What Strain Has Highest Yield

Dan Kone said:

One thing is for sure, you should never decide what the best yielding strain is by the claims of the people selling the seeds.

Also - everyone should be judging yield by grams per watt indoors and grams per sq foot outdoors. Not "how much pot can I get off this plant". If you grow any plant big enough it's going to give you a lot of bud.

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Dan, Could not disagree with you more about how "everyone should" be judging indoor yield...Grams per watt discounts strain, e.g. equitorial sativas, and time to flower...I would happily agree with you if you wrote that grams per watt is how "YOU" choose to judge "YOUR" indoor yield...

Yield of a crop is defined per unit of area cultivated; the same way the seed purveyors (corn & MJ) do...FWIW

Natural Gas said:

Dan, Could not disagree with you more about how "everyone should" be judging indoor yield...Grams per watt discounts strain, e.g. equitorial sativas, and time to flower...I would happily agree with you if you wrote that grams per watt is how "YOU" choose to judge "YOUR" indoor yield...

Yield of a crop is defined per unit of area cultivated; the same way the seed purveyors (corn & MJ) do...FWIW

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G per watt/grow time them.

Dan Kone said:

G per watt/grow time them.

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Whateva!!! Not worth controversy...BTW, It is the famous philosopher, Bertrand Russell, that penned the quote, "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent that are full of doubt"...Peace...FWIW

Natural Gas said:

Whateva!!! Not worth controversy...

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Yield isn't as subjective as you're making it out to be. If you grow a pound of weed, that's not open to opinion. It's a pound of weed.

BTW, It is the famous philosopher, Bertrand Russell, that penned the quote, "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent that are full of doubt"...Peace...FWIW

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Bukowski could drink him under the table

Natural Gas said:

Whateva!!! Not worth controversy...BTW, It is the famous philosopher, Bertrand Russell, that penned the quote, "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent that are full of doubt"...Peace...FWIW

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Also known as the Dunning-Krueger effect. (IE see the thread on high CBD low odor strain for an excellent real world example of this effect in action).

Anyway, if you're an INDOOR "cash cropper" and you're working in a given garden setup, what matters to you most is yield per square foot per unit time. This is the simplest measurement that to normalize/compare production of your garden between strains. Its all you need to estimate total crop output in your space over (say) a year.

With conventional outdoor gardening its yield per square foot (or meter), but that's because the unit time is assumed to be one growing season, and being constant, it drops out of the equation. If you want to compare conventional photoperiod cannabis plants, grown outdoors, you can use this measure. Grown indoors the "season" length depends on the strain in question, that's why you have to include the unit time.

Now grams per watt per unit time could work too. . .but that particular measurement is a little more geared towards measuring the efficiency of a given grow, and its probably the best way to compare grows of the same strain between DIFFERENT gardens.

Again, if you're comparing grows of different strains in the same garden, presumably your wattage is gong to be the same, so this factor drops out in the comparisions.

Dan Kone said:

Yield isn't as subjective as you're making it out to be. If you grow a pound of weed, that's not open to opinion. It's a pound of weed.

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Fresh or dry?
How trimmed is it?

Making what I said above in the last post easier to understand, the question here isn't really how to measure output. That's easy. . .you trim, dry, then use a scale.

The question is about picking a strain for max harvest weight as a cash cropper. The goal is to have maximum yield (in grams) from your space in a given calendar year.

To that end, you have to know how much weight a given strain puts out PER DAY in your particular setup. That's how you compare output between strains.

To get there, you take the total yield of one grow of a given strain in your setup, then divide by the time it took to grow it.

So a 90 day strain that puts out 15 ounces is no better than a 60 day one that puts out 10 ounces, but its 25% better than a 45 day one that puts out 6 ounces.

Knowing how many grams/watt you used along the way is nice, because its a good measure of how efficient your setup/grow is. If that number is too low, you can probably do things to improve the overall garden yield without changing strains. But since presumably watts/day is going to be the same no matter what strain you're growing, as long as you're realizing the full potential of the strains in your garden, knowing the grams/watt isn't necessary to compare between strains.

