The Benefits of Growing Your Own Cannabis at Home
There are many benefits to growing your own cannabis at home. There are the apparent benefits that everyone knows, such as saving money, quality control, and being able to select any strain you want. Then there are the lesser-known environmental and therapeutic benefits that may not be as widely considered.
There are many benefits to growing your own cannabis at home. There are the apparent benefits that everyone knows, such as saving money, quality control, and being able to select any strain you want. Then there are the lesser-known environmental and therapeutic benefits that may not be as widely considered.
With the popularity of homegrown cannabis on the rise, we find it essential to highlight all the different benefits that home growers can experience. So, without further ado, here are the benefits of growing your own cannabis at home.
Save Money
Weed prices can vary depending on your state, supply and demand, and tax policy. For example, if you are living in Washington, DC, and you go to buy an ounce of high-quality black frost buds, you could pay up to $590 in 2025, according to Statista.com. That same ounce could cost a mere $210 in Oregon. This is a crazy fluctuation that can vary depending on where you live and how greedy the politicians in your area want to get.
Aside from home growing being much cheaper than dispensaries, you can hedge against price fluctuations by growing your own cannabis. Remember, although the initial setup for growing will set you back a few hundred dollars, when black frost feminized seeds only cost $49 for four seeds, and with an expected yield of 100 to 600 grams per plant, you can quickly recoup those costs with your first successful harvest.
Quality Control
Quality control is another significant benefit of home growing. With complete control, you can decide on the growing methods you want to use, which chemicals you do or do not use, and how you want to dry and cure your buds for maximum flavor and potency. Additionally, home growing typically avoids many of the contaminants and additives that can make their way into commercial products.
Strain Selection and Customization
A massive perk of home growing is the ability to experiment with new strains and crossbreed your own strains to suit your personal tastes. Since growing your own is so much cheaper than buying it at a local shop, you can try new strains you wouldn’t have considered before.
Additionally, you can be a mad scientist and use crossbreeding to create the perfect strain with the effects and taste you love. With crossbreeding, you can tailor the THC, CBD, CBN, and terpene profile to have certain strains that you use for recreation and others you enjoy for medical use.
More Sustainable
Growing your own cannabis is also more sustainable and environmentally friendly. Here’s how.
- Commercial grow operations have a much larger carbon footprint.
- Conserving water and instituting eco-friendly growing methods on a smaller scale is much easier.
- You can recycle and compost plant materials.
- You can use rainwater collection, drip irrigation, and mulching to save on water.
- You can use living soil.
If you are interested in sustainable cultivation, plenty of resources are out there to guide you.
Convenience
The bottom line is that growing your own weed is convenient. After your first crop, you won’t have to worry about running out, and you will have plenty to share with your friends. Also, with autoflower strains, for example, every 8 to 12 weeks, you can have a new batch coming in, and if you get good at it, you can even stagger your grows so you are constantly harvesting and drying batches.
On top of that, even though some states have legalized recreational marijuana, they are still lagging when it comes to the commercial supply and availability for the average consumer. Ahem, I am looking at you, Minnesota.
After legalizing recreational use in 2023, Minnesota still doesn’t have a reliable commercial supply and dispensaries where consumers can go to buy cannabis, and local governments are fighting against legalization and trying to impose bans on the sale of cannabis within their municipalities.
Don’t rely on the government to get its act together, only to supply you with overpriced products; grow your own.
Another convenience factor is being able to grow a larger crop at a much cheaper price, so you can experiment with baking edibles, making weed oil, and cooking cannabis-infused dishes. A delicious way to consume cannabis!
Therapeutic Benefits
Not many people consider the therapeutic benefits of growing cannabis, but there are many. First, simply learning plant biology and cultivation techniques is rewarding. Second, satisfaction from nurturing something from seed to harvest to consumption is unlike other types of more instant gratification. Last, gardening has proven to be a stress-relieving activity.
Final Word
Growing your own cannabis offers financial savings, quality control, and sustainability while providing you with immeasurable therapeutic benefits at the same time. On top of that, having the freedom to select any strain you want, create your own, and not rely on the government for supply is incredibly liberating. So, what are you waiting for? Get started today!
