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Issue #493 - Sunday, September 26, 2021
Dear Fellow Grower,
In today's issue...
- What's better then growing cannabis? Having an extremely easy time growing cannabis! Growing your own weed at home can be easy, but growing with autoflowers is truly "easy mode". If you're interested in growing a plant with much less work, you're in the right place!
- Can you grow an auto-flowering plant in a window? The answer may surprise you...
- Cats and dogs eating your cannabis leaves?! Will it hurt them? Learn the answer today!
- Everyone, lock your doors; it isn't safe to go outside! I've seen pictures of monstrous cannabis plants that have annexed yards all over the world. Can anyone stop these (totally welcome) juggernauts? Check out this week's "Trophy Pics of the Week" and see what I'm talking about!
Nebula Haze & Sirius Fourside (founders of GrowWeedEasy.com)
"Time sometimes flies like a bird,
sometimes crawls like a snail;
but a man is happiest when he does not even notice whether it passes swiftly or slowly."
~Ivan Turgenev
2021 Guide to
Cannabis Auto-Flowering Strains
🤔🌳🤏🏆
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Auto-flowering plants can produce a surprising amount of bud in just 2-3 months
by Nebula Haze
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It’s 2021, and there’s never been a better time to grow an auto-flowering strain. Autoflowering cannabis plants tend to stay small and are ready to harvest in 2-3 months, which is several months faster than standard (photoperiod) cannabis strains. While photoperiod cannabis strains need
daily dark periods to start making buds, auto-flowering strains start making buds automatically after a few weeks. This simplifies the home grow process because growers don’t need to put grow lights on a timer or think about light leaks.
Auto-flowering cannabis plants are like houseplants on steroids. Unlike standard cannabis strains, they tend to stay small and are ready to harvest just 2-3 months from germination.
Auto-flowering plants usually don’t get enormous due to their short lifespan, but they can produce multiple ounces of bud per plant when grown in optimal conditions with lots of strong light.
This Ultimate Auto in a 2-gallon fabric pot was harvested 65 days from germination and produced almost 4 ounces of prime bud on one plant.
Ultimate Auto buds at harvest
Why auto-flowering strains are great:
- Grows like a regular house plant (on steroids) – Just germinate the seed and keep plants alive until harvest. Voila, you’ve got buds! Auto-flowering plants don’t need special light periods to make buds like photoperiod strains. Even a sunny window can produce a few grams of buds from an auto-flowering plant (check out pics below). However, it’s important to remember that light is the plant’s “food”. More light equal more buds (up to a point) and
you need more than a sunny window to produce a lot of weed. One of the best options for home growers to produce multiple ounces of bud per plant is a cannabis-specific LED.
- Ready to harvest in 2-3 months – While standard photoperiod strains typically take 3-5+ months from seed to harvest, autoflowering strains are ready to harvest in just 2-3 months from germination.
- More harvests per year – The ability for a 2-month grow period let you harvest up to 6 times a year compared to 3-4 harvests a year with photoperiod strains.
- Hundreds of strains to choose from – There are auto-flowering strains with almost any combination of THC and CBD to suit your personal needs. There are also auto-flowering versions of popular and legendary strains.
Cons to auto-flowering strains
- Reduced strain choice – Auto-flowering strains do have lots of options, but they are a relatively new (and boutique) type of cannabis so there are not as many options as photoperiod strains. You also need to be extra careful who you buy auto-flowering seeds from because some breeders sell questionable auto-flowering genetics.
- Plants stay small if you run into major problems – An auto-flowering plant gains its full size within about 6 weeks from germination, then the plant stops growing any bigger and focuses all its energy on fattening buds. This short growing period means a plant may stay small forever if it gets stunted during the first 4-6 weeks of life. This is opposed to photoperiod strains which need dark periods to start making buds, which gives you as much
time as you want to grow plants to the desired size.
- No advanced training techniques – Plant training techniques like manifolding or schwazzing aren’t suitable for auto-flowering strains due to the shorter grow period.
Want to give auto-flowering strains a try? Continue reading this article to learn how to grow auto-flowering plants so they produce potent, high quality weed.
Autoflowering plants stay very small when...
...Keep reading to learn how to grow an auto-flowering plant plus bonus tips and recommended breeders/strains!
Here’s a Zkittlez Auto by Seedsman I grew. Modern auto-flowering strains produce amazing bud.
