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Everything you ever wanted to know and a *very* enthusiastic forum:
http://www.marihemp.com/
..also..
Buy this bloke's book.. its jammed full of *essential* information:
http://www.marijuanagrowing.com/dhtml/home.php
http://www.marihemp.com/
..also..
Buy this bloke's book.. its jammed full of *essential* information:
http://www.marijuanagrowing.com/dhtml/home.php
I know some stuff about the art of weed growing... 
...Cannabis comes in two major varieties. Cannabis Sativa (that generally has longer, more slender leaves), and cannabis indica (which normally has shorter, stouter leaves). Some people consider them to be different strains of the same species, others believe them to be two separate species entirely. Can't remember which is which, but they are thought to have different qualities - one is meant to provide a more 'high' stoned, the other just mongs you out. The different strains of weed you smoke will be a result of lots of different cross-breeding - just like with flowers like roses, people cross pollinate strains for different qualities.
The reason there's the whole female/male thing is because unlike most plant species, where a single plant and its flowers will have both male and female parts (the stamen and ovaries), a weed plant will generally be all male or all female, or 'dioecious' for the nerds out there
You can sometimes get hermaphrodites too that have some male and some female flowers - not good.
The buds you smoke are the buds from a female plant. A room full of females is what you want, cos if there's a male in there (or a hermaphrodite with some male flowers) and its flowers open, then you'll get a shitload of pollen in the room which will fertilise the female buds, and instead of these lovely buds, you'll get lots of seeds. You can sometimes find seeds in your weed where a bit of pollen has got out in the grow room. Sensimilla literally means 'without seed' - I think
For a grow room; take your pick. Anywhere can work really. To prepare it, wash the room to get rid of potential pests and pesky bugs. To make it the most reflective, you can get special foil 'wallpaper' for a pretty penny, or you can paint the walls matt white and still get some benefit. Do not use just plain old kitchen foil; it's creases and folds creates 'hotspots' that reflect more light than other bits and can scorch the leaves.
The room shouldn't be allowed to get to hot, and should be kept pretty humid. A fan is a good idea as well, as it keeps the air moving round which is good for the plants.
I reckon it's worth spending a bit on seeds for good quality plants, although you could always chuck in any old seeds you get. The proper companies that provide seeds will often guarantee near 100% femininity - so most of the time, 10 of the 10 seeds in a bag will be female. As we know that's important! To germinate them, stick them in a warm dark area on some damp cotton wool till they sprout, then whack them in soil. Alternatively - and I'd recommend them (but can't remember what they are properly called) - you can get these wierd soil disc things - they're soil with a thin mesh around them. Put them into water and they swell up like little shits. You can then put the seeds in, let them root and shoot grow, and then just drop the whole little shit thing into your soil pot/hydro set up and away it goes.
As for using soil and using hydroponics: I would say that hydro is pretty tough. With hydroponics, the plant is in a basket that allows the roots to hang down, into a nutrient solution in a bucket, and to provide them with air, an 'air stone' is used, just like the ones you may find in a fish tank. Because there is no soil, and the air bubbles increase the surface area of the nutrient solution, nutrients can get taken up quicker, resulting in faster growth and therefore bigger buds!! However, there's no soil to 'buffer' the solution, and if you put too much nutrient solution in the mix, it can 'burn' the plant and fuck it right up. Plus, you have to regularly change the nutrient solution. If you master it though, you'll always have better yields than a plant grown well in soil (in my opinion).
Soil is a lot less hassle, just stick the seedling in the soil, water it, a re-pot it when necessary. You can use fertiliser to beef it up a bit. If you don't have to worry about the room stinking (i.e. its fucking miles away), then you could use manure, or fish bits to fertilise the soil. I think the plants do prefer slightly acidic soil (Christ, I sound like Alan Titmarsh
).
I'd say soil growing is a good way to guarantee a grow not going completely tits up.
Then there's the light, and light cycles to deal with. An HP sodium light of around 400W would do the trick nicely. You can always get more powerful lights although the more powerful they are, the hotter they are and can therefore scorch the plants. If you've money to burn, you can get lights with built in heat extractors - serious growers only!
