Maximum Yield Cannabis USA October/November 2018 | Page 66

How, exactly, do you measure the success
of your cannabis garden? There are several
ways to track and calculate your cannabis
yields and learn about your profit margins.
by Grubbycup
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Maximum Yield
G
rowing cannabis is part art, part science. In some ways,
gardeners are very artistic; like a conductor in front of an
orchestra, they guide their plants from start to harvest, listening
for any off notes signaling something isn’t right. On the more
scientific side, there are ways to pick notes out of the right key
for a more harmonious garden. The more critically important
success is, the less room there is for artistic exploration, and
more reliance on quantifiable results is called for, especially
when tallying cannabis yields.
Now, there are two methods for sourcing clones. You can either
purchase clones from another licensed facility or take cuttings
from your own best-performing plants.
For a basic idea of success in the garden, one could simply
measure how much was spent divided by how much was
harvested. For example, if a gardener spent $100 towards
materials, nutrients, and labor on an outdoor container plant
on the back patio and it produced a little under a kilogram (kg),
then each half kilogram cost $50 to produce. Even a calculation
as simple as this can be useful when comparing operating costs
between grows or to find a minimum required profit margin.