Marijuana Horticuture

Step by Step: Learn How To Clone Your Marijuana Plants

The seedling growth stage lasts for about two to three weeks after seeds have germinated. A plant stunted now could take weeks to resume normal growth. A strong, unrestricted root system is essential to supply much needed water and nutrients. Unrestricted vegetative growth is the key to a healthy harvest. A plant's nutrient and water intake changes during vegetative growth.

How to Harvest Marijuana: A Step by Step Guide

The payment for all the research, work, risk, expense, and the long, patient wait is a bountiful harvest. Strong, healthy, well-grown clones and seedlings yield the heaviest harvests. A well-organized pre-harvest and harvest are essential to preserve cannabis quality and decrease the workload. Harvest when plants are at peak ripeness, Depending upon the high you like, which is discussed below, harvest timing is critical. The peak harvest window is open for about five to seven days.

The Pollinator

Mila is a good friend, and she has carried the hash torch for countless connoisseurs. She has spent much of her life learning and teaching how to extract more resin from cannabis. She invented and popularized the Pollinator, a motorized cylindrical-shaped sieve to separate resin powder from leaf and buds. Mila has many ongoing experiments with hash and cannabis, one of which includes teaching the doctors in This container holds all the different hashes Mila made in Kazakhstan, Central Europe....

Washing Machine Hash

On a recent trip to the tropical region of Colombia, 1 was able to record how expert grower friends made hash in volume. They learned this technology from Mila. This informa- Tlie color of water should be light green, which signifies ail the hash and impurities have been cleaned out. Dirty water contains more contaminants. Tlie color of water should be light green, which signifies ail the hash and impurities have been cleaned out. Dirty water contains more contaminants. Here are the different...

Peat Lite Mixes

An inexpensive electronic pH tester is easy to use. When planting, add one cup of line dolomite lime to each cubic foot (one ounce per gallon) of planting medium to stabilize the pH and provide calcium and magnesium. For an accurate pH test with an electronic pH meter - Clean the probes of the meter after each test and wipe away any corrosion. - Pack the soil around the probes. - Water soil with distilled or neutral pH water before testing. If using litmus paper, collect samples that...

Clandestine Greenhouse Weed

20 percent of the cannabinoid profile in a plant. Little study has been done on this cannabinoid. So far, researchers believe it may interact with THC to make the high more intense. For a complete background on cannabinoids, including chemical diagrams, resin profiles, and production of cannabinoids, see the classic book, Marijuana Grower's Guide, by Mel Frank, Redeye Press, 1997, 330 pages. Three excellent reference books that all indoor marijuana horticulturists should have on hand are the...

Freeze Drying

When it warms, CO, converts from a frozen solid to a gas, without turning into a liquid. When moist marijuana is enclosed with dry ice frozen CO, at virtually zero relative humidity, water molecules migrate from the cannabis to the dry ice. This causes the relative humidity of the CO, to increase and the moisture content of the marijuana to decrease. This process occurs below 32 F 0 C , and it preserves cannabis. Place equal amounts of dry ice and hud into a...

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Image shows a male plant after 24 days of vegetative growth at 18 6 day night. Staminate flowers are located at the node between the stipule and emerging branch. This is another view of the same pre-flowering male plant so you can get a better view. out a crop of outstanding buds every six to ten weeks all year long. Inducing flowering in cannabis grown from seed with a 12 12 day night photoperiod will cause plants to show sex, male or female. Once the sex of the plant is guaranteed, males are...

Know B4U Grow

Using this grow game gives you insight in how to grow your own. It can lead to very serious time spending, lack of nutrients, poor social life and repetitivo strain injury This Swiss hydroponic setup is simple, efficient, and economical. Hydroponics is the science of growing plants without soil, most often in a soilless mix. In fact, many growers are already cultivating hydroponical-ly. Cultivating clones in rockwool, peat moss, and coconut fiber is growing hydroponically. Growing mature plants...

Guerilla Growing

Guerilla growing, a term coined in the early 1970s, requires strategy, time, and most often, physical prowess. Depending upon your location and local laws, clandestine guerilla growing in remote locations could be your only option. Location and security are the main concerns for a guerilla grower. Choose a location that has limited public access. Check regulations for hunting and recreation, and think of who might be using the area hunters, mushroomers, other marijuana growers, hikers,...

Soil Containers

Shapes and sizes and can be constructed of almost anything-clay, metal, plastic, wood, and wood fiber are the most common. Cannabis will grow in any clean container that has not been used for petroleum products or deadly chemicals. Clay fiber and wood containers breathe better than plastic or metal pots. Heavy clay pots are brittle and absorb moisture from the soil inside, causing the soil to dry out quickly. Metal pots are also impractical for grow rooms because they oxidize rust and can bleed...

Before Making Hash

Make sure your plants are as clean as possible. Any oil-based residues on leaves will show up in the hash. For example, if extracting resin with water, you can see impurity residues as a sheen of oil in the water. During the month before harvest, do not use any harmful chemicals that leave residues. I prefer to use only water-based organic products to avoid potential health risks to the consumer. Flush plants with water for seven to ten days prior to harvest, to remove built-up Resin glands...

