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Issue #526 - Sunday, May 15, 2022
Dear Fellow Grower,
In today's issue...
- Imagine working in a crazy laboratory that sits a top a lone, cold mountain. The only useful light comes from a few sparse candles and the too-frequent flashes of lightning. You pull the a humongous metal switch, flashes go off and...it's alive...IT'S ALIVE! If you're like me or Nebula, growing a cannabis plant via plant tissue culture will give you a similar feeling of mad-scientist power.
- Get the latest update on my defoliation grow journal (plants were defoliated this week!) and find out what I think about the HLG 300 LED grow lights so far in today's journal entry!
- It's weird being in a position where I teach people how to grow cannabis only to watch them grow plants that can shock me with how well they're raised. It's like being a parent whose children all learn how to effortlessly slam dunk within the first year of playing basketball. Also I don't have to raise any of you, so that makes it roughly 100% easier. Anyway, check out these pictures from some of our talented
readers.
Nebula Haze & Sirius Fourside (founders of GrowWeedEasy.com)
"Treat those who are good with goodness, and also treat those who are not good with goodness. Thus goodness is attained.
Be honest to those who are honest, and be also honest to those who are not honest. Thus honesty is attained."
~Lao Tzu
How To Grow Cannabis Plants...
in a Test Tube!
👩🔬🧪➡🌱🤯
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Introduction: What is Plant Tissue Culture?
Have you ever heard of cloning cannabis plants? Essentially you cut off a piece of the plant and force it to grow roots. That gives you a brand new mini plant that’s an exact genetic copy of the “mother” plant.
But could you make clones with an even smaller piece of plant? That’s what plant tissue culture does. It takes a tiny piece of a plant and gets it to grow. Once it starts growing and a little plant has formed, you get the little piece of plant to grow roots using the same techniques as regular cloning. Voila! A new copy of your plant grown from just a tiny piece of plant tissue.
Plant tissue culture is the process of taking living tissue from a plant (for example a piece of a leaf, stem, flower, or even a cracked seed) and growing that “explant” into a full plant in sterile conditions. Although the process is more difficult with cannabis or hemp than some other plant species, it can be done.[1] [2] [3]
Closeup of cannabis explants propagating with new shoots. Pictures by Dr. Hope Jones.
But why do people culture plants instead of taking regular clones?
Tissue culture can be used to…
- rejuvenate a “tired” or sickly mother plant by inducing what’s essentially a genetic “reboot”
- eliminate diseases or hard-to-get-rid-of pests while keeping genetics
- synthetic seed production
- clone auto-flowering plants
Did you know? Normally there is no way to clone an autoflowering plant once it's close to harvest (and very difficult to do at any stage of life). However, if you culture a piece of one of their buds/flowers, it “reverts” the tissue back to making stems and roots so the plant can be grown out again.[1]
Plant tissue culture lets you clone an auto-flowering plant even after buds have fully formed. I wish I could have kept the genetics of this auto-flowering Creme de la Chem plant!
Side-by-Side Grow Journal Update
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Defoliation: Part 2 – May 10, 2022
If you've been following this journal, you know that these plants were grown identically in the vegetative stage. But when I initiated 12/12, I defoliated one of the tents and left the other alone. The plan was to defoliate the “defoliation tent” again 3 weeks later.
Well, today is week 3 from when I initiated 12/12 on April 20, so it’s time for the second defoliation.
Here they are after the defoliation tent was plucked 🙂
Wow, look at the difference in how much light is reaching through the plants. On the natural plants, you can’t even see the floor of the tent because it’s in shadow. In the defoliated tent, there is light getting to every single leaf and bud site. But how much of a difference will it make to the final harvest, if any?
After this point, I am just watering the plants and leaving them alone. Let’s see what they do over the next few weeks!
HLG 300 R-Spec vs ES300 LEDs
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As the plants develop in my grow tents, I'm starting to form opinions on the HLG
300 R-Spec LED grow lights they're being grown under. I have used an older 2020 model of the HLG 300 R-Spec, but these new 2022 "Long" lamps were redesigned with a different form factor and supposedly improvements on yields.
The old HLG 300 R-Spec produced some of the best buds I ever grew (pictured above), which is why I decided to try the newer version, but the buds were on the smaller side and plants tended to grow tall and stretchy.
These are the plants I grew under a 2020 version of the HLG 300 R-Spec LED grow light (older version of the light in today's journal). Although the new lamps are supposed to be updated, I'm noticing a lot of similarities in plant structure with this newer version that I think are related to the "R-spec" (red spectrum).
