The medium you use in your cannabis root zone has a big impact on your cultivation workload and ultimate success as a grower. There’s plenty of confusion and misinformation about marijuana root-zone materials, so we’re going to clear that up by giving you just the facts. Soil Root Zone Medium Of all the choices of […]
Many years ago, when I lived as a happy hippie in an Oregon cultivation community, I went through my “it has to be organic” phase. It was a requirement in our cadre that, along with being vegan, driving a VW van, sporting dreads, a threadbare Bob Marley T-shirt, and lots of unruly body hair, that […]
Sea of green cannabis gardens are like clone forests. Have you ever hiked in a monoculture tree forest filled with thin lodgepole pines in uniform rows so dense you can barely walk between the trees — and it’s dark at the base of the trunks because little sunlight penetrates? That’s like a tree version of […]
There are a lot of ways to grow cannabis. For most of us, the first image that comes to mind when we think of growing marijuana is the plant flowering in a pot of soil or outside under the sun and in the ground. Soil feels like a critical part of the equation; to thrive, […]
In our first article in this series, we outlined the screen of green technique and its pros and cons. To recap, screen of green, or SCROG, was created by growers working with limited ground space and/or vertical height in their garden area. It’s useful for small spaces, and in situations when a grower can only […]
Michael Straumietis, a long-time professional grower who founded and owns hydroponics nutrients manufacturer Advanced Nutrients, wants to help cannabis growers avoid grow room mistakes. “Nobody warned me about mistakes that cost me lost buds, time, and money. But you’re going to avoid those mistakes and get bigger, more valuable harvests,” he says. Now let’s consider […]
There are many opinions about how to germinate marijuana seeds. Some people advocate putting cannabis seeds in between two wet paper towels. Others say put them in a glass of water. Such methods force you to handle your seeds when they’ve just sprouted. The seeds have to be carefully plucked from the paper towels or […]
This is the second of two articles about getting 3+ pounds of dried buds per 1000-watt light from your indoor marijuana garden. In the first article (read here), hydroponics nutrients manufacturer and long-time professional grower Michael Straumietis of Advanced Nutrients shared the following advice to maximize your marijuana garden yields: Add C02 to 1200 parts […]
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