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Issue #518 - Sunday, March 20, 2022
Dear Fellow Grower,
In today's issue...
- Nebula has finally compiled her thorough side-by-side grow experiment for your examination. You'll get all the grow details, including dates, measurements, THC, and yields. Or, if you're not interested in any of that, you'll just get a ton of pictures of some fantastic-looking plants. Also, I know from personal experience that the buds were strong, too!
- Get a list of all my past side-by-side experiments in one place!
- Next week I'll be releasing a definitive guide on how to prevent "hay smell" while drying buds but I need your help to make sure I answer all your questions!
- It's weird, I grow my own cannabis plants and I'm happy with what I do. However, I still get a strong pang of "I wanna do that!" whenever I see a grower doing something that seems fun or different than what I'm doing. That happened when I was looking at these trophy pics. It won't help you to know that, but now you know anyway.
Nebula Haze & Sirius Fourside (founders of GrowWeedEasy.com)
"I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others."
~Marcus Aurelius
Super Soil vs Coco Coir:
Side-by-Side Cannabis Grow Journal
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This side-by-side grow journal experiment took place over a year ago, but I only documented it on my Instagram profile. I realized today that it wasn’t on the website. Although it’s a little late, I think you’ll find this marijuana grow just as intriguing now as I did then. I have copied
over all the posts so you can enjoy this grow journal as if you were watching in real-time.
What effect does it have on cannabis clones to grow them in coco coir vs a super soil setup? This grow journal’s results were not at all what I expected. From yields to THC levels to terpenes, there were stark differences between the tents.
Here’s a sneak peak of the two tents just before harvest. Jump straight to harvest day if you want to skip to the end, but I think it was one of my most riveting grows and you’ll enjoy reading each update as it happens.
Coco coir
Super soil (using Nature's Living Soil concentrate)
July 5
Clone tent with two little autoflowering solo cup plants finishing up in the back. I’m amazed what this HLG 65 LED grow light can support with only 65 watts of light!
These clones are rooted and recently put in solo cups. I’m going to grow them out a little then they get put into their final homes.
August 20
The top plants are in coco coir (Mother Earth Coco Plus Perlite Mix) and bottom plants are clones in Super Soil (Nature’s Living compost as base and filled the rest of the way with Coco Loco soil). Check out the setup & supplies list for the complete setup with links to copy this grow yourself.
Here are the clones about 3 weeks from being put into the tents (they were already rooted so they’re bigger than seedlings of similar age).
Top is coco coir (purple stakes). Bottom is Super soil (green stakes). I’ll keep them in this order for the whole grow journal to make it easier to follow along.
Second picture was after some training. Plants were spread out and tied down.
So far the plants in the super soil tent are ahead. It took a little longer for plants to adjust to the coco. However, they’re both starting to grow fast and the differences in growth patterns will soon be more obvious.
September 5
The coco tent is on top, super soil tent on bottom. They went into the tents on August 1 so they’re a little over a month old. So far the super soil plants are bigger!
Coco on top, super soil on bottom
The super soil plants are also darker green, with signs of Nitrogen toxicity (“the claw”) from getting high levels of Nitrogen from the super “hot” soil. N is stored in dark green leaves and can be accessed by the plant later. That is why lower leaves and then the
whole plant turns yellow when Nitrogen gets low.
Top view
Lots of Nitrogen is fine in the vegetative stage (maybe even good) but suppresses bud growth in the second half of the flowering stage. All plants get defoliated at the start of flowering, which removes a lot of Nitrogen from the “system”. Since I’m only giving water,
the plants are also continually using up nutrients in the soil.
It’s a delicate balance because I also want the nutrients in the soil to last until harvest. That’s why I am not washing any nutrients away with runoff water.
Luckily, in a super soil setup, the plant has greater ability to “pick and choose” nutrients (just like nature) compared to giving mineral nutrients in the water.
The coco plants are about 11 inches tall and the super soil plants are 12 inches tall. I will probably initiate the flowering stage soon because they’ll about double in size and I’d like them to be 2 feet tall at harvest.
I love how easy it is to care for the super soil plants. Plain water every 3 days and they’re good to go! Whenever I mix up coco nutrient water it makes me appreciate the simplicity of a “just add water” grow!
So far the Nature’s Living Soil tent is so much easier to use and ship than the last super soil brand I tried (Kind Soil) and I feel like the plants are doing better so far.
September 12
Today I defoliate the cannabis plants as they enter the flowering stage....
Click here for to keep reading the grow journal. Get step-by-step instructions on how to train the plants like I did, look at bud closeups to see how they grew differently in each tent, learn the final yields, and get the final THC & terpene results from the lab!
More Side-by-Side Experiments
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Over the years I’ve run a few side-by-side experiments with growing cannabis plants. I am almost always surprised by something, and I thought you might be too, so I decided to make a list of all my marijuana-growing experiments in one place. You can also check back on that page to see whatever is the current experiment!
Here are the experiments starting from the most recent. Check out the page for a quick picture overview of each one.
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Who doesn't love a side-by-side grow journal? Here's one from 2020!
Who Suffers from Hay Smell?
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Have you ever dried your cannabis buds and they smelled like "hay" after?
A common growing problem is "hay smell" on buds after they've been dried. The process of curing buds in jars can reduce or eliminate hay smell, but did you know you can dry buds in a way that they still smell great? At that point, curing in jars only improves them more.
