Cannabis growers hate gray mold — and for good reason. Also known as botrytis cinerea, bud rot or bud mold, this malicious destroyer can overwhelm a grow room and quickly ruin the buds within. Gray mold will also attack harvested buds, even long after they’ve been dried and cured. I’ve read a lot of articles […]
It’s the time of year for outdoor cannabis growers to start planning their next crop. Visions of towering plants that each yield a couple pounds or more of dried buds per plant fuel our desire to get the season started. And you can help ensure a rewarding outdoor season by growing strains best matched for […]
Autoflowering plants are strange but wonderful creatures. When automatically flowering cannabis first showed up on the scene two decades ago, it was hempy, leafy and low potency. But throughout the last 10 years, breeders of autoflowering strains have upped their game, creating cannabis variants as high yielding and as robust as the precursor photoperiod strains […]
In the Northern Hemisphere, October through April marks the most popular time of the year for growing cannabis indoors, largely thanks to professional indoor grow lights (especially high intensity discharge grow lights) providing heat to indoor spaces. Cannabis plants don’t thrive in excessive heat, so if you’re embarking on an indoor summer grow, air conditioning […]
One of the basic decisions you’ll make as a cannabis grower is whether to cultivate one strain, or multiple strains together at the same time. Ultimately, your decision will be based on whether you grow from seeds, clones, feminized seeds or non-feminized seeds. Especially in licensed commercial grow ops, growers want plants that are uniform […]
Many cannabis growers and consumers focus their attention solely on THC (tetrahydrocannabinol) and CBD (cannabidiol), ignoring the additional hundred-plus known cannabinoids also contained in the plant. However, as we continue to unearth how the organic compounds known as terpenes or terpenoids have such a substantial effect by themselves and also as cannabinoid modulators, that THC/CBD-only […]
Once upon a time, when a cannabis strain was described as indica or sativa, we used to be talking about the strain’s genetic and geographic origins. But in today’s brave new cannabis world, the focus has shifted to marijuana genetics — that is, a world in which hybridized breeding has combined genetics from diverse types […]
When it comes to growing cannabis, harvesting is like the eighth inning of a hard-fought baseball game, while the ninth inning is drying, curing and storing your crops. And as in baseball, unforced errors and rookie mistakes in either of these final innings can cost you the winning game. Most growers have made at least […]
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