How to Grow Marijuana – Chapter 3 – Vegetative Growth and Cloning Marijuana

Marijuana is a wonderful herb that grows naturally all over the planet. Unfortunately it is still illegal to grow marijuana in many countries. Please check your local laws before growing marijuana. With that said, let’s get growing!

Start by placing your seeds in the middle of a paper towel. Fold the towel around your seeds, sealing it. Spray down both sides of the paper towel so that it is very moist. Take your wet paper towel and place it inside of a zip loc bag. Seal the bag and place somewhere dark for 2 days. It’s very important to keep the bag sealed the entire time because those seeds will only pop if it is nice and moist.

So a couple of days have gone by and it’s time to check out the seeds. Don’t be surprised if they haven’t popped just yet. It may take up to five days total to sprout, and it’s almost inevitable that a few won’t pop. Once your seeds have a little white chute sticking out of them, wash your hands and then take the seed out of the paper towel and put the seed into your grow medium with the chute facing down because this turns into the root.

For the first 5 days of growth don’t add any nutrients just run straight water. In the first 2 weeks of life be very gentle with your nutrients. Use either an 18 hour on and 6 hour off, or 24 hour light cycle during the whole vegetative phase.  Follow the nutrient package’s instructions carefully because you can easily end your plant’s life with heavy nutrients. The first 6-8 weeks you should steadily increase the nutrients to a max of 600 PPM. In this time the plant is building up and maturing and it needs a good amount of nitrogen to flourish. Nitrogen is a key building block because it helps establish a good root system and a strong core.

After a solid 6 weeks have gone by you should have some good foot tall plants at least. It is always a good idea to take a few clones before you are ready to flower your plants. This ensures that if you grow a second crop, it will be at least equivalent if not better than the original grow. It also ensures you only female plants. Cloning is a slightly advanced technique but don’t be intimidated. It is easy to pick up and virtually a necessity for any green thumb. Look carefully and you can tell the two kinds of stems apart. Some chutes coming off the stem open up to make more and some just have one large set of odd-numbered leaves (usually 7). You want to clone only the stems that are producing more ends. These eventually will flower and grow buds. To clone grab a sharp knife and some isopropyl alcohol. Dump some of the alcohol onto a paper towel and wipe the blade over it to sterilize. Cut a few of the lower chutes at a 45 degree angle and place the cuttings in a glass of water with some root hormone filled only a couple inches high. This is the cheap way to clone and will work but for the best effectiveness you can build a clone box for about $20 with supplies from walmart. Check out www.leafpot.com for the tutorial. As soon as your clones are cut you can send your plants into flower!

Grow Medical Marijuana, The Easy Way, Part II

Grow Medical Marijuana Outdoors, The Easy Way,  Part II

Congratulations, you’ve made great progress in the planning stages of your Medical Marijuana cultivation. You’ve checked the legislation of your State, stockpiled some “skunk seeds”  from Amsterdam, charted the sun pattern of your backyard, plotted out your soil which tested at a ph of 6.0, and there’s a water spigot/w hose nearby. Sun, soil, seeds, and water were the basics of part I. Part II will explore some other issues involved with successful Medical Marijuana growing.

Garden pests can be, well, pests! Most insects cruising through your patch are harmless, and some are garden friendly, like lady-bugs. Since we decided that the growing strain of choice would be Indica, or skunk plants – there is no getting around the pest known as Whitefly, nemesis of many a gardener. Once your plants grow leaves, periodically check the undersides for tiny whiteflies. They may just sit there, or hundreds fly off, (infestation)

but their eggs do damage to the plant. The best remedy, is what the commercial growers use, Encarsia Formosa – a predatory insect. Find a 24hrs. delivery of Encarsia Formosa strips and hang them in your garden. Whitefly won’t stand a chance. You could also use an insecticide soap, but it’s not as effective in my opinion. Left unchecked, Whitefly will wipe out your crop.

The fertilizer that is our most common nutrient mix, is Nitrogen-Phosphorus-Potassium, with trace amounts of some lesser one’s. If you need to use fertilizer, get a package that has numbers on the front like these, 20-30-40. Those are the percentages of the pre-mentioned nutrients. Fertilize early with this inorganic mix. Unless you are really experienced, avoid concentrated formulas, Compost areas are great to grow in also. Many people only fertilize early in the off-season, which is what I recommend. In their zest to enrich the soil, and grow record size buds, a lot of folks end up burning (killing) their plants with the fertilizer. Only mess with fertilizer early, or if the plants go from rich green, to a yellowing color. Sluggish growth or deadening leaves may indicate a need of liquid nutrients. If you are experienced, you may fertilize pre-season, mid, and during flowering. In Cali, just let them grow naturally.

