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Issue #513 - Sunday, February 13, 2022
Dear Fellow Grower,
In today's issue...
- Anyone who grows cannabis indoors quickly realizes that height is a limiting factor with very little wiggle room. Height limitations combined with the unpredictability of plants makes height control a necessity. Today, you'll learn some tactics to make it so the height of your plant seems like a non-issue. Advanced growers can turn height problems into increased yields!
- Need help with troublesome or sick seedlings? We've got you covered. My cannabis seedling help handbook leads you through the many seedling help tutorials on the website, from germination problems to yellow leaves to watering problems!
- Soil vs Coco vs Hydro: What's the best grow medium? Find out today whether your plant's roots prefer a home in dirt, coconut husks, or water!
- Super short, super tall, super sticky, super dense...it's just another super "Trophy Picture of the Week" section here to bring a little more sunshine in your Sunday. I'd love to grow any of the plants featured this week, whether it be for the strains, or the excellent way they've been grown.
Nebula Haze & Sirius Fourside (founders of GrowWeedEasy.com)
"Let our advance worrying
become advance thinking and planning."
~Winston Churchill
How to Control Height of Indoor Cannabis Plants
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It’s easy to control marijuana plant height, but you need to understand 3 things. Once you understand these three principles, you’ll be able to force indoor plants to grow into the exact shape and size that you want.
- Setup – Choose the right setup (pot size, grow medium, grow light, strain) to naturally help produce plants the size you want – details below
- Plant training – Learn how to force plants to grow flat and wide instead of tall (or whatever shape you want), and discover techniques to reduce the size of out-of-control plants
- Flowering stretch – Understand how plant height is affected in the flowering stage and how to use this to your advantage.
Let me go through those quickly. Soon you’ll be able to create plants in whatever size you want
1.) Setup
The setup you use can actually cause plants to grow taller than necessary. Here are some things to keep in mind.
Pot size – Smaller pots (restricting root size) will help keep plants smaller. They can still get big if you keep them watered and happy, but it will take them longer to get big compared to a plant with unrestricted roots. For example, if given the exact same conditions and amount of time, 1-gallon pots tend to keep plants small, 3-gallon pots tend to produce mid-size plants, while 7-gallon pots can produce humongous plants indoors. I
usually grow with 1 or 2-gallon pots in a mini tent, 3 or 5-gallon pots in a 2’x4′ grow tent, and 5-gallon pots in a 4’x4’x6.5′ grow tent. Note: smaller pots need to be watered more often so there is a tradeoff.
Smaller pots tend to keep plants smaller, bigger pots tend to result in bigger plants
Grow medium – Plants tend to stay a little smaller in soil (especially when grown without nutrients in a “just add water” setup) vs in coco or especially hydro.
Grow light type – Choose a type of grow light that tends to keep plants short
- Best: LEDs and MH (metal halide) grow lights tend to keep weed plants shorter. MH should only be used in the vegetative stage so LEDs are one of the best choices to use from seed to harvest if you want to keep plants short.
- Okay: Fluorescent lights like T5s or CFLs must be kept extremely close to plants to prevent them from “stretching” tall towards the light. However, if the light intensity is high enough, plants will stay short.
- Worst: HPS and CMH/LEC grow lights (especially when using a Bloom/3k bulb) produce extra height in less time. These grow lights tend to cause plants to grow tall and stretchy (with lots of stem between each set of
leaves) in the vegetative stage, as well as in the flowering stage to a lesser extent (though both types of light reward you for your trouble with incredible bud yields and density)
Good LED grow lights help prevent stretchy plants
Grow light spectrum
- Blue light tends to keep plants shorter and bushier. Often the grow light or bulb will say they’re best suited to “vegetative” growth. They tend to get smaller yields when used in the flowering stage, though they can help increase “sparkle” (trichome production) on buds.
- Red light tends to cause plants to grow more stretchy and tall. Often these are listed as “Bloom”, “Flowering”, or “Red Spectrum” grow lights. In the flowering stage, they produce higher bud yields.
- Mixed spectrum – These lights contain a mix of everything and give you a mixture of effects depending on the ratio.
Using an LED with high amounts of blue light (like this HLG
300 B-spec) designed for the vegetative stage helps encourage plants to grow short and bushy instead of tall and stretchy, though yields tend to be a bit smaller if you don’t switch to a flowering grow light for the flowering stage.