Can you grow a window plant?
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Auto-flowering cannabis strains are kind of like a regular houseplant in their care, except they need much more light and nutrients.
A long as you keep an auto-flowering plant alive and healthy (and ensure it gets several hours of bright light every day) it will produce buds that are ready to harvest in 2-3 months.
An auto-flowering plant in a window can be a fun way to get started growing weed without investing in a grow light.
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Even a window auto-flowering plant can produce a few grams if you take care of it.
The above plant produce 3.5 g after being grown in a sunny window.
In contrast, a photoperiod strain can’t be grown in a window because it needs 12-hour dark periods every day for 8-12 weeks in order to make buds. A photoperiod plant that gets light during its dark period will re-veg, which makes buds wither away and die.
Side Note Based on the Cat in Picture: Never leave a dog or cat alone with a cannabis plant or you may find nibbles on the leaves. Cannabis leaves are generally well-tolerated by cats or dogs (and some pets find cannabis leaves calming), but pets can harm or knock over your plants. This particular cat (my calico) will methodically take a bite out of every leaf if left alone with a plant for even a second.
Many cats and dogs love eating cannabis leaves. I collect extra leaves and feed them to my kitty separately 🙂
Do any of your pets love to eat cannabis leaves?
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"Nebula Haze,
Thank you for the emails, I appreciate it."
~Mark
Thanks for reading them, Mark! 🙏 ~Sirius
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"Hi, just wanted to tell you that a friend turned me on to your site, and I love it! Great reads and easy to understand."
~Mark (a different Mark)
Thanks for writing in with the good feels...wait...Mark? Is something happening? ~Sirius
"I got to give my respect for your knowledge and insight to marijuana cultivation. I truly thank you for the what growing weed easy has taught me."
~Mark
What's happening here?! Is it the annual Mark meeting? Is this a strange coincidence? Or did I smoke some Pacific Punch and "accidentally" pick only people named Mark? The world may never know.* ~Sirius
*It was the Pacific Punch.
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"Almost ready!!! These are Blue dream autofem from Robert Bergman."
~Logan
Those are some big ol' autos! You're going to be in bud heaven! 👼 ~Sirius
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"Ready in 3 and half weeks... going strong, build up !
(I'm a registered member @ newsletters from 2011. Amazing years from your library, you both my friends clearly No 1 in world !)"
~Takis
Whoa, 2011? That means you've been with us from the beginning of the newsletter. Thanks for sticking with us all these years. Wow, what a cool and humbling message. 🤗 ~Sirius
"Again,in the hills of N.Y. some ( a lot of? ) weed grows."
~Mr. K
I don't know if that's "a lot" of weed. Oh wait, I somehow missed the enormous plants right in front of my face. My mistake; I thought I was looking at Fenway Park.* 🤣 ~Sirius
*I had to Google the name of the stadium. Nerd alert! 🤓
"Check out this cool plant I’ve got growing. She’s so purple even the trichs are purp!"
~Michael
If I look at your pictures and say "Whoa!" out loud, you're definitely going in the trophy pics. This post was a 2+ Whoa event. 😲 ~Sirius
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Too many people have been scammed recently on social media.
I've decided it's my personal mission to warn people every newsletter about seed scams. People don't deserve to lose their money to soulless scammers. If it's happened to you, you're not alone.
What to watch out for: Be on high alert if someone contacts you to sell you seeds. Legitimate companies will not contact you first via private message. They wait for you to contact them.
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Check out some articles you may not have seen...
- Can I Top an Auto-flowering Cannabis Plant? - Autoflowering plants grow so well that they don't need training. But what if you're the kind of person that wants to take it to the limit? If you can nail the timing, topping autos will make it worth your while with extra bud!
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Why Beginners Should Grow Auto-Flowering Strains - I'm leaving this link here because it's even more pertinent this week! Honestly, this page could be summarized with "Because it's easier.", but there's a lot of helpful info here, including why and how it's easier.
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- How to Make Hash Oil (aka Cannabis Extract Oil or RSO) - We suddenly have tons of Mimosa EVO and Fuel D O.G. trim so you know what that means...hash oil time! If you haven't had hash oil before, you're missing out on a treat that you totally deserve! If you can't tell, I'm excited to make some.
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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 update/add articles every week and have built a comprehensive growing resource. 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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