I’m going to start out by saying I’ve heard some grows say that cannabis is a weed and it grows like one, yet many others claim it requires a more careful regime of environmental controls in order to grow out it’s true
Sure I can grow a plant from seed to harvest and enjoy the fruits of my labor. Did I get the maximum potential from that seed?? Maybe I did, maybe I didn’t. How can I truly know? So many environmental variables could change our results. I can test my end product but for most of us home growers, testing isn’t the answer, we want an eyeball and or effect test that confirms we grew some dank weed.
I’ve rarely had a seed that made it past the seedling stage that didn’t go on to produce bud. I guess from that point of view it does grow like a weed, just get it past the seedling stage and you’ll get something in return. But my idea of a weed is a bit different. Weeds are invasive, they thrive in environments that should inherently be detrimental for them. Cannabis is a bit more finicky, it’ll grow in adverse conditions but it won’t thrive.
This brings us back to environmental controls. We all have limits to which we are able or want to control our environmental conditions, and these dictate our success to certain degree. IMO, cannabis is not so different than most other things in life, effort dictates results. Minimal effort will yield minimal results, while results will increase with the corresponding effort up to the point of diminishing returns.
The concept of diminishing returns is simply he idea that you can only positively effect a result to a certain point. Once you reach reach that maximum positive effect, any further effort will result in either negligible or negative effects.
This is to say that some people pay too much attention to their plants to the point where they are doing more harm than good and the additional attention is literally killing their plants. Meanwhile others neglect their plants to the point where even the most resilient of plants can’t survive.
The reality is that cannabis like so many other flowering plants will thrive under the right conditions and barely produce or merely survive under less than ideal conditions.
So to come full circle with my my question and my own personal conclusion, does cannabis grow like a weed? Yes, it grows like a weed if you leave it to grow like a weed, and it’ll frustrate you just the same. If you choose to grow cannabis like every other flowering plant, it’ll reward you with the same bountiful harvests that you would expect from your other flowering plants.
Of course, this is all just my own personal speculation based on what I have experienced growing cannabis as well as other flowering plants.
Sure I can grow a plant from seed to harvest and enjoy the fruits of my labor. Did I get the maximum potential from that seed?? Maybe I did, maybe I didn’t. How can I truly know? So many environmental variables could change our results. I can test my end product but for most of us home growers, testing isn’t the answer, we want an eyeball and or effect test that confirms we grew some dank weed.
I’ve rarely had a seed that made it past the seedling stage that didn’t go on to produce bud. I guess from that point of view it does grow like a weed, just get it past the seedling stage and you’ll get something in return. But my idea of a weed is a bit different. Weeds are invasive, they thrive in environments that should inherently be detrimental for them. Cannabis is a bit more finicky, it’ll grow in adverse conditions but it won’t thrive.
This brings us back to environmental controls. We all have limits to which we are able or want to control our environmental conditions, and these dictate our success to certain degree. IMO, cannabis is not so different than most other things in life, effort dictates results. Minimal effort will yield minimal results, while results will increase with the corresponding effort up to the point of diminishing returns.
The concept of diminishing returns is simply he idea that you can only positively effect a result to a certain point. Once you reach reach that maximum positive effect, any further effort will result in either negligible or negative effects.
This is to say that some people pay too much attention to their plants to the point where they are doing more harm than good and the additional attention is literally killing their plants. Meanwhile others neglect their plants to the point where even the most resilient of plants can’t survive.
The reality is that cannabis like so many other flowering plants will thrive under the right conditions and barely produce or merely survive under less than ideal conditions.
So to come full circle with my my question and my own personal conclusion, does cannabis grow like a weed? Yes, it grows like a weed if you leave it to grow like a weed, and it’ll frustrate you just the same. If you choose to grow cannabis like every other flowering plant, it’ll reward you with the same bountiful harvests that you would expect from your other flowering plants.
Of course, this is all just my own personal speculation based on what I have experienced growing cannabis as well as other flowering plants.
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