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Cannabis Plus: growing, drying, and selling

Strains, drying posts, the processing bench, and turning buds into bricks for cash.

Cannabis Plus is on Chernarus only. It adds a full production loop: grow plants, dry them, bag the buds, press them into bricks, and sell the bricks to the Drug Trader at the trader hub. It's slow to set up, but once it's running it's a steady income.

A cannabis grow on Is Dead with plants in a garden plot, a drying table, and packed bricks

Strains

There are several strains, including Skunk, Blue God, Purple Kush, Stardawg, S1, Future, Nomad, and Black Frost. Each has its own grow time, crop yield, and seed yield, and each hits differently when smoked.

The production loop

  1. Grow. Find seeds in towns, or by hand looting kitchen items. Plant them, then harvest the grown plants. Harvests also give you seeds to replant.
  2. Dry. Hang raw plants on a drying post and start drying. You can't take plants off while they dry. When it's done, dried buds appear in the post's inventory. The post can't be picked up, so place it where you'll keep it.
  3. Bag. Combine at least 2 buds with an empty bag to fill a bag.
  4. Brick. Combine at least 16 filled bags with duct tape (25% or more) to wrap a brick.
  5. Sell. Bricks go to the Drug Trader at the trader hub.

The cannabis workbench

Once you're producing in volume, build the processing bench to automate bagging and bricking.

  • Craft a Cannabis Workbench Kit from 10 wooden planks and 20 nails, then place it.
  • Attach a wrapper, a bagger, empty bags, plastic wrap, and your buds. Depending on server settings it may also need a large (vehicle) battery for power.
  • Start production with the in-world action. The bench turns buds into bags, then bags into bricks using plastic wrap. You can stop it at any time.
  • If bricks stop coming out, check the wrapper isn't ruined and that you still have plastic wrap and battery charge.

Other things you can make

  • Joints: a bud and rolling papers. You can also pack joints into an empty cigarette pack.
  • CBD crude oil: S1 buds and disinfectant alcohol.

Smoking

Smoking makes you stoned for about 30 seconds. It drains your water and can make you cough or laugh, so don't light up when you need to stay quiet.

Tips

  • Grow inside your territory so your setup stays flagged and doesn't despawn.
  • Stock empty bags and duct tape or plastic wrap before harvest day.
  • A vehicle helps a lot when hauling bricks to the trader.

Related guides

Making money earlyHunting, AI, quests, and mining on Chernarus are the most reliable ways to earn.
Traders and the P2P marketTraders are where you cash in your work, not where you skip progression.

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