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Building a Wick System: An Easy Way to Grow

This excerpt from my new book “Ask Ed: Marijuana Success” hones in on one of my favorite ways to grow cannabis at home with a wick system.

The wick container system is an easy way to garden because it’s self-watering and removes the uncertainty of when to water. It requires far less care than hand watering, and it’s simple, fast to assemble, and inexpensive to set up. The wick system is based on capillary action. One example of this is a tissue drawing up water from a puddle. The system we set up works on the same principle. Instead of tissue, we use braided nylon rope.

Preventing Flowering in Marijuana Plants

“How can I keep my cannabis plants from flowering?” I am referring to young plants germinated from seeds or clones that are hearty enough to bring outdoors. Now I want them to grow larger, but if they go by the natural light cycle there are over 10 hours of darkness which will trigger flowering.

How to Professionally Germinate Cannabis Seeds: Award-Winning Seed Breeder’s Step by Step Instructions

Improve your germination rate by following Frank from Purple Caper Seeds’ step by step process for popping seeds in coir and transplanting seeds to soil after germination.

Cannabis CultivationEd RosenthalOctober 24, 2019germinating seeds, cannabis seeds Comments

The dangers of microbial contaminants in cannabis and how to prevent mold and mildew

Buds infected with powdery mildew or other molds and fungi are unfit for smoking, by Reginald Gaudino VP R&D at Front Range Biosciences. Here’s why and how to prevent mold and mildew on your cannabis.

Cannabis CultivationEd RosenthalSeptember 20, 2019Microbial Contaminants, mold, mildew, mold on cannabis

How to Prevent and Get Rid of Spider, Broad and Russet Mites on Your Cannabis

Learn about how to target, control and prevent mites in your marijuana grow, and the many varieties of predator mites you can use as to control cannabis crop destroying mites.

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Drying and Curing Cannabis: The Art of Enhancing Effect and Flavor

How to improve the flavor and the high of your cannabis buds by implementing a controlled drying and curing process. By Franco, the strain hunter.

The Cannabis Ripening Process: Steps, Stages & My TOP 12 Natural Bloom Enhancers

Learn all the details about the cannabis ripening process in this visual guide & discover my favorite marijuana bloom enhancers.

Your Essential Guide to When Cannabis Buds Are Ready to Harvest

Here’s all the details you need to know about the best way to determine the picking time of your marijuana buds: Ripening facts, trichomes and more.

Flushing Cannabis Guide: Everything You Want to Know

There are a multitude of flushing methods, but they share a common goal: to remove most of the nutrients available to the roots, thereby encouraging the plant to use the non-assimilated salts and nutrients still remaining in the plant.

How to Maximize Your Cannabis Harvest: Finishing

Learn about the essential cannabis plant anatomy, finishing products cannabis for your cannabis plants and a glossary of common marijuana finishing ingredients.

Four Options for Small-Scale Drying and Curing of Cannabis

Drying and curing cannabis flowers takes time and patience, but the finished buds are worth the wait. Here are four options for small-scale drying and curing marijuana.

CANNABIS SEEDS OR CLONES?

Here's a detailed breakdown of the advantages and disadvantages of choosing to use cannabis seeds or cannabis clones.

Supercropping Cannabis for A Higher Yield

Supercropping is a technique of training your top marijuana plant branches to grow horizontally so that the primary bud is exposed to more light: With more areas exposed, the bud grows larger than normal. Here’s how to do it.

Light Dep vs Outdoor: Why Light Deprivation Greenhouses Are A Good Investment

Learn the difference between light dep and indoor and why light deprivation greenhouses are a good investment for your cannabis potency, yield and the planet.

APHIDS: What You Want to Know About Them and How to Organically Get Rid of an Aphid Infestation in Your Cannabis

Aphids are true “bugs,” sucking insects in the order Hemiptera. If left unchecked, aphid populations rapidly grow to thousands. Indoors, with no predators to keep them in check, aphids can overrun a cannabis garden in short order.

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How to Make Your Own Cannabis Planting Mix to Maximize Your Marijuana Harvest

Ed Rosenthal’s step by step planting mix recipe will provide your cannabis roots with a healthful environment that promotes a vigorous marijuana plant.

Marijuana Garden Saver: How to Identify and Treat Cannabis Nutrient Deficiencies

All nutrients are required to be present for proper metabolic function in your cannabis plants. Ed Rosenthal, author of Marijuana Garden Saver and Marijuana Garden Handbook, details how to identify and treat nutrient deficiencies in both your indoor and outdoor cannabis grows, and describes how to bring sick marijuana plants back to life.

Urban Cannabis Farming: How to