Our marijuana growing community argues about whether to grow marijuana organically or “naturally,” versus growing marijuana using hydroponics nutrients. The core of the argument is whether synthetic hydroponics nutrients, and the soilless method itself, are equal to, better than, or inferior to growing organic marijuana in soil using natural or organic ingredients and no synthetics. […]
After growing and harvesting your marijuana plants, you have two more important steps before your buds are ready to smoke or process: drying and curing. In about 50% of the cannabis grow ops I’ve seen, growers aren’t drying and curing marijuana the right way. Before we talk about drying and curing, consider the selective harvesting […]
One of the most challenging things for marijuana growers is what to do when pests or diseases attack your crop. And of those many attackers, powdery mildew is one that can drive you crazy because it keeps coming back after you think you beat it. Powdery mildew is actually a fungi. It travels via spores […]
We’ve been talking about the rewards and challenges of growing marijuana, and that includes where should you grow it, and how should you grow marijuana. When I decided to get serious about growing marijuana, I looked at all my options and was very favorable towards getting a hydroponics grow tent. Advertisements for medical marijuana grow […]
So you get to the end of bloom phase and the work’s just beginning! You can do everything right up the moment of harvesting buds, but if the harvesting, drying and curing are wrong, you lose some of what you worked so hard to grow. We talked before about knowing WHEN to harvest your marijuana. […]
When you grow marijuana indoors, light is one of the most basic essential “foods” you have to provide your plants. And also one of the most misunderstood. Some of the misunderstanding comes because the hydroponics and lighting industries only recently started figuring out that marijuana gives you the heaviest yields and the most THC when […]
It took me a long time to understand how marijuana plants intake nutrition, and what that means for how I do things as a marijuana grower. My early beginner marijuana grower mistake was believing the only things marijuana plants “eat” are water and the nutritional elements you see on fertilizer labels, or that are present […]
When it comes to flushing and cutting your marijuana plants, timing is everything. You want to let your marijuana plants bloom as long as they need to so you get the highest THC percentages and weight. And you want to time your flush/cut precisely, to ensure you don’t end bloom phase too early or too […]
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