Author Archive | Richard Iskren

hydroponic nutrients

The Most Common Problems With Hydroponic Nutrients And Soil Growing, And How Best To Remedy Them

I constantly hear from my cannabis grower community about their trials and tribulations when it comes to problem products, and so I want to share these issues to help the rest of us best avoid our own grow op failures. Many growers use inferior hydroponic nutrients, the result being diminished yield and potency. Inferior nutrients […]

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Manicuring Marijuana For Maximum Potency And Marketability

After harvesting, your cannabis growing season doesn’t end there. Next, you must manicure your buds. There’s an art and science to trimming buds that you can only master through experience and education. One choice you have at the outset of bud manicuring is to choose between dry and wet trim. Dry trim is when you’re […]

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Marijuana Users Needing Organ Transplant Suffer & Die Because of Discrimination from Doctors & Hospitals

What if you were desperately waiting for an organ transplant to keep you alive, but your doctors kick you off the organ transplant list because you use marijuana. Hydroponics nutrients and cannabis growing pioneer Michael Straumietis says cannabis-using transplant patients are experiencing “life-threatening medical discrimination against our marijuana community.” “The perfect example is Garry Godfrey, […]

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Subcool Seeds

Subcool Seeds: Improved Gorilla Glue & Killer Outdoor Marijuana Strains

Just in time for outdoor marijuana growing season, Subcool Seeds releases a resin bomb new strain called Cosmic Glue, which is a greatly improved version of Gorilla Glue #4. This powerful, deliciously gooey new strain was produced by Subcool’s long-time strain-breeding collaborator Heroes Of The Farm (HOTF), a legendary, Oregon-based cannabis breeding venture. HOTF created some […]

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Marijuana Bubble Hash

Making Bubblehash – A Clean, THC-Rich Marijuana Concentrate

Bubblehash is a nearly-pure resin gland cannabis concentrate made using icewater instead of solvents. You make it by placing marijuana in iced water and “washing” the cannabis to gather cannabinoid-laden resin glands. When you use iced water to make hashish, you’re using temperature, stirring, and wet sifting to isolate the resin glands. There’s no butane, […]

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With Apologies to Metallica: Dangers of Mixing Heavy Metal & Marijuana

Here’s a crazy but true fact: cannabis plants are used as living vacuum cleaners that suck radioactivity out of the ground at the Chernobyl nuclear disaster site in Russia. Cannabis is so efficient at sucking in and storing materials that it’s included in a category of plants called “accumulator plants.” But the accumulation power of marijuana plants […]

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