I’m not talking about a blonde Rastafarian, this is a reference to the fairy tale character. You know, she doesn’t like too much, or too little – she prefers it just right. I believe that the top problems with home grows are over-watering, under-watering, and over-fertilization. The latter is a topic for another day. We’ll …
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Everyone will need to transplant at one point or another. Transplanting new cuttings can be easy, while 3′ plants in fabric pots are challenging. For our purposes, we’ll assume it is a routine transplanting with a cannabis plant that is more than a handful and that you are transplanting from soil to soil. Most of …
Discussing water in a cannabis growing forum is like talking about oil in a motorcycle forum. Everyone has an opinion on the subject and you’ll earn piles of information, good and bad. At the end of the day, hydroponically grown cannabis will be much more sensitive to pHa measure of the acidity or alkalinity of …
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My first ever grow was a bare-bones setup. I’m not selling anything, but I will explain what I believe to be the lowest cost setup that can grow good medicine, and you should be able to produce an ounce or two per month. Since seeds can cost as much as the rest of the setup …
This article outlines my method for starting seeds destined for organic living soil. There are 100 perfectly fine ways to go about it, and mine is only one example. However, this method is just about as simple as you can get and avoids the use of tweezers and fine motor control that I have lost …
I’ve chosen to write about high intensity discharge (HID) lighting now because these lights still have a place in the home grow. HID lights come in several flavors such as; metal halide (MH), high pressure sodium (HPS), compact metal halide (CMH), and double ended high pressure sodium (DE HPS). HPS and MH have been the …
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 traitsOften called ‘hermies’ or ‘nanners;’ Unpollinated female can… More (male flowers on female plants) could seed your crop. These seeds are virtually unusable and the quality of the …
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 …
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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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 …
