Cultivation Corner

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By Travis Smith Founder Smokey Okie’sCannabis

Last month we talked about mapping out a New Year’s plan for your 2023 grow schedule. We specifically discussed how you might go about setting up a cultivation plan for a small grow space, such as a grow tent. In this issue, let’s discuss what you might do with a larger space.

Re-Capping the Cultivation Plan for the Small Grow Space

As we discussed last month, if you have a small space, you will need smaller plants. But with small plants, you can usually run more of them (because they are small, duh). So this could mean more strains and more flavors. Sounds like win for the small set up.

In order to have small plants, you will need a short veg time. And a benefit of shortening the veg time is that you also shorten the entire time-table from clone to harvest. Therefore, you are able to get more runs/ flips/harvests per year. Sounds like another point for the small space grow.

Oh, and small spaces are usually easier (and cheaper) to control environmentally.

Not a bad plan for the small tent grower, eh!

Are there any downsides?

Well, with small plants you will get a small yield per plant. With this type of tent situation, with a short veg time, you’ll be looking at like an ounce per plant.

So the score is 2 to 1 for the small grow space set up, not bad.

But what if you don’t grow in a tent and what if you got lots of space? Well then, we need to come up with a better plan for you!

A Cultivation Plan when you have more space to grow

When you are not so restricted on grow space, you definitely have more options. Especially if you have two grow spaces, one for veg and one for flower.

With two grow spaces, you can maintain a stable of moms in your veg space, thereby preserving genetics for future runs. You can also run more strains and alternate when you decide to flower them.

Time to Maximize your Yield in 2023

The main advantage of a larger grow space is that you grow larger plants, and get a lot more weed per plant to smoke on. So what’s the plan to grow larger plants.

First, decide how many harvests you want this year. And then figure out how long you will need for each veg cycle. Here is why you need to figure that out.

If you want to harvest five times this year, you will need separate veg and flower areas. In your veg set up, you will have some moms, and about two batches prepared for flower, spaced out with a few weeks between.

Basically, you will cut your clones (more than the number you intend to flower), and veg those clones (Batch 1). A few weeks later, you will take another round of clones ( Batch 2) and will get those plants into a veg cycle as well.

After about 4-5 weeks of vegging, you are ready to put Batch 1 in your flower space. The flowering period will last about 8 weeks. During this time, you are veggin’ Batch 2, and cutting clones for Batch 3.

You should be able to repeat this process several more times.

Conclusion: The Length of your Veg Phase determines the Yield per Plant

Your yield will be determined by the length of your vegetative phase. So a 5-week veg phase will result in smaller plants than a 10-week veg space. The plants that vegged for 10 weeks will be huge going into the flowering phase, and will therefore yield much more.

So you may want 5 medium sized harvests or two to three larger harvests. The choice is up to you.

No matter what you do, with a larger grow space, you will be able to grow larger plants and achieve a greater yield. It’s up to you whether you decide to measure your yield on a per harvest basis, or annually.

If you are just looking to harvest the most possible on an annual basis, you can decide if you want to run more frequently with smaller plants. Or, whether you would rather harvest a lot each time, but only harvest two or three times per year.

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