Issue #596 - Sunday, September 24, 2023 Dear Fellow Grower, In today's issue... - We all love growing cannabis, and we all hate running into problems while we're growing cannabis. Unfortunately, running into an issue or two is something we all have to go through as growers, but we have a massive impact on how those problems
impact us. Today, we're going to show you how to fix nearly any problem with cannabis and all you have to is answer "Yes" or "No" to a few questions!
- If you've ever felt the heat (literally!) while growing your cannabis plant, or maybe shivered at the thought of a cold snap, then today's your lucky day. Air temperature is a notorious troublemaker for cannabis growers, but don't sweat it. Today I included a bunch of quick and easy tips to help plants
thrive even if the temperature is getting out of whack!
- As cannabis continues to pick up steam and gain legalization across the world, there's been a cool new feature added to many houses: weed plants in the backyard. No matter how you lean politically, I think we can all agree that being able to grow cannabis legally in your backyard is progress. Let's all keep pushing until everyone has the right to grow ganja for themselves!
Nebula
Haze & Sirius Fourside (founders of GrowWeedEasy.com) "We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated." ~Maya Angelou Before we get into the 5-step cannabis plant solver tutorial, here are some bonus visual resources to help you quickly identify your problem by examining the symptoms. Check out this Cannabis Problem-Solving Flowchart. When it comes to growing cannabis, it’s inevitable that you will eventually run into growing problems. I’ve never met a single grower who’s never had ANY problems. So don’t beat yourself up when growing problems happen. They happen to every grower! Overwatering is often difficult to diagnose because it can cause a surprising number of symptoms.
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Easy Temperature Tips!
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Cannabis plants prefer temperatures around 70-85°F (20-30°C) Tips for Dealing with Heat
One of the most common environmental problems for growers is when the environment is consistently staying above 85°F (30°C). Some heat-sensitive strains may struggle at even lower temperatures.
Here are some quick tips to help with a hot grow room. - Choose
Photoperiod Strains - Young plants may not mind the heat but buds may develop poorly when they experience high temperatures in the flowering stage. Too much heat during the flowering stage is associated with looser buds, lower THC percentages, reduced smells, and problems like bud rot. However, unlike autoflowering strains, photoperiod plants need 12 hours of darkness each day during the flowering stage. That long night period makes it easier to control the heat during budding since lights are off half the time. That being said, auto-flowering strains can work too, just opt for a heat-resistant one. Here are examples of 14 heat-resistant strains.
- Adjust your light schedule - Set your grow lights to turn off during the hottest part of the day. Have your lights turn on during parts of the day that are naturally cooler. If your grow light is dimmable, you can also turn down the total power during particularly hot days.
- Use LED grow lights - LED panels are more electrically efficient than grow lights with bulbs, which means they produce less heat for the same amount of light. In addition, LEDs disperse the heat up and away from the lamp instead of beaming heat onto your plants. In our experiments, LED-grown plants are more heat-resistant overall even if everything else is the same. In fact, with LEDs the
issue is plants do poorly if it gets cool.
- Get supplements to help: 3 Proven Supplements to Help Cannabis with Heat Stress
- Vent hot air out of the grow space: Stealthy Ways to Vent Heat out a Window
These plants are suffering after a long heat wave.
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Tips for Dealing with Cold Although less common than heat, some growers may deal with cold, especially during the winter in basements, attics, and spare bedrooms (places that often don't get heated like the rest of the home). - Choose Autoflowering strains - If you grow autoflowering strains, it means you can keep the warm lights on for 18+ hours/day. You can even keep your grow lights on 24 hours a day, so the heat from the grow light never turns off. On the other hand, a photoperiod plant needs 12 hours of darkness each day during the budding phase, and that can give the grow space a long time to get really cold while lights are
off.
- Cold-resistant strains - There are strains that can handle the cold better than others, especially strains with genetics that originated in cold parts of the world. If you want to grow a photoperiod plant in a cold climate, make sure to get the right strain! Here's a list of 13 Cold-Resistant Cannabis
Strains
- Adjust Your Light Schedule - Set timer so grow lights are on during the coldest part of the day.
- Use HID grow lights (CMH, LEC, MH/HPS) and Avoid LEDs - HID grow lights warm up a grow space more than LEDs. On top of that, the heat is more localized and is typically beamed directly down onto the top parts of the plant. This makes plants more cold-resistant since their leaves are warm in the exact spots where photosynthesis is
happening.
- Cold Room Tips: 10 Ways to Deal with a Cold Grow Room
- Prepare for an Emergency: How to Prepare for a Power Outage (more common
in places where it gets cold)
Cold air can cause drooping and slow growth.
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Sparkle Town 🎶🎵
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Granddaddy Purple Autoflower by ILGM produces weed that sparkle! Granddaddy Purple (aka "GDP" or "Grand Daddy Purp") is a legendary strain bred in 2003 by Ken Estes, a master grower, breeder and activist who became a medical cannabis patient after a serious motorcycle accident in the
70s left him paralyzed and wheelchair-bound. You can feel the love he put into this strain. GDP was actually one of the first strains I ever grew. It is a beautiful, high-yielding, potent strain with delectable buds. However, the original photoperiod version of this strains tended to grow CRAZY. Here is my first GDP harvest from 2008. This was one of my first grows and it got totally out of control lol. Luckily, the autoflowering
version of this strain also produces good yields, but doesn't get nearly as big as this!
