Estimate and Increase your Cannabis Yields!
Estimate and Increase your Cannabis Yields!
Is there a way to estimate and affect cannabis yields?
The short answer to the question of whether or not it is possible to estimate cannabis yields is yes, it is.
This is extremely useful to know if you have an idea of how much cannabis you are going to need.
After all, the last thing you want is to end up with too many plants or, worse still, too few.
To begin with, certain strains produce higher yields.
For example, Green Gelato, Amnesia Haze, Shogun and Skunk XL all produce between 600g and 750g per plant, grown under optimum conditions.
Now, about these optimum conditions.
Balancing nutrition is important as too little and plants will not grow fully, while too much nutrition can cause ‘blockout’ where the roots stop absorbing any nutrition in the soil.
Pot size will also help dictate the size of your cannabis plant, within reason. You can begin with a half-litre pot for seedlings, yet end up with your mature plant in a 114-litre pot.
Then comes the light factor.
Too little light and again the plants won’t grow, too much light and you can damage the plant, especially by burning the leaves. In general terms, the bigger the light source, the bigger the buds!
Temperature and levels of humidity are also critical to help maximise yields. Plants benefit both from warmth and relatively high levels of humidity, but too much humidity can cause problems with fungi and diseases.
Next comes vegetating.
The longer a plant spends vegetating, the larger it will grow and the greater the yield it will produce. Remember, once a plant starts flowering, all its energy will subsequently be spent on producing buds, not growing.
For this reason, you may want to avoid autoflowering strains, though it will, of course, mean you have to take greater control of the growing process.
Then comes training, and by this we don’t mean teaching your plants how to fetch a stick or bring you your slippers!
Training can greatly increase yields though, once again, this requires more effort.
Indoors, SOG, ScrOG, topping, defoliation, and high-stress training are all viable options.
However, most growers avoid topping their autoflowering plants as they will not have sufficient time to recover before entering the flowering phase.
Finally, don’t get overexcited when you weigh your freshly picked buds as, by the time you have dried them the weight will have reduced by approximately 75%!
2:22: I think they’re all high stress training methods. Perhaps you meant low stress training such as tying down branches.
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Spot on! Also, having a coverage area or footprint goal (for example, growing to create a 2×4 foot canopy as opposed to just vegging for 2 months) can make those estimates more consistent as you stack your skills. Thanks!
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From experience I would say stick to one strain that you successfully grown, if you get seeds from that one plant, replant it and repeat the cycle, you would know what to expect and how to make adjustments.
I didnt see any helpful hints to working out estimated yields…
Lots of info packed into 3 minutes! We just started our channel and have really enjoyed jumping into the cannabis youtube community!
To many variables for a 3 min video.
Always looking for ways to get more weed! Great tips 🙂
Those numbers 750g is per 1m squared, if you got 4 in a tent they ain’t getting that EACH
Give me the seeds
I got 40g from my first two plants 😅
Let’s try again!
Not liking these videos..
Obvs some solid advice but lead in question: can I guess how much?
Duh!!!
Also topping autos issue STILL going on?.
Bah, sorry folks, like what you’re trying to achieve but compact natureof videos doesn’t allow for more complex topics you’re bringing up.
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Great vid! No lies detected
Awesome video! I wish I would of found this channel when I started… what takes me hours to Google, research, compare data, etc, they have condensed into these short, accurate and info filled little gems. Like this one, narrated by that magical and calming voice.
Multiple factors come into play when trying to determine the projected yield of a cannabis plant. As mentioned you want the best light source and if you get too or especially above 1,000 PPFD. You must first off have your nutrients dialed in. For this I suggest new growers to go full organic. Worm castings, GreatWhite, espoma garden tone 3-4-4 for veg at one cup per 7 pot and miracle grow organic potting soil. Is all you will need for the first two months of veg. Second, when you increase light intensity then all other factors in the environment must also increase. The first being having adequate CO2 levels and with this you want enough air moving over the plant to move the leaves slightly. A occolating fan works best but in order for the plants to breath properly and most importantly and little known fact is that at least 70% of plants breathing is done to keep the plants cool, especially under high intensity lights. Even when the room is cool the leaves temperature dictate how well they can transpire or breath and cool themselves. In the best grow environment possible you will want to use a chart called VPD or Vapor Pressure Deficit chart. Which will show at what humidity and matching temperature range you must be to keep the VPD around the leaves surface at a general and perfect 1.0 range.
With these issues under control now if comes down to time. Please give your plants at least two months from the first topping from the fourth node before you even think of flowering. Even in smaller tents you can grow too full maturity before you consider flowering and if you were too impatient to wait for the weed man to do this yourself now. Then don’t give up but don’t begin until your ready to commit to this. Next is plant training techniques. For this watch a scientific study showcased with hard proven research to show that the lollipop and double prune method are the best yielding and most uniform way to grow. You can find this on debaco university YouTube channel on plant architecture. The key to this video is the link to the study itself which lists every well known method of pruning and the results for best grams per plant. Then above all else you better have a clean temperature and humidity controllable environment to dry at the ideal 60°F. And 60%R/H and now your ready to begin to estimate cannabis yields. Until you have grow this cultivar or strain before you will not know what kind of yield you will have it hope for.