WOW, a bit more interest then expected. I will confess I haven't read each question for every person just because I have a limited amount of time I can commit here, nothing personal just logistics. I am delighted to answer any and all questions and will revisit the post when I can to pick up remaining questions. Fair enough? I've grown cannabis everyway it can be grown I think, indoors and out, top of trees, sideways, hidden, in plane sight, water soil and everything inbetween, even graphted. After forty three years growing I have come to the conclussion that when growing indoors vegging is a waste of time, space, equiptment, and resources. Here's my reasoning, it's my opinion and doesn't mean it is the best and only way. It just happens to be the best way I have had experience with. Where does the vast majority of your yield come from? Where does the highest quality product come from? The top third of the plant correct? In my experience the top third of the plant produces probably 85 to 90% of my yield. So after pondering the truth of that I had to ask myself, "why grow the bottom two thirds?" I couldn't find a good answer that made any sense. I want to spend two more months for little return, I want to require twice the space, I like spending money on duplicate equipment. Those were the best answers and all stunk. After that light bulb moment I then spent about five years in trial and error, trying different equipment to find what worked best. Here's what the end product looked like, I've had commercial clients pay my rediculously high rates($10,000 retainer plus $250 an hour) for this. Hopefully it will dispell any thoughts of bad, or money driven intentions on my part, just sharing the love. So I maintain mothers of the strains I want to grow, my standard grow has 12 flower station for a total of 720 plants. About 4 or 500 sq ft off the top of my head. When growing a pure indica that has a flower time of 6 weeks I will stager the start days in the beginning so I end up with two systems or 120 plants ready for harvest every week. From the mothers I plan ahead and take the required number of clones plus around ten percent just in case. The clones are allowed to pop and then a couple days for stabelizing. They then go into a cart we designed for holding and transporting from the cloning area to the dark room where we kick them into flower. Everything is designed to complete the entire process without the need to transplant or shuffle by hand clones, clippings etc. After I kick the clones into flower (36 hours continous dark) they are placed in their final destination where they will go through the flowering phase. Timing is watched so the end of the 36 hours of dark coincides with the beginning of the light period. Cannabis is a "Long night photo periodic" Plant. This means the amount of dark needed to push into flower is 12 continous hours, the amount of light is not important as long as twelve hours of continous darkness is given. The 12/12 represents the fall equinox sept 22 (prof's b-day). This tells the plant fall is here and you better reproduce while you can. Now you know why 12/12. From this point on the colas, usually 2 to 3 inches tall for us remain in flower. So some say the plant has to be a certain age or size to flower but that hasn't been my experience. I just want a clone with an established root system. From here the time required to cultivate is entirely dependent on the strain. I had almost everyone call me a liar when I first started sharing this. If you know cannabis you can now see without question that what I'm saying is possible. My fastest grow has been 43 days from established clone to harvest. We start a new crop the same day we harvest the other, no equipment down time at all. In the grow facility described with 12 station I can conservatively produce 670 lbs annualy of medicinal grade cannabis. 400 sq ft flower. After 43 years of pratice will put a feather i my own hat, that is just downright ass kicking pot growing. Sorry. 8 grows a year. That is the bottom side with a pure indica and goes longer from there. I often dedicate six systems to indicas so I have a weekly harvest and the other six too sativa's which allows for a harvest every two or three weeks on the long side. These are my tidbits of advice I give at my seminars. Plan your work and have predetermined goal. KISS. Less is more. Buy the very best equipment available. I don't buy cheap, or used. But I have in earlier/poorer days. Give them what they want, when they want it, in the amounts they want. Pay attention to details. Rule one. Don't tell anyone. Rule two, after you're released see rule number one. As sad as it is, everyone will steal from you (I don't meen you specifically) Family, friends, nieghbors, boyfriend of your niece. Everyone. See rule number one. And always remember that by giving we also receive. If it's all about money you're in the wrong business. Fastest Indica I've grown? also the biggest yielding is C4, find at hempdepot, don't remember the breeder but you can find. Hope that helps, next round I guess we should cover equipment. Where do I send the bill? lol, just kidding folks. Let me add that I grow in fairly large quantities, that doesn't een you have too. If you could harvest a lb a month for your head would you be happy? It can be done with relatively little space and equipment. We use one 1,000 watt HPS for every 30 plants. All in the details. If I don't get to a specific question it's because I didn't see it or had a brain fart, PM me if it's important or urgent. One Love Prof Mj