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Now compare that to the plant structure and bud size of plants grown under the Electric Sky 300 LED grow light. These plants were grown exactly the same way (same nutrients, grow medium, grow tent, training, etc.), yet look how different the plant structure was under the different LEDs. They naturally grew short and bushy with big,
long, stacked buds.
I'm curious to see how the newer HLG 300 R-Spec performs as buds progress through the flowering stage. Will they look more like the old HLG buds, or fatten up like the Electric Sky buds?
Want to learn more about the differences between HLG and Electric Sky LEDs? I wrote more about the similarities and dissimilarities (with pictures of plants I've grown under each brand) for those who enjoy a deep dive into different LED grow light models. If you read my review, let me know
what you think!
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"Man I love these emails. Best part of my Sunday. Thank you!"
~Michael D.
We're proud to be a part of your Sunday! ~Sirius
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"Hi Nebula,
Seriously, thanks for creating and maintaining your wildly informative website. I have learnt more from you than I have ever learnt from “experienced growers” on dumb forums. Keep up the good work!"
~Sloppy1
We appreciate the kind words, dude 🙏 ~Sirius
"Love your newsletters Nebula. I'll have something to show soon hopefully."
~Danthony
We're looking forward it! Make sure to send pics! 📸 ~Sirius
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"Cloning White widow plants:
1. Before: Happy mothers
2. After: Not so happy mothers. Just wait two weeks, they'll look like before again.
Some weird mutations...
3. Three leaves from one node
4. Three sprouts from one node
4. Dual stem..
5. 120 happy (?) clones...and yes, I remembered to turn the pump on!
I wanted to ask if y'all put any cloning gel in the water??"
~Mr. K
Fabulous looking plants, Mr. K. Even the mothers who've just been plucked for clones look great. We've never put rooting gel into our cloner, but that seems like a good test to try! ~Sirius
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~Ross L.
I like to make up a story sometimes when a grower neglects to include a description, but these pictures are just plain pretty. No story needed here. ~Sirius
"Feel free to use these. I thought the pic with the leaf color and an explanation would be of interest to your readers."
~Kevin
I love these pics and the colors in them. In the first pic you have a plant that likely changed color due to a mixture of genetics of temperature (the dark plant). The other plant looks lighter due to being next to such a dark plant, but it's also a bit deficient in nutrients which is where the lime color comes from. I would increase nutrients for just that
plant (of the two).
The plant in the second picture is a little light as well, but it still looks like it'll make good bud. ~Sirius
Be On the Lookout for Scams!
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Scammers even try to scam casinos...owned by mob bosses.
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Scammers will do ANYTHING to get your money!
The clip above is from a 1995 movie starring Robert De Niro called "Casino". It takes place in the late 60's and early 70's when casinos were being run by mob bosses. Meaning the guys who owned casinos were also in charge of literal crime syndicates. They were known for ruthlessly and violently punishing anyone who they perceived as messing with their money.
Despite the reputations of these vicious mobsters, scammers still tried to scam these organized criminals. Scammers saw these casinos owned by violent mob bosses and still thought, "Yeah, we can make a few bucks off these guys". Let that be a lesson in how reckless and desperate scammers can be. Stay on guard and don't give anyone a single cent if you feel something isn't right.
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.).
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)
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GrowWeedEasy.com has hundreds and hundreds of pages!
Check out some articles you may not have seen...
- Picture Guide to Cloning Marijuana - If you aren't interested in making plants in a test tube like some sort of awesome plant wizard, you can go the traditional route and make clones. This guide will show you how to turn one plant into many plants in a
reliable manner. Once you have enough plants stocked up, maybe give tissue culture another look...
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How to Make Cannabis Clones with an Aero Cloner - Okay, this isn't the same wizardry as plant tissue culture, but it's definitely a step up from the standard way of making clones. Just to be clear, all the ways of making clones will be effective in the long run.
It's really about finding a process that you enjoy doing more than the others.
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How to Improve Germination Rates with a Reptile Heat Mat - Growing a cannabis plant from seed is the most basic way start your journey to a harvest. It's super reliable and it's what cannabis plants have been doing for many thousands of years. Adding a
reptile heat mat is like adding a little sunshine to encourage your seeds to sprout and it's super cheap and easy to do.
- 7 Things I Wish Someone Had Told Me When I First Started Growing Weed - Isn't it great that we live in an age where you can learn anything whenever you want? We'll all still make mistakes, but we can reduce the amount of those mistakes by learning
from other people who have already those mistakes. Fortunately, we're walking repositories for stories of mistakes for you to learn from!
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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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