General overview and considerations when making seeds

Selecting female plants for breeding is a much easier task than selecting males, because female plants readily demonstrate all the traits that are essentially important to a grower, or smoker sometimes these are conflicting interests . The breeder may want to place an emphasis on selecting for potency, flavor, yield, smell, resistance to pests, color, growth stature, etc. Cannabis for consumption is a group ol pistillate flowers a bud a bud is a collection of...

About Grow Rooms

This barrel full of water shows that cannabis will grow only as fast as its most limiting factor. Light is most often the factor that limits growth indoors. The best location for a grow room is in an obscure corner of a basement, where the temperature is easy to keep constant year round. Basements are well insulated by concrete walls and soil, A basement room can be enclosed and camouflaged with junk, a double wall, workbench, or shelving. Added security is afforded by installing a false door...

For Cannabis Outdoor High Lifter Water Pump

Clean rainwater is the best for irrigation. To make sure it is not too acidic acid rain) and harmful to plants, take the pH and parts per million (ppm) reading from collected rainwater before using. Sodium-heavy water builds up in the soil causing slow growth and shorter plants with smaller leaves. At low levels, sodium appears to benefit plants and may even make up for potassium deficiency, but too much leads to sodium stress. Roots lose the ability to absorb water and other nutrients and will...

Recipes and Controls Chart

Add to sprays to dry out pests. Bleach Use a 5 percent solution as a genera disinfectant. Cinnamon Dilute cinnamon oil with water. Use just a few drops per pint as pesticide. Citrus Cilrus oils make great ingredients that kill insects dead. Garlic Use a garlic press to squeeze garlic juice into mix. Use liberal amounts. Horseradish Stinky stuff Add as you would garlic. Best to use fresh root. Hot pepper Dilute Tabasco' or any store-bought concentrate in water,...

Ozone Generators

Ozone has many applications including food and water sterilization and removing odors from the air at the molecular level. Some growers even use high levels of ozone to exterminate grow room pests. Ozone generators neutralize odors by converting oxygen (02) into ozone (OJ by exposing the stinky air to ultraviolet (UV) light. The extra molecule is always a positively charged ion that is predisposed to attach to a negatively charged ion (cation). Odors are negatively charged cations. When the...

Baking Soda and Vinegar

Consider using vinegar and baking soda to produce CO, in a small grow room. This method eliminates excess heat and water vapor production and requires only household items. Create a system that drips vinegar (acetic acid) into a bed of baking soda. The main disadvantage of this system is the erratic level of CO, produced. It takes a considerable amount of time for the CO, to build up to a level where it helps plants. However, once it reaches an optimum level, it can continue to rise until it...

Photoperiod

The photoperiod is the relationship between the duration of the light period and dark period. Most strains of marijuana will stay in the vegetative growth stage as long as an 18 to 24-hour light and a 6 to 0-hour dark photoperiod are maintained. However, there are exceptions. Eighteen hours of light per day will give marijuana all the light it needs to sustain vegetative growth. Flowering is most efficiently induced with 12 hours of uninterrupted darkness in a 24-hour photoperiod. When plants...

IceOLator Instructions

The Ice-o-Lator was popularized by Mila, owner ol the Pollinator, in Amsterdam, Holland. This water extraction process is a simple, efficient method of extracting THC-packed resin crystals from cannabis plants. Using the Ice-O-Later is very easy. Here is a brief recap of the process. The instructions below are adapted from Mila's site, www.pollinator.nl where there is much more information on making hash. 20-25-1Iter 5-gallon bucket with lid Kitchen mixer - Use the kind with paddles for mixing....

Reflective Hoods

Some rellective hoods reflect light more evenly than others. A refleclor that distributes light evenly-with no hot spots-can be placed closer to plants without burning them. These hoods are most efficient, because the lamp is closer and the light more intense. The farther the lamp is from the garden, the less light plants receive. For example, a 1000-wott reflector with a hot spot must be placed 36 inches (90 cm) above the garden, A 600-watt lamp with a reflector that distributes light evenly...

Rejuvenation

Rejuvenate harvested females by leaving several undeveloped lower branches with foliage on plants. Give her an 18 6 day night pho-toperiod. The female will stop dowering and rejuvenate and revert back to vegetative growth stage. Give the harvested, leafy, buddy stubs an increased dose of high-nitrogen fertilizer to promote green, leafy growth. This will help the harvested plant grow more foliage as it reverts back to vegetative growth in four to six weeks. New, green, leafy growth will sprout...

Secondary Nutrients

The secondary nutrients-magnesium, calcium, and sulfur-are also used by the plants in large amounts. Rapid-growing indoor marijuana crops are able to process more secondary nutrients than most general-purpose fertilizers are able to supply. Many growers opt to use high quality two- and three-part hydroponic fertilizers to supply all necessary secondary and trace elements. But be careful, these three nutrients may be present in high levels in the ground water. It is important to consider these...

Marijuana Horticulture The Indoor Outdoor

Step Five The larger your garden becomes, the more water it will need, A 10 x 10-foot (3x3 m) garden could use more than 50 gallons (190 L) per week. Carrying water is hard, regular work. One gallon (3.8 L) of water weighs eight pounds (3.6 kg) 50 x 8 400 pounds (180 kg) of water a week It is much easier to run in a hose with an on off valve or install a hose bib in the room than to schlep water. A three-foot (90 cm) watering wand attached to the hose on off valve makes watering easier and...