How Much Can One Plant Produce?

I think a proper outdoors plant will always produce more then a indoors one as the sun will hit it from top of plant to soil at ground level therefor more penetrating light equals more buds,even the shitty "popcorn" buds you get outdoors are worth keeping.. I believe resin production outdoors is more aswell plus last season i saw a single outdoors plant yield just over 6n a half pounds wet..

Show OFF lol I can wait to start growing outdoors.

ok, the magic formula from outdoor yield being so much higher than indoor yield has to do with the little secret known as photosynthesis. A 1000w hps light tries to reproduce the color spectrum of natural sunlight. It also puts out between 30-45000 lumens of energy. If you could focus the natural sunlight outdoors into a 5ftx7ft footprint that an indoor HID hood gives you, you would see a jump in the lumens of that footprint to about 130000 lumens in the same square footage. So, in essence, you grow outdoors under the equivalent of 5 x 1000w hps lights per plant! It is pretty amazing when you consider sunlight is free of charge, and the power company doesn't send you Christmas cards for your power bills...lol. I do 9 plants indoors under 4kw of hps and get about 2.5 to 3 pounds per harvest in 5 gal pots. The same phenotypes in 28 gallon pots outdoors nets me that much per plant during the outdoor season. So that is roughly ten times the growth and yield outdoors as indoors. Case in point... bigger roots equal more nute uptake. Bigger nute usage needs more light to complete photosynthesis at a higher rate. More light equals more anabolic growth of plant. Higher rate of all processes involved equals 3 pound plants under the big burning dot in the sky. I love the great outdoors!!!

onomado said:

This thread makes me want to get ripped and post silly posts and use really bad grammar... I grow 35 ft indicas and yield 14 elbows per tree... All I do is feed them creatine and amino fuel. They look like bodybuilders... cuz we all know they are natural athletes!

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Plus Red Bull and 5 hour energy drinks.

SnapsProvolone said:

Plus Red Bull and 5 hour energy drinks.

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Dont forget semen!

brotes grandes said:

I think a proper outdoors plant will always produce more then a indoors one as the sun will hit it from top of plant to soil at ground level therefor more penetrating light equals more buds,even the shitty "popcorn" buds you get outdoors are worth keeping.. I believe resin production outdoors is more aswell plus last season i saw a single outdoors plant yield just over 6n a half pounds wet..

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Although I'm a newb to indoor growing, I want to say:

- you're speaking of spectrum (I prefer spek-trum) and spectrum penetration
- "shitty 'popcorn'" buds are worth keeping indoors or out, particularly when you cook
- resin production doesn't change indoors/outdoors
- many growers I've met here can match outdoor to indoor harvest levels, granted we're not speaking of 12' pure sativa strains

I'm a very experienced outdoor grower (literally used to run multiple crops, several hundred plants per year), and although I'm only doing small perpetual now (24 plants at a time), I'm surpassing the quality of my outdoor grows already. Quantity... not so much, but again, I know folks I've met here on RIU that come damned close or even surpass gram-for-gram indoors what I could do on my best day outside.

Not arguing, just sayin'.

-spek

Is 8 or 9 grams a 2' plant under cfl's decent? The bud is REALLY GOOD, but not big yield! Also had a LOT of plant per light, so just wondering about yield, also this is first cycle to harvest, and even tho it's a smaller yield, I think cfl's give a better quality smoke, comparing mine to my buddies who grows with hps, and practically same nutrients, his are much bigger, but fluffier, mine are smaller but more dense and resiny, and mine has a better smoke and aroma, I also run a mixed spectrum as well, going to have 4 plants in this cycle under 250w of 2700k cfl, and 125w of 6500k cfl, last cycle I had 6 plants under that, so I figure I should have a better yield this cycle.

A friend of mine is growing indoors and getting 25-27 oz a plant consistently. He has a bad grow and gets 18oz. He is doing this in 12 weeks from clones. Very efficient grower.

Forgot to say only uses 600 w hps aswell. In soil drip fed. The stalks are like tree trunks.

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