By Jorge Cervantes in collaboration with Innexo BV & Stefan Meyer
A “No-Veg” method flips plants straight to 12/12, trading smaller individual yields for higher annual output and a dramatic jump in top-shelf buds.
I have spent the better part of forty years walking through cannabis gardens. From the hidden guerrilla patches of the Emerald Triangle to the sun-drenched greenhouses of Southern Spain, and finally, to the high-tech, clinically sterile indoor facilities of the Netherlands and North America. In all that time, across every continent and every era of prohibition and legalization, there has been one constant, one Golden Rule that every grower—from the novice with a closet tent to the master horticulturist—has followed with religious adherence: You must veg your plants.
Dominique van Gruisen, owner of Innexo, BV (R) in Southern Netherlands shows Jorge Cervantes and Guido Berenstein (cnnbs.nl) at Acceleration Days details of his No-Veg research.
Top growers are getting six crops a year using the No-Veg technique. The image above shows a weekly progression of cannabis plants grown without any vegetative growth.
We have been taught that the vegetative phase is the foundation of yield. It is the time when we build the house frame before we put on the roof. We nurture our seedlings or clones under 18 or 24 hours of light, coaxing them to build strong root systems, thick stems, and a lush canopy of fan leaves. We top them, we train them, we weave them through scrog nets, and we wait. We wait two weeks, four weeks, or sometimes six weeks, paying for electricity, nutrients, and labor, all while the plant produces not a single gram of flower.
We do this because we believe a larger plant means a higher yield. We believe that if we flip to 12/12 too early, we will end …
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Author: Jorge Cervantes / High Times
