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Cannabis Plant Pathogens

Pathogens cause diseases when looking for a host body to infect since they come in diverse forms: bacteria, fungi, worms, viruses, and also prions. Learn how pathogens are one of the most significant threats to plants that are being cultivated in the cannabis industry.
These silent visitors may cause your plants to produce fewer trichomes, small buds, or even death. Identifying each pathogen will help to understand how each of them propagates, its symptoms, and its

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Growing Your Own Cannabis

Growing your cannabis is an exciting and rewarding experience. Whether you have a skilled green thumb or are attempting to grow for the first time, similar elements apply from seed to flower.
Certain considerations are crucial to the success, or failure, of the cannabis crop, and a little know-how goes a long way to ensure a productive harvest. Two (2) key elements that will directly affect growing quality cannabis – choosing the proper lighting and location.

Outdoor

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Techniques for Growing Cannabis

If you’re a new cannabis grower who’s serious about contributing to the medical marijuana industry and helping patients with a card have the access to high-quality strains and cannabis products, check out the following tips for the best techniques in cultivating the cannabis plant.

Indoor or Outdoor Cannabis Growing
When talking about the best techniques for cultivating cannabis, one of the first questions to spring in mind include, ‘Which is better, indoor or outdoor cannabis growing?‘ The

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CO2 & Your Cannabis Garden

To compensate for plant CO2 consumption inside the greenhouse and to boost the levels beyond outdoor ambient to create higher yield, a lot of studies have gone into the benefits and risks of adding this gas to greenhouse crops.
Most growers already have an interest in providing more CO2 for their crops but may not quite understand what’s going on inside the plant. Knowing this can make a world of difference in how successful a response

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Using Photoperiodism to Grow Cannabis

How does a shift in the amount of time exposed to natural light impact the growth of cannabis plants? How do you know it’s springtime? Trees bud and bees buzz, but how does your bud know it’s time to give you a buzz?
When growing in the wild, plants undergo a continuous variation in their photoperiod from June to September don’t have the same amount of daylight, so they have a difference in their photoperiod and it

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Clones: Cannabis Plants Can Have MOM’s?

Selecting a female cannabis plant is the first step to finding a great mother that you can clone from. To keep a plant for “mothering“, you will want to keep the plant under 18 – 24 hours of light to keep her in a vegetative state.
Most growers will use a high-efficiency T5 light to keep the mother in a vegetative state. Keeping the mother under a T5 light will ensure slow vegetative growth, so she

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What is Pre-Flowering Cannabis?

Pre-flowers on cannabis will begin to show around the fourth (4th) week into vegetative growth, depending on the strain. It is around this time that you will usually be able to determine the sex of your cannabis plants.
Between the fourth (4th) and sixth (6th) node, you will usually be able to find the pre-flowers of the plant. The male cannabis plant will develop tiny, smooth, egg-shaped pollen sacks. While the female cannabis plant will develop

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Cannabis Vegetative Stage Growth

Cannabis plants need a minimum of 16 hours of light to stay in the vegetative state, but can provide a maximum lighting time of 24 hours a day can also be used to speed their growth. As cannabis matures, its root systems take on specialized roles.
The center, older, and more mature roots contain a water transport system that may also store food for the plant if needed. The tips of the roots extend and push

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Marijuana Horticulture Basics

The key to successfully cultivating marijuana is to understand exactly how marijuana produces food and grows. Whether grown indoors or outdoors, the requirements for cannabis growth remain the same.
The necessities of cannabis are light, air, water, nutrients, a growing medium, and heat to create the necessary food to grow. Growing indoors, the requirements are the same, though it is necessary to be sure that you have the proper light spectrum, carbon dioxide (CO2), and air circulation for

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Cannabis Greenhouses & Outdoor Frames Climate

Even the best-designed and built greenhouses will lose heat through radiation, conduction, and convection through the glass, walls, roof, doors, vents, cracks, and even the floor.
Every greenhouse needs to have a ventilation system and circulation fans installed to produce optimal growing conditions. Small greenhouses can be heated economically with an electric space heater, propane gas heaters, or using a wood-burning stove.
Ventilation is the exchange of inside air for outside air to control temperature, remove moisture,

