Repotting Marijuana Like any good parent knows, as your child grows you have to buy a new wardrobe for them. Repotting gives your plant the new outfit it needs. As your precious plants grow all you need to do is re-pot them a handful of times and you’ll be set. Successfully re-potting your plants can […]
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Harvesting Tools for Marijuana If you’ve come this far, and you’re ready to harvest your first crop, then a hearty congratulations is in order. With your first grow now in its final stages, you’ll want to have the right harvesting tools for your crop, but you’ll also want your plants to be well-prepared for harvest. […]
Get the Most Out of Your Hydroponics Light
Hydroponics Lights When it comes to growing cannabis, light is your veritable plant God. Naturally, this means that you want to use absolutely as much of your hydroponics light as you possibly can. After all, waste not want not, as they say. But light naturally bounces off your plants and likes to spread out all […]
How To Keep Your Marijuana Grow Cool
Cooling Your Marijuana Grow When you’re growing in an enclosed space, especially if you’re using high intensity discharge lights that produce a lot of heat, you’ll want to have a good cooling system set up for your growing room. Cannabis can withstand some pretty hot temperatures, so your grow room can be up to 80 […]
Pots & Sizing: From Seedling to Harvest
Seedling With all the focus on the actual body of your plant, it can be easy to forget about what’s going on beneath the surface of the soil. But your plants root system is an integral component, and you’ll want a healthy root bundle if you hope to grow the best indoor marijuana. You cant […]
Soil pH: Why You Should Care
Understanding Soil pH The soil pH level may not seem like an overtly important factor to consider, but surprisingly enough it is. Although cannabis is generally regarded as a very hardy plant, you’ll want to maintain a healthy, neutral pH in order to avoid stunting or killing your plants. Luckily, maintaining a good pH isn’t […]
Lights & Timing: Lumen Output and Your Grow
Lumen Output As you may be aware, when you’re lighting your grow there are several options available for you. From compact fluorescent lights (CFLs) to high intensity discharge (HID) lights such as the metal halide (MH) or high pressure sodium (HPS) and even LED setups, you have a lot of room for choice when it […]
Gendering Your Crop
Gendering Your Marijuana Plant As any cannabis connoisseur can tell you, an all-female crop produces the finest bud of all. It’s true, and the reason is pretty simple: when females are left unfertilized (i.e. they never come into contact with the pollen from male flowers) they devote all their energy and resources to producing buds […]
Getting Your Babes to Bud
How to Get Marijuana to Bud When the time comes, and you are satisfied with the level of growth that your bodacious, bushy babes have achieved, then it’s time to coax them into flowering. After all, it’s that succulent bud of hers that you prize so highly. During your vegetative growth, you should have been […]
Nutrients 101: Nutrient Deficiency and Nutrient Burn
Nutrient Deficiency So you’ve mixed your nutrients according to the instructions and applied as directed, but your plants are losing their leaves or looking decidedly less than healthy. Your plants probably have a nutrient deficiency. What are you doing wrong, and how can you fix it before your precious plants pay the ultimate price? If […]