If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it must be a duck… except when you’re growing a marijuana plant with leaves that look like a duck’s foot! This camouflaged approach to growing outdoor marijuana is courtesy of Dutch Passion seed company, one of the most innovative and sophisticated cannabis seed companies based […]
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This is the third in a series of articles on diagnosing and fixing marijuana nutrients deficiencies and excesses, and it’s a good idea to review the previous articles before reading this one. In the previous articles, we gave you the multi-step template for starting to solve nutrients problems: Making sure your marijuana grow room has […]
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The outdoor marijuana growing season is flying by us fast. We’re already more than a month past the longest day of the year. Depending on your geographic location, you’ve only got 3-6 more weeks of “grow phase” that corresponds to the 18-hour phase you get under controlled conditions indoors. By the end of August, most […]
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The fourth article in a 5-part series on diagnosing and fixing marijuana nutrients problems. This is the fourth of five articles in our series on marijuana nutrients deficiencies and over-fertilization. If you haven’t read the previous three articles, please read them first. The first three articles contain the most comprehensive template for diagnosing and fixing […]
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We were sitting around dabbing rosin the other evening when the discussion turned to people getting busted for growing marijuana. Getting busted is one of the worst things that can happen to you, and it’s almost always avoidable. Here’s a list of actual causes we’ve heard for people getting busted. 1. Thinking nobody will know […]
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As soon as the BigBudsMag.com grow team heard that corporate criminal drug war corporation Scotts Miracle-Gro bought 75% of Dutch lighting giant Gavita, we agreed to divest ourselves of our Gavita double-ended (DE) bulbs, digital ballasts, reflectors, and other Gavita equipment. We also agreed to never again spend any money on Gavita equipment. This is […]
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We’ve already published two articles about soil for marijuana growing and this is the third. In the previous articles we covered: Sourcing soil that’s properly made, clean, free of sticks, excess filler, stones, pests, and diseases. Adding 5-15% extra coarse perlite to soil for marijuana growing because almost all commercial soils are too dense. Finding […]
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Those of us who are serious marijuana growers harvesting two or more pounds of dried bud per light are probably treating our marijuana plants better than we treat ourselves! According to Michael Straumietis, an expert cannabis cultivator who founded hydroponics giant Advanced Nutrients and is also a health, fitness, and anti-aging enthusiast, the same principles […]
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It’s the third week of August and I’m four weeks into a nine-week bloom phase. It’s been a wickedly hot summer. Hotter and more humid than anyone around here can remember. I had to buy a $435 portable Honeywell 12,000 BTU air conditioner because my three-ton whole-house unit couldn’t handle three 1000-watt HID lights and keep […]
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Motherplants are a smart idea for most marijuana growers. One thing for sure is your motherplants have to be carefully maintained in a way that’s different than your regular cannabis plants. Lighting for motherplants is a mild dose of grow phase light from LEDs, light emitting ceramic, or metal halide. You try to get away […]
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Full, big resin glands loaded with THC are what we want more of on our marijuana flowers. The important news today is when you feed the earth element silicon to your marijuana crops as potassium silicate, you get verifiable, significant increases in THC, crop health, growth rates, and productivity. Let’s take a look at the details… […]
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It’s Labor Day, and we’re giving you an exciting marijuana video list, along with sexy bonus tracks sure to excite you on this holiday or any day. Watch stoned now! Never Get Raided or Busted! How to grow healthy, wickedly productive marijuana plants is the topic of most of the articles and the marijuana video […]
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In two previous articles I talked about losing my home, woman, and grow room because my woman betrayed me. I had to move in a hurry and ended up so broke that I could only afford to grow outdoors. I had numerous setbacks as outdoor growers often do, and found out again why I prefer […]
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The word “fire” is used to describe potent marijuana, but fire itself is a dangerous enemy of marijuana growers. Flame is your friend when you’re lighting a bowl or joint of your favorite Kush, but it’s your foe when it happens in your hydroponics grow room. As more and more people discover the joys and […]
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Adding carbon dioxide (C02) to the air in your indoor marijuana grow room can pay off in increased growth rate and yields if you do it right. Doing it right is the hard part. Here are important facts you really do need to consider… The most professional ways to add C02 to your indoor marijuana […]
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What helps you make valid comparisons so you find the marijuana strains you like the most? I’ve completed an indoor grow that had three strains from commercial cannabis seeds made by major breeders. The seeds came from the same seed retailer and were purchased at the same time. They were all sprouted in rockwool cubes, […]
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As summer harvest season starts indoors and outdoors, spider mites and broad mites have risen up to plague us. Spider mites and broad mites mutate fast and are resistant to many of the remedies used against them. Mites suck the life out of marijuana plants. The little bastards punch suckholes in your leaves, spread viruses […]
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I had a nice summer off from indoor marijuana growing. I’m growing marijuana outdoors at a remote guerilla site, and thanks to BigBudsMag.com, I knew how to select the site, how to prep it, how to install plants, how to feed and water them, and how to protect them from rip-offs including the police. I […]
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Hacking your marijuana bloom phase gives you a way bigger range of highs you can’t get if you follow the breeder’s standard bloom phase duration recommendations. Done right, it also gives you higher yields. I learned this when I ran out of weed several weeks before my three Sativa-dominant strains were finished with marijuana bloom […]
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Marijuana bloom phase can be hacked to give you more potency and heavier harvests. It can also be hacked via incremental harvesting so you get many more types of highs from the same plants when compared to harvesting once at the end of bloom phase. Read more about that here. Marijuana bloom phase hacks exploit […]
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