If you grow cannabis indoors or at an outdoor grow site, or run any kind of cannabusiness, effective security tactics that protect your livelihood are just as important as having kick-ass cannabis genetics and products. With weed prices dropping due to robust competition and sweeping legalization, buds, cannabis concentrates and cash remain easy targets for […]
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A Greener Green: Solar Power The Best Option For Cannabis Sustainability
Most cannabis producers would consider themselves ecologically responsible. They strive for sustainability by embracing organic grow practices whenever they can. They take pride in supplying a natural product that comes directly from the earth. Even those who aren’t thinking about sustainability will at least pay it lip service. They know that the environmentally aware crowd […]
New Cannabis Seed Strains From Weed Nerd Subcool, And How Best To Cultivate Them
The last time we checked in with North American cannabis seed guru Subcool, he had been forced to flee through the towering flames of California wildfires that burned his most priceless possessions, including his grow operation and valuable cannabis genetics, to the ground. Subcool was lucky enough to escape to Arizona, where he immediately set […]
Oh, Natural: Why Going Organic Is The Key To Success In A Growing Cannabis Market
The phrase “you are what you eat” can certainly be applied to cannabis cultivation and consumption. What we feed our cannabis plants or spray the foliage with can be ingested by the consumer, and using the wrong substances can potentially cause them harm and get growers and dispensaries in hot water. Regulators in many states […]
The Big Fix: How To Rid Your Cannabis Grow Of Calcium And Magnesium Deficiencies
Here’s a problem many of us have encountered at least once in our cannabis gardens during bloom phase: Lower leaves developing reddish-brown spots, leaf tips curling down, declining plant health and stalled bud growth. Side stalks with heavy buds tend to crack and fall because stalks are unusually brittle and weak. Talk to enough professional […]
Don’t Let There Be Light! Top Tips On How To Do Light Deprivation Right
It’s mid-fall, you head out to your greenhouse to check on your ladies. After a long, hot summer, the autumn season has brought cool rain, shorter days, and your cannabis crop is finally going into flower. You’re weeks away from harvest, but you can already see the big, beautiful buds bulking up. You go to […]
The Epic Journey Of How Autoflowering Cannabis Came To Rival Photoperiod Strains
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 […]
Let Freedom Grow: Cannabis Prisoners Have A Friend On The Outside
The current attitude toward cannabis in the United States appears to be mostly progressive, with 10 states and the District of Columbia regulating cannabis for recreational use, and 23 other states for medicinal use. Other states are pushing some form of decriminalization legislation, taking the first step in the direction of regulation. Agricultural hemp has […]