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ILGM has turned the classic photoperiod strain into a stabilized autoflowering strain that grows with a shorter bushier structure, but still produces the same delicious grape-fuel smelling buds (with up to 23% THC). Now you can get authentic GDP buds and enjoy the grow process too. For those who are curious to grow GDP Auto, you can find it here. If you've grown any version of GDP before (or any strain that got out of control like mine did), reply to this email and send us a picture! We may feature you next week.
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"Hi folks! I've been getting into growing over the past year and a half and it has been a joy discovering a comprehensive site for the topic written by actual humans with experience. Growweedeasy is basically the Erowid of grow sites, and that is a high compliment (heh). Keep doing what you're doing, and safe travels on earth!" ~JC We're very familiar with erowid and that's indeed
a high compliment, so thank you! 🙏 ~Sirius
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"Love your articles and support articles on the site"
~Craig Glad we could help, Craig! ~Sirius "Hi you guys. I've been following your site for over 2 years. I have gone form an ok veg grower into a top shelf canna grower with your help!"
~Lawrence
That's what I love to hear! Not only are you growing great weed, but you feel it's top shelf. That's a great feeling.
🌳😊🌳 ~Sirius
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"Right around 6 weeks of flower. 2 ES180's at 60% due to light stress any higher. A 2x4x6 tent with coco coir. With GH Flora trio. Using Nebula's manifold techniques. I have limited space so a flat canopy is a MUST. After these were chopped and cured, it came out to 2 grams short of 9 ounces. Your first run of the
Master Class convinced me to go back to basics from when I first started 16 years ago. This turned out to be one of the best grows I had in a long while. Potency, smell and smoke are all fantastic! I gave some to friends to sample and they also gave rave reviews. Thank you again for all your hard work and knowledge that you give to the home grower. I just can't say enough good things about what you're doing. " ~David Wow, what a massive compliment to us and the class. Thanks David, that really means a lot. 🙏 ~Sirius
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"Durban Poison Clones sources from fellow grower, General Hydroponics Flora trio, under Spider Farmer SF-7000 in 4x4 grow tent.
38.856 oz or 13 half gallon jars. I checked my scales many times during this harvest, I still can't believe how much this light produced. Happy growing." ~Picnix Wow, I think this is an appropriate time to describe bud as "encrusted". This looks like the kind of bud you're scared to touch because you know it's going to make you sticky and smelly. 😂 ~Sirius "4 Afghan hash plants plus 1 blueberry bc big bud do to come down 1st October. I am in London Ontario Canada." ~Tom You know how a group of crows is called a "murder", or a group of rhinos is called a "crash". Lemurs are
a "conspiracy" and a group of cats is a "clowder". I know they aren't animals, but we need a name for a group of weed plants. Like, a "session" of weed plants? ~Sirius
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Don't Be Fool By Genyus Scammers!
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"This looks legit."
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I hope they paid, I don't want them to get "the rested" On one hand, scam messages like this are great. The misspellings and absolutely terrible story can get a laugh out of me every time. I mean, there are so many things wrong with this scam just on a logical level but we don't need to point out every single dumb decision here. But on the other hand... This might come as a surprise
to some of you, but many scammer messages are written like this on purpose. The scammer is trying to filter out people who can immediately smell a scam. The text is just the beginning of the scam, so the scammer is going to need the victim to believe way more lies. That means they need people who will believe their shoddiest lies, hence the shoddy scam texts. They don't just write dumb messages, though. Scammers can also write messages so convincing that they're tricked high level tech
employees. Stay safe! Make sure to watch out for seed scams! Remember: 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
- MSNL – Netherlands bank with shipping centers in the US, Canada, and UK.
GrowWeedEasy.com has hundreds and hundreds of pages! Check out some articles you may not have seen... Plant Doctor – Diagnose Your Cannabis Plants! - The unfortunate reality of
raising and caring for a living thing is that things don't always go exactly the way you planned. Luckily, we've documented a whole lot of the things that can go wrong and what you can do to solve the problem. The main article of today's newsletter is broad-spectrum, but this is article is a lot more focused on pinpointing the issue based on sight. Cannabis Problem Flowchart [Image] - Today's main article features this low-tech, but extremely useful flowchart. In case you aren't familiar with flowcharts, it will ask you a series of "yes or no" questions. Each answer will lead you on a path that will eventually lead to the solution to your problem. There's no ChatGPT or other AI involved, but I promise it still
works! All-Natural Pesticides – Safe Up to Harvest! - Here's the thing about cannabis pests: they don't care if you want them there or not. If pests were considerate, they would move out of your plant once flowering starts to save you the heartache. But since they don't leave on their own, we've made a list of pesticides that are safe to use on flowering plants. That
means you can give those pests the boot without making your plant unsafe for consumption! If you love our newsletter, here are 5 Free Ways to Support GrowWeedEasy.com!
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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!" Copyright (c) 2023 GrowWeedEasy.com NOTE: If links aren't working or if pictures are not showing up properly, please view the full newsletter here: http://archive.aweber.com/gwe-updates Disclaimer: Grow Weed Easy only recommends products that we've either personally checked out ourselves, or that come from people we know and trust. For doing so, we may receive a commission. Nothing in this e-mail should be considered personalized Financial, Legal, or Medical Advice. The contributors to this magazine grow legally under their local laws but are not lawyers or
medical professionals. Any decision to grow marijuana should only be made after consulting with an experienced lawyer or other legal adviser. Any medical decisions should only be made after speaking with a doctor. Be safe! How Did I Sign Up For This Newsletter? Our records indicate that requested to be added to the GrowWeedEasy.com weekly newsletter at
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