Grow a Short Strain – Some strains tend to stay short while others tend to get tall no matter what you do. In general, autoflowering
strains tend to stay smaller, but over the last few years I’ve noticed many of the newer strains can still get alarmingly big unless specifically listed as a “short strain”.
Choose a good setup to grow short plants. For example, mini tents with tiny grow lights can be surprisingly productive when you recommended supplies and instructions in the mini tent setup tutorial. This grow produced over 5 ounces with an HLG 100 V2 (R-Spec version) and 4 plants in 2-gallon fabric pots.
Note: As you can see with the mini tent example above, as long as you...
Cannabis Seedling Help Handbook
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Emergency Resources for Sick Seedlings!
Sometimes the hardest part of growing cannabis is getting started. If you’ve never gardened or planted a seed before, you may have to learn everything from scratch. And with expensive and hard-to-get marijuana seeds, there’s a lot of pressure to get things right.
At GWE, we have resources for almost every common growing problem, so make sure to always use the search bar on the side of the website if you have a specific problem.
Additionally, this tutorial will help you with some of the most common seedling problems, so you can get solutions quickly. Make it so that your first few weeks go without a hitch.
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What’s the Best Growing Medium: Soil, Coco or Hydro?
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Best Growing Mediums for Marijuana
The three main types of grow mediums for marijuana plants are soil mixes, soilless mixes, and hydroponics (water). Let’s do a quick breakdown of each one, along with the pros and cons for marijuana growers.
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"I read your newsletter religiously every Sunday. I have learned so much in this first year of growing that I can't wait to start new seeds even before I harvest.
In my latest grow, I have colas bending over. How can I tell whether the bending is due to “heavy buds” (I’m an optimist by nature) or from week stems (I’m also a pessimist by training).
I don’t know if you can tell via a picture but any advice you can provide is greatly appreciated. If this pic is helpful to others, please feel free to use it as you see fit. Keep up the great work and I’ll continue to grow and learn."
~Albert
It's the weight making them bend over. When a cola is on its side long enough, it starts to grow at an angle upward which creates a bent cola. These colas all look straight, so I would guess they got heavy and fell over fairly recently. 👍 ~Sirius
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"Flat Stanley!"
~Coco Lopez!
Great looking plant ✔
Plant has a cool name ✔
Grower has a alias that's fun to say ✔
A+ trophy picture submission 🏆. All hail Flat Stanley! ~Sirius
"Four Headed Baby - White Widow seedling. By careful pinching I divided the head into four colas."
~Jr. Longshot
"The chunkier calyx one is Majik OG by ethos. The hairier one is Dead head og x shunk1 aka dead skunk. Grown with 400w hortilux hps in combo with 400w cmh 3000k growers choice. I love your site and recommend it to my buddies who are starting to grow since VA legalized cultivation! Thanks!"
~WeirdWhitleyVA
Wait, did you say you're growing Ethos genetics under a combo of HPS and CMH? That harvest is going to be so strong that I'm a little concerned for your safety. 🤯🤣 ~Sirius
Quick Guide to Plant Problems
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Listen to Andy!
Be on the lookout. Scammers are everywhere!
Here's an excellent way to tell how common scams are: When's the last time you got a scam recording on your phone, a scam email, or a scam text and were actually surprised by it? Scams are so common that we've almost learned to ignore them...but that's what scammers want. Please remember to never to give information or money to someone if you feel even a little bit apprehensive. You might be saving yourself and others from future heartache.
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...
- Low Stress Training (LST) Tutorial - If you've ever grown a cannabis plant without training it, this article will forever change the way you grow. LST (in combination with topping) makes a plant much easier to manage in addition to increasing yields and the bulk of your colas. LST is so useful that it should be the first
training technique a newer grower learns.
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Super Cropping Marijuana: Simple Secret to Bigger Yields - Sure, supercropping can increase your yields, but do you know what it's really good for? Controlling plants that are running rampant! If you have a plant that needs LST but you've waited too long, supercropping is a dependable solution!
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Sea of Green (SoG) Tutorial - Sea of Green is a growing technique that bypasses the need to control height because all your plants will stay relatively short for their whole life. If you combine a Sea of Green grow with an automatic watering system, you can almost be a successful absentee grower!
- Nebula’s Easy Manifold (Cannabis “Main-Lining” Tutorial) - When it's time to train a cannabis plant, and I gotta bring out the big guns, manifolding is my weapon of choice. Manifolding makes it easy to control a plant's height because there are fewer spindly branches to manage. It's like excellent city planning, but for weed
plants.
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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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