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Issue #441 - Sunday, September 27, 2020
Dear Fellow Grower,
In today's issue...
- Coco coir is an extremely popular growing medium and with good reason! It's easy to use, easy to water, supports fast growth, and it's environmentally friendly. If you're not already a fan of coco coir, you're about be one!
- Ever heard of high-frequency fertigation? Learn what it means and how to do it!
- Besides grow medium, what's the secret to growing amazing weed?
- It's time to get chunky! This week's trophy pics are a gang of chunky buds who are proud of their size! The scenery behind them might change, but the weight of the bud is high in all of these pics!
Nebula Haze & Sirius Fourside (founders of GrowWeedEasy.com)
"He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden."
~Plato
Coco Coir:The Most Flexible Cannabis Grow Medium 💪🌳
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Coco coir (often referred to simply as “coco”) is the most flexible grow medium. Made out of coconut shells that would otherwise be thrown away, this unique substance has surprising benefits for cannabis plants.
Coco coir is made of coconut husks that have been ground up. It is often sold as compressed bricks for easy shipping and storage.
When water is added, it slowly expands into a substance that looks like pale soil
Pure coco coir after it’s been rehydrated
Many growers add up to 50% perlite (airy white rocks) to loosen the coco and create air pockets that help plants grow faster.
Cannabis plants thrive in coco in a variety of setups
Coco produces excellent bud quality! I grew all these buds in coco coir.
What is High-Frequency Fertigation?
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Fertigation means adding nutrients to the water you give to your cannabis plants. Cannabis plants typically grow faster when they get nutrients from the water as opposed to seeking out nutrients in soil. When cannabis growers talk about fertigation, they’re often referring to high-frequency fertigation, which means watering plants with nutrient water frequently.
High-frequency fertigation means giving nutrient water to cannabis plants as often as 5 times a day. When set up properly, marijuana plants typically grow faster in high-frequency fertigation than plants watered a few times a week.
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Give water multiple times a day by using drip-lines that pump nutrient water to plants on a timer
High-frequency fertigation must use a grow medium that contains air pockets even when wet to prevent roots “drowning” from lack of oxygen. The most popular grow medium for high-frequency fertigation for cannabis is a coco + perlite potting mix (another option is clay
pebbles/hydroton, which can handle watering even more often than coco).
In this grow style, cannabis plants are usually given nutrient water automatically on a timer via an automated drip-feed. Automatic irrigation will save a ton of time compared to hand-watering multiple times a day!
Quick tips:
- use well-draining potting mix (50/50 coco/perlite works well)
- use hydro or coco-specific nutrients (such as Canna Coco or Flora Trio)
- for more frequent fertigation, use smaller pots
- get an automatic watering system (you will forget if you try to hand-water!)
- give nutrients every watering
- try to ensure EC/PPM of water going in and out are about the same
- if plants look perpetually droopy give water less often or less water at a time until plants are drinking more
- maintain 5.5-6.5 pH of the water
- always remove runoff water or have it drain away (never let plants sit in runoff water).
The Secret to Excellent Bud Quality
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Your growing medium is important, but the secret to amazing bud quality is actually a combination of two other things… You must choose the right strain and give plants a great environment in the flowering stage.
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Don’t ignore temperature or humidity problems when plants are making buds! As long as plants are healthy, the flowering environment
determines whether genetics live up to their full potential.
And remember that regardless of anything else you do, you can’t grow outstanding buds without great genetics!
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"Thank you for putting together a very easy to understand article about when to harvest, and cbd, cbn and thc info. This is my first year growing. I'm getting ready to harvest soon and anxious about the timing so I've been trying to read from lots of different sources. You are very helpful!"
~Rebecca
Congrats, and let me know how it goes! ~Nebula
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"Thanks Nebula and have really enjoyed your website. It has helped a lot being a beginner. 1st grow wasn’t bad small but definitely gets me high. Onward to bigger and better strains. Grew 2 plants of kalifa kush. Thanks again"
~Jim
No matter how it goes, the fruits from your first harvest are the sweetest...until your second. ~Nebula
"Hello on a sunny late September day in Ireland! Just to thank you, Nebula and Sirius for all the help I've gotten from your website ☺
Started growing a couple of months ago as a complete novice and now have 3 healthy plants getting ready to flower. Keep up the great work!"
~Walter
You're about to have a test of patience...and a ton of fun! I psyched for you. ~Nebula
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"Thought I'd share my girl. 10-gallon smart pot, Ocean Forest soil, Fox Farms liquid trio, LST, and pinching. Tangelo is the strain. Portland, Oregon."
~Pez
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Wow! There's almost another whole plant coming out the side of that bad boy! 😲 ~Sirius
"This is a Bruce Banner that is a 1 and 3 leaf that has excellent huge buds and is loaded."
~Hughesyerdaddy
It looks like chunkiness of those buds is goign to tip the pot over. Well done! ~Sirius
"Hi, you guys are awesome. I still look forward to your newsletter every Sunday. I use the website whenever need to double check something I'm unsure about. Great job! Here's some pictures of my white widow feminized from speedman. 10 gallon fabric pot, general hydroponics
nutrients."
Kind regards,
~Terry
White Widow is a classic strain and it's one of the first I ever grew. It's funny how those "old" genetics are still amazingly potent and flavorful even by today's standards. ~Sirius
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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!"
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