What is your your go to Method for Growing and Why?

Been all over the board during the past 30-35 years, from outdoors guerilla grows, to the first "skunk" varieties back in the 90´s closet/indoor in soil. Have tried most methods, but seems to always circle back to soil and organics, but am about go try out the living soil thing. When i did hydro/NFT, it was as a producer aiming for higher yields, but its also more work, imho, compared to soil. It might be bias, but i do "feel" the smoke gets a bit better with soil grown plants, though lower yields. (this might also just be a grower issue 😂) Germination always in unbleached coffee filter, placed in darkness for 36-48H, then in a jiffy until potting in final pot. If cloning, i repot 3 times, as clones dont have the taproot to drive roots down the middle, so repotting often can remedy that.

I like soil mainly but if I'm going hydro I use NFT trays and tank. There's nothing quite like NFT for yield and hardly any waste at the end of a grow which is important to me. Also NFT is very controllable.

I plant cannabis seeds directly in the media (eg soil, promix, etc.), either in a small container for later transplanting, or in their final container. I’ve had close enough to 100% germination success with that method that other methods like soaking or paper towel seem unnecessary. Also, if sowed sufficiently on the “deep” side, “helmet heads” almost never occur, as the head gets removed by friction as it pushes up through the media.

Recycled soil, DIY stuff. Not better yield but much more fun.. always problems to watch 🤣 Rest of the Stories: growdiaries.com/diaries/287464-grow-journal-by-trutratri growdiaries.com/diaries/296352-grow-journal-by-trutratri growdiaries.com/diaries/296430-grow-journal-by-trutratri

-Outdoors -In soil -Low stress training and "lollipopping" -Direct in soil germination. -Like to try and mimic nature as best I can....prefer to grow plants how they were "designed" to be. -Trichomes in sunlight have something that you just can not get under electric lights!

Topping and defoliating in the early stage to change the metabolism structure into bushes

hello! love the organic stuff. 1. germination: just a glass of water with some drops of peroxide, throw the seeds in amd in 24h you can place them in soil or in peat pellet 2. I'm using living soil or organic stuff, gives good results, decent thc (i have lab tested a strain with 28% and proof of concept) and the best part, it keeps it easy, i only give water so nothing to do, specially good if you have more planta

Ignoring contexts of poorly grown plants, methods don't really impact yield or quality much... that's all limited by genetics. There's some empircal evidence to support that, too. Studies testing impact on yield typically show thc % isn't correlated to that loss in yield. Not an absolute, but certainly pointing in that direction in a meaningful way. KISS principle is best for the most part. Keep it simple, stupid. Save the money. Save the wasted effort chasing smoke and mirrors. Direct to substrate is simpler with same or better rates of success, and certainly less effort. No risk of fiddling with a taproot just to see germination occur. Soilless growing method - Has a shorter learning curve and good processes can be repeated with consistency through basic instruction. e.g. Anyone could take what i do and have nearly the exact same results in their garden. You control nutrition levels around roots. Basic watering habits prevent buildup. Therefore, diagnosing problems is easier and the fixes are easy to implement, immediately. Plus, if you have a good formula, it works "perfectly" (life is always a little messy) for 95% of plants and well enough on the other 5%, too. Consistency seems the be the most obvious thing we influence through our methods more so than affecting yield or quality of outcome. Consistent germination time expectations, consistent yields relative to plant size and vege phase length etc etc... Easier to plan and manage a grow...

CO2 enrichment. Works better than any fertilizer.

Grow method: Growing plants like plants, like a holobiont. Better yield than what? I'm not interested in biomass yield so much as high quality. Germination similar to fda standard procedures. BTW your genetics are terrible.

Germination - dropping the seed into the medium and splashing a bit of water on it. Just like nature intended, and haven't had it fail while wet paper towel method has let me down before. As for the growing, it really depends on what I feel like doing. Manifolding for better yield, but it takes more time so I only do it maybe once a year. Just LSTing the stalk to as close to 90 degrees as possible at the start of the grow, without topping, and then LSTing the branches has proven reliable middle ground for me but that is also massively impacted based on the genetics. I've had same strains produce 0.8g/W and 0.5g/W with the same training, but it does finish "faster" than manifolding. Those are my two main go-to methods for my non-experimental tent. Which method I choose is heavily influenced by what I'm growing and why. If I need the yield, I'll go manifold. If I'm growing just to grow it then LST.

HI @Barneys ! Thank you 4 your genetics. Glass water or paper towels , does notvmetter, I have all of your seeds germinated and going fast as F1. At once it was only 4 hours needed to germinate a seed. I would lkev to try your latest richest genetick, but still have to finish yours White Runts, RS11 Banana OG, Lemon Cherry Gelato) Everyday I bring something new in my process of growing, new data loggers, new camaras. My next choice from @Barnes is Mimoza. Follow my journey with your sseds or you will lose best ever content) Peace

Germination process I use is drop seed into water, if it sinks straight away its usually a bad sign as shell is open slightly and prob is a dud. If it floats its all good, after about 12 hours if the seeds still floating I'll tap it and it usually then sinks, a sign the shell has opened a bit. Then I move to moist paper towel and check on it periodically until I see a tap root emerging. Then it's into my grow medium. That way if it doesn't break ground I know it was a viable seed. As for growing Method it depends on how the plants growing to what training I'll do.