You need to quit smoking before reading and answering posts.
6 and 7 years ago. I did testing on indoor vs outdoor. This was done on 2 summers runs for both. Year 1 was soil vs, soil and year 2 was outdoor soil vs. hydro (Ebb buckets) Plants (outdoor) were run in a back field - full sun - specifically worked and fed soil, same as the indoor. Great daily care given to the plants - including my same indoor daily watering sched.
Indoors - first year - same soil - same treatment - 1K MH to HPS....Nutrient was Hesi soil - supplements were Si, Mg sulfate, and once a week 0-8-17 ratio boosts at weeks 6&7.
The resulting tests had an
average of 3.4% higher THC counts with the outdoor! Strain was Chemdog.
Year 2 was done the same manor all the way for the outdoor and the indoor hydro got Hesi hydro at the charted rates. Supplements were Si, Mg sulfate and the same boost, same times.
The following tests showed and improved ratio of and average of 3.7% higher in the outdoor. Strain was Ghost cut - OG
Outdoors were of course not watered as needed during and following rain.....
It should be noted very carefully here. These avarages were almost exactly copied when doing indoor testing with supplemental UV lighting! Those that got the UV had and almost
exact % rate higher vs. those that did not. ( I actually posted results of that here years ago, and the following human test..)
ALL TESTING WAS DONE BY GAS-CHROME (the company no longer exists)
You must remember that many people harvest earlier then most truly experienced growers! I firmly believe that many of you not liking outdoor. MAY have had that issue.
The other of course is
CONFORMATION BIAS. Doing a home applied, "side by side" tests is NOT how testing is DONE! It was not a "
blind" test study was it? The thing being that your brain finds a difference because it's
looking for one. If you believe one way before you try anything. that's the way the end result will be!
I cut that out by professional machine testing.....Then had 4 patients per day, test packaged joints in numbered sleeves. This was done over 6 days with only a single joint smoked at 10AM on each day. They then had to write out thoughts about taste and the quality/structure of the buzz at 10min - 30min - 60min after smoking.
The numbers on the sleeves were set by another employee and even I had no idea what ones they got, till after the testing was done.. Written results had the outdoor chosen all but once in all the testing over the 6 days.
THAT is why I firmly believe that outdoor kills indoor!
Sparkle - Old Lady that !