Issue #34 - Sunday, December 9, 2012 Dear Fellow Grower, In today's issue you'll discover...
- Learn everything you need to know about how to get to harvest as quickly as possible!
- Check out Ryan Riley's 700 page picture guide to growing marijuana.
- Incredible picture from one of our readers. Get inspired to start growing, grow better, or show off your own homegrown buds-in-the-making!
We hope you enjoy this issue of Grow Weed Easy!
Happy Growing!
Nebula Haze and Sirius Fourside (founders of GrowWeedEasy.com)
"Time is the longest distance between two places."
― Tennessee Williams
What's The Fastest Way To Grow Marijuana?
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"I need to harvest as soon as possible. What's the fastest growth method? What can I do to speed up the time to harvest?"
Many of our readers write in to ask about speeding up the time to harvest.
So, how long does it take to grow marijuana?
Short Answer: From Day 1 of your marijuana plant's life to a smokable harvest, you are looking at 2 months - 7+ Months.
Many factors will affect the total time, but the average grow takes 3-4 months.
Long Answer: These factors have the greatest impact on total time to harvest:
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Plant strain (strain has biggest impact on growing time)
- Desired yields (do you want to grow a few grams, a few ounces, or a few pounds?)
- Growing method
(differing grow methods/setups can add or subtract a few weeks)
Where can I buy seeds?
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How To Grow Marijuana As Quickly As Possible: 7 Tactics Now faster is not always better, yet there are ways that you can speed up the time from seedling to harvest without sacrificing quality or yields.
So today I'd like to share a short guide on how you can reduce the time to harvest, and how you can reduce the amount of time you actually spend tending your plants, and still get outstanding results.
If you're serious about getting yields as quickly as possible, then these tactics will get you there.
1.) Choose Hydroponics Over Soil
You can get faster vegetative growth with almost all hydroponic methods compared to what can be achieved with soil. During the flowering stage, this isn't as important, but this can shave several weeks off your vegetative stage time (get straight to growing buds sooner!)
In my experience, bubbleponics (top-fed Deep Water Culture hydroponics) has given me the quickest growth of any hydroponics system I've tried. I've also noticed that the flowering stage seems to be a week or two shorter when using bubbleponics over growing in soil.
2.) Choose A Quick-Finishing Strain of Marijuana
So as you probably know, there are two parts of the life cycle of the marijuana plant, the vegetative stage and the flowering stage.
The vegetative stage can be shortened by getting the plant to grow faster when she's young. Yet the length of the flowering stage (the time between when flowers first start forming and when the plant is ready to harvest) is almost completely strain-specific.
That means that once you've started growing a specific strain, there isn't a whole lot you can do to speed things up during the flowering stage.
Many Indica hybrids, such as AK-48 and Northern Lights, have very short flowering periods (only 7-9 weeks) compared to other strains.
Hazes and Sativas often take much longer. For example a Haze strain takes 3-4 months in the flowering stage before being ready to harvest.
Every different strain has pros and cons, yet if time is a factor for you, pay close attention to the length of the flowering stage when deciding which strain to grow. Many seed banks such as Nirvana, list the length of the flowering period length with each strain.
Some strains, such as auto-flowering strains, go through their whole cycle regardless of light cycle or anything you can control. These strains tend to be ready to harvest in only 2-3 months from seed (though you should definitely expect smaller plants with relatively small yields when choosing an auto-flowering stage).
Auto-flowering strains of marijuana contain higher levels of CBD, a cannabinoid which has been associated with many medical benefits. So they may be the perfect choice for a medical marijuana user who needs to harvest quickly.
3.) Give Plants 24 Hours of Light a Day During the Vegetative Stage
As long as you give your plants more than 14 or so hours of light a day, they will stay in the vegetative stage. Yet if you give the plant more light than that, she will grow faster.
Some growers believe it's healthier to give marijuana plants 18 hours of light a day max, with a 6 hour dark period during the vegetative stage.
In my personal experiments, I haven't noticed any difference between giving plants 18 hours of light a day and 24 hours of light a day during the vegetative stage regarding plant health and vibrancy.
Regardless of which is best for plant health, it's a proven fact that marijuana plants given a full 24 hours of light a day will grow faster during the vegetative stage.
Therefore, if a short time to harvest is important to you, I recommend going with the 24 hour light period during the vegetative stage for fastest growth.
4.) Initiate The Flowering Stage Sooner 
You may not realize that regular (non auto-flowering) marijuana plants can be flowered directly from seed.
When I say "flowered," what I mean is that you can change the light schedule so that it forces your young seedlings to start making buds right away.
You can get a marijuana plant to start flowering by ensuring that she gets 12 hours of uninterrupted light each night, often referred to as the 12-12 light schedule.
This makes the plant "think" winter is coming, and she'll start making buds as soon as she's able. This means that your "flowering stage countdown" begins as soon as she grows her first set of real leaves.
So for example, Northern Lights has a flowering stage length of about 8 weeks. If you flowered a Northern Lights strain plant from seed, your buds would be ready to harvest in only about 8 weeks.
Some growers will also flower marijuana clones as soon as they have formed roots, for basically the same effect.
