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#232 - Sunday, September 25, 2016
Dear Fellow Grower,
In today's
issue... - When we first started growing, we had to learn a bunch of lessons the hard way, so we wanted to share a few important lessons that may help you skip some of the heartache!
- Check out our new growing forum! We wanted to
start a growing community where growers can anonymously post and share their experience with other growers!
- Take a look at some pretty pink and purple strains!
- This week's trophy pic features an Acapulco Gold plant that has monstrous buds at just
36 days from 12/12!
Nebula Haze & Sirius Fourside (founders of GrowWeedEasy.com) "Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy."
~Saadi
Learning Hard Lessons the Easy Way! by Sirius Fourside |
What’s the secret to growing the best bud? Whether there really is a secret or not doesn’t matter, because human nature compels us to try to find one! Everyone is looking
for that secret thing they’re missing that will take their grows to the next level.
The problem is that sometimes we’re looking in the wrong place for the things that will make us better growers. I’ve personally spent a lot of time and money doing exactly that!
For example, when I first
started growing I paid about $300 for an all-in-one (light included) 'herb-growing' system after reading on a forum that it was great for growing cannabis. To make a long story short, it was not great for growing cannabis and I used my new $300 system to hold my tears.
Meanwhile, I could’ve spent that same amount of money and got enough materials for a full grow! Realistically, I could have bought $300 worth of buckets and dirt and it still would have been a smarter purchase.
When I was younger, my mom used to always say, “You are absolutely insistent on learning lessons the hard way.” Although I changed my
“hard-headed” behavior for the most part, some habits die hard!
If you hate learning lessons the hard way, read below for some tips that would’ve saved me hours of time, hundreds of dollars, and a lot of heartache!
Quick tips to keep your money safe from
harm:
- Take what the seller says with a grain of salt - Sellers want to sell you something! Try to find grow journals, videos and pictures of people using the gadget, supplement, light, nutrient, product, etc. on actual cannabis plants so you can know what to expect!
- K.I.S.S. (Keep It Simple, Silly) - There's something to be said for keeping things simple; especially for your very first grow! When it comes down to it, you just need a growing
medium, a cannabis-friendly grow light,
base nutrients, pH adjuster, water (yup, even tap water) and a place to grow! Sometimes adding more to the mix (like how I did) just makes things more complicated and you might not be able to tell what exactly is causing your problem.
- If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. If someone tells you that you're going to get triple the
potency and double the yields from using their product, they're probably exaggerating. If something worked that well, it would quickly become standard procedure for growers everywhere; it wouldn't be hidden on a sales page.
Light! Light! LIGHT! |
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No matter what any company tells you, light is by far the biggest contributor to the potency and yields of your harvests after
genetics. That’s not to say light is the only thing cannabis needs; they also need water, an array of minerals, air, proper pH, and the list goes on.
However, of all the things you need to provide to your cannabis plants, light is one of the only things that increases the
quality/yields of your buds in direct proportion to how much your plants get (up to a point of course). Light is "food" for your plants and directly powers the growth of buds!
One way to measure light intensity is using a unit of measurement called "lux" (which is equal to lumens per square meter). Higher lux means higher
light levels. Your cannabis plant can survive on as little as 15,000 lux, or as much as 85,000 lux for light-resistant strains (like many sativas) in the flowering stage.
For most strains, 65,000 lux is a great amount of light. More is better up until that point! Being on the top end of that range means you don’t have to worry if your cannabis is getting enough
light.
Conversely, nutrient ratios only vary by a couple of teaspoons per gallon before your plant gets nutrient burn. Nutrients are more like a multivitamin for your plant, and if you give them even a little too much they'll get sick. A lux meter isn't a perfect measure of how much light is getting to your plants, but it will help you estimate how much
light your plants are getting in specific spots compared to other spots. This will help you get more out of your grow lights, and it’ll also show you if your plants could do with more or less light. If you’re looking to get bigger, more potent buds and your plants aren’t getting anywhere close to 65,000 lux, you know where to start making changes!
If you're a grower who utilizes LEDs, lux won't help you in terms of measuring light intensity. However, while lux isn't a perfect measurement of the light that plants need, it just happens to be close enough when it comes to pretty much
every other kind of grow light besides LEDs.
