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#241 - Sunday, November 27, 2016
Dear Fellow Grower,
In today's
issue... - You'll learn 7 things I wish someone had told me before I started growing! This is a throwback article; in fact it is the article from the very first GWE newsletter!
- If you didn't know, there's lots of really great
seed specials going on today and tomorrow for Black Friday Weekend and Cyber Monday!
- This week's trophy pic features a some well-trained vegetative cannabis plants!
Nebula Haze & Sirius Fourside
(founders of GrowWeedEasy.com) "The will to succeed is important, but what's more important is the will to prepare."
~Bobby Knight
7 Things I Wish Someone Had Told Me Before I Started Growing by Nebula
Haze |
Hey everyone! I hope you're having a great day! Today's article is actually from Issue #1 of this newsletter, which was sent out on April 20, 2012! How time flies! The information is just as relevant today as it was then, and I thought it might be fun to do a "reboot" of the article! Let us know
what you think!
~Nebula
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When I first started growing weed, I was completely overwhelmed by all the elaborate tutorials about growing...
Everything seemed so complicated.
Maybe you know what that's like.
But after I started growing for real, I realized how easy things can be when you just know what to
do.
As time has gone on, I've realized that I worried about a lot of things that weren't very important in the beginning and didn't pay nearly enough attention to the fundamentals.
Back then, I didn't even know what the fundamentals were!
If you want to learn from my mistakes, you'll love today's article, because it breaks down the 7 most important things I wish I'd known about growing weed when I first
started!
1.) Growing weed doesn't have to be hard I think a lot of people want to feel like they accomplished a major feat because they were able to grow weed.
But truthfully, if you just need medicine for personal use, growing can be incredibly easy. Even if all you're doing is a simple hand-watered grow, you can easily end up with several ounces of buds off your first plant, even if you make lots of mistakes!
Each grow after that, you'll learn more and more about what works for you. For many people, just growing 1-2 plants at a
time is all they'll ever need to keep a regular medicine supply.
If you can dedicate a weekend to setting up, ten minutes a day to care, and then a few hours at the end of each grow to dry and cure your buds, that's all you really need to faithfully grow an abundance of super potent buds each year! 2.) More nutrients does not equal more buds It's tempting to try to give your plants as much "good stuff" as you possibly can.
When I first started
growing I remember the thoughts frantically rushing through my head when choosing nutrients, "Which nutrients are the best?! What supplements do I need to use so I get great yields?"
But I've realized that as long as you give your cannabis the basic nutrients needed to grow, you really don't need to know a lot about nutrients. In fact, if you ensure your plants are growing in a perfect environment,
you can get incredible results using just basic nutrients, without any special supplements whatsoever!
So for a lot of first-time growers, the most important lesson about nutrients might be that LESS IS MORE.
Going Overboard With Nutrients & Supplements Will Burn Leaf Tips,
Not Make Buds Grow Faster!
3.) Light is probably the most important part of the growing equation Honestly, if you really want to get the most monster yields indoors, the thing you can do is get the best possible light setup you can afford.
Questions about grow lights? You're in luck because we have a grow light guide that breaks down the differences
between each different type of grow light for growing cannabis!4.) Proper airflow prevents a host of problems
It actually looks
like someone may have accidentally dropped some flour or other white powder on the leaves of your plant.
Easily remedied with SM-90 if caught early, a bad case of White Powdery Mold can ruin a whole crop if it's left to go out of control. It is NOT safe to consume or smoke cannabis buds that are covered in WPM.
But WPM is EASILY prevented 95% of the time by ensuring that you have great airflow around your plants and preventing the grow space from getting too humid, especially towards the end of flowering when your buds are getting thick and dense. This also prevents the bud killer known as bud rot.
In fact, having a nice breeze going around your plants can actually make them grow faster overall!
5.) The strain makes a HUGE difference of your results It's often worth it to choose a particular strain that best fit your
needs. Being able to choose your strain gives you a lot of power over the final effects! That being said, some great buds have been grown from mystery seeds.
If you buy a seed of "Northern Light" strain by a particular breeder, it should grow very similarly to other "Northern Light" seeds from the same breeder.
This is most true with trustworthy breeders.
However, a Northern Light seed will grow WILDLY different
from a Chocolope seed, for even Northern Light seeds from a different breeder.
