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Originally Posted by V

My wife is a killer gardener, she had tomato plants reaching almost 4' tall before she planted them outside this spring. I don't know anything about weed, I've never had it, but reading into it, it looks like a plant yeilds 5 oz? And you guys are talking about $250 per oz? Holy geez, how much do seeds cost? At first glance you can get seeds for 30 bucks, but I don't know if that's for garbage weed, or what. Seems like everyone would be growing their own weed at those prices.

Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction

Growing marijuana can be very tedious and time consuming. Granted, you could get some auto-flowering plants and just throw them in soil and eventually get some low yield bud. But if you want to grow good pot, it takes a bit of work.

First of all, the start up cost (2 different kinds of lights, fans, reflectors, pH meters, moisture meters, fertilizer, pots, electrical, microscope....), it can be quite a lot even for just a small home grow.

Then there is a lot of time spent topping and trimming, monitoring soil pH, room moisture, dealing with the odours, checking tricomes, rotating the plants, watering, keeping a good temperature, harvesting, drying, curing.... It's more work than it sounds like. And it takes several months of daily work, you can't even go on vacation without worrying about it. And if you slip up, mold can destroy all your work in a flash.


Or at least that is what I heard.

Dude said his wife was a gardener, not looking for a inside basement hydroponics hobby.

V, the stuff is called weed which should give you an indication on the difficulties of growing it.

If your wife has mastered the Tomato she should be able to handle a pot plant or two.

Google tells me this:

Nature has provided cannabis with the adaptations and hardiness needed to grow in many regions. Specialist selective breeding by the more professional seed suppliers has produced some truly outstanding varieties that will produce excellent ganja in non-tropical northern European climates and even thousands of metres above sea level.For those growers that don’t wish to grow indoors or in greenhouses, outdoor growing is a great and easy way to produce your stash. Growing cannabis outdoors with good quality seed not only gives amazingly powerful weed but it also produces some of the best tasting weed with deep flavours and rich aromas.

The outdoor grower typically grows from April/May to October in the northern hemisphere. Outdoor growers often germinate the seeds indoors and give their plants a headstart by growing them indoors under lights for a few weeks. These plants are often gradually acclimatised to outdoor temperatures before being permanently planted outside as established plants in time for the summer.

It's also possible to start growing cannabis outdoors in the beginning of April, the first weeks under a piece of glass or in a greenhouse. The yield per female plant is between 100 and 400 grams for the different strains. Most of the plants have yields in between. Yields are especially dependent on sowing time, nutrition, and sunlight.