Homer's Legal 4-Plant Max Perpetual Minimalist Garden In Ontario

I can't believe they limit you guys to 4 plants :( :passitleft:
 
BudShark said:
Hello Homer, I hear you, great hobby, photography, growing and a friendly place to post and chat. Time lapse is a great idea, I have seen a few that were very well done, I am sure you will get your Minimalist technique out there for millions to see. Keep up the great work. Will be a while for me, I enjoy to watch too much... a bit lazy Lol Cheers
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Thanks a lot BudShark. Since my vids usually get about 25 views I doubt I will be crushing it with a million; I would be happy to get a hundred, lol.
 
RedZedHead said:
I can't believe they limit you guys to 4 plants :( :passitleft:
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It is restricting but it is better than the old limit of zero. lol. With four and using 5-gallon pots and a light for vegging and my MegaLight for budding I am getting about an ounce a week which is way more than I need and I think by using 10-gallon pots and cranking up my MegaLight a bit more ( I am only putting 200W of over 600W possible through it) with 10-gallon pots I think I could get 2 ounces per week so it isn't restrictive to me other than it makes it hard to do much experimenting.
 
RedZedHead said:
I can't believe they limit you guys to 4 plants :( :passitleft:
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Four plant x 2 grows can yield 4 lbs of dried flower per year. This is what I think they looked at when deciding the limits. It is relatively easy here to get your medical license. That usually adds ten to twenty five plants for indoor grows, depending on your prescription.

What I don't like about the four plant limit is that you can't keep mothers. The fix for this could be changing the law to four flowering plants. This would work for anything but autoflowers.

Another big problem is that legally you can only buy recreational seed from licensed producers. The licensed producers have renamed the genetics, so you really can't know what you are growing. There are also very few strains available legally. Medical seed is still a gray area.
 
Old Salt said:
Four plant x 2 grows can yield 4 lbs of dried flower per year. This is what I think they looked at when deciding the limits. It is relatively easy here to get your medical license. That usually adds ten to twenty five plants for indoor grows, depending on your prescription.

What I don't like about the four plant limit is that you can't keep mothers. The fix for this could be changing the law to four flowering plants. This would work for anything but autoflowers.

Another big problem is that legally you can only buy recreational seed from licensed producers. The licensed producers have renamed the genetics, so you really can't know what you are growing. There are also very few strains available legally. Medical seed is still a gray area.
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That is interesting how they determined the number of plants and I think their estimates are pretty reasonable; I can grow as much as I need but you are right about it being difficult to have a mother plant and I find I can’t experiment much, I would like to do a bunch of experiments using different amounts of MegaCrop and additives but that would take a whole crop limited to four plants. I might put that off for a couple of crops.

Dutch agreed it is pretty easy to get your medical license but once you have one they are entitled to inspect your grow and the last thing I want is the “man” nosing around in my business, LOL. And you are right about seeds being a big fiasco; when they first made it legal I don’t think you could get legal seeds but fortunately, the borders are pretty porous for contraband seeds. I am sure the legal seeds generally suck but I wouldn’t know, LOL.
 
Old Salt said:
Four plant x 2 grows can yield 4 lbs of dried flower per year. This is what I think they looked at when deciding the limits. It is relatively easy here to get your medical license. That usually adds ten to twenty five plants for indoor grows, depending on your prescription.

What I don't like about the four plant limit is that you can't keep mothers. The fix for this could be changing the law to four flowering plants. This would work for anything but autoflowers.

Another big problem is that legally you can only buy recreational seed from licensed producers. The licensed producers have renamed the genetics, so you really can't know what you are growing. There are also very few strains available legally. Medical seed is still a gray area.
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I have a 4 plant in flower and 6 in veg limit here. The problem is they don’t want you to have anything over 12 inches high/wide in veg...which is absolutely ridiculous. I’ve never been checked, but I always comply with the law...always. :headbanger:
 
Grandpa Tokin said:
I have a 4 plant in flower and 6 in veg limit here. The problem is they don’t want you to have anything over 12 inches high/wide in veg...which is absolutely ridiculous. I’ve never been checked, but I always comply with the law...always. :headbanger:
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12 inches in veg does sound like a weird restriction. Until I switched to a 10-gallon pot this time I would always have 2 plants in veg and two in flower in 5-gallon pots and I would start my new plants when I would harvest the ones in flower and flipped the vegging to flower so they would get as much veg time as the previous generation got in flower so they would get 8, 10 or 12 weeks so they were pretty considerable in size. I think with just four I may be able to grow more than with your 10 plants 12-inch height restriction maybe?

But yes these days I follow the law also because I just don't want the hassle but I still don't want the authorities poking their nose in my business. You get some gung ho authoritarian and who knows what they can come up with.
 
I reinstalled Windows yesterday which wasn’t nearly the hassle I remembered; because I have an account Google Chrome remembered all my favourites and passcodes and Windows 10 was pretty slick also and I back up everything so fortunately it went pretty smoothly.

But when I tried to reinstall Photoshop Premiere Elements which is my video editing program remarkably it had the same problem before I reinstalled Windows; the music that comes with the program to add to your videos did not download again so I re-re-installed Windows. That is pretty perplexing with a brand-new Windows install but I wasn’t too keen on using it anyways because it is so glitchy. Unfortunately, that means the 40 to 80 hours I put in on my half-finished video is a lost cause but I was prepared for that.

From watching a lot of videos on YouTube reviewing video editing programs the general consensus seems to be that with every new version Photoshop premiere gets more unstable so it isn’t just me. I am switching over to da Vinci Resolve which has a free version that should do everything I need.

Anyway things went better than I expected with my reinstall but now I have to learn another new program but fortunately I have the time, LOL. Hope everyone is enjoying mother’s day and best wishes to all the moms out there.
 
Pennywise said:
Glad your reinstall went smooth, I haven’t been impressed with adobe for awhile now.
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Thanks, Penny. It does seem to be the programs people love to hate lately. It looks like my video card can't handle the program I was going to use to replace the Adobe video editor, LOL. There's always something but I'll figure it out.
 
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Since this is the only plant I have right now I moved my Gorilla Glue from the vegging room under a blurple to the flowering room under the MegaLight even though I am still vegging it. I bumped the wattage of the MegaLight from 200 W to about 250 W which is still less than half of the over 600 W I could be giving it.

Since this is my first plant in a 10-gallon pot as opposed to 5-gallon I'm going to let it get maybe twice the size before I flip it. Not sure how long that will be but I will let the plant dictate by size.

Because of my video editing program hitches, I have decided not to bother editing the video I made of my 1:20 and Devil Strain because the Devil Strain was such a disappointing unusable plant also, so I think I will start a new seed in the next couple weeks and outline my minimalist system using it instead. I am trying to decide whether I should go with the Dr. Seeds, Bubba Kush or Bruce Banner?
 
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