Here's a quick guide to lux:
< 15,000 lux - sparse or "stretchy" growth - plant isn't getting enough light
15,000 - 50,000 lux - good amount of light for healthy
vegetative growth
45,000 - 70,000 lux - optimal amount of light for cannabis plants in the flowering (budding) stage
70,000 - 85,000 lux - a lot of light, some sativa strains thrive at this light level, but some plants lose their top leaves early under this light intensity, especially plants that are not resistant to heat/light (like many indicas)
> 85,000 lux - at this light intensity, you've hit the plant's "saturation point" which
means your plant can't use all the light without additional CO2 and may start experiencing light bleaching!
Lesson learned: When other factors are taken care of, light makes the most difference in bud quality and yields. Also, a lux meter can pay for itself in a single harvest!
It's Not Nutrients and It's Not Supplements! Have you ever tried an expensive nutrient line because it’s supposed to make your plants grow faster?
Or perhaps a supplement that claims to make your buds bigger, more potent, and more
fragrant?
I’ve used many types of nutrients, and given dozens of different supplements to my plants in the effort to make them bigger and better, and I've learned an important lesson about what works and doesn't work...
Check Out Our New Grow Forum! |
We've had a private Google+ community for a few years now, but we decided it was time to make a growing forum on the actual GrowWeedEasy.com website so growers can still post anonymously with each other if they don't want to use Google+!
If you want to participate, click here to sign up! Once you sign up, we'll do a quick check to make sure you're not a robot and you'll get an email saying you're in! Ask questions, get help with problems, share your pictures, or discuss anything else to do with growing!
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Pretty in Pink and Purple! |
Most cannabis buds are green, but sometimes they come in other colors! I thought it might be cool to share a few pink and purple bud pics that growers have sent in! These pics show some of the different ways cannabis can turn purple or pink! Feel free to reply to this email and send us your pics too!
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The following two plants with pink pistils are from the strain Panama by Ace Seeds The next two pics are of the strain Frisian Dew, a popular strain by Dutch Passion that has been specifically designed for growing outdoors. It is extremely hardy, high yielding, and is also mold and pest resistant. About 50% of the time, Frisian Dew buds will turn bright purple instead of green! Auto Frisian Dew by Dutch Passion (this is an auto-flowering version of the original famous strain) - Unlike the regular Frisian Dew which gets about 50% purple bud plants, only 10% of the plants
from this strain produce purple buds, but when purple appears the color is incredibly vibrant and spills out onto the nearby leaves! Purple Candy Kush (clone-only strain) Sometimes the leaves turn purple even though buds stay green, like with this unknown strain. With cannabis plants, colors are more likely to show up when plants get
cool night temperatures in the late flowering stage (though that only has an effect on some strains). These Swiss Cheese plants by Nirvana exploded with red, pink and purple when it got cool at night right near harvest time!
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Wow, Thanks for all the info. Just getting ready to harvest my grow (12 ,7 foot Black Destroyer plants) these plants are clones from last year. I really am amazed at these plants. I'm a commercial veggie grower and am having so much fun! Thanks
again for the list of seed producers ,and your blog about respecting the pot scene. I too am not happy with some strain names ! What can you do ? Thanks again for site. All ready have sent site address
to several other growers. thanks
~George
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My Acapulco Gold plant. DWC grow in five gallon bucket with Flora Micro and Flora Bloom nutrients. I've been using them as per the directions on the bottles except no Flora Grow used. It has heavy buds and I had to tie them up. I got the seed from Barney's Farm. It seems to be a very strong strain that handles heat well up to 87°F at the top of the canopy on really hot days in my grow room. It also survived a transplant from soil to DWC. I took it out of its pot, rinsed off the roots, and put it in a ten inch net pot.
She just took off! Very happy with this strain and can't wait to taste that old Acapulco Gold, it is bad ass weed wooooo!
~Cowboy
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It's still only at day 36 from 12/12, and buds are already huge! We encourage you to forward this email to a friend in need!
Who Runs This
Newsletter? |
Nebula Haze:
I'll be honest with you, when I first started growing, I struggled. Now, it is my mission to make it easier for new growers to
get started as well as help advanced growers get bigger, better yields with less time and money. We are updating and adding articles every single week and our goal is to eventually build a comprehensive growing resource so anyone and everyone can grow if they want to! If we all share the knowledge there's more buds in the world for everyone :) |
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Learn which seed sources are personally recommended by Nebula Haze |
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 is 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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