Most, if not all plants rely on light cycles to tell them when to flower (hence fruit/flowers being seasonal in natural conditions). A weed plant will have two stages, a growing stage and a flowering stage. During the summer is the growing stage, and there is the most light during summer days. As such, a 'summer day' cycle should be used to make the plant grow normally. This is generally a cycle with 18 hours of light and just 6 hours of dark. I'd recommend one of those light timer switch thingamabobs. This stage can go on as long as you like, do let it get to a reasonalbe height and remember that the bigger the plant, the more it will yield!! To make the plant flower (and make those sweet, sweet buds), you need to trick the plant into thinking it's winter by increasing the length of the dark period. To do this, a 12 hour light - 12 hour dark cycle will do the trick. This stage lasts 6 - 12 weeks depending on the plant strain. A plant is generally 'ripe' when the hairs on the buds go brown. Two rooms is the best set up for a steady flow - a 'growing room' and a 'flowering room'.
*Some growers will keep one plant - called a 'mother' - in the growing room at all times. Like some other plants, with weed you can take cuttings, so you can keep taking cuttings from the mother, grow them in one room while other, fully grown cuttings are flowering in the other room.*
The next step, as DJ Slums mentioned, is flushing out. This is simply watering the plant in soil with pure water, or replacing the nutrient solution in the hydroponics bucket with pure water. Do this for a few weeks to get rid of the chemicals in the weed, to 'rinse' out all the chemicals. Otherwise your weed may taste a little...'chemical-y'.
Then, when you're ready, you can chop them down!! Unfortunately, you can't pull it off and whack it straight in a rizla
. You need to cure (dry out) the buds before they burn otherwise it will taste like lawn cuttings - a bit 'green'. To dry them out, stick then in a dry, dark place (light breaks down THC). Check the buds regularly to see how they're progressing. Space out the buds, branches - whatever, out, so that the air can move freely around and mould doesn't get the chance to grow....
...When it's dry, WOOHOO!! Its smoking time
Think that's everything!!
And after all that, I'm off for a zoot
P.S. This is meant for entertainment purposes only. Mostly, weed growing is illegal, mostly. So don't do it
...Cannabis comes in two major varieties. Cannabis Sativa (that generally has longer, more slender leaves), and cannabis indica (which normally has shorter, stouter leaves). Some people consider them to be different strains of the same species, others believe them to be two separate species entirely. Can't remember which is which, but they are thought to have different qualities - one is meant to provide a more 'high' stoned, the other just mongs you out. The different strains of weed you smoke will be a result of lots of different cross-breeding - just like with flowers like roses, people cross pollinate strains for different qualities.
The reason there's the whole female/male thing is because unlike most plant species, where a single plant and its flowers will have both male and female parts (the stamen and ovaries), a weed plant will generally be all male or all female, or 'dioecious' for the nerds out there
You can sometimes get hermaphrodites too that have some male and some female flowers - not good. The buds you smoke are the buds from a female plant. A room full of females is what you want, cos if there's a male in there (or a hermaphrodite with some male flowers) and its flowers open, then you'll get a shitload of pollen in the room which will fertilise the female buds, and instead of these lovely buds, you'll get lots of seeds. You can sometimes find seeds in your weed where a bit of pollen has got out in the grow room. Sensimilla literally means 'without seed' - I think
For a grow room; take your pick. Anywhere can work really. To prepare it, wash the room to get rid of potential pests and pesky bugs. To make it the most reflective, you can get special foil 'wallpaper' for a pretty penny, or you can paint the walls matt white and still get some benefit. Do not use just plain old kitchen foil; it's creases and folds creates 'hotspots' that reflect more light than other bits and can scorch the leaves.
The room shouldn't be allowed to get to hot, and should be kept pretty humid. A fan is a good idea as well, as it keeps the air moving round which is good for the plants.
I reckon it's worth spending a bit on seeds for good quality plants, although you could always chuck in any old seeds you get. The proper companies that provide seeds will often guarantee near 100% femininity - so most of the time, 10 of the 10 seeds in a bag will be female. As we know that's important! To germinate them, stick them in a warm dark area on some damp cotton wool till they sprout, then whack them in soil. Alternatively - and I'd recommend them (but can't remember what they are properly called) - you can get these wierd soil disc things - they're soil with a thin mesh around them. Put them into water and they swell up like little shits. You can then put the seeds in, let them root and shoot grow, and then just drop the whole little shit thing into your soil pot/hydro set up and away it goes.
As for using soil and using hydroponics: I would say that hydro is pretty tough. With hydroponics, the plant is in a basket that allows the roots to hang down, into a nutrient solution in a bucket, and to provide them with air, an 'air stone' is used, just like the ones you may find in a fish tank. Because there is no soil, and the air bubbles increase the surface area of the nutrient solution, nutrients can get taken up quicker, resulting in faster growth and therefore bigger buds!! However, there's no soil to 'buffer' the solution, and if you put too much nutrient solution in the mix, it can 'burn' the plant and fuck it right up. Plus, you have to regularly change the nutrient solution. If you master it though, you'll always have better yields than a plant grown well in soil (in my opinion).
