Do Larger Plants Produce Better Medicine?

[george xxx]

Originally Posted by subcool
While there are many ways to grow cannabis I find that older larger bushes produce better medicine so we veg our plants for 60 days before budding.


Not interested in bigger buds or large yielding plants. I'm looking for opinions on better quality medicine.

Some information I have read suggests short dark green indica with dense leaf growth could be a good choice.

 

[bluntmassa1]

I don't think so I've heard the opposite of that the "smaller plants produce more thc than the larger ones" is what I've heard only thing vegging for 2 months is any better I think would be nicer bigger buds but I doubt the thc will be any better

 

[Hemlock]

I started out with 2 gallon pots and are now using 45 gallon pots. The pot is much better, much more flavor and THC

 

[nuskool89]

I would have to agree to a certain extent. I think the two most important variables regarding potency are genetics and root zone to plant size ratio. Meaning the bigger and healthier the root mass is, the better the product will be.

 

[smokinrav]

No, it's no better than any other sized plant grown to full maturity.

Yes, potency is genetic. That means to get the best of the strain your growing, you grow a plant to its potential or you do not. Either way, size is irrelevant to potency.

 

[Dwezelitsame]

top notch buds often the stingiest -lowest yielders

 

[obijohn]

I've always heard the more mature the plant, the better the potency. Of course, potency in the end is determined by genetics, but according to Ed Rosenthal, a plant vegged longer should reach it's full potential of potency more so than a short term veg.

I've never flowered a plant with less than three months vegging, so I can't speak from personal experience. I do suspect the difference wouldn't be huge in potency

 

[racerboy71]

I've always heard the more mature the plant, the better the potency. Of course, potency in the end is determined by genetics, but according to Ed Rosenthal, a plant vegged longer should reach it's full potential of potency more so than a short term veg.

I've never flowered a plant with less than three months vegging, so I can't speak from personal experience. I do suspect the difference wouldn't be huge in potency

3 months ob?? jesu, and i thought i liked to veg forever and a day.. i think there might be something to older plants giving better results, but i tend to veg for a long time every time, so i don't have much to back it up..
but say i vegged a plant for 4 months in a one gallon container, and one for the same time in a 5 gallon one, would the bigger potted plant be more potent?? i don't see many reasons why it would be..
think of it this way, outdoor is generally considered lesser quality by people who run dispensaries, and some people grow outdoors in upwards of say 50 gallons, would that blew away the same bud grown in say 1 gallon is there was any truth to this??

 

[DelQ]

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Well I'll let you know in about 10 weeks or less. I started just messing around with some plants and 5 weeks later I'm in a lot of trouble.. I have 3 Plants that are 4-4, Now I have to put them under 3000 watts of lights, (There goes my guest bedroom) The strain is Magic Mountain. I hope they don't stretch to much its only a 9 foot sealing..This Strain is suppose to be 1 hit stash, But I will sure let you know after I harvest,,,

 

[Grojak]

Originally Posted by subcool
While there are many ways to grow cannabis I find that older larger bushes produce better medicine so we veg our plants for 60 days before budding.


Not interested in bigger buds or large yielding plants. I'm looking for opinions on better quality medicine.

Some information I have read suggests short dark green indica with dense leaf growth could be a good choice.

Let's face it Sub grows longer veg bigger plants for max yield (I've heard him say that) because he keeps it legal and OR has grow limits, there is no other reason to veg longer than to increase per plant yield (or you have 40 days before you move and just started some cuts). Why he would make a statement like that is beyond me, but there are many who believe his is the word of god so this theory might catch on (which is in his best interest since he grows that way, I'm sure he would say HIS super soil and 60 day veg produces the best plants in the world but c'mon).

 

[obijohn]

3 months ob?? jesu, and i thought i liked to veg forever and a day.. i think there might be something to older plants giving better results, but i tend to veg for a long time every time, so i don't have much to back it up..
but say i vegged a plant for 4 months in a one gallon container, and one for the same time in a 5 gallon one, would the bigger potted plant be more potent?? i don't see many reasons why it would be..
think of it this way, outdoor is generally considered lesser quality by people who run dispensaries, and some people grow outdoors in upwards of say 50 gallons, would that blew away the same bud grown in say 1 gallon is there was any truth to this??

The plant in the bigger pot would likely be healthier, so it may be more potent...but again, I haven't tried that so I don't know from personal experience. It would have more yield tho.

IMO outdoor plants can be just as good as indoor, possibly better since outdoors is it's natural environment. But all conditions indoors can be controlled and fine tuned, outdoors if the weather doesn't cooperate the plants will suffer. You can have bugs outdoors too, but they can be controlled by sprays or natural predators. They can be controlled indoors too, but have no natural,predators to keep them in check. Hehe one of us needs the time, money and space to run all kinds of experiments to really get the answers

 

[george xxx]

Therein lies both the answers and the problems. We all mostly have experiments because very few actually have a handle on growing this stuff. What I have been reading shows that people grow a good plant and have no idea what they did. There are guys here that have grown for several years but now have problems and don't know why. It does not matter what the plant type is. You have to find the genitics you like and you have to have total control in the environment and feeding or the result will always vary. I do not have a clue as to what I am looking for. I tried smoking weed a few times in the 60s but never liked it, didn't do a thing for me. Maybe it was just poor quality. Back then it was always loaded with stems and seeds. What I have read suggests Indicas may be the better choice for me. ??? Mostly low growing, some have been known for higher THC content, some are said to be able to produce a fair amount of trichomes on the leaves. I know most of you don't really want leaves but I do. I am more interested in cooking than smoking. What I can eat may be useful and or interesting. Smoking is not much of a possibility. The first seeds I planted were pretty much a disaster. Its a weed right? No! It will not grow like a weed. If you treat it like a weed it dies like a neglected vegetable. At the present time I have one Pineapple Kush that failed to die with the others. It is close to 3 months old. I have 3 plants from bag seed now at 7 weeks. All 3 are different. One definately indica. Dark green broad leaves and very short barely 8 inches high. Starting to take on lots of new growth on the main stem. Odd looking to me it has fan leaves but no branches. The others are 2 feet tall and starting to bush out. For now its just waiting to see what develops. Next week I will flip the light down and see what grows.

 

[oldleave53]

Originally Posted by subcool While there are many ways to grow cannabis I find that older larger bushes produce better medicine so we veg our plants for 60 days before budding.Not interested in bigger buds or large yielding plants. I'm looking for opinions on better quality medicine. Some information I have read suggests short dark green indica with dense leaf growth could be a good choice.

Wouldnt the potency depend on the smokers opinion? The only reason I say this is because everyones opinion is different when it comes to the flavor and reaction to MM. Now that being said my opinion is, in the MM that I have grown (and yes everyones MM is grown differently and everything about it could be different) all the short bushy plants have been fire but the tall lanky SATS arent near as potent or as good in flavor but maybe its just me. But then again I am a huge indica guy. LOL. Anyway thats my opinion. INDICA RULES...... Although I did love the Lemon Skunk by Green House but that is a hybrid.