Anybody considering growing their own again?

[tomster]

After legalisation in June 2022 loads of people gave growing at home ago, but since then most seemed to have stopped because a. it is actually quite hard here if you are not used to growing in high heat & humidty, and b. the price of flower is currently that cheap there is no point.

 

However, the price of flower is about to go North as the low grade growers stop producing low grade weed that nobody wants, the new GACP requirement will knock most of them out of production.

 

So lets say the price went back to 150-250 Baht per gram for even the mid-range, avergage flower (which is very possible) would you consider growing your own at home?

 

It costs about 25-35 Baht per gram to do so, for reference.

 

Cheers.

[MalcolmB]

Yes I will.

 

i was wondering for outdoor what is the planting month and what month is harvest? 
And any other tricks?

[BritManToo]

14 minutes ago, tomster said:

lets say the price went back to 150-250 Baht per gram for even the mid-range, avergage flower (which is very possible) would you consider growing your own at home?

 

It costs about 25-35 Baht per gram to do so, for reference.

I was growing my own indoors in a tent, about 10bht/g Inc electric for the LEDs.

But at 2-5bht from the online stores, not worth growing my own.

 

If it's over 20bht/g I'll start growing my own again.

 

Outdoors (Oct - Jan), too many problems, too hot, too bright, too wet, too much wind, too many bugs. The outside product just wasn't worth doing.

[Bday Prang]

           Definitely, I'm no expert, but everything I have "grown" here has got me a damn sight more twatted than anything I have bought here on line over the past 3 years.  and that's just using free seeds salvaged from brick weed.

            I never put any real time effort or money into growing it, simply germinated a few seeds and watered as req'd, and removed the males once they started to reveal their gender    

Once the flowering was complete chopped em down dried em out in the house , and set about removing the inevitable seeds,

           The results were nothing special to look at  but there was plenty of it , it was  sticky and it smelt ok

The biggest surprise was upon smoking it , I didn't expect much but 1 spliff got me absolutely wacked, and I'm talkin "nailed to the couch" for a couple of hours, a long lasting proper high  which I have never achieved with any of the stuff I have bought on line here (30% THC ? really )

           So I'm looking forward to growing again , I will put a bit more time and effort into it this time , but I won't be paying silly money for seeds. I'll stick with the indigenous variety, I just think that due to natural evolution it  might be a bit more resistant to  Thailand's bugs and challenging climate,and I had no real issues last time. Plenty of cows and pigs around here for some natural fertiliser.

          I won't be using any of these growth hormones that apparently are common these days either,Firstly I know nothing about that stuff, and secondly,  call me "old school"  but  I actually  prefer my buds to look like, well, nice sticky buds,  and not nuggets of green pumice stone,  devoid of resin and even the tiniest leaf , and  as hard as rocks

         I will probably take a load of cuttings, selective breeding may be the way forward eventually, but then again  after the first harvest I'll probably lack a lot of motivation 

[Bday Prang]

1 hour ago, tomster said:

After legalisation in June 2022 loads of people gave growing at home ago, but since then most seemed to have stopped because a. it is actually quite hard here if you are not used to growing in high heat & humidty, and b. the price of flower is currently that cheap there is no point.

 

However, the price of flower is about to go North as the low grade growers stop producing low grade weed that nobody wants, the new GACP requirement will knock most of them out of production.

 

So lets say the price went back to 150-250 Baht per gram for even the mid-range, avergage flower (which is very possible) would you consider growing your own at home?

 

It costs about 25-35 Baht per gram to do so, for reference.

 

Cheers.

       The GACP requirement will be about as comforting and reassuring as all the ISO 9001 quality assurance signs one sees out side construction sites ( like that tower that collapsed) and factories.  These things are meaningless in places like Thailand where everything has its price. 

       Personally I have bought a few  deals of alleged GACP weed, can't comment on the level of toxins and heavy metals, but it was nothing special and it made me cough something rotten  

      I don't think the GACP cert has any bearing on strength either.  I will definitely be growing again

[madone]

1 hour ago, tomster said:

After legalisation in June 2022 loads of people gave growing at home ago, but since then most seemed to have stopped because a. it is actually quite hard here if you are not used to growing in high heat & humidty, and b. the price of flower is currently that cheap there is no point.

 

However, the price of flower is about to go North as the low grade growers stop producing low grade weed that nobody wants, the new GACP requirement will knock most of them out of production.

 

So lets say the price went back to 150-250 Baht per gram for even the mid-range, avergage flower (which is very possible) would you consider growing your own at home?

 

It costs about 25-35 Baht per gram to do so, for reference.

 

Cheers.

 

I grew for a few years during and early post-COVID.

 

The biggest issue is controlling the heat that reduces potency.  Unless you are growing on a large enough scale to justify running AC 24/7, it's a losing game.  

[jvs]

I am growing my own outside.

I have a grow tent all complete with light,fan,filter ,used it one time only.

For me growing outside is still the best.

[BritManToo]

35 minutes ago, jvs said:

I am growing my own outside.

I have a grow tent all complete with light,fan,filter ,used it one time only.

For me growing outside is still the best.

The problem you haven't encountered, 2nd or 3rd crop will be inundated with pests, unless you use fairly serious pesticides.

[Trippy]

I've got a 2x4 foot grow tent in Pattaya. If anyone wants it, free.

[jvs]

2 hours ago, BritManToo said:

The problem you haven't encountered, 2nd or 3rd crop will be inundated with pests, unless you use fairly serious pesticides.

We do not use any chemicals in our garden,so far pests have not been a problem.

 

[FritsSikkink]

1 hour ago, jvs said:

We do not use any chemicals in our garden,so far pests have not been a problem.

 

It will be some time in the future, you can get it in a tent inside the house too.

[Bday Prang]

7 hours ago, jvs said:

We do not use any chemicals in our garden,so far pests have not been a problem.

 

what type do you grow? I have grown several crops of indigenous type weed from seeds salvaged from some brick weed  with no problems, I think some of the none native exotic strains may be less resilient to pests and mould etc Although I've yet to try, as I can't bring myself to pay 100's of baht for a  seed   Does anywhere sell cuttings? I'd  be more willing to pay for that