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Issue #366 - Sunday, April 21, 2019
Dear Fellow Grower,
In today's issue...
- Plant training is awesome! Making mistakes while training? Not so awesome. Learn how to make sure your training is always successful and fruitful!
- What size tent do you use? If that question causes any confusion or makes you uneasy, we have the solution below! Is your tent big enough? Again, we might have the answer for you!
- Some LEDs make "blurple" light that makes plants harder to see. But some LEDs make a "blurple" light that just makes plants look great! This week's trophy picture is in the second group!
- We asked for your opinion on identifying a bug. Once again, you all seemed to know what it was! Find out the answer below!
Nebula Haze & Sirius Fourside (founders of GrowWeedEasy.com)
"There are no mistakes, save one:
the failure to learn from a mistake."
~Robert Fripp
Avoid These 7 Unfortunate
Plant Training Mistakes!
by Nebula Haze
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Did you know that “training” your cannabis plants to grow many main bud sites (instead of just one) is a simple and free way to get bigger yields indoors? Plant training can increase indoor yields by 40% or more (compared to letting plants grow naturally) by
forcing plants to grow bigger, denser buds, without as many smaller or airy ones.
In the vegetative stage, marijuana plants are trained to grow wide and flat, like a table
In the flowering stage, this shape ensures that many bud sites develop into long, thick colas by taking advantage of the fact that cannabis plants put the most energy into buds that are both at the top of the plant and close to the grow light.
Although plant training can produce impressive results, sometimes marijuana growers aren’t given the right information, which can cause unfortunate mistakes that hurt their yields!
With that in mind, I will cover the 7 most common marijuana plant training mistakes, so you get the yields results you want every time, even if it’s your first time!
1.) Not Training at All
In our growing forum, when I asked what people’s biggest mistakes were when it came to training their cannabis plants, the most common answer was actually growers regretted not training their plants at all!
It’s true that you can get great results without any plant training, but training techniques can significantly improve your yields compared to letting the plant grow into its natural shape. Plant training can be as simple or as complex as you want it to be, but even a little bit of effort in your plant’s early life can make a big difference to your final bud weight!
The trained plant on the right had many more main colas and produced far more bud than the untrained plant on the left, even though it took up less space
2.) Breaking a Main Stem by Accident
It’s important to use bending techniques from the beginning of a plant’s life because stems start getting stiff as they get older. Starting while the plant is still young makes the whole process go much more easily!
However, even if you’re careful, it can be easy to snap a stem by accident. This most often happens when trying to forcefully bend an older stem that has become thick and unyielding.
Nothing is better than bending when stems are flexible to get your plants to grow exactly how you want, but there are a few techniques that can help you bend over stems after they’ve already hardened!
Prevent broken stems by bending at the newest growth if possible, where stems are more flexible.
Supercropping (Advanced) – If a stem feels too stiff but it must be bent, don’t force it! Use a technique called “supercropping” to soften up the inside first, so the skin doesn’t break.
- Pinch the stem tightly between your fingers at the place you want it to bend
- Start gently wiggling the stem back and forth while also trying to crush the new joint in between your fingers.
- Wiggle back and forth for 10+ seconds, or until the stem has greatly loosened up at the place you want to bend.
- Once the stem feels loose and flexible at the joint, you’re safe to bend it over and secure it in place. This can even work with thicker stems if you’re patient enough to wiggle for a while!
If you do end up breaking a main stem, you can often tape up the injury like a cast and the plant will heal itself over the next week or two.
Remember: If you do break off a main stem early in a plant’s life, it’s no big deal because there are usually dozens more growth tips to take its place! And even if you break off a main stem/cola during the flowering stage
and can’t tape it up in time, it can help to remember that most growers lose a cola at some point!
2 down, 5 to go!
What are 5 other ways growers make mistakes when trying to train their cannabis plants?
Better yet, how can you avoid those mistakes?
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In anticipation of our upcoming class, we've been growing cannabis in a variety of setups. Our course will show you how to grow plants like the ones below (these are pictures are our current grows still in progress).
Mini Tent
Mini tent - 2'x2'x3' (0.6mx0.6mx0.9m) - Using an HLG 100 Quantum Board LED grow light. This tiny tent will fit almost anywhere, and this is the first time I've grown with such a small LED (just 100W!). My goal is to harvest at least 3 ounces out of this tent.
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Here is the mid-size tent - 2'x4'x6' (0.6mx1.2mx1.8m) - Using a 315W LEC grow light. With just 4 plants, this grow is legal in Canada, too. These auto-flowering plants are 38 days old from seed, and about halfway to harvest. I'm hoping to harvest at least 12 ounces out of this tent (3 oz per plant).
Next is the large tent - 4'x4'x6.5' (1.2mx1.2mx2m) - Using two 300W LED grow lights. These six photoperiod plants have been given just plain water (no nutrients) since germination. This is only possible because they're growing in a special kind of organic soil that slowly releases nutrients from seed to harvest. Since these are new LEDs, we aren't certain what to expect for yields yet, but it's looking good so far!
If you haven't started growing yet, this is a decision you want to make early since it's housing for your babies!
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"Nebula and Sirius,
Congrats on hitting the 7-year mark, you’ve greatly influenced how the industry is shaping up. These days I see many cannabis websites modeling your way of delivering (kind) growing information. You both should be proud of your accomplishments. Very nice."
~Wes
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Trophy Pictures of the Week!
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"This is my first indoor grow tangerine dream and blueberry kush things turned out far greater than I could have ever imagined thanks to the advice of this page."
~Big Daddy
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Help! What's Wrong with My Plants?!
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Last week, we asked for your help on identifying the bugs in the picture below. Unlike last time, we actually knew what they were... Before we reveal the answer, do you know what these are?
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Answer: Ladybug Larvae!
Ladybugs are a type of insect that everyone loves. They're cute, they have 'lady' in their name even when they're male, and they eat bugs that eat your weed. How great is that?
When ladybugs are still young and developing, they go through a few not-so-cute stages before becoming the adorable guardian-bug we all know and love. The picture above shows them in their 'larva' stage with a few eggs that have yet to hatch.
If you didn't know, now you know these are no threat and might actually help you. If you were able to correctly identify these bugs, give yourself a pat on the back!
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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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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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