10 Ways on How you Can Increase Cannabis Yield

Cannabis cultivation can start as a fine hobby and will eventually develop into a serious business once you have gotten used to all the methods of growing your cannabis plant. That is why after several months of growing your cannabis you would expect your plant to give you high yields. However, increasing your cannabis yield may not always be easy, you have to consider a lot of factors.

Luckily, access to information regarding increasing your cannabis yield is much easier. Here we have different ways that will help you increase your yield and thus making sure that you have a continuous supply of buds. This will help you in making sure that your cannabis garden becomes highly sustainable and will last you for a long time.

Different Ways to Increase your Cannabis Yield

• Always Start with Good, Fresh and Healthy Genetics

A great way to make sure that you will have a good number of yields is by starting with good genetics. With the countless of cannabis genetics available, the last thing that you want is for your cannabis plant to have some kind of genetic drift. 

Make sure that you are working with a cannabis strain that will help you in producing high yields without having to put too much effort into the cultivation. But if you are a person who loves dealing with challenges, you can opt to use not so good cannabis strain and slowly work your magic in achieving great yield. This is assuming that you have all the time to monitor every growth of your cannabis plant, otherwise, you’re better of using a cannabis strain that will require less work thus promises good number of yield. 

• Cannabis Plant Training

When your cannabis plant is still in the vegetative phase, its still vulnerable thus it can be malleable to training. Guiding the development of the plant is best done during this stage. Remember that your cannabis plant’s development can be slowed down by physical factors such as branches interlocking from untidy thus giving uneven growth.

You can let your cannabis plant undergo low-stress training (LST). The process is that you can spread the main stem and side branches by separating them carefully by using a string. This will make your cannabis plant to grow outwards in a thick bush. Using this method will surely give you a high yield and will trick your plant into giving more buds because of the low stress it experiences. Be careful not to overly stress your cannabis plant as this might lead your plant to not produce buds at all. 

• Trellising

When you see your cannabis plant struggling to grow, it might be an indication that it doesn’t have enough strength to support itself. If the plant has a support structure that helps it in bearing its weight, this might help in advancing to a more developed stage. Trellising is a basic technique in gardening where wooden structures are built to aid and guide the growth of the plants. 

The materials used can be wood, including bamboo or any kind of metal. These strong materials can be arranged in a mesh or as supportive rods. Using the trellising technique can help keep your plant separated and sturdy whether your grow setup is horizontal or vertical. A sturdy bamboo rod can be a guide structure that will help your cannabis plant flourish.

• Increasing Container Size

An obvious way that will help you increase your yield is to scale up your production. This doesn’t necessarily involve taking more cannabis plants. Using the cannabis plants that you have committed to cultivating, you have the option to scale up the equipment you’re using on growing them. 

An example is that when you are growing in an 11-liter container of soil may give you a good number of yield. However, consider buying a 20-liter container and see if it will give you an even better number of yield. By having more space for the plant to grow, you can also expect a bigger yield.

You just need to make sure that you can afford to buy new and bigger containers to make sure that you don’t have to exhaust resources just to increase your yield. 

• Controlling Temperature

Make sure that your cannabis plant doesn’t experience any heat stress and extreme cold, by doing this you are also helping your plant to avoid damages. When your plant experiences damages, it will only drain the plant’s energy that might have been going toward a bounty harvest. 

One good advantage of indoor growing is having the ability to control the temperature of the growing environment by using a ventilation system. The recommended temperature is between 70-85 degrees Fahrenheit or 21-29 degrees Celsius while the plant is receiving light. While the recommended temperature without light is between 58-70 degrees Fahrenheit or 14-21 degrees Celsius. 

The humidity level is also a crucial factor that needs to be monitored. The level should be between 50-70% and this will depend on the plant’s stage of development.

• Increasing Light Intensity

Your growing area should have a lighting setup that can help maximize available light with a direct and evenly distributed light source. You can choose from vertical variations that circle around a central light source. Also, you can find rows of plants, sometimes tiered and they are placed around a light source coming from above. You should check the appropriate distance your cannabis plant should have from your chosen light source.

If you have control over your indoor lighting setup, you should go for energy-efficient lightbulbs that will cut energy costs and will also reduce the risk of heat stress. If you step up the intensity of your garden’s light source, you are also going to boost the photosynthetic process further, although this might be expensive. 

• Pruning

By making sure that your plant is under well-managed growing conditions, you should see it start to flower and it might give you bountiful buds. But you need to remember that there’s more work to be done once it is near the glorious fruition. When you prune the main stem, you are allowing your cannabis plant to form more than one cola.

When you prune earlier, you also give the plant more time to heal during the vegetative stage. By cutting a stem, this can cause two new shots to form and cutting the terminal branch tip and cause 2 lateral branches to form thus effectively doubling the space for a flower to grow. When you remove lower branches that have less chance of flowering well, your cannabis plant should give the right distribution of energy.

• Nutrition

The nutrition factor should be precise all throughout the stage of cannabis cultivation. Good quality nutrition should also include meeting the high demand for water. You should keep this in mind if you are growing from a drought-prone area. There are certain nutrients that your cannabis plant needs but you need to make sure that you don’t overfeed them. 

When you see yellow tips on your cannabis plant, this is already a sign that your plant has taken in too many nutrients that can potentially spoil the plant. The nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium in your fertilizer are key to ensure that your nutrients are well-balanced. 

While in the vegetative stage, there should be a high level of nitrogen, medium phosphorus, and high potassium. In the flowering stage, there should be low nitrogen, medium to high phosphorus and high potassium. You can also use Epsom salts to give Sulphur and magnesium for the cannabis plant’s health.

• Preparation for Pests

If you plant your cannabis plants outdoors, indoors or even in a greenhouse environment, you will surely get pests one way or another. Some of them may be very difficult to deal with and you might have to use toxic sprays, but you should be able to look for organic and alternative treatments that will help your cannabis plant combat the pests.

When dealing with pests, it may not always come cheap but making sure that your plants are pests free will help in making sure that you have increased the number of yields. 

• Timing your Harvest

Once you have done all the steps above properly, you are now faced with the final step that may be the most crucial step as well. When your cannabis plant enters the flowering stage, your pungent aroma will become strong. If you have practiced patience in growing your cannabis, then it would be a whole lot easier for you to resist temptation a little longer. 

Never be in a rush to harvest the flower as you may do it too soon and might result in having lower yields. Usually, there is a 2-3 week window that you can harvest your harvest the buds, by holding on for a week or two longer you can increase the size of your buds by up to 25%. It’s always worth doing everything you can to increase your yield including waiting for a little longer.