Urban Grower Hydroponics Medical Marijuana Grow Guide
Medical marijuana growers get as much as “3.1 pounds of dry weight medical cannabis per thousand watt light.” 
Ever since the Canadian government started its Medical Marijuana Access Program in 2001, sick and dying Canadians have been able to apply for federal licenses allowing them to grow and possess hydroponics medical marijuana. The program is rightfully slagged by activists, doctors and patients as being too restrictive and bureaucratic, but hundreds of Canadians are now legally licensed to produce cannabis medicine. And when it comes learning how to grow the best medical marijuana, growers worldwide turn to licensed Canadian medical marijuana grower Remo and his video series, The Urban Grower.
Remo became The Urban Grower nearly ten years ago when Advanced Nutrients set up a medical marijuana grower assistance program that provides technical expertise and material support to medical growers who cannot maintain gardens on their own because of financial or medical difficulties.
When the hydroponics manufacturer wanted a professional grower willing to help other medical marijuana growers, it found Remo. His earliest Urban Grower videos featured Remo visiting licensed medical marijuana gardens to help hydroponics growers max the THC and weight of their crops.
Nowadays, Remo still shows you the latest medical marijuana hydroponics tips and tactics, but he also takes his cameras to the Cannabis Cup and other international marijuana events.
One of the first things Remo does when he visits a garden is a safety check, looking for defective equipment or dangerous conditions that create risk of electrocution or fire.
Remo wants to make sure the electrical supply is adequate for indoor lights, air conditioning and other hydroponics equipment. He tries to streamline electricity consumption for maximum cost-effectiveness.
Remo pays careful attention to whether a medical marijuana grow room has adequate air exchange, but he recommends a sealed grow room (Controlled Environment Agriculture) approach that doesn’t directly exchange grow room air with outside air.
He tells growers to use oscillating fans so that a gentle breeze can be felt in all areas of the plant canopy at all times. Adequate air movement helps marijuana plants “breathe” CO2 properly and also decreases problems with airborne molds, fungi or other predators.
Remo reminds you that molds, mildews, diseases, fungi and pests vector in through air exchange, as well as through garden visitors and on tools and equipment. He carefully removes all hydroponics garden debris and disinfects grow room, plant zone and tools.
Nothing gets by Remo: he examines garden humidity, temperature, light intensity, light on-off cycles, C02 levels, distance from lights to top of plant canopy and other factors to ensure that the patient’s hydroponics medical marijuana has the ideal conditions.
Remo urges growers to use only the highest quality water. Many municipal water supplies contain chlorine, toxins, heavy metals, salts, microbes and other impurities that can harm or even kill plants. He suggests reverse osmosis filtration unless you are able to harvest rainwater.
As part of his hydroponics medical marijuana grow room make-overs, Remo has tripled growers’ yields and crop quality by adding Advanced Nutrients base nutrients, bloom boosters, root zone microbes, immune system boosters, carbohydrates, vitamins, fermented organics, and predator-defeat formulas to his medical growers’ rooms. He talks about helping medical marijuana growers get as much as “3.1 pounds of dry weight medical cannabis per thousand watt light.”
It’s about quality, not just quantity, Remo says. When a medical marijuana patient complained that her dried cannabis was harsh and bitter when smoked, Remo used flavor-enhancing and crop cleansing products that sweetened the crop and also added girth and resin to buds.
He further enhanced her cannabis crop value and quality by showing her how to properly dry and cure harvests. Many growers ruin the value and smokeability of their harvest by rushing the drying and curing process, or by drying buds in areas with high humidity, temperatures below 65 F or above 80 F, or where pollutants, molds, and fungi can settle on the buds as they cure.
Here’s what Remo says are the biggest mistakes medical marijuana growers make:
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Improper pH and PPM
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Grow room temperature too hot or too cold (the cold factor is especially damaging in the root zone and during lights off cycle)
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Lights too close to plant canopy
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Plants crowded together and/or inadequate lighting so light penetration and intensity aren’t adequate for max growth
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Failure to monitor plants and system at least twice a day
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Growers not familiar with how nutrient problems and pests and diseases affect plants and/or not doing enough to stop problems as soon as they can be detected.
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Not using High Pressure Sodium Lighting (HPS) during bloom phase
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Poor air movement, room ventilation and air filtration
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Poor security systems
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Letting dogs in grow rooms/smoking cigarettes in grow rooms (vectors for disease)
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Not putting reflecting material on walls and ceiling
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Not covering floor with waterproof material
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Use of inferior fertilizers
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Using HID bulbs that are worn out and underproducing
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Overwatering/Underwatering/Overfertilizing/Underfertilizing
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Poor garden hygiene and maintenance, especially as regards cleaning hydroponics reservoir and keeping drip emitters and other equipment unclogged
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Use of poorly-made organics that create disease and smell
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Augmented C02 removed from room during ventilation
So what’s it like having being the only guy in the world whose career is to do exciting videos that teach you how to grow the strongest and highest-yielding marijuana?
“My biggest satisfaction is knowing that patients who need to grow stronger marijuana and more of it can now do so because of me and Advanced,” Remo says. “I like seeing somebody get more from one harvest than in their previous two harvests.”
Get exclusive medical marijuana cultivation information from the Urban Grower website and check out Remo's very own Twitter account!
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