Soil is a lot less hassle, just stick the seedling in the soil, water it, a re-pot it when necessary. You can use fertiliser to beef it up a bit. If you don't have to worry about the room stinking (i.e. its fucking miles away), then you could use manure, or fish bits to fertilise the soil. I think the plants do prefer slightly acidic soil (Christ, I sound like Alan Titmarsh
).I'd say soil growing is a good way to guarantee a grow not going completely tits up.
Then there's the light, and light cycles to deal with. An HP sodium light of around 400W would do the trick nicely. You can always get more powerful lights although the more powerful they are, the hotter they are and can therefore scorch the plants. If you've money to burn, you can get lights with built in heat extractors - serious growers only!
Most, if not all plants rely on light cycles to tell them when to flower (hence fruit/flowers being seasonal in natural conditions). A weed plant will have two stages, a growing stage and a flowering stage. During the summer is the growing stage, and there is the most light during summer days. As such, a 'summer day' cycle should be used to make the plant grow normally. This is generally a cycle with 18 hours of light and just 6 hours of dark. I'd recommend one of those light timer switch thingamabobs. This stage can go on as long as you like, do let it get to a reasonalbe height and remember that the bigger the plant, the more it will yield!! To make the plant flower (and make those sweet, sweet buds), you need to trick the plant into thinking it's winter by increasing the length of the dark period. To do this, a 12 hour light - 12 hour dark cycle will do the trick. This stage lasts 6 - 12 weeks depending on the plant strain. A plant is generally 'ripe' when the hairs on the buds go brown. Two rooms is the best set up for a steady flow - a 'growing room' and a 'flowering room'.
*Some growers will keep one plant - called a 'mother' - in the growing room at all times. Like some other plants, with weed you can take cuttings, so you can keep taking cuttings from the mother, grow them in one room while other, fully grown cuttings are flowering in the other room.*
The next step, as DJ Slums mentioned, is flushing out. This is simply watering the plant in soil with pure water, or replacing the nutrient solution in the hydroponics bucket with pure water. Do this for a few weeks to get rid of the chemicals in the weed, to 'rinse' out all the chemicals. Otherwise your weed may taste a little...'chemical-y'.
Then, when you're ready, you can chop them down!! Unfortunately, you can't pull it off and whack it straight in a rizla
. You need to cure (dry out) the buds before they burn otherwise it will taste like lawn cuttings - a bit 'green'. To dry them out, stick then in a dry, dark place (light breaks down THC). Check the buds regularly to see how they're progressing. Space out the buds, branches - whatever, out, so that the air can move freely around and mould doesn't get the chance to grow.... ...When it's dry, WOOHOO!! Its smoking time
Think that's everything!!
And after all that, I'm off for a zoot
P.S. This is meant for entertainment purposes only. Mostly, weed growing is illegal, mostly. So don't do it
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badger wrote:The panda's problem isn't man. The panda's problem is that it's utterly shit
Came in to work one day and my workmate was in the dorrway talking to some strange guy, talking about, just stretch the latex glove finger-tip out and tap out the powder in a rizla, add just a tiny bit of baccy.... i thought he was on some mad futuristic horrible chemical nonsense, and i was gunna have to grass him up to the boss as an angel dust PCP deviant liability psycho guy.
Turns out he'd just spent the the day (the whole weekend) pulling resin-dripping buds off a huge weed crop (in london!) and had been changing gloves every couple of hours - the old ones' finger tips were totally covered in the purest and freshest resin, and he was all like who wants a fingertip?
Well thats what he told me
Turns out he'd just spent the the day (the whole weekend) pulling resin-dripping buds off a huge weed crop (in london!) and had been changing gloves every couple of hours - the old ones' finger tips were totally covered in the purest and freshest resin, and he was all like who wants a fingertip?
Well thats what he told me
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Sativa is the one that gives a "high" typa buzz, usually quite hard to come by, had some recently and it PONGS
(out to my crew at the last DMZ
)
Indica has a more relaxed, stoned buzz...and is more common in the UK
both are fantastic tho,
big up my smokers crew!
(out to my crew at the last DMZ
)Indica has a more relaxed, stoned buzz...and is more common in the UK
both are fantastic tho,
big up my smokers crew!
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