The last area of concern is, thinning out plants. There are a few schools of thought regarding this. One, what ever you sow or plant, just let the crop grow out. For your first garden of Medical Marijuana, I think that is best and easiest. This way you don’t worry about male or female plant identification, you get a chance to maybe see the differences, and finally – if there are both sexes present – get some future seeds from your own crop that will be indigenous to your area. Basically, you are on the way to creating your own strain of Medical Marijuana, how exciting! Secondly, if you have an abundance of seeds, or easy access to seeds, cut the male plants (don’t pull them up, the roots may affect the other plants) out as soon as you know their sex. This will give the females more room, plus, now the female will be seedless, or “sinsemilla”, which many people prefer. Don’t toss out the males, as they are still psycho-active, and may be dried for use.

Finally, remember, Cannabis Indica is basically a weed, and we all know how easily weeds grow.  Joyce

How to Grow Marijuana – Chapter 4 – Flowering and Curing Marijuana

Marijuana is a wonderful herb that grows naturally all over the planet. Unfortunately it is still illegal to grow marijuana in many countries. Please check your local laws before growing marijuana. With that said, let’s get growing!

It’s been a month and a half and you are finally ready to flower! The first thing to understand is that some of your plants may be male plants. The female plants flower, yielding herb to smoke. The male plants grow pollen sacks which impregnate the female plants, creating seeds. Unless you want seeds for future grows it is important to pick out the male plants as soon as they show signs. The first step to flowering is changing the light pattern. Your plants are used to either 18 or 24hrs of light a day. In the wild, plants flower when the light of day shortens, so to stimulate flowering, change your lighting to 12hours on and 12hours off everyday. Also flush your nutrients and switch to flowering measurements. In the first week you have to keep a very close eye on the sex of your plants. Male plants grow little balls that eventually open up with pollen. Female plants grow flowers. You can detect a female plant early because it will have hairs growing out of the calyx located on flowering branches.

Flowering time varies depending on the strain. Typical times fall somewhere between 8 and 12 weeks. Make sure to routinely flush the water and keep your PPM’s according to the schedule on your nutrients. Your herb will be ready for harvest when at least 30% of the pistils (hairs) turn from clear to red/orange. If you have a microscope, take a look at the trichomes. These look almost like little mushrooms under magnification of 50x. Just as the hairs turn orange, the tops of the trichomes turn from clear to white. A count of 30% + white-top trichomes also signifies the readiness to harvest. It is also important to note that harvesting early leads to more of a head high, whereas harvesting late with more orange hairs makes for more of a couch lock effect.

In the last week before harvest it is also important to flush out all nutrients. It is optional to keep watering during this time. The plant will have an excess of nitrogen as well as several other elements and the halt of nutrients causes the plant to use up all the excess. This makes for a tastier and smoother final product. It has also been theorized that keeping the lights off for the last 3 days of the plant’s life increases thc content. This theory makes sense because plants stress out whenever something unnatural or threatening happens. Thc is the natural defense mechanism for cannabis so it really couldn’t hurt to give it a try.

Its harvest time so first cut each of the flowering branches close to the stem. Discard the leaf branches and main stem. Take your collection of flowering branches and cut all fan leaves out. Get a nice pair of clippers and trim down the leaves to where the flowers are mostly exposed. Hang these trimmed branches upside-down in the dark, in a well ventilated area for 3-5 days.  Wait until the plants have exhausted most of their water before removing them from the room.

Now that the herb is cut and has been dried for a few days, it’s time to cure. This is the most important step in the entire thing. Any shortcuts here will undermine your months of patience so don’t get too ahead of yourself. Your herb is good but still has an excess of chlorophyll and amino acids. Curing brings out the full flavor and helps the herb actualize its potency. Thc is the chemical that gives you desired effects, but before the herb is cured, the thc exists coupled with amino acids. The more time you cure, the more cannabinoids detach them self and become active thc.

Collect your herb and trim to your liking. Put the herb in a sealed jar for one month. Every day you should open the jar three times for about 20 minutes.  In a month you will have some killer herb.

