Quality and Quantity - What’s your secret

Any professional grower always have those two inmind.
It is my understanding that quantity is achievedby LST, HST, ScroG and other, well known techniques.
Quality, however may be entire different animalwith a different approach.

To those experienced growers (if you are comfortablesharing) or ones with knowledge and opinion, what approach, technique or actiongives help you to achieve quality and why.

My Quantity approach:
I top my plants when they are 4 weeks old. Early toping gives them theopportunity to heal and allow me to top them again before flowering. I supercrop them when they are 8 weeks old and prune them right before flowering.
My Quality approach:
I use organic nutrients to feed my plants throughout the growth.

P.S - I heard from one of the guys in the industrythat there is a nutrient that makes your plants bigger and adds percentage toTHC. That this nute is very hard to get and has been outlawed in USA. Doesanyone knows what he is talking about, or can elaborate what that may be.

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Keep your plants healthy and happy, genetics will dictate the quality

genetics have a lot to do with how your quality will turn out. also your environment.

Agreed, but if you can be responsible for your environment, how can you attempt to pick the best genetic (if at all possible)

The only sure way to guarantee quality genetics is to run clones, its the reason some clones have been around for decades.

seeds are a bit of a mixed bag, so to speak, but select a decent breeder and your are sure to find some keepers along the way.

recommended: mr nice, tga, emerald triangle, g13 labs, sensi and breeders boutique are just a few that come to mind.

AloeRuss said:

Agreed, but if you can be responsible for your environment, how can you attempt to pick the best genetic (if at all possible)

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Thank you so much for your help.
Now, how are those breedes operate? Do they ship their stuff?

I think for qiantity you need a big thick base stem feeding not too many branches. the longer you can veg without getting to tall the better. I have not tested this but I would let a plant veg up 6-8 nodes then chop it down to 2 nodes then let the new shoots grow up 5 nodes and chop them down to 1 node let them grow up 3 nodes then chop them down to 1 then veg it until it's about a foot taller than your last topping clean up everything below he last topping you end with 8 branches attached to a big thick feeder base to pump up your buds. again I have not tested this but having a understanding of how the plant grows this should give great yeilds. as for potency thats genetic like was said. big pot big root ball big stem big bud

AloeRuss said:

Now, how are those breedes operate? Do they ship their stuff?

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Google "marijuana seeds". Yes, they ship them. My experience is that aside from the rudimentary basics of gardening, it is genetics and lights that have the most influence. This assumes you have the basics of ventilation, circulation and cleanliness already in hand.

I use 800 watts of light in a 34" X 42" shower stall, and grow Nirvana Seed's Eldorado.

I wouldn't say I'm a professional, which probably explains why the most important three things to me are ease, simplicity and quality. Quantity is not important except to the extent that I'm not running out between grows. I'm a fairly moral person in the traditional way, and though I'm okay with growing for my own use, I won't sell or grow more than my own needs until that's legal and I have a proper business license to do it. That's just me, I don't care what other people do.

For me, quality is the high I grew up with (late 60's early 70's). I want an upbeat, laughing, stimulating high where I'm still in a good emotional state to play beach volleyball or stroll through the mall. That means no Indicas, only Sativas which also means that quantity is not particularly impressive per watt or per square foot in comparison. And Sativas are unruly even if you lop them off and tie them down. This works for me though, in the ease and simplicity department, since I don't bother doing it.

You just need a tall place for them, like a shower stall, which is what I use. To control them I grow 12/12 from seed to keep them at four feet tall or so. The only pruning I do is removing the side branches from roughly the lower 1/2 of the plant to keep things trim, tight and efficient.

Organic gardening doesn't comport to "ease" or "simplicity", so I don't even consider it. I consider technology a good thing, and desire the robust good results and utter simplicity of chemical fertilizers in a sterile medium. I've played around with organics, and tried them in my vegetable garden as well, and the only vestige of that long tedious period is my compost pile which remains useful for the garden beds ... which I now fertilize using chemicals.

Thank you so much. As I was reading your post, towards the end I wondered if 100 Organinc versus using variaty of available chems could affect quantity of your yeald.

AloeRuss said:

As I was reading your post, towards the end I wondered if 100 Organinc versus using variaty of available chems could affect quantity of your yeald.

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Opinions on that vary widely, and become almost religious in nature. Since I'm no expert, I won't challenge the organic grower on his claims of superior yields and quality. However, my experience is that the quality is totally unaffected, and the yield was always less with organics due to all the complexities I was apparently never able to master and the fact that bugs like it a whole bunch more.

I've never lost a plant, or even had a sad-looking plant, since I switched to chemicals and coco.

quality can be defined by multiple factors, including potency, taste, aroma, bag appeal ....