Colorado wrote the modern rulebook in 2012 and its growers have been receiving shipped cuts longer than anywhere east of California. The state's altitude sets the terms: fierce sun, cold nights, and a season that ends abruptly.
Boxes reach Denver, Colorado Springs, Fort Collins and the rest of Colorado as tracked nursery stock. Orders ship from the nursery in up to 2 weeks, tracked door to door. Every cut ships as a fully rooted clone, 8-12" tall. Order early May; Front Range plants go out after Mother's Day, which is the timing that keeps an arriving clone from waiting indoors or meeting a frost.
| Status | Adult use since 2012 |
|---|---|
| Possession | 2 oz |
| Home grow | 6 plants (3 mature) per adult, 12 per household |
| Retail | Licensed retail stores |
| Statute | Colo. Const. Art. XVIII § 16; C.R.S. Title 44, Art. 10 (Amendment 64, 2012) |
| Order by | Order early May; Front Range plants go out after Mother's Day |
Adults 21 and over may grow 6 plants each (3 flowering), 12 per household, in an enclosed locked space. Some municipalities cap household counts lower; check local code.
Front Range gardens plant after Mother's Day and harvest before the first week of October in a good year; the mountains subtract weeks from both ends. That math is why this page's picks cap flowering at nine weeks. Shipped boxes cross the plains fast, but May hail is a Colorado specialty, so plan an indoor staging area and never leave a delivery on a step during storm season. UV at a mile high will sunburn an unhardened clone in hours; take the full week.
Computed for CO
Eight cuts scored against this state's season using the worst case of each flowering range, capped at nine weeks for the short window.
Yes. Clones ship to Colorado as tracked nursery stock, rooted 8-12" and dispatched within the up-to-2-week window, reaching Denver, Colorado Springs and the rest of the state. Whether you may then legally grow them is the separate question answered below.
Adults 21 and over may grow 6 plants each (3 flowering), 12 per household, in an enclosed locked space. Some municipalities cap household counts lower; check local code.
Order early May; Front Range plants go out after Mother's Day. Count backwards from planting: up to 2 weeks to root and ship, a few days in transit, then about a week of hardening off, roughly three weeks from click to soil.
The manifest computes Honey Dew, Skunk Kush and Weave Match #2 at the top for Colorado, scoring every cut's worst-case flowering window against the state's real season. All eight picks are listed on this page.