For anyone that has started the journey of growing cannabis you know it can be very rewarding, but also very challenging. If you’re anything like me you started with a huge book that gives a broad overlay as well as some finer points of all things concerning growing from germination to cure. The book that I read was The Cannabis Grow Bible, the third edition. While I do recommend this book along with some others as a starting point, the vast majority of information in the book, while valuable to have, is not something you will personally implement in your grow.
The reason for this is simply because there are so many different products, methods and techniques that can be implemented in cannabis grows, most of which will not be applicable to your specific needs.
Why Learning How to Grow Cannabis Takes a While
If you are serious about growing the right way, you want to have a long vegetative (veg for short) cycle. The reason being, like almost all things in nature you want to take your time to do it right. This means allowing a plant to reach maturity the way it would in nature, even if you are growing indoors. Due to this long veg cycle an appropriate length of time from seed germination to the final process of curing should take roughly six months. Now I don’t care how long you’ve been growing for, anyone worth their salt as a grower knows that every single harvest you should learn something new, even if at the time it seems minuscule.
For this reason there are only a couple of major opportunities a year to learn new things about growing. I can say with all honestly it took me a good seven straight years of growing to get as good as I am now. Now I have been growing for over 12 years, so I’m not saying I haven’t learned things in the past five years of growing because I certainly have, but I would say 90-95% of my growing knowledge has come from that first seven years. The reason being during that first seven years I was doing a lot of trial and error, moving fast and breaking things to quote a previous Facebook mantra. So how do I define “as good as I am now”? It’s all about getting exceptional quality and yields every single harvest.
The Contrast of Being a First Time Grower and a Veteran
Lets put some numbers out there to put this in perspective. The very first plant I ever harvested, (granted it did turn out to be an auto-flower and wasn’t supposed to be) I ended up getting five grams of dry weight flower, no I’m not kidding. The last harvest I had was 4.2 lbs out of only 650 watts from a single LED fixture. To compare apples to apples that’s five grams as a first time grower compared to 1,882 grams on my last harvest.
Growing weed by its fundamental nature is a process of trial and error, like most things. Any real grower will tell you that the lion’s share of activities in growing (especially in the beginning) is encountering problems and solving them. And that is the basis of my business model. In growing for 12 years I have no doubt encountered every problem a new grower is facing. Because of that I have come up with not only accurate ways of identifying the problems the plants are going through, which is a process all of its own, but also coming up with custom solutions to combat these problems effectively and efficiently, with the end goal of putting as little negative stress on the plants as possible. My goal with every new client is to crush yields their very first harvest; a goal this is near impossible if you don’t have a veteran grower helping you out along the way. One Love.
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