Quote Originally Posted by InvisibleGarden
Hi
I started growing cuban pot which has been grown for centuries by the old folks for tea etc,... a very strong indicia black variety ( i would love to get a hold of it now!) Any one in Cuba?

I would like to see that too!

anyways to answer your question re indoor or outdoor. I can grow both and you will not be able to tell the difference! I prefer indoors for many reasons...
1. you can have a continuous year round harvest!

Yep 2 oz 6 crops per year indoor = 12 oz. One outdoor plant one crop per year 1 to 7 lbs of dried buds.

2. you can control the environment from co2 to soil to nutrition, to pest control to human control.

Yes to a degree but you are more likely to get spider mites and leaf mold.

3. I use LED lights (hardly any increase in my electrical usage!)

Huge initial investment and not really up to the technology when budding.

4. I can graft on one plant with many many different varieties!

This sounds cool. I have never tried this. Please start a separate thread with the details.

5. Over the years you can develop your own local variety. Once you master growing from seed.

I have 26 varieties that I am turning into mother clones. I am still trying to grow out various varieties to compare side by side.

6. Cloning is impossible outdoors

That is only partially true. You can take clones from your outdoor plants until they are far into the budding stage. It is true that you will have to put the new clones in a box to root them and get them started.

hope this helps
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As far as getting dust and random weeds - I have also heard of gravel and mice but that seems to be mostly a problem with the weed from the cartels. I have a problem with pine needles and hairs from thistle plants. I know what the thistle looks like now so I will eliminate that. It is not that hard to get the few pine needles off. I am able to keep them from having any effect on the taste. That is mostly related to the strain planted and care taken when manicuring and drying the buds. Cheese will almost always taste better than sour diesel but will usually not be quite as strong.

Regarding micro grows. Absoutley they have quality variations there. You can go to 10 different dispensaries and get 10 different qualities of supposedly the same weed.

A lot of folks on this forum say super silver haze is a top smoke. Yet I have tried it at a couple of dispensaries and found it to be very disappointing. I will need to grow one out for myself to see what the actual quality is. Last year I grew a white widow which has never impressed me. When folks I know went to Amsterdam white widow was always the lowest price and quality in all the coffee shops. I am amazed at how well it turned out. The white widow and the bliss were by far the best two varieties I had last year. I have to clean the resin off my scissors every time I roll a joint and have to clean my sifter after every two joints. The grower makes a huge difference in the quality.