3. Light is the most important part of the growing equation.
Honestly, if you really want to get the most monster yields, the thing you can do is get the best possibly light setup you can afford.
Questions about lights? You're in luck because over the next few weeks we'll be sharing guidance on choosing the best lights for your budget!
4. Proper airflow prevents a host of problems.
One of the more common grow room ailments is known as "White Powdery Mold".
It actually looks like someone may have accidentally dropped some flour or other white powder on the leaves of your plant.
Easily remedied with SM-90 if caught early, a bad case of White Powdery Mold can ruin a whole crop if it's left to go out of control. It is NOT safe to consume or smoke cannabis buds that are covered in WPM.
But WPM is EASILY prevented 95% of the time by ensuring that you have great airflow around your plants and that things don't get too humid in the grow room, especially towards the end of flowering when your buds are getting thick and dense.
5. The strain makes a HUGE difference of your results.
It's often worth it to get the particular strains that best fit your needs (that being said, some of the most awesome buds I've ever grown have been bagseed).
If you buy a seed of "Northern Lights" strain, it will grow very similarly to pretty much every other true "Northern Lights" seed.
They tend to grow fast, ready to harvest only 2-3 months after the beginning of the flowering stage. It's consistent because this strain has been refined and perfected over several years.
However, Northern Lights seeds will grow WILDLY different from a Super Lemon Haze seed, for example.
Haze seeds grow long and leggy, and take several months to mature before they're ready for harvest.
When you're starting out, if you have a lot of room to grow and if it's not what you're banking your whole grow on, bagseed can be a fun experiment.
But if you're very serious about growing and getting a good crop, or if you have very limited space and time constraints, I highly recommend investing in a proven strain (honestly Northern Lights is one of the best strains for beginners, and will give you POTENT buds)
6. For truly killer buds, wait until the right time to harvest your weed, and take the time to properly dry and cure them.
After months of waiting, it's easy to jump the gun and harvest your plants too early. It's also easy to get caught up with life and neglect your newly harvested buds during the curing process.
I've created a complete guide to harvesting, drying and curing your weed but here's the long and short of it:
Wait until the buds on your plants stop growing new white "hairs" (pistols). At this point you still have 2-4 weeks left. When 90% of the remaining pistols have darkened and started curling in, your buds should be fat and ready for harvest.
7. Just because someone says something is true in the grow forums, it doesn't means that they actually know what they're talking about.
I remember hearing some people say "Oh you can't do this, or if you do that it will kill your plants."
And they were DEAD WRONG.
So take things said in the forums with a grain of salt.
It's also true that some of the best growers are hiding out in the forums, if you just know how to find them.
The key is being about how to spot a good grower.
Here are a few tips: they have lots of pictures and lots of activity on their profile, they are relatively nice to people, their pictures go back a long time, they have pictures of their dried and curing buds.
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I hope that helps you as much as it would have helped me when I started growing!
So today, take a moment to check your grow and make sure you're not making any common grow mistakes outlined above.
Definitely reply to this email and share the biggest lesson YOU'VE learned since you started growing..
If you haven't started your grow, today is the day! This cheat sheet will help.
Pat yourself on the back, you now know more than 90% of new growers.
About Nebula
Nebula founded GrowWeedEasy.com in 2010 after growing her own medical marijuana for 6 years in the California Bay Area. She has published dozens of growing articles in print and online and is dedicated to showing others how easy it is to grow marijuana. |