For example, while a Northern Light plant (by Nirvana) will stay short and may be
ready to harvest in just a few months, a Chocolope plant (by DNA Genetics) will grow tall and may take several weeks longer to mature before harvest, even if the two plants are grown in the exact same conditions!
When you're starting out, if you have a lot of room to grow and if it's not what you're banking your whole grow on, bagseed or other mystery seeds can be a fun experiment.
But if you're serious about growing your own supply, you might not want to wait for months (and pay for electricity all that time!) with the possibility of harvesting subpar quality bud and/or tiny yields
at the end.
Because of the unpredictability of mystery seeds, I highly recommend investing in a proven strain by a trustworthy breeder if you want to get superior results, because plants with good genetics are more resistant to problems, often get better yields, and produce
more potent buds! Plus you can make sure every single plant produces buds by getting feminized seeds (as opposed to regular seeds where half the plants are male and don't produce buds), and you can also choose the actual mental/physical effects you want instead of rolling the dice and hoping for the
best!
This Blue Thai plant was able to produce big yields even though it was ready to harvest just 60 days after it started making buds. This quick flowering time combined
with huge yields is only possible because of its fabulous genetics!6.) For truly killer buds, wait until the right time to harvest your weed, and take the time to properly dry and cure them After months of waiting, it's easy to jump the gun and harvest your plants too early. It's also easy to get caught up with life and neglect your newly harvested buds during the curing process.
Wait until the buds on your plants stop growing new white "hairs" (pistils). At this point you probably
still have a few weeks left. When 90% of the pistils have darkened and started curling in, your buds should be fat and ready for harvest. You can get even more accurate results by looking at the glittery "trichomes" on the buds under a magnifier, as these turn cloudy white when the buds have reached their highest potency!
This bud is ready to harvest. All the white hairs have
darkened and curled in and if you click the picture and zoom in close, you can see that nearly all the sparkly trichomes are milky white, indicating that this bud has reached the highest levels of THC!
7.) Just because someone says something is true on the internet, it doesn't means that they actually know what they're talking about I remember hearing some people say "Oh you can't do this," or "If you do that it will kill your plants!"
And they were DEAD WRONG.
So take things said online with a grain of salt. In fact, I encourage you to question everything you hear about growing on the internet, even from me :)
The key to getting trustworthy help is being able to spot a good grower who will be able to help you and show you the ropes.
Here are a few tips to spotting a helpful grower
online: - They have pictures or video from at least a few different grows, including what their buds looked like after harvest.
- Be very wary of advice from someone who
doesn't have any pictures or video to prove what they're capable of! Unfortunately lots of people online will give growing advice even if they've never actually harvested a plant before.
- Helpful growers are nice when they answer questions. People who are mean make for extremely frustrating teachers even if they personally have great growing
skills!
All that being said, some of the best growers are hiding out online and it can be worth your while to seek them out as long as you follow the above tips!
If you're looking for a safe place to talk to other
growers online, GWE has one of the (in my opinion) best growing communities, and the growers are not only nice but experienced and accurate at answering questions! I hope that helps you as much as it would have helped me when I started growing!
If you haven't started growing yet, today is the day!
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One of the best sales I've heard of this year is by Seedsman, who is offering up to 50% off on some famous strains!
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Hi Nebula I ran into your website and the information there resonated so well with my growing experience that I have to say it's better than any book I have read in the
past from all the cannabis experts. My experience lies in growing the original OG Kush clone that I got from the 90's and the same techniques explained in your blog that I have discovered through trial and error growing this strain over the last 20 years makes my OG Kush buds sit at the top of all the dispensary shelves in San Fernando valley. Best taste, smell, looks and high. I get 1 gram per watt on 1000 watt hps bulbs with digital ballast. I'm now trying to do the same with gavita lights. I got the weight down (3 pounds per 1000 watt) but have not achieved the quality yet that I get with digital ballast and hortilux bulbs. Working on that now.
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Hi Nebula and Sirius;
I appreciate your entire website, as it has been the only source I have needed to get this far in my "hobby".
These guys are just exploding... They are 34 days since planting....
I think I will outgrow my tent....
They are starting to smell. My wife wants me to start the charcoal filter already...
Oh, FYI, that middle plant I call Nemo. It was a true weakling, the stem is all squiggly, but as you can see is doing well now.
I love your website.
Chris
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"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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