Grow Guide

Smoking is fun, and growing can be a lot of fun. But breeding marijuana and creating your own strain is where the art of marijuana becomes really fascinating. All you’re really doing when you breed marijuana is taking two plants, each of a different strain, and bringing them together to create your very own strain that is perfect for you...

Growing in a hot and dry climate might seem like a grower’s dream. After all, it makes for the perfect conditions to grow marijuana plants free of mould and rot, and that can be grown all year long. These things are true, however growing in arid and dry climates presents its own challenges and if growers aren’t ready to deal...

Of all the things that can trip a grower up, sexing marijuana plants may just be the trickiest. Sexing plants is so important because growers are typically after the female plants, that produce the huge THC covered buds. Or the medicinal relief that CBD strains can bring. With such opposite effects of male and female plants, it’s easy to see just...

If you’ve been researching cannabis online, you might have heard people talking about “hermies” and the frustration and problems they can cause.  “Hermie” is convenient shorthand for “hermaphrodite marijuana plant”. All growers should be alert to the possibility that their plants may hermie and that they should take steps to prevent this, if possible. If not and due to genetics, then to take remedial action as soon as possible. Continue reading →

As cannabis users, what we really care about is bud, but in terms of cannabis growing, healthy roots and stems are crucial to the overall health of the plants.  Indoor growing gives growers the maximum possible degree of control over growing conditions, but even outdoor growers can take action to resolve grow problems, provided that they stay alert. Signs of...

When a manganese deficiency occurs in plants, their leaves will start to turn yellow. The marijuana leaves will then turn brown and eventually die. If left untreated, the deficiency could destroy the entire plant. A manganese deficiency can be difficult to spot, as it looks similar to other marijuana deficiencies.  Why do marijuana plants need manganese? Manganese plays an important...

Cannabis plants come in all shapes and sizes. Tall, lanky, euphoria inducing Sativas. Shorter, bushier, stress-relieving Indicas. Rare, exotic, hard-to-find landraces. And then there is the unbelievably massive range of hybrids available in this brave new world of cannabis legality, offering pretty much every type of cerebral and body-buzzing effect imaginable. And while the veritable smorgasbord of strains available to...

Aquaponics is similar to hydroponics in the way that marijuana grown in an aquaponics system are grown in water. However, with hydroponics you really only have two components – the water, which carries the nutrients, and the plants. When aquaponics are used for growing cannabis, you’re actually creating an entire ecosystem, one in which many different components – fish, plants...