However, as pictured to the right, you can expect a very small plant when flowering from such a young age, since she didn't get time to bulk up during the vegetative stage.
5.) Grow Indoors
While outdoors can be more convenient for those who happen to live in a place with great growing conditions, this isn't the fastest way to grow and harvest your crop.
Growing indoors gives you the ultimate control over how big your plants get, how long to keep them in the vegetative stage, and more.
With a well-chosen strain and a good setup, one can harvest several ounces of buds in 2.5-3 months indoors, which is nearly impossible to do outdoors in that timeframe.
6.) Pay Attention To Your Plants and Quickly React to Problems
This ensures your plants grow as fast as possible. Plus, you will save yourself the stress of trying to deal with a huge problem, since you've been watching out and reacting to problems right away.
The more you tend to and baby your plants, the better they will grow, and the faster you will be able to harvest.
Learn more about the most common plant problems right here: 7.) Make Sure You're Feeding Plants The Right Type of Nutrients During Each Stage of Growth. 
In the vegetative stage, it is important that you give your plants the right nutrients needed to get optimal growth.
Now if you're starting with a good soil, you may not need to supplement any nutrients at first, as the nutrients you need are already in the soil.
If you're growing hydroponically (directly in water, or in a soil-less medium like coco coir), it is essential that you provide all the nutrients your plant needs right from the beginning.
However, even if you are growing in soil, by the time you get to the flowering stage, your plant will likely have used up most of the nutrients in the soil, and you'll often get the best results, fastest growth, and biggest yields by supplementing extra needed nutrients during the flowering stage.
A big thing to remember about nutrients in the flowering stage is that when you feed too much nitrogen compared to phosphorus, this can slow down the ripening process and cause you to have to wait longer until harvest.
This is why you need to either mix your nutrients by hand, or choose
a nutrient system that is specifically formulated for the flowering stage of a plant like marijuana.
By providing the right nutrients at the right time, you'll reduce your overall time to harvest.
Now that you're equipped with the information to get you to harvest as soon as possible, I'd like to address another common question we receive about time.
People often write in to ask us how much time it will take per week to grow a marijuana plant. We understand that many of you have busy schedules, and want to know if growing your own weed is a realistic goal for you. The truth is, you can grow weed in only 20-30 minutes a week, and I'll reveal everything you need to know to make this happen. So get ready for next week, where we'll cover what you do when you're really busy and have no time, but still want to grow your own weed. 
Who Runs This Newsletter?
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Nebula Haze:Marijuana has literally saved my life, and I'm dedicated to showing you how easy it can be to grow.
I have made it my mission in life to build the best growing resources available for new and advanced growers, while working to get marijuana legalized 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 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, perlite, or a different medium, we'll show you how easy it can be!"
Are You Ready To Go Pro With Your Garden?
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I know you are dedicated to growing the best marijuana possible or you wouldn't be reading this right now.
As you probably know by now, marijuana plants are quite a bit more complex than a regular houseplant, but learning how to grow isn't as crazy complicated as a lot of growers make it seem.
Still, you need to learn this plant's language if you want to grow real chronic buds and get great yields.
So you could spend years and years learning from trial and error...
Or you can take the shortcut to consistently producing outstanding results by learning from real growers who have done all the work for you.
Start Growing Elite Marijuana today!
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Every experienced grower has their own grow style, and over time as you get exposed to more info, you will begin to finely tune your personal grow style.
Now, there is a lot of great info in Ryan Riley's Growing Elite Marijuana book. If you read the entire thing from front to back, even a totally experienced grower will learn something, and probably a whole lot of things. For a beginner, this book has literally everything you will need to know.
As you probably know, the growing forums can be a rough place to learn how to grow weed, You must be on the lookout for bad information and will always be second-guessing whether this or that person in the forums actually knows what they're talking about. That's why investing in growing books by known pros will pay off in the long run.
Learn How To Grow "Chronic" Marijuana Today
I've read several marijuana books over the last decade (read some of my reviews about the best growing marijuana books), and learned a lot from all of them. Each book I've read has leveled up my growing skills
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Now the price tag for this resource is pretty high, so it's only recommended for growers who want to go pro with their growing skills.
Still, I'm glad that I invested in this book, and I definitely have gotten my money's worth out of it 100x over via increased yields and saved time/frustration. If the price of this book is going to kill your growing budget, than you are going to have a tough time growing elite marijuana anyway. ;)
This book isn't for you if you're just looking to grow a tiny amount of buds to smoke a few times a year.
Yet if you're a daily smoker like me
and are dedicated to growing a constant supply of chronic buds for as cheap and easy as possible, you'll be glad you invested in Ryan Riley's ultimate guide to growing.
Feedback From Our Readers
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Hey, just thought you might want to see my very first attempt at a grow! I have used mostly your kick ass website for this. -Liquid
Impressive pics from your first grow! -Nebula
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Buy Marijuana Seeds Safely Online |
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Common Question:
Where do I get marijuana seeds?
Now you have 2 real options:
1.) Use random bagseed that you find
2.) Buy seeds of specific marijuana strains online
Now if you want to pick the perfect strain for your needs, it's going to be hard with bagseed.
So...
Learn how to buy marijuana seeds online safely
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