Light Dep Marijuana

Growing marijuana can be either the simplest process ever or it may get complicated. With intricate systems and equipment that takes weeks to master. Either way, with so many different methods of cultivating cannabis. Nowadays, it’s important for growers to find the one that works best for them year-round.

The light deprivation technique is a nifty method for growing cannabis. (some call it the “future of cannabis”). And the community is catching on to it quickly. The resulting weed is known as “light dep weed”, so let us share some knowledge on this technique and its results so you can have another ace in your sleeve when it comes to growing your weed.

About the Light Deprivation Technique

Simply put, the light deprivation technique is a technique for growing weed in which cultivators control the daily hours of light that the cannabis plants receive, tricking the plant into thinking that fall is near and it’s time for flowering. This speeds up the process allowing growers to achieve two or even three harvests per season.

What happens is that once the plants are tricked into thinking that October is around the corner, they begin to prepare to produce more seeds that will drop to the ground in order to keep the plant alive until next year. However, instead of seeds, growers get fragrant buds in half the time they usually take to flower.

The technique originated in Humboldt County, the starting point of homegrown cannabis, in the late 1980s, but it didn’t take off until the early 2000s. Basically, the growers realized that having control over the amount of light will induce flowering of the buds on demand.