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Happens? Cannabis Virus Infections

When you get a cannabis virus, it enters your plant through a wound regardless if it is on the stems or leaves. Once the cannabis plants are infected with a virus, its cells will multiply the virus and make their way through the plant via their fluid distribution system eventually killing the plant.
Cannabis viruses can be spread by:

Insects
Aphids
Mites
Plants
Animals
Humans
Unclean tools

Transmission by aphids and whiteflies is the worst type of cannabis virus out of the bunch. Plant symptoms of

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Green Algae & Powdery Mildew When Growing Cannabis

When growing cannabis, green algae is a slimy algae that needs nutrients, light, and moisture from the growing medium. Luckily, it causes very little damage but attracts other pests to eat it and they will eventually attack the cannabis plants.
You can prevent green algae by covering the growing medium to prevent light from contacting them or run an algaecide in the nutrient solution to kill them off when growing cannabis.
Powdery mildew first shows small spots on the

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Marijuana Growing & Electrical Safety Indoors

Making sure that all electrical and plumbing setups are built properly is a high priority when marijuana is growing. Be sure to check all outlets, fuses, and electrical connections so that they are grounded, connected properly, and without blackened or melted parts.
This will help prevent a fire. Be sure to always have an up-to-date, rated fire extinguishing device readily available in case of a fire outbreak to put out wood, paper, grease, oil, and electrical fires.
Ensuring

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How To Grow Cannabis, Like a CHAMP!

There are many advantages to growing cannabis yourself because it puts you in control, so you can cultivate your strains with the right nutrition. Furthermore, you can always be sure that the product which you cultivate is of the highest quality possible.
Growing marijuana has multiple advantages if you need it for medical purposes since you know exactly what you are smoking. It also allows continuous, uninterrupted supply and it is much cheaper than buying it from some other source.

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Cannabis Plant Spreaders and Stickers

Smart growers use a surfactant, a surface-active substance (adjuvant), which increases foliar fertilization to be used for a cannabis plant.
Spreaders are wetting agents that reduce surface tension on leaves and prevent the beading-up of water/fertilizers to keep them from falling off of foliage.
If the sprays accumulate into large drops then you will want to add a spreader to make it stay on the leaves. As well as if the spray is flat when applied to

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Cannabis SEX – Sinsemilla Vs. SEEDED Plants Harvest

Sinsemilla Females Vs. Seeded Males

Female sinsemilla flowers are fully mature after being in a 12/12 – Day/Night cycle within 6 – 12 weeks depending on which variety it is. It is around this time that your flowers have hit their peak THC production.
Many of the lower branches on the female plant often do not have a whole lot of natural sunlight, having less light; these buds on the lower branches will often be smaller, and less

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Problem Growing During Drought Conditions

If the area that you are guerrilla-growing cannabis in an area that does not have access to water, your crop can dry out and die quickly. If the area gets a good rain every one (1) to four (4) weeks then you might be okay.
When you are preparing your site to grow in an area that lacks water/rain, you will want to amend the soil mixture with a large amount of perlite, vermiculite, and other water-absorbing

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SECURE Your Guerrilla Growing Marijuana

Security with guerrilla growing is the number one (#1) concern. By choosing a good site, you can have better security by not making your garden the focal point of the area where it is located.
Gardens that are planted on public lands risk being detected by forest rangers, hikers, fishermen, and other outdoor enthusiasts so avoid these areas at all costs. If you place your garden out and away from everything, with no trail leading to

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LADIES – Pre-Flowering Female Marijuana

Growing female marijuana plants begin to develop their pre-flowers near the end of their vegetative growth, which is around the fourth (4th) week. Female plants that have been grown in an 18/6 day/night photoperiod will show pre-flowers before plants that are grown under a 24/0 day/night photoperiod.
The pre-flower is known as the female calyx. The female pre-flower will look like a fuzzy female flower, but with only two white or pink fuzzy pistils growing from the

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Cannabis Horticulture

A Carefully Curated Cultivation "Crash Course" On Everything You Need To Crank Out High-Yielding, "Cannabis-Cup Winner" Flowers That'll Generate HUGE Crops All-Year Long