
I like to do it in the middle of March.Īt this stage, it’s essential to ensure that you don’t allow the plant to stretch and get tall before it is ready. So if you can trick your plant into thinking that all of the new growths are top buds, then they’re all going to be the best quality buds possible. The highest yielding and best quality flowers are always going to be near the top of that plant because it gets the most amount of sun and because the plant is also sending the most amount of food and energy to those top buds. There are many steps to keeping your four plants short, bushy, and giving them the opportunity to develop lots and lots of colas.

Can you tell us how you shaped your 4 plants to get so many colas? A lot of people use the paper towel method and all that but it’s a waste of time. I get a pot, or even a red solo cup, poke four to six holes in it, put in some soil, put my seeds in, then cover it with soil and water it. Wait, don’t you germinate the seeds first? This season I grew four cultivars Banana Candy Creams, Guide Dawg, Cherry Dawg Punch, and Insane Ice Cream. For your 4 plants, what varieties (strains) did you grow this season?

He estimates that if he were to dry it all, his crop would yield nearly 8lbs of dry weed (that’s almost 2lbs per plant)!Ĭurious how you can maximize your own four-plant crop? Read on to learn which steps Jonathan skips and which are essential for getting the biggest possible yield from your plants.

And while he’s devoting 17.58lbs to freezing for extraction, he’s drying the rest to smoke. Photo courtesy of his four mature plants, he harvested ~20lbs of cannabis (wet weight). It begs the question, how much weed can you really grow from just four plants?įor a real-life example, meet Jonathan Hirsh (a.k.a who’s been documenting his quarantine-inspired homegrow on his (now devastatingly deleted) Instagram account. And while cannabis can grow like, well, a weed… maximizing the yield from just four plants takes a certain amount of know-how.įast forward to October and Toronto is back under “lockdown” again and all I have to show for it is an ounce or so of homegrown bud.

Adults in most Canadian provinces are permitted to cultivate up to four recreational cannabis plants per household. Under 2020’s pandemic-induced lockdown, I did what many cannabis-loving Canadians did this spring: I planted some weed.
