Thoughts on Indoor vs Outdoor Quality

ComfortCreator

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It really comes down to the grower more than where it is grown. Talent is always the key ingredient.

Since most growing was outdoors way back, the best grows were outdoor. Not coincidentally they also came from the warmest or best climates too.

Today there is so much indoor...and so many growers, it doesn't matter much imo. Bag appeal of course an indoor is easier but when outdoor is perfect, it is the best.
 

TaoRich

Well-Known Member
Outdoor ... good soil ... natural fertilisers only ...

... that combo can produce some sweet tasting and butt kicking bud

she wasn’t the prettiest looking flower
Look at these two little pieces of scrag I discovered budding 3 months ago outside a back room in my digs:

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Lovely deep purple on the smaller one:

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unique fruity smell
- Shitty pot
- Shitty soil
- Total neglect


And yet both of those little girls has the sweetest fruitiest smell I have ever come across in my 30+ years of smoking.

The smoking buzz was what I can only call medicinal ... the closest similar experience would be in the opiate line.

Neither an indica knock you over smackdown ...
... nor a speedy trippy sativa stimulant

More like an Opium "Simply Do Not Give a F--- about Anything" lucid state of mellow calmness that started at the shoulders and spread into a full-body-stone feeling of bliss ...

- - -

Here are their offspring

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Here is the core soil that they will be transplanted into

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And here are my earthworms doing their last week of organic living soil prep for me

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If the scrag was so fruity sweet and such a calm pleasant opiate stone ...

... I cannot wait to sample what those bad girls will produce are given love and care and over abundance of organic nutrients
... and fresh air
... and African sun

I'm expecting 5 feet of absolute Frutti Tutti goodness

:P
 

ComfortCreator

Well-Known Member
Outdoor ... good soil ... natural fertilisers only ...

... that combo can produce some sweet tasting and butt kicking bud



Look at these two little pieces of scrag I discovered budding 3 months ago outside a back room in my digs:

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Lovely deep purple on the smaller one:

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- Shitty pot
- Shitty soil
- Total neglect


And yet both of those little girls has the sweetest fruitiest smell I have ever come across in my 30+ years of smoking.

The smoking buzz was what I can only call medicinal ... the closest similar experience would be in the opiate line.

Neither an indica knock you over smackdown ...
... nor a speedy trippy sativa stimulant

More like an Opium "Simply Do Not Give a F--- about Anything" lucid state of mellow calmness that started at the shoulders and spread into a full-body-stone feeling of bliss ...

- - -

Here are their offspring

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Here is the core soil that they will be transplanted into

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And here are my earthworms doing their last week of organic living soil prep for me

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If the scrag was so fruity sweet and such a calm pleasant opiate stone ...

... I cannot wait to sample what those bad girls will produce are given love and care and over abundance of organic nutrients
... and fresh air
... and African sun

I'm expecting 5 feet of absolute Frutti Tutti goodness

:P
It is amazing how the plants we fuss over the least sometimes come out great. That looks like a fun project and a seed that grows like that and healthy should be amazing when given extra care!

Or maybe it will come out poor because you tend to it......lol!
 

Jimbo the Gael

Well-Known Member
Switching from indoor to outdoor growing I can say I haven't noticed a difference in flavour for the plants in pots, but the flavour on the plants grown straight in the ground is a bit better. Noticeable, but not really a huge difference.
Potency seems to be a bit higher all round. It may be subjective, but I think the sunlight was better for them. Again, not really a big difference, but still seems to be there.
Main difference was the outdoor plants were leafier, and plants in the ground were huge.
 

ComfortCreator

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On the topic of washing outdoor bud...it does rain so it makes sense to me.

My Q would be...is it better to wash it while still alive on the plant, let it dry then cut it, or cut it first then wash it? Seems like if it was alive there would be no possible negatives?
 
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xtsho

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I'd take that old outdoor grown Humboldt County we started getting back in the late 70's and early eighties over almost anything out there today. That was some damn good weed. The taste and smell was exceptional. A one gram bag would stink up the room which is why we called it Skunk bud.
 

ComfortCreator

Well-Known Member
I'd take that old outdoor grown Humboldt County we started getting back in the late 70's and early eighties over almost anything out there today. That was some damn good weed. The taste and smell was exceptional. A one gram bag would stink up the room which is why we called it Skunk bud.
Still the best imo. Best growers best climate lots of tradition. Head melting.
 

ComfortCreator

Well-Known Member
All I know is my low-budget outdoor buds smell and taste better than any of the stuff from my local dispensary that grows in a multi-million dollar state of the art facility.
Thats why a lot of us are here!

They build for profits...not best quality.
Sadly I dont see a model yet where a cultivator provides better quality at a higher price. There seems to be a market of "good enough" and I think that is a mistake.
 

TurboTokes

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I didnt read a post, but indoor quality cannot be rivaled if done right. Theres a million "unknowns" in an outdoor grow. But free mother nature sun is a great temptation

Dont get me wrong, if you pass me a j, Ill puff on it no matter whats in it
 
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