Rest assure, novice growers. Cloning isn’t as challenging as you might think it to be. That’s the message Danny Sloat, grow expert and founder of cannabis cultivator AlpinStash, wants to get across. For the uninitiated, cloning is when you take a clipping off a mother plant and root it. The clone — or cutting as […]
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Across the country, countless individuals are using cannabis to find relief for various health concerns. Among these individuals are children — many of whom face severe, life-altering conditions — who have found cannabis to be one of the only treatments that has made a significant beneficial difference to their lives. However, due to state legalities, […]
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Sea of green cannabis gardens are like clone forests. Have you ever hiked in a monoculture tree forest filled with thin lodgepole pines in uniform rows so dense you can barely walk between the trees — and it’s dark at the base of the trunks because little sunlight penetrates? That’s like a tree version of […]
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As a marijuana grower who runs a craft cannabis business serving several marijuana consumers, I liken myself to a restaurateur or chef planning a customized menu for diners who’ve specified the foods they love to eat and their dietary requirements. Any grower who provides cannabis to non-growers should understand how to give customers what they […]
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If you’re a cannabis grower who also fancies yourself as a DIY enthusiast, there may be many advantages to building your own greenhouse, including grow efficiency and predictability. While other cultivation processes — i.e., outdoor and indoor grows — tend to have more complexity and costs attached, greenhouses are a great middle ground for the […]
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Pssst. Do you want an at-home covert cannabis grow? Do you want to build a secret grow cabinet to house your at-home operation indoors? Need to do it on a tight budget? Over just a few hours? With little to no outside help? No worries! With these instructions and a budget of under $200 USD, […]
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Of all the cannabis extraction techniques, rosin pressing is the simplest. And the most confusing. You just warm up bud and squeeze out the sticky, right? Easy! So why are so many budding new pressers so confused? And why, of all the ways of extracting oil, are the techniques of rosin the most variable — […]
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As a cannabis cultivator and consumer who’s spent much of his weed career procuring and breeding strains devoid of cannabidiol and cannabinol (better known respectively as CBD and CBN) while increasing percentages of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), I’ve long resisted the growing hype surrounding CBD medical marijuana strains. Until about seven years ago, when the medical benefits […]
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Where I live, the cold winter is fading, the indoor grow-room season is ending, and my thoughts are increasingly turning to my next outdoor marijuana growing season. With so many outdoor growing choices and tasks, I’m left wondering where to begin. That’s a question many growers ask themselves as the outdoor cannabis season approaches, so […]
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You might not know it, but people have been drinking cannabis for millennia. Since 2000 BCE, bhang has been a tradition at Hindu festivals like Holi, Maha Shrivratri and Janmashtami. Other recorded uses of cannabis being consumed as a beverage throughout history include its mixture with wine for patients to consume before surgery in ancient […]
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The North American cannabis boom could hit a national or global tipping point any moment now, which is why investing in your own education is an important strategy for success. Studying everything and anything to do with cannabis, from cultivation and farming techniques, to research and development, to a successful grower’s Instagram account, is as […]
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Most cannabis growers have relatively simple ways of deciding when to harvest their bloom-phase plants. The most common method involves following the bloom-phase duration recommendations provided by the marijuana strain breeder. If the breeder says the strain needs 60 days in bloom phase, then the grower harvests 60 days after bloom phase begins. Some growers […]
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Explosive growth is a term you sometimes see in marketing copy for cannabis-growing products. I define explosive growth as a sudden, positive change in observable plant performance parameters. These parameters include: Production and maturation of new leaves. Thickening of stalks and stems. Height and diameter gain. Budding site development. Early floral development. Bud height, density […]
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Cannabis seedlings are wise little gurus. You can learn a lot from them if you know how to understand the wisdom they’re trying to share. I’m one of those growers who cultivates predominantly from seeds, sometimes germinating three to six different marijuana strains at the same time. Because I’ve studied my seedlings and taken notes […]
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How do you determine which fertilizers, grow lights, hydroponics supplements, cultivation procedures, and supplies are best for your cannabis growing endeavors? The most reliable way to find out which is best is by conducting controlled experiments. So, what exactly is a controlled experiment? It’s a testing method in which you change one variable while leaving […]
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We take for granted that marijuana buds look a certain way, and that our marijuana plants will enter bloom phase, go through the four bloom sub-phases, and then be ready for harvest, drying, and curing. Even if you’ve grown heritage marijuana strains and the modern hybrids made from them, you we know what to expect. […]
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In the heady days of the US cannabis industry during the 1960s and ’70s, most marijuana consumed in North America came from Mexico. One of the most popular Mexican imports was Oaxacan (pronounced woe-ha-kin) Highland Gold, a pure sativa grown in the highlands of the state of Oaxaca, located in southern Mexico, not far from […]
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Harvest represents the period of time when I consume the most cannabis. It’s an occupational hazard, because I need to test and grade the taste, cure, purity and high my new buds will provide me and my customers. This grading also helps me price my buds accurately, evaluate my cannabis strains, and detect cultivation problems […]
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Cannabis roots need ample room to grow and expand, or they become root bound, also commonly referred to as pot bound. When plants become root bound, roots push against the walls of the container and begin circling the root zone, eventually constricting and choking off the interior root mass. A root-bound cannabis plant eventually has […]
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Detecting the gender of cannabis is an important part of marijuana growing. Cultivating photoperiod marijuana from non-feminized seeds, you must detect plant gender as soon as possible. Most of us only want to grow female plants, and don’t want males spreading their pollen around. Until they’re detected and consequently removed from your grow op, male […]
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