Jogro said:

Knowing how many grams/watt you used along the way is nice, because its a good measure of how efficient your setup/grow is. If that number is too low, you can probably do things to improve the overall garden yield without changing strains. But since presumably watts/day is going to be the same no matter what strain you're growing, as long as you're realizing the full potential of the strains in your garden, knowing the grams/watt isn't necessary to compare between strains.

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Grams per watt is only a constant if everyone is using thowies. Lots of people here use 600s or even 400s. G per sq foot is different with different wattage lights. Sure, there are still other variables unaccounted for, but IMO G per watt has less variance than g per sq foot.

Of course we could just say G per sq foot with 1k watt light/grow time. But that's too easy.

Kanga's Mullum Madness had been known to produce 10 to 14 pounds per plant easy.

thanks for these awesome answers. Ok so should we get a real understanding in yield from knowing the wattage of the light used, the length of the vegetative and flowering cycles given, the system of growth used, the altitude level of the growth site, and given that it used a base fertilizer but did not use any added nutrients and no extra CO2? So it would be like, "i got X gram(s) per square foot (cubic foot) using a X watts HPS/MH during the X weeks of vegetative cycle and a X watts HPS/MH during the X weeks of flowering using an soil/hydro/aeroponic system at sea level using Sensi A and B only with nutrients and no CO2 on this Xnamed strain from this Xname company for this crop" ,right? Cubic foot for vertical growing systems, right?... and then based on the different answers/results we just calculate the ratio to find the best yield, right? Visually, it would be great to have a chart. so I'm very curious as to find out if there are any seed banks or reference sites that started classifying strains like that 'til now, anyone would know of such a place?

ROLLING12 said:

thanks for that Dan. I hear it all the time, "i got X gram(s) per watt on this crop" and the such...ok that's for indoors and grams per sq foot for outdoors. This makes a lot of sense... wow, so I'm very curious as to find out if there are any seed banks or reference sites that started classifying strains like that 'til now, anyone knows?

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None that I know of. Unless you find evidence otherwise this might be the point in time to ask yourself why is that...The apparent answer, there being no other answer available, is because grams per watt is not a standard that is quantifiable therefore it is not a relevant measure...FWIW

NevilleS.2013 said:

Kanga's Mullum Madness had been known to produce 10 to 14 pounds per plant easy.

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I think you are referencing Kangativa's Mullumbimby Madness...I don't know about 10-14lbs but it is definitely straight out of Jurassic Park...Neville is working on crosses... https://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=175243 ...FWIW

I would assume the largest yielders would be Big Bud/Critical Mass or some kind of BB/CM crossed with a high yielding strain.

Natural Gas said:

None that I know of. Unless you find evidence otherwise this might be the point in time to ask yourself why is that...The apparent answer, there being no other answer available, is because grams per watt is not a standard that is quantifiable therefore it is not a relevant measure...FWIW

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Grams per watt is not quantifiable? Sure it is. You take the amount of grams you get, then divide it by your wattage. Boom. Quantified!

Nope big bud yields doesn't even come close to mm yields

U put a 20 foot MM next to a 8 to 10 ft big bud outdoors and all those watts per gram ur talking about is meaningless. Even if u had the space to grow one indoors you'd see wat I mean by meaningless.

I've yet to experience a high yielding strain with intense potency or flavor and they usually lack one or both

Where are the beans for these monster killer plants, and why have they not been bred 20 years ago?

aeroponics said:

I Want to know what strain has the highest yield...... i want to make a lot of money. right now i am growing 20 plants but have enough room to do about 120 i would like the strain with the highest yield for i am putting everything i got into doing this and i will not quit untill i get it right and make the big buck

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If you have time to through a pack... G13 from Dr Greenthumb has some great quality plants that yield very well.
Green Crack yields pretty well and finished really quick.

Basically, you want a branchy productive plant.... Skunk, Sweet Tooth, Green Crack, G13,,, something like that.

NevilleS.2013 said:

U put a 20 foot MM next to a 8 to 10 ft big bud outdoors and all those watts per gram ur talking about is meaningless..

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Right, because measuring the sun's wattage would be problematic.

kindnug said:

I've yet to experience a high yielding strain with intense potency or flavor and they usually lack one or both

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