You've never actually cultivated marijuana, have you?
I have much experience in this type of agriculture, and WildCat's comments seem pretty accurate to me.
It's odd that in every one of these conversations some Furry Freak Brothers stoner seems to be under the impression that their weed is the only weed worth smoking, and everything else is ditch weed. It's not a contest, bit_pattern. It's reality, with consumer trends, cultural attitudes, and economic models that are fairly well established with other recreational intoxicants and self medication.
More like 3-5 months difference.
You've never actually cultivated marijuana outdoors in the USA Midwest, have you? If you did, and if it took three to five months longer than what you grow in your basement, you did it wrong.
Yes you CAN optimise light, you can optimise light distribution and light duration, both of which have a HUGE effect on the quality of the product grown. Growing outdoors gives you LESS light, everything from hours in a day to cloud cover to unequal distribution of light can radically effect the overall light a plant receives. In optimal conditions you subject the plant to 24 hours of light for the first month or two of growth, tell me where in the world you can replicate those conditions in nature?
You can certainly approach that in Alaska where, by the way, some of the finest pot is grown indoors or out. But the point is, your Beevis and Butt-Head attitude, that there is some kind of optimum weed and everything else is crap, is your own subjective opinion, which you are certainly entitled to, and is objectively wrong.
Pests are going to be a problem no matter where you grow, but it is true that indoor growing can be more risky in this respect however the benefits FAR outweigh the risks.
In your unsubstantiated opinion. And when you eliminate the legal ramifications of prohibition, that will also eliminate by far the greatest risk that concerns growers and smokers in the USA.
Yet commercial growers nearly to a man choose to grow indoors. Go figure!
When people aren't risking the confiscation of their homes and property for growing a few plants outdoors along the fence row, outdoor grown marijuana, of a quality acceptable to the vast majority of users and competitive with indoor grown pot, will be as ubiquitous as home grown tomatoes or cucumbers.
No it isn't. Not even remotely so. Indoor growing revolutionised the marijuana industry and revolutionised marijuana quality and control. There simply is no debate to be had in this respect.
That indoor grown marijuana sure is easier to hide from the law, isn't it? When that becomes a non-issue, when prohibition isn't a factor, and
if a tax rate is applied that makes it uncomfortable for people to just buy it at the pharmacy or liquor store, people will grow pot in their back yards, tons of it. There aren't just two kinds of pot, the primo that gets you and your pals all googly eyed, and ditch weed. Quality is a continuum. There are lots of flavors. There is a variety of types of buzzes.
When commercial marijuana production and home grown pot becomes legal, the trend in choices will likely be similar to how we choose tobacco and beer. Billions of cigarettes are sold every year with names like Marlboro, Winston, Camel, and Pall Mall, and millions upon millions of gallons of beer get sold with names like Budweiser, Miller Lite, and Milwaukee’s Best. And although there are arguably more potent, better tasting beers and tobaccos, it only matters to a tiny fraction of consumers. And only a tiny fraction of marijuana smokers will care to emulate Beevis and Butt-Head and smoke until they puke. Understand that not everyone has your very narrow and subjective opinion on what is acceptable quality in marijuana, bit_pattern.
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