Do cannabis plants grow quicker than most fruits and vegetables

Hook Daddy

Hook Daddy

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Since your three examples of a tomato, orange and strawberry don’t grow anywhere near the same speed, so I’d say no.

Edit: they grow at a similar pace as tomatoes, much faster than oranges which are a tree, they can’t even compete with hydro strawberries, but again now we’re comparing apples to oranges.
 
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conor c

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Well berrys aint long trees take time to mature ie oranges and tomatoes are kinda closer to weed from what you have listed it depends what variety and what gen you growing also cos true f1 s have heterosis(hybrid vigour) and grow faster than other gens stuff varies in flower time due to genetics anyway as well and theres also your environment and nutrition and light /co2 levels and skill level dont forget that bit so not so simple a question to awnser some of it is pretty fast growing but not all plus theres limiting factors ie you and where and how your growing em if its outside its up to nature more and less in your control
 
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itsaliveterps

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If you
conor c said:
Well berrys aint long trees take time to mature ie oranges and tomatoes are kinda closer to weed from what you have listed it depends what variety and what gen you growing also cos true f1 s have heterosis(hybrid vigour) and grow faster than other gens stuff varies in flower time due to genetics anyway as well and theres also your environment and nutrition and light /co2 levels and skill level dont forget that bit so not so simple a question to awnser some of it is pretty fast growing but not all plus theres limiting factors ie you and where and how your growing em if its outside its up to nature more and less in your control
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If you were growing them indoors? In a reasonable climate fairly warm temps
 
Dboybudz

Dboybudz

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Even seasoned growers that grow regularly just veggies find marijuana something different all together. To grow it properly and want the best from time to pick,dry, flowering, vegetative what and when to feed. Outdoor or inside. Slugs and animals outside will drive you nuts. And inside has to b clean or mites will take over. Just some of annoinces. When there just growing before flowering can be off on some stuff and plant will recover but after then got to pay attention if can't baby it. Get good nutrition for the girls.
 
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VaSmile

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Way to open ended of a question. Too many variables playing a factor.
If we think about autos an annuals and say 75-90days sprout to harvest is slightly longer then most veggies I plant (cukes, maters, peppers) 60-80days
Comparing photos to annuals is much more varied. Here we are only comparing the bloom cycle. Fast flowers (6week bloom) is exceptionally fast with few examples matching that, while long blooming sativas(12-15 weeks) is impractical for food production. The 9-11weeks standard is pretty inline with most fruit blooms maybe just a tad slower
 
weedstoner420

weedstoner420

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It's literally like comparing apples and oranges. A lot of garden veggies are day-neutral, and will continuously produce fruit once they reach maturity (the "days to harvest" on stuff like peppers and cucumbers is the days until you can *start* harvesting). The one exception I can think of is determinate tomatoes, which are still day-neutral, but set all their fruit at once and then die.

Weed is a short-day plant, so it will continue to grow without flowering until the days get shorter, and when it flowers it does so all at once, you typically don't harvest from the same plant over the course of weeks or months. So if you plant weed in the spring, it's gonna take a lot longer to mature than a tomato. But if you start it on short light hours, indoors or out, it might take less time than some garden veggies (but probably not many).

Or are you talking about speed of growing size/biomass? Sure weed plants can get pretty big pretty fast, especially outside, but lots of squash, beans, and other viney crops do the same. You could easily fill your yard with a single pumpkin vine in one summer.

So basically, it depends.
 
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VaSmile

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I think the biggest factor here is human influence. Way more people have spent way more time/effort/money into developing food then weed. As mass ag practices are developed they are quickly transferred to any popular plant.
With the widespread expansion of legalization I think we will see the rapid development of faster strains. Biological limiting factors will probably max the speed out around 55 days for autos and a 5 week bloom cycle for photos
 
Jylhavuori

Jylhavuori

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But to scale it to numbers to make a reasonable answer.

Plantae
scale 1-100

Just some uneducated guesses, someone can fill in?

Growth: 70
Season productivity: 20-50 (sativa-af)
Complexity: 80
Utilization factor: 95
Potentiality: 90
Soil degradation, lower better: 20
 
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