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  1. Sulfur Deficiency: Fixing Your Sick Marijuana Plant
    Sulfur Deficiency: Fixing Your Sick Marijuana Plant
    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...
  2. Manganese Deficiency: Fixing Your Sick Marijuana Plant
    Manganese Deficiency: Fixing Your Sick Marijuana Plant
    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...
  3. Iron Deficiency: Fixing Your Sick Marijuana Plant
    Iron Deficiency: Fixing Your Sick Marijuana Plant
    Iron may not be one of the primary nutrients for cannabis, but an iron deficiency will greatly inhibit a plant’s growth. It will first appear as bright yellow leaves. This discoloration is just one of the symptoms of a plant being deficient in iron. It is also just one that mimics other nutrient deficiencies in marijuana plants. Iron deficiencies are...
  4. Phosphorous Deficiency: Fixing Your Sick Marijuana Plant
    Phosphorous Deficiency: Fixing Your Sick Marijuana Plant
    Phosphorous is one of the major nutrients marijuana plants need. A lack of phosphorous will affect root growth and slow overall plant growth. If left untreated it can potentially kill the plant. Marijuana plants with a phosphorous deficiency will start to show signs on bottom growth first, as it begins destroying older leaves first.  Why do marijuana plants need phosphorous...
  5. Calcium Deficiency: Fixing Your Sick Marijuana Plant
    Calcium Deficiency: Fixing Your Sick Marijuana Plant
    Calcium may not be a macro nutrient for the marijuana plant. But a calcium deficiency can have very serious effects and if left untreated, could have a negative effect on the ultimate yield of buds come harvest time. A calcium deficiency can show up in a number of ways on a cannabis plant,. It most often appears as brown spots...
  6. Potassium Deficiency: Fixing Your Sick Marijuana Plant
    Potassium Deficiency: Fixing Your Sick Marijuana Plant
    In cannabis plants, potassium is a macro nutrient. Without it, a marijuana plant’s leaves are likely to yellow, brown, show burnt tips. These symptoms are of course a sign of potassium deficiency. Leaves will then eventually fall off the plant. When this happens in too many leaves, the entire plant could be at risk of dying.  Why do marijuana plants...
  7. Magnesium Deficiency: Fixing Your Sick Marijuana Plant
    Magnesium Deficiency: Fixing Your Sick Marijuana Plant
    A magnesium deficiency in a marijuana plant can be a serious problem. When a plant is suffering from it, the veins of the leaves will start to look light green or yellow in color. This is a stark contrast from the bright, vibrant green the leaves on a marijuana plant should be when it is healthy. If not treated right...

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  • Breeding 101 – How to Create Your Own Marijuana Strain
    Breeding 101 – How to Create Your Own Marijuana Strain
    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...
  • How to Grow Marijuana in Arid and Dry Climates
    How to Grow Marijuana in Arid and Dry Climates
    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...
  • Can You Tell the Sex of Cannabis Seeds from Their Appearance
    Can You Tell the Sex of Cannabis Seeds from Their Appearance
    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...
  • What causes a marijuana plant to hermie?
    What causes a marijuana plant to hermie?
    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 →
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  • How to get through the cannabis seedling stage
    How to get through the cannabis seedling stage
    So, you’ve made the decision to start growing your own cannabis, purchased all the right gear for your garden and stocked up on some quality genetics. Once you have successfully germinated your seeds, the next hurdle to overcome is surviving the cannabis seedling stage. As the more experienced growers know, many things can happen during a plant’s lifetime that can...
  • Sulfur Deficiency: Fixing Your Sick Marijuana Plant
    Sulfur Deficiency: Fixing Your Sick Marijuana Plant
    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...
  • Hydroponics vs soil, which is better?
    Hydroponics vs soil, which is better?
    Cannabis has been grown in soil for centuries, but now that we have hydroponics that supposedly can produce bigger and faster yields, why isn't everyone using it? Well, although growing weed using hydroponics has some big advantages, there are some drawbacks that you need to have a careful think about before you start growing. While hydroponics can produce incredible results...
  • Cannabis Defoliation Guide: How to defoliate cannabis plants
    Cannabis Defoliation Guide: How to defoliate cannabis plants
    Cannabis defoliation is a simple process of removing a marijuana leaf. Typically a few are removed at a time and it can be very beneficial for the plants. All that’s really needed to defoliate is a pair of scissors or a sharp razor. Many growers even prefer simply removing the leaves using their hands, as they bend and snap off...
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