Unlike the illicit or medical marijuana grows of yesteryear, there are no limits to the number of hemp plants farmers can put in their fields… Despite it being the exact same plant.
Traditional cannabis cultivation practices emphasized getting plants in the ground after the last chance of frost and sometime in mid-spring April or May for much of the US. These practices are antiquated. They stemmed from a time when plant numbers were limited so the only way to maximize your harvest was to make each individual plant as big as possible. These were mostly small grows from 10-100 plants and double-sized plants meant double-sized harvest and profits.
We are no longer constrained by the number of plants. We are planting 1000’s of plants over multiple acres. Smaller plants are easier to manage, easier to harvest, and potentially more profitable per acre when you consider the resources & labor saved by planting later into the season.
It’s time to throw off old ideas that no longer serve us. Most of the country should be sprouting their seeds sometime in June or July and transplanting to the field in early to mid-July. While this may seem counterintuitive, trust us when we say the results will speak for themselves. Your field will still be 4-6 ft tall and yields could easily eclipse 1lb/ plant.