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#240 - Sunday, November 20, 2016
Dear Fellow Grower,
In today's issue... - Today learn why hydroponics gets you the fastest growth of any growing medium!
- For growers in cold climates, the temperature can keep you from growing. But there may still be a way!
- This week's trophy pic features three beautiful auto-flowering cannabis plants!
Nebula Haze & Sirius Fourside (founders of GrowWeedEasy.com) "Water is the driving force of all nature."
~Leonardo da Vinci
Deep Water Culture: Your Questions Answered! by Sirius
Fourside
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Have you ever heard of hydroponics? Although the term is sometimes used to describe growing cannabis plants in any inert or soilless medium (for example coco coir), it more commonly is used to describe growing with plant roots directly in water and that is what most people think of when they
hear the word 'hydroponics'.
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Cannabis Plants Growing With Roots Dangling in a Reservoir of Water Here's what's inside! Since the cannabis roots get everything they need without having to "search" for it like they would in soil, you end up with faster vegetative growth rates.
This growth is supported by huge masses of happy, healthy roots like this! "Deep Water Culture" (commonly referred to as DWC) refers specifically to the type of hydroponics where plants grow with
the roots stretching out into a tub of nothing but aerated nutrient-water.
This roots-in-oxygenated-water setup is what gives Deep Water Culture its remarkable vegetative growth speed!
Why is it called Deep Water Culture? "Deep Water" because the plants are growing in a deep pool of water instead of in some sort of growing medium, and "Culture" is a word that can also mean "Cultivation".
As DWC has gained popularity for growing
marijuana, we have been receiving lots of questions from hydro growers of all experience levels. Today, I’m going to answer some of the questions we see the most, as well as give you some helpful tips that will make your next DWC grow much easier and more rewarding!
Sirius: I've also mixed in some pics of my current DWC
grow. It's like a quick timeline of a cannabis plant's life in a DWC setup!
What is DWC?
In short, DWC is
growing your plant with its roots in aerated nutrient-water (the air part, provided by bubbles, is very important). Like this: Do plants really grow faster in DWC?
Yes, plants grow noticeably (and I mean noticeably) faster in
DWC during the vegetative stage than they do in soil or coco coir.
Why is that?
Need to Keep Your Lights on 24/7 For Heat? |
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Temperatures are dropping in the northern hemisphere and unfortunately cannabis plants don't like the cold. In fact, many strains start growing more slowly if the temperature gets under 60°F (15°C), and freezing temperatures can cause major injury or even
death!
Unfortunately some people are growing in a garage or attic that is starting to get too cold for happy cannabis growth whenever their grow lights go off.
However, in order to get most cannabis plants to
start making buds, you need to give them at least 12 hours of complete darkness every night, which means grow lights need to be off for 12 hours/day. The problem is a 12-hour dark period might send the temperature plummeting for growers in a wintry climate!
But did you know there's a type of cannabis that will make buds even if you leave your grow lights on for 24 hours a
day?
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They are described as "auto-flowering" because these strains will automatically start making buds and be ready to harvest in about 3 months, no matter what light schedule they get! This lets you leave your grow lights on all day, every day, so your plants stay warm!
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Hello, Bud Masters and Mentors,
I followed the excellent hash-from-trimmings advice in your fine tutorial and have been rewarded by copious quantities of lovely trichomes. Astounding!
I bought the bags that you recommended, my local Fred Meyer sells dry ice, and in minutes
after I returned home, I was shaking trimmings and producing mounds of trichomes. It was everything that you promised, and much easier and cleaner than my old pure grain alcohol treatment.
We all say it all of the time, but thank you both for taking such good care of us. If you get to Alaska, we’ll put you up.
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Example of shaking hash out of "bubble" bag after filling it with cannabis and dry ice. Closeup - look at all the trichomes!
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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 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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