How to increase the yeild of cannabis?

For every marijuana grower, achieving a high final yield is the ultimate goal. In an
ideal world, this yield will be high despite less effort, time, and money being used.
There are a number of factors that can negatively affect your yield, so as a grower you
need to always be aware and ready to combat these things to ensure a great yield.
What are the main things that can affect your yield? They are light intensity, pruning or
training, nutrients, climate issues, and the harvest time. All five of these factors can
lead to successful yields, but if they are not handled correctly, then they also have the
potential to devastate your marijuana crop. You, therefore, need to be well informed
and ready for any unexpected hurdles that might come your way. For example it’s
very important for your plants to get the right amount of nutrients, so they can grow
strong and healthy. An excellent product such as Marijuana Booster, will give your
plant plenty and a variety of nutrients it needs and this can substantially make a
difference in your yield.
More than anything, the genetics of your marijuana plant are going to have the
greatest effect on the final yield. Make sure you choose a strain with a high potency
and yield to begin with so you ensure that you can maximize your crop to an amazing
extent.
PLANT TRAINING
As your plant is still vulnerable in the vegetative phase, it is also malleable to training.
If you want to guide the development of your plant, this is the phase to do it in. The
physical development of your plant could be hampered by branches interlocking from
untidy, uneven growth. Subject your plant to low stress training (LST). This is where
you spread out the main stem and side branches by separating them carefully with
string. This makes your plant grow outwards in a thick bush. String can also be used
to keep overlap between your plants tidy. Consider the "screen of green" (ScrOG)
method where a grid of string guides the plants towards neater growth.
Increasing light intensity
You will know your plants are having an issue with the intensity of the light by the way
they are growing. For instance, if your plants are in their vegetative phase and are not
receiving a high enough intensity of grow light, they will “stretch” upwards toward the
source of light. This can lead to large spaces on the stem between nodes and leaves,
or perhaps even growing tall enough to fall over.
Tall, lanky plants are not the type of plants that are going to get you a high yield –
bushier plants will. Once these stretched out plants have reached their flower phase,
it will be difficult to get them an adequate amount of light to increase their bud growth.
To keep it simple, more light intensity leads to more (and bigger) buds. It’s, therefore,
easy to understand why it’s such an important factor for your marijuana garden.
Light is by far the most important factor that can affect any marijuana plant. It is
absolutely essential for the flowering phase of your marijuana plants, although many
new growers don’t fully appreciate how much increasing the light intensity during that
final stage is going to help their end yield. The process photosynthesis is fed by
intense sunlight, which creates sugar, which is used for the flower growth of your
marijuana plants. Uninterrupted darkness is equally important since this is the time
that the plant can produce and let off the hormone florigen – if it doesn’t do this, it will
not flower.
A lot of advice for producing higher yields will advise you to amp up your light intensity.
This is absolutely true. But even more effective is increasing intensity in the right
spectrum at the right time. For that, you need programmable variable spectrum LED
lighting.
Use Bigger Containers For Your Plants
Much like goldfish, your plants will grow to fill the container it’s in. One simple way to
scale up production is to, well, scale up production. For higher yields, you want your
plants to grow wide rather than tall. You want a bushier plant so more buds have
access to direct light, rather than a long, lanky plant with several buds hidden under a
canopy. By transferring your plants to larger containers, you can encourage more
outward expansion.
Hit Plants with Well-Timed, Extra Phosphorus
“Around the end of Week 1 of flower, I hit my plants with a little bit of extra phosphorus.
I do this in just two feedings, usually Day 8 of flower and around Day 13 of flower. By
adding this extra [phosphorus], it sends a signal to the plant to produce the bud sites a
little bit quicker, and it prevents the plants from stretching quite as much.”
Boost Yields with CO2
“Most cultivators know CO2 does boost your yields up. I recommend running
somewhere around 1,250 to 1,350 ppm steadily throughout flower, increasing it from
Week 1 to Week 7 or so. So maybe you start out at 1,000 ppm Week 1 and then ramp
it up to about 1,350 or 1,400 max by Week 6 or Week 7. For the last week, I drop my
CO2 down to about 1,000 again to help produce more trichomes. CO2 allows the
plant to photosynthesize faster and eat up more nutrients. You’ll find more and denser
trichome production and resin production when you’re using CO2.”
CLIMATE CONTROL
Avoiding heat stress and extremes of cold will help your plants avoid damage. Such
damage would only drain the plant's energy, which could be going towards a more
plentiful harvest. A big advantage of indoor growing is the ability to control the
temperature of your growing environment through a ventilation system. The
recommended temperature while receiving light is between 70–85° F, or 21–29° C.
The recommended temperature without light is between 58–70° F, or 14–21°
C. Humidity is also crucial to monitor, with levels between 50–70% being perfect,
depending on the stage of the plant's development.
Try a High-Yield Strain
There is an extent to which your yields are out of your hands. You can always take
steps to maximize production, but “maximize” means different things for different
strains. If you’ve tried everything and still feel like you’ve hit a plateau, it’s possible
that it’s not you; it’s genetics. It never hurts to explore new options, so consider testing
a different, high-yield strain and see how it suits you.
There is definitely a science to getting higher yields. But that’s sort of the fun of it. The
more techniques you test, the more you learn about your plants. That education in
and of itself will lead you to higher yields in the long run. So don’t be afraid to try
something new. If it isn’t working, your plants will let you know.
Above all else, remember that the most effective thing you can do to increase indoor
production is choose high-quality, high-intensity LED grow lights . . . preferably with
variable spectrum control. The closer you can get to mimicking the sun, the better
your harvest will be, both in terms of quantity and quality. We have a great collection
of variable spectrum grow lights that can help you get where you want to be. And if
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TIME YOUR HARVEST
This leaves one final but very crucial aspect to get right. As your plant enters the
flowering stage, the pungent aroma will be strong. You will be tantalised by the
months of hard work paying off before your very eyes. If you are patient enough to
grow marijuana, then you have the temperament to resist temptation a little longer.
Don't be in a rush to harvest the flower as you may do it too soon and lower your
yields. There is a 2–3 week window in which you can harvest the buds. If you hold on
for a week or two longer, it can increase the size of buds by up to 25%. It's worth
doing everything you can to maximise your yield, even waiting a little longer.