Grow Medical Marijuana – Six Habits of Highly Effective Medical Marijuana Growers

Those who assume that it is easy to grow medical marijuana are actually people who have less or no knowledge about marijuana growers. They tend to mislead you with their deficient and somehow wrong information regarding the growing of medical marijuana.  So beware of those who are saying that there are short cuts and quick fixes which minimize the hard work and focus required to succeed in this endeavor.  An effective medical marijuana garden always satisfies the needs of the grower who knows and follows these seven important rules:
Cleanliness
Procrastination is not recommended in growing of medical marijuana.  Simple task such as picking up dead leaves and sweeping of debris should not wait until piles of these have accumulated.  It is considered to be an important daily routine that requires due diligence.  Make it your mission to keep things clean always.  So start putting down the bong, get off the couch and clean your grow room from top to bottom.  Always keep in mind that the work you do now will surely pay off in the end.
Stealth
When it comes to growing medical marijuana, silence is always the golden rule.  Although it might be tempting sometimes to brag and show off your hard work, but it can only cause you more troubles along the road.  Try to minimize or avoid throwing big parties or let people hang out all day smoking weed in your area.  Suspicious events like this have been the downfall of many pot growers before.  You need to make yourself invisible to neighbors and keep a low profile in order for you to keep your marijuana garden discrete.  On the other hand, don’t be too paranoid as well by blocking off all your windows or avoiding interaction with neighbors because this will only indicate that something is not right.  Instead be friendly but not too friendly and never panic or antagonize those around you.  Keeping everything peaceful is the key to have successful harvest after harvest.
Realistic Expectations
You need to set your goals wisely and realistically, by doing so; you can maintain your motivation at all times.  Be realistic and consider many factors that affect the growth of your medical marijuana plants.  Try to weigh the advantages and disadvantages of all decisions and possible outcomes.  Knowing and properly anticipating possible expenses can lead you to long-term success.
Attentiveness to Plant Needs
To grow medical marijuana, you also need to be attentive to your plants needs.  Although marijuana plants isn’t all that hard to please, but still they need to be provided with the proper atmosphere at all time, maintained appropriate temperature, feeding and airflow.  Try to be meticulous with small details to avoid stress that causes marijuana plants to delay their growth or even die.  Knowing and understanding all elements of plant growth is necessary to become successful in growing medical marijuana.
Patience
Marijuana plants needs to complete their life cycle to fulfill their true destiny and it is your job to do everything to make that happen.  Try not to harvest early because you are preventing the marijuana plants to reach its full potential.  That means that you need to have patience and know the fact that you will be in this thing for quite a long time.  Patience really does pay.
Humility
Infuse some positive energy into your plants by showing humility.  Take pride with your gardening accomplishments but don’t become the “human buzz-kill” person who always seeks to one-up all comers.  Besides, to grow medical marijuana is not a competition of who gets to produce better and high quality pots.  Just let your buds speak for themselves.  If you love what you are doing then you are already a winner.

How to grow Marijuana seeds

The governments of USA, UK and all the prominent countries all over the world have made marijuana illegal and even to know how to grow marijuana seeds in certain countries. This is so because some of the top government officials feel that marijuana seeds can have fatal effects on our health. It is definitely true that marijuana has some side effects which may include dizziness, loss of memory for time being etc, but the drug is definitely not fatal. Moreover, the positive effects of marijuana have not been hidden from the world.

Many experts too believe that marijuana has some of the greatest pain relieving qualities which chemotherapy patients or other chronic disorder patients can avail to get out of their sufferings. That is the reason there is a big debate going on all over the world on whether to legalize marijuana or not.

In such a scenario when even growing of marijuana has to be done privately, www.buymarijuanaseeds.org provides the chronic patients a way to get over their pain by understanding how to grow marijuana seeds. The website offers a platform for every individual to ask questions and put forward their queries regarding how to grow marijuana seeds and also to write their own views on the topic and share their own experiences as well.

The information available on the website regarding marijuana seeds, their usage and their advantages is highly beneficial and provides every individual with a clear understanding of the same. The website has its biggest aim to make individuals understand what is good for them and what is not. The website is totally dedicated to the good of those who are suffering tremendously with chronic ailments and although marijuana seeds may help them get out of the pain, yet because of the so called legalities, they are not able to get their medicine in the contour of marijuana.

The website is trying to help such individuals who may get to know the basis requirements on how to grow marijuana seeds and thereafter, they need not be dependent upon anyone for their treatment.

Today most of the people are in favour of marijuana as they feel that those who can be benefitted with its medicinal use should not suffer because of those who make it an abuse. Every individual is matured enough to understand what is right for him and what is wrong. So the public belief is to give everyone a right to decide for themselves. This way at least those who can benefit from marijuana get their due.

Thus the website, www.buymarijuanaseeds.org is a perfect platform for those who want to learn more about marijuana and stand by the cause that all chronic patients have a right to get their medicine in order to get out of their sufferings.