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 →

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...

The flowering stage is now finally complete and your cannabis plants are packed full with trichome rich bud just waiting to be smoked. Hold on though, the hard work isn't done just yet. Trimming is a critical stage of the overall process, and while it can seem a little daunting for beginners (and does require a bit of patience), it's...

Sulfur deficiencies are very rare in cannabis plants, but they can happen. When they do, plants can suffer significant growth problems. The grower can be left with no plant at all, or one with a very small yield. For this reason, it is important that a sulfur deficiency is caught early. At the beginning stages of a deficiency, it can...

With cannabis laws becoming increasingly relaxed worldwide, growers have come up with some very clever tricks for making the most out of limited space and time and one of the best ways to achieve high yields in a shorter time frame is the “sea of green” (SOG) method. In a nutshell, the SOG method involves growing many smaller marijuana plants...