Because most cannabis is photoperiodic, properly functioning light timers are extremely important. Should timers fail your cannabis will become stressed at the very least. At worst, intersex traits (male flowers on female plants) could seed your crop. These seeds are virtually unusable and the quality of the finished buds will also be greatly reduced. The …
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DIY Drying Cabinet
Cultivators often don’t have a dedicated space to dry their medical cannabis. I can maintain ideal conditions for drying in my room, except for the darkness aspect (I’m never without plants). Drying cannabis needs to be dark so we can deactivate the chloroplasts (tastes bad) in the plant. Here, we’ll go through the steps to …
Caregiving & Costs
Let me first acknowledge that this blog post won’t make me popular among some folks as I’m about to peel back the veil so we can all see clearly. However, the intent here is to empower patients through understanding. A couple caregiver/cultivators I’ve chatted with have been unsure how to valuate the service they are …
Becoming a Caregiver
Fortunately, neither the Missouri State Constitution nor the administrators of the Missouri Medical Marijuana Program (MMMP) have created hurdles for becoming a caregiver. The process is fairly straight forward – follow these steps: Find a MMMP Patient who needs someone to grow medicine for, or otherwise assist them. Ensure that the patient has already applied …
Missouri Needs More Caretakers
It is apparent that there is an increasing number of qualified Missouri Medical Marijuana Patients who do not have access to medicine. I, and others, have drawn this conclusion from the statistics. As of the end of September, 2019, there are nearly 12,000 patients with approved cards. The number of cultivation permits are not seen …
Cannabis Cultivation Books
There are piles and piles of informative articles on the internet, and one can learn all they need from free online resources. However, I still really enjoy having books at my fingertips. They make great references. Here are the books I reference the most. This is also a good time to mention that these are …
Drying, Trimming, and Curing Your Harvest: the Basics
At this point, you have spent at least 10 weeks lovingly caring for your crop and are now ready to harvest. What you may not know is that what happens over the next 2 weeks can ruin an otherwise amazing harvest. I recommend that you put just as much thought into drying and curing as …
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Can I harvest yet?
A looming harvest is a very exciting time. It is also possible that you will get bitten by the harvest bug. It’s not a real bug, but none-the-less, its bite will give you an extreme desire to harvest. Don’t fall for it! A grower with whom I consult called me excitedly this last weekend and …
Seeds, Clones, Auto, Photo, oh my! A Cannabis Primer.
For those just getting started in legal Missouri Medical Marijuana Program cultivation, it can be a challenge to understand the basics. There are 30 ways to do everything and are gads of technical jargon and abbreviations that add to the confusion. I mean, what’s OLS anyway? Can’t we just type it out? 🙂 The first …
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Data logging for your grow
Not tracking data about your grow is like being in a batting cage with a blindfold on.