Unfortunately flower is dying with the new generation. The concentrate market will be king. But don’t get me wrong. There will still be a connoisseur market for boutique high quality flowers. The light dep market will be your commercial weed and in order to compete you must grow A+ weed and have the right genetics as well.
The reason why the market got so bad is because of supply and demand. Way too much supply and due to the failing legal market not being able to stay profitable because they still can’t compete with the black market. A good portion of legal grows decided to backdoor a big portion of their supply into black market. I don’t blame them as they do not have a choice. It’s either go out of business or stay afloat. This action has caused pound prices to plummet. Grow warehouses are falling like dominoes in California. Especially the bigger indoor warehouses. The only way to stay afloat is to keep it small and crafty if you are growing indoors. Can’t make any mistakes. You can’t have bugs or else you gotta spray. Even if the spray is organic it will still effect the final product.
So how to stay in the game?
1) stay small amd controllable.
2) Focus on quality even if it costs you quantity.
3) stay away from salts. Poor taste and bad smoke even though they may look good from feeding run to waste.
4) introduce more organic products in your hydro grows.
5) don’t use high ppm. Stay under 2.2 ec max runoff during peak weeks. Running high ec 2.5-3 will only darken up your buds in the end from chem burns.
6) flush for 2-3 weeks. Weeks 7-9 how to do it? In week 7 make a light mix 1.5 ec if you are recirculating nutes return water top off res with water and don’t add any more nutes. Feed the diluted mix next day. Repeat for a week. This way you are always feeding a lower ec for that week by topping off res with water and not adjusting with nutes. I only add sugars during these weeks after topping res. Weeks 8 do an even lighter mix 1 ec and repeat the diluting process with sugars. Week 9 flush. This will give you best taste, bright green buds. You should see leaves becoming lighter green. This will make your buds crystallize more too.
7) lower your day and night temps weeks 7-9 to produce more terps
8) keep humidity low in the 40’s weeks 7-9 it’s just gonna make your final quality better.
9) make sure you have the best genetics. I run the original og kush and a few exotics. Anything that’s candy sells. Candy is extremely frosty colorful weed.
10) make sure your curing is on point. 7-10 day dry. Use bóveda bags to keep weed fresh and store it in the right environment.
Ps I’m assuming your room is solid. Don’t cut corners on environment. Make sure you can control all environmental factors well. If you can’t then you won’t be able to sense your plants and get the best quality. Need to be able to control temp and humidity and your room better be insulated to do this. Very important to make sure your room is well insulated. And inject a little fresh air with co2. Stay away from burners use co2 tanks instead. I wrote a post about sealed hybrid room systems being the best. I was really focused on weight before. But there is a balance between weight and quality. While I’m not hitting 3.5-4 pounds a light anymore. I’m doing 2.5-3 per light of much higher quality
Good luck
There is so many different opinions & arguments regarding the proper way to run a sealed grow room environment for getting the most optimal results and highest yields around the act of exchanging the air in a sealed grow room supplemented with CO2, that I decided to start this thread to share...
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