Planting the outdoor marijuana crops, many growers use a seed intensive method, this means planting many seeds, since the plants will not have the protection of indoor growing. What this means is that not all the plants may survive once planted outdoors and by over planting which will ensure the grower will have a harvest the end of the season. Another advantage that growers will have with a larger amount of seeds is the fact that in most crops can have up to 50% of male plants which will be weeded out prior to pollination.

One of the other methods growers use when planting an outdoor marijuana crop is to plant small seedlings and this will give the grower the opportunity to choose the strongest and healthiest seedlings to plant outdoors. This along with choosing the correct seeds for planting outdoors are one of the ways the grower can be assured that crop may make it to harvest. The largest risk with this type of planting is that the small seedlings will go into shock and the second risk is traveling with them in a vehicle.

There is also a choice for growers of sexing plants prior to planting an outdoor crop; this is because there are some strains of marijuana that is feminized. What this means is that it's possible for the grower to buy seeds that will definitely be females, which takes the worry out of losing a part of their outdoor crop to male plants. It also means that the grower does not have to worry about taking males out of the crop prior to pollinating.