Next week I'm going to publish a definitive guide to preventing "hay smell" while drying buds. The article is going to be a little controversial but I think it's worth sharing because too many growers suffer from this problem.
Do you suffer from hay smell after drying? What have you tried that worked or didn't work? What do you think the problem was, or do you have no idea?
I want to make sure I answer all your questions and address every point, so please reply to this email to ask questions about hay smell and share your experiences. I may not answer every email but if you read the article next week I promise it will answer all your questions.
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"Thanks so much for your Sunday morning 4:20am newsletters - I am a 70 year old man and I have been growing my own for 35+ years - my advice to all - there is ALWAYS more to learn - the more you grow, the more you learn - about many things. Keep growing."
~Doug
I've been growing and writing about cannabis growing for over a decade and I still learn new stuff all the time! ~Sirius
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"Hey y'all, just wanted to say a quick thanks for helping noobs like me to learn how to grow! My plants had some minor light stress after getting a new light and I was able to diagnose and fix it quickly with your plant doctor so I really appreciate it. Thanks again and keep up the good work!"
~James
Glad to be of service, James! 👍 ~Sirius
"I always learn a lot from your newsletters."
~Kary
That's our goal, so if you're learning, we've succeeded. 🅰➕ ~Sirius
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"This is my second attempt at a grow. 4x4 tent with 900 Phlizon LED light.
Images are taken with an iPhone SE. No colourization done, straight photos aside from the LED lighting. I attached a cheap 25 x clip on macro lens for that close up shot.
This is a GSC x Jack Herer autoflower. Topped once, soil grown in 5 gallon pot. Currently just started week 5 in flower. Did 8 weeks in veg. Harvest in about 4 weeks. Will hang dry, trim, cure and enjoy!"
~Graham
I also thought that the colors in the pictures were cool so I made sure not to touch them at all. That seedling picture should go in a textbook. 📸 ~Sirius
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"These are my pics of my Barney Farms - Blue Sunset Sherbet grown in rdwc using GH flora trio professional 10 part feeding schedule. Veg. 8 weeks currently 9 weeks in to flower with about 10% amber on the trichomes. About 3-4 days frome harvest."
~SamTheMan
Wow, you could knock someone out with that thing! I wonder if anyone has ever been clubbed by a cannabis cola. 🤔 ~Sirius
"Boobah from down under here, follow up pics of my summertime grow. The inside girl pics are a before and after defoliation, start of week 4 flower, lights 13 hours off/11 hours on. I am following Nebulas tutorial as best I can. Outside 3 - 4 weeks to harvest, inside 4 - 6 weeks to harvest."
~Boobah
These plants are going to be absolutely bursting with bud sites. Make sure to send us pics of how it turns out! ~Sirius
Quick Guide to Plant Problems
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Don't Let Scammers Steal Your D'oh!
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Yes, yes I do.
Scammers stealing money make Homer something something...
People who make their living by stealing are constantly coming up with new and infuriating ways to separate innocent people from their hard-earned money. Although it can be maddening, don't let them get you angry. Instead, get even by making sure they never get a free meal again. You can do your part by staying alert and steering clear or anything that seems even a little scam-like (and warn others!).
Remember when it comes to buying seeds: Real seed businesses don't contact you. They let you contact them. If anyone messages you to sell you seeds on social media, look out! It's possible they will take your payment and send nothing. Always take a second to think before sending money to anyone, especially if they contact you (whether by DM, text message, phone call, email, etc.).
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Recommended Cannabis Seed Sources
These sources have gotten great reviews from our readers:
- Seed Supreme – California, United States
- ILGM (I Love Growing Marijuana) – California, United States
- Herbies Seeds – Europe (seemingly out of the UK and Spain)
We encourage you to forward this email to a friend in need!
GrowWeedEasy.com has hundreds and hundreds of pages!
Check out some articles you may not have seen...
- Review of Nature’s Living Soil for Growing Cannabis - Using a "super soil" style recipe is about as close as you can get to a "just add water" experience when growing cannabis. It takes a small amount of setup, but you'll be paid back in easy-to-harvest, true-organic homegrown
cannabis.
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What is Good Soil For Growing Cannabis? - If you're not looking for something as fancy as super soil, you can just get some tried-and-true, high-quality soil. Fortunately, most brands will get you to harvest without issue, but this page will give you some trustworthy brands if you haven't developed a preference yet.
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How to Make the Best Growing Environment - Whether you grow in super soil, regular soil, coco coir, or even water, your plant's fate will be largely decided by the environment they're raised in. Great conditions plus great genetics equates to great weed!
- Top-Fed DWC Cannabis Setup Guide – Bubbleponics - If I'm going to tell you to try growing in soil or even *gasp* super soil, I'm obligated by law to also encourage you to look into DWC. It's like growing cannabis in any other method except you'll feel like a mixture between a rocket scientist and a
wizard.
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Nebula Haze:
When I first started growing, I struggled. Now, it is my mission to make it easy for new growers to get started while helping advanced growers get bigger, better yields with less time and money. We update/add articles every week. Anyone and everyone can grow if they want to!
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Sirius Fourside:
Sirius Fourside is a hobbyist grower who has gained the bulk of his experience growing in water as a medium (deep water culture, bubbleponics).
"Growing cannabis can be a relaxing hobby in and of itself, but it also saves you money and keeps you from having to deal with shady characters. Cannabis is much easier to grow than people give it credit for, and growing in water doesn't increase the difficulty much, if any. But whether you want to grow in water, coco, or a different medium, we'll show you how easy it can be!"
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