you could control rather then growing autos.

From everything I've seen autos might be useful outdoors in places with weird climates, but that's about it. I can't see any other practical reason to grow them, especially indoors or commercially.

 

[OldMedUser]

Most dispensary weed I've encountered was grown indoors. It really wouldn't make sense on a commercial level to run autos indoors. Even in greenhouses, it would be better to light dep a photo crop you could control rather then growing autos.

From everything I've seen autos might be useful outdoors in places with weird climates, but that's about it. I can't see any other practical reason to grow them, especially indoors or commercially.

Totally agree. Why use 6 hours or more extra light a day to grow plants that don't yield as well as regular photo plants grown under 12/12. I only grew any indoors for making fem seeds from them and have lots I'll never use now.

For this winter's indoor grow I'm going with some 30:1 CBD regulars and plan to make some fem seeds from those and a THC strain called Paonia Purple Paralyzer that are supposed to be near narcotic. I'll be blowing a bit of money sending oil samples to a lab so I can make medicines to specific doses and to help select the best plants to use in my breeding efforts. Just a few of each as I'm not a cash cropper and there's not a lot of money in pot any more.