The time is upon us. For those transitioning directly from inside to outside in their gardens, the last window will be closing in a few weeks. Your plants will mostly likely flower when you take them outside due to the difference in length of dark period (night-cycle). It is now within two weeks of the …
Category Archives: Lighting
Grow light coverage
I commonly see confusion where light coverage is concerned. Don’t worry, it can be an difficult concept. Advertising for lights are purposefully difficult to understand sometimes. Anything to get us to part with our money, right? Although we can apply these concepts to any light and any sized space, here I’ll break it down in …
HID Lighting
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 …
Timers for your cannabis grow
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 …
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 OLSOrganic Living Soil More anyway? Can’t we just type it out? …
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Your first grow light
There is a huge selection of lights to choose from and you’ll get 12 different recommendations for every 5 people you ask, so what can you do? Read on, we’ll make this simple. We will eliminate high-intensity lighting (HID) given that these lights are not good for a beginner for a number of reasons. Fluorescent …