The dispensarys are slapfull of auto flower garbage. Is it the same way in your state? Does any state make them label the garbage different than regular photoperiod mary jane?
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Bro, I popped 2 seeds i got from various bags of ol girls stuff down the street. Not dispo. But both autos. It’s everywhere
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The dispo I go to only when I run out, which isn’t very often, live weighs in front of you but they do not state if it is Auto or Photo grown. Just the 3 tiers, Platinum, Gold and Silver. I have found 3 strains that are really good when I do have to pop in. I’m in Denver.
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How do the dispensary buds compare to yours? I have never tried dispensary buds. The guy that I give it to says mine compares very well with (mostly beats)the “top shelf” in the despensary.
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Everything I have grown so far has been clearly better than the top shelf stuff I buy when I do have to go. My Blueberry Muffin smelled just like BB’s after the cure and the flavor of a green hit tasted just like a warm muffin. I gave some to my neighbor that grows hydro and he came right back over and said he had never tasted any weed so aromatic and full of flavor. My head swelled and now he is thinking of switching to soil. I cloned some for him and he just harvested and gave me a zip for the clone and his smells barely like BB’s with no taste. I put it in a grove bag for 3 weeks and took a nug back over to him, he said what did you do. I have been trying to help him with his grows to make it all better. We grow for different reasons though so hard to get someone to change when the why isn’t the same.
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Thanks for the great run down, @Bonjoyle. Hopefully you can help your neighbor get on track. It sounds like you are using the best approach…not being too pushy over it and let him experience the benefits of your approach and copying you.
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I hope so as well. He told me he dries at 78°F and 30% humidity with an average 3 day dry and my jaw just dropped. I also gave him a grove bag and a meter and he didn’t like it. Ho hum…
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“There’s your problem, lady” 
78 F and 30%, there goes all of the good smells and tastes. Plus retains grassy taste, yuk!
Patience, he will come around…It just takes a while for folks to let go of what they have been doing/thinking and embracing a new view of things. In this case, leading by example will get you and him to the finish line.
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If your neighbor doesn’t want to get on the forum, you might offer to printout informative posts by some of the more accomplished growers along with photos of their results.
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I gave him my grow bible and offered a few tips. Main reason for the diff is I grow for quality, his main reason is quantity. Therein lies the problem. I will stay on him gently though.
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LOL I get top quality while getting 1 lb +/_ per plant (indoors and in soil). LOL I am not convinced that quality and quantity are at odds except on a commercial scale involving dozens or hundreds of plants.
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Agreed. My best to date after switching to the 10 gal was just shy of 12 zips. Still shooting for the coveted lb per. Have a great weekend brother. Heading home from work to take care of my girls. Watering day.
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I shoot for quality myself. Quantity is here because I am dialed in. A lot of dispensary weed is pure quantity. Speed. They dont care if ready or good. If they can get a high thc to advertise, all the true goodness of the flower is ignored. We in my circle prefer the medicinal benefits of ALL the compounds in cannabis. Not just thc. The differences are very evident. Just my thoughts.
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He can get both. Teach him the ways Master @Bonjoyle
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I have noticed dispensers carry good quality pre-rolls (def have to be picky about the company though) when I’m out of town and want to try something new. Otherwise I stopped buying nuggets bc it I wasn’t getting the flavor I was expecting. It’s like it’s all the same strain and the same boring smoke.
Auto is the new craft brew scene and not everyone does it well that’s for sure.
Speaking of… anyone know where to get Dose Punch strain seeds? It was one of the best pre-roll buys I’ve had and the aroma was out of this world.
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See it must be different here as all the dispo pre rolls are dried out junk.
Not tooting my horn, but no doubt my weed is way better than the dispo weed-concentrate-tincture i have been buying.
They put me on medical so i have been experimenting a tad. The main issue with the dispo weed is cost. Its F’ing expensive. I have walked in there and dropped 350 bucks, but thing is no matter how you add it up you can only get an ounce a week.
The weed in the dispo is garbage in Dixie because most of it is autoflower Marijuana that my loupe indicates was harvested too early.
There needs to be labels differentiating the photo and auto Marijuana. Yet i know the seedmakers are not going to like that opinion.
I have seen some good autoflower Marijuana in my time. The thing is in my view one needs to be better than your average grower to grow them. The mutitude of average growers that rushed to set up shop here once it became legal are not up to the task.
I have seen weed like ghost train haze in the dispo that we all should know has high thc. Its one of the highest thc strains available today. Yet it was only 18%. In my view it was an auto not grown to potential by a big corporate company from out of state.
They have mixed so much auto genes in the Marijuana today that soon enough only those with old photo strains will have unpolluted genes.
Sad but true.
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Hard to find unpolluted photos most are hybrids.
Still get a few though.
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Ive only bought disp weed once and it was damn good no seeds , my buddy bought some from a different disp ( lemon mirange) it had some seeds , the weed was good but the seeds he gave me didnt do well outdoors , not sure if it was because it was engineered to be indoors or what , the plants are very small compared to my others but it does look like its gonna be good , i guessing about 30 grams per plant which is ok with me , i only grow on my deck in 5 gallon buckets