by Nebula Haze
Do you want bigger yields? If so, you’ve come to the right place! Get 5 proven tactics that increase yields for any strain, regardless of your genetics or experience level!
1.) Increase Light Power = Bigger Buds
Quick win: Move your light a few inches closer for the second half of the flowering stage (after plants stop growing taller), for up to 30% better yields.
Try to keep grow lights as close as possible during mid-to-late bud formation. Plants can handle more light at this point.
Insider Tip: Sometimes less is more. Always move grow lights up if top leaves look stressed. You can move it back down in a few days to a week. Green, healthy leaves power bud growth!
Learn more: Increase Light Intensity (and possibly add CO2 so plants can use more light)
2.) Bend Tall Stems = More and Better Quality Buds
Quick win: Every time you check on your garden, bend any tall branches down and away from the center of the plants. This naturally creates a wide, flat “table-top” shape that increases the number of bud sites.
Bend over tall stems to create a flat “table-top” canopy, like I did in my current grow journal.
Look at all those buds!
Insider Tip: Lots of big buds from plant training = sagging stems in late flowering (great problem to have!) Use specially-designed weed plant yo-yos to safely hook around buds so you can string them up to the top of the tent.
See those little yellow things on strings? Those are plant yo-yos holding up this well-trained bud-heavy plant!
Easy-to-adjust weed plant yo-yos hook right onto stems without disturbing buds.
Attach to the top of the tent and you can hold up your most bud-heavy stems exactly where you want them!
Learn more: Manipulate How Plants Grow (free way to produce more bud)
3.) Feed Plants Smart (Not Just More)
Quick win: Give cannabis plants the right amount of nutrients at the right time, and they reward you with faster growth, fatter/longer buds, and denser buds.
Insider Tip: Take the time to pH balance your water before giving to plants. This helps keep leaves green and healthy.
Learn more: Choose Great Cannabis Nutrients (magnify results in the flowering stage)
4.) Give Plants a Bud-Building Environment
Quick win: Get a thermometer for the grow space. The first step of creating a good environment is knowing the temperature and humidity! I recommend having one inside and outside the grow space, so you can compare them.
I hung up my thermometer to easily see it when I peek on the plants!
Insider Tip: Use a small oscillating fan in the grow space to strengthen stems, prevent hot spots, and improve bud structure formation. I love this quiet little grow tent clip fan, which oscillates, has lots of speed settings, and hooks directly to the poles of a grow tent.
Learn more: Control Growing Environment (make the growing environment work for you)
5.) Harvest Timing = Get Best Effects and Density
Quick win: Choose the right time to harvest (around when all the hairs have curled in). A little patience goes a long way, because buds can gain 10-25% of their size in just the last week or two!
Insider Tip: Our upcoming harvest book turns harvest timing into the most fun and masterful part of home growing. Sign up to our weekly newsletter and be first to know when the book comes out!
