Under california law you are allowed 6 mature OR 12 immature plants with a valid recommendation.

What about mixing those numbers?

Can you have 4 mature and 4 immature? 5 mature and 7 immature? Anyone know where to find this out?

if there are any buds on any of the plants then u can only have six,

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or at least that was the impression i was under, i only find myself over by one or two a few days max, id say dont risk it

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I've never personally seen criteria for mixing numbers... Also, plant limits vary by location, so you could grow many many more depending on where you live. Also, if you are assigned as caregiver for another patient, you can grow an additional amount of plants for THEM. I do believe you must be in the same county though.

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I'm planning to stick to what california sb420 says, which is the 6 mature or 12 immature limit. It seems to be the accepted limit when it comes to LEO and court.

From what I can find there is no official definition when it comes to mixing the two. Anyone know any court cases that involved this? What do you other ca med users do? I want to have as many in flower as possible while still having clones vegging. I'm thinking 4 flower, 4 veg, 1 mother (so 5 veg) for a total of 9 plants. But i can find nothing official to say this would be accepted.

the way i see it is 6 in the flowering stage of 12 and 12 and 12 plants in the veg but i have never worried about it i figure if the cops came in and said that i had to many i could claim i thought i was aloud 18 being how the law seem kinda vage don think i spelled that right

I've pondered this as well. I think what it will come down to is how a judge might interpret the "OR"--which is clearly in the language of the law--as meaning something like and/or (you could have up to 6 and 12, but never more of either), or possibly interpret it as AND, meaning you can have 6 flowering plants. Or, if those plants are not mature enough to flower, you can have 12, so that you can kill the weakest 6 at flowering time. Then again he could take it literally and say, you start with 12 you flower with 6. Then you can start over. This literal interpretation, taken with the limit of 8 ounces of cured bud in any one location, would in effect limit the amount of weed a law-abiding medi-grower could produce, so as not to flood the market or permit him to make too much money off of its sales.

I like the And/or interpretation.

Maybe the lawmakers only thought outdoors though. Maybe they didn't consider that you could even HAVE 6 plants flowering while others were only a month into veg. I mean, that's not the way plants work is it? Or our plants I guess I should say? Maybe a compassionate judge could easily set a precedent for loose interpretation of OR, to mean "Or, if they aren't flowering," 12. And leave the rest of the debate off the table (18 total OK if in diff growth stages?). Or perhaps he'd just say, well, it looks like a half and half kinda thing. So if you have 3 flowering (or half the limit) you could have half the vegging plants, or 6. Clones? What's a vegging plant? Seedling? how many can I have? 1000? I guess since seed possession is a felony, it's moot.

Sticky one. Heh.

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yea well i want to have a like 4 different strains of mothers and then clone whatever i want in the amounts of my favorite strain and figure if i am in court talking with a judge i will deal with it and tell them i misuderstood the law and thought since i had plants that were not going to produce usible bud but i have grown well over the limits and i figure ill still be in better standing than someone is a state where they dont have medical marijuana but i figure fuck it ill grow and if i get caught then il deal with it but i do recall someone on this site have the word for word law of a judges interpetation i just cant rember what it said

Here's the text from SB420


11362.77. (a) A qualified patient or primary caregiver may possess no more than eight ounces of dried marijuana per qualified patient. In addition, a qualified patient or primary caregiver may also maintain no more than six mature or 12 immature marijuana plants per qualified patient.

"no more than six mature or 12 immature" is kind of hard to interpret.

"no more than six mature or 12 immature"

No more then 6 plants with buds and the remaining plants up to 12 total can have zero buds. Thats how it was explained to me by my medical marijuana co. op.

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