Ed Rosenthal: Efficient Marijuana Cultivation Pt. II

If you haven’t read Part I, you can read it here.

In part one we discussed that marijuana’s initiation of flowering is based on a critical period of uninterrupted darkness.

The fact that marijuana can be induced to flower at any size can be used to increase its yield considerably.

Allowed to complete its natural cycle, the plant grows vegetatively for several months before it begins to flower. During that time it’s canopy spreads by growing linearly. By that I mean that the plant requires a bit of time to fill its canopy. Then the plant begins to flower. So, when considering time and energy per gram of product, the vegetative, pre-flowering growth time must be considered.

Any material harvested that was grown during the vegetative cycle is of secondary value, so as far as the cultivator is concerned, this is a non-productive time period.

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