When you bring marijuana clones into your garden, there’s a danger you’re bringing in pests or diseases along with the new cannabis acquisitions. Spider mites, broad mites, thrips, aphids, powdery mildew and other pests and diseases can come in with the marijuana clones, and cause you big trouble. I always look at marijuana clones with […]
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Marijuana Seed Breeding Vocabulary Guide from TGA Subcool Seeds
The main man at TGA Seeds is “Weed Nerd” Subcool. He’s the driving force who’s created dozens of tasty, potent, unique marijuana strains in the past decade. We’ve talked about Subcool in many articles, and he’s written many fascinating articles for BigBudsMag.com. We asked him to provide a vocabulary list for words used in marijuana […]
Subcool Guide to Starting Marijuana Seeds
Marijuana seeds have many benefits when compared to growing from clones. The most helpful benefit is that marijuana plants grown from seed do not introduce pests or problems into a garden like clones can. Another benefit seedlings provide is health and vigor. Sometimes marijuana motherplants and/or clones can be old, tired, or even diseased without […]
Managing Your Canopy For Maximum Marijuana Yield
I want to share my thoughts about the importance of an even canopy in your marijuana garden. When you have both tall and short cannabis plants in a room the shorter plants miss the same light intensity and the tall plants force you to raise the lights higher than needed. When the tops of the […]
Subcool Says: You Can Make Marijuana Clones, Without Mother Plants!
Making marijuana clones is a grower skill that’s hard for some people to master. I know long-time marijuana growers who still struggle with production of healthy, happy cuttings. Most growers use motherplants to take cuttings from, but the method I teach doesn’t require motherplants to be kept, and so it’s extra important to have good […]
Cannabis Capsule Making With Subcool
It’s probably not a big secret to my readers that I smoke a lot of cannabis. I’ve been a toker for over 30 years and after all those bong hits, my lungs are not what they used to be. In fact, I have COPD, which is a bad disease that’s messing up my lungs. Cannabis […]
Use Macro Photography To Monitor Your THC Covered Buds
Use Macro Photography To Monitor Your THC Covered Buds We All Love Beautiful Photos Of Buds, But Serious Growers Use Close Ups To Study Their Plants The best way I know to determine if a plant is ready is to study the trichomes, so I set up my trusty Nikon d-50. Throughout my life as […]
Subcool Classic Strains: Astroboy
This is what I call a blast from the past report on a strain called Astroboy we created around nine years ago. The male we called “Taco” (for his Ortega heritage) was lost, but we remember his offspring very fondly. Astroboy was a great combination of similar genetics. Combining Apollo-13 with Ortega x Cindy99, we ended up with […]