Light is food for your marijuana plants. It comes to your plants from the sun or grow lights, delivered in different wavelengths categorized as “nanometers.” Technically, it’s more accurate to say that electromagnetic radiation (including but not limited to the visible light spectrum) is food for your hydroponics cannabis plants. Your plants eat electromagnetic radiation […]
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Marijuana pests are one of the main reasons we experience indoor grow room and outdoor marijuana disasters. Many growers experience the heartbreak of seeing spider mite tents, sucking aphids, fungus gnats, whiteflies budworms, and many other meanies plaguing our beautiful cannabis plants. And too many marijuana growers resort to Malathion, AVID or other poisons when […]
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Subcool TGA Marijuana Seeds got into its cannabis time machine to bring back two favorite, retired strains that Weed Nerds have been asking for. “We’re bringing back Qrazy Train and The Flav,” Subcool says. Qrazy Train is a rare, resin-rich, complex purple cross of Train Wreck, Trinity, Purple Urkle, and Space Queen. This Subcool TGA […]
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Some marijuana growers take the summer off, but many of us keep on running our marijuana grow rooms, even during summer heat. Let’s take a look at success strategies so you better manage the challenges of a summer marijuana grow room: Armor your plants with potassium silicate. Potassium silicate is present in rich soil, but […]
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Marijuana grow room heat is hard on your plants and on your bank balance. Many of us growing right now in July are experiencing warmer than average temperatures that keep our air conditioning cranking. When grow rooms get too hot, buds become thin, plants grow too tall and weak, they suck down lots of water, […]
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Some marijuana growers try to get by with tap water or well water instead of reverse osmosis water. They do this to save money, time and water. Their concerns are valid. It costs money to buy, install and run a reverse osmosis unit. A premium reverse osmosis unit for a large grow op can cost […]
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Air conditioning is essential, expensive equipment when you have an indoor marijuana grow room. But many cannabis growers have an incomplete understanding of grow-room air conditioning. Their lack of knowledge may create higher grow room costs, degrade crop outcomes, and lead to fire or other dangers. This is the first article in a series about […]
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In our previous article about marijuana grow-room air conditioning, we recommended that you consult licensed professionals instead of attempting amateur installation or a retrofit of your building’s air conditioning system. We also noted the unreliability of generic marijuana grow-room air conditioning formulas that cannabis growers share among each other. Let’s continue our close look at […]
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Just ask marijuana growers in British Columbia, Washington, Oregon, Northern California, and other parts of the West: Climate change is real, and it’s impacting marijuana growers everywhere. Big Buds grow team member Alan is a professional indoor cannabis grower near Vancouver, Canada. This summer, the neighboring forests are burning fiercely, with some of the worst […]
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In our previous articles about marijuana grow room air conditioning, we recommended you consult licensed professionals instead of attempting to install or retrofit air conditioning equipment yourself. We also noted that the generic marijuana grow-room air conditioning formulas that growers share with each other aren’t reliable. Before we continue, let’s review the fundamentals: You need […]
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Like it or not, us marijuana growers need a complete and complex toolkit of gear and supplies to keep our cannabis plants — and entire grow ops, for that matter — healthy and happy. Just take a look around our grow rooms to get an idea of the gadgets we can’t live without. And we’ve […]
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This is the final post in our four-part series about marijuana grow-room air conditioning. If you haven’t read the previous three articles, please take a look to find out about air conditioning your grow room, fundamental grow-room cooling issues, and dealing with contractors and electricians. The most important takeaway from this series is that amateurs […]
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With a rising death toll of eight confirmed fatalities, entire communities underwater, and millions of people affected, Hurricane Harvey has decimated parts of Texas and Louisiana. Currently this Southern landscape is submerged under trillions of gallons of water that’s been dumped over the past few days. And as the violent weather is downgraded to a […]
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Unpredictable and extreme weather, climate change, and other environmental factors can make life challenging for marijuana growers — especially outdoor marijuana growers. In 2017, unprecedented wildfires burned millions of acres of British Columbia and parts of the US West. Growers in those areas report heartbreaking losses of plants, even entire grow houses. Indoor marijuana grow […]
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Like other Colorado cannabis consumers, Trevor was a self-described weedhead who celebrated when medical and recreational marijuana were legalized in his home state in 2000 and 2012, respectively. He thought legalization would decrease his marijuana costs, give him alternatives to the cannabis black market, and greatly increase the variety of cannabis products he could buy. […]
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Humidity is a crucial factor in how well your indoor marijuana plants grow. Your grow room has to have precise control of the amount of moisture in the air so that you manage vapor pressure deficit, or VPD, and relative humidity. Too much humidity and/or the wrong VPD can create plant stress, or encourage an […]
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The first few times I tried cloning cannabis, I failed miserably. Even though I watched endless tutorials on the subject and read countless cloning how-to articles, I just couldn’t make it happen. I followed to the letter the advice that was dished, and yet my little cannabis cuttings stayed green a week or two, then […]
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Marijuana seedlings are like children. They grow faster and healthier when you nurture them through a steady and sustained program of lighting, feeding and watering. Well, they’re sorta like children. And yet many growers make mistakes that end up injuring, even killing their seedlings. In this post we’ll help you avoid the most common mistakes […]
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Behold! The heartbreak of crumbly, brown, brittle, overdried cannabis bud, devoid of scent, taste, moisture and crystal. So overdried that they’ve lost the resinous stickiness that gives buds their bag appeal, and clever consumers won’t buy them. It’s all too often a cruel end to a successful season of growing. Disappointed growers often seek help […]
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What is the screen of green, or SCROG marijuana growing method, and what benefits does it give you? Basically, SCROG is a growing technique in which netting or a wire mesh screen is utilized to limit your plant’s height. Check out the below YouTube video from BudsonBuds, which shows you how to install the screen […]
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