RE:RE:RE:RE:$NRTH large-scale, low-cost, 100-acre outdoor organic farmAs a craft grower the last 10yrs, I can tell you, for the most part outdoor sucks, especially in Canada. You get one season, and your strain better be a 60 day or less flower period or it won’t mature before frost, then it’s a lost crop. Also, bugs and animals. Dear love to eat weed, and ever had a joint pop when smoking it? Chances are those are bugs like thrips, fungus gnats, white flies etc....not to mention powdery mildew...the list goes on. Yes under controlled environment or greenhouse things improve, but without artificial lights, you’re not getting around the seasonal photoperiod issue with long flowering strains in Canada.
Outdoor at best will supply extracts or other low quality products (not calling extracts low quality, just the other uses for outdoor), but will not be supplying the quality dried bud market, or quality cannabis market at all. Further south like southern USA/Mexico and further south outdoor can at least provide a better photoperiod environment with stronger sun and similar daylight year round. There’s a reason sativas can only really thrive in closer to the equator tropical environments. Check out the flowering time for most sativas. They’re 75+ days usually. Indicas are better suited up here, but even most of them need a 60 day flowering period of 12/12hrs of light/darkness
sim_1 wrote: Growing pot outside in Canada...
what do people think? That we haven’t been growing all kinds of vegetables and other crops outside for hundreds of years?
not to mention illegal pot that has always been grown outside...