Before he founded the international hydroponic nutrients company Advanced Nutrients, cannabis cultivator and innovator BigMike Straumietis used supplemental digestive enzymes such as lactase, bromelain and amylase to help his body digest food. Enzymes are naturally occurring biocatalysts essential to digestion and decomposition of organic materials. BigMike wondered if similar enzymes could also help his cannabis […]
All plants need water, that’s an undeniable fact. However, cannabis plants give you their best performance when not just watered, but hydrated with pure water containing nutrients delivered in the correct amounts at the correct times and via the most apt watering methods. While I’ve been growing cannabis for years, I’m still aware of how […]
I’ll admit it: I’m one of those “big-time” black-market cannabis growers the federal government has warned you about and would love to see locked up in prison. But you know what? They’ll never catch me. I’ve been in the marijuana game for 21 years, producing the finest commercially grown weed in the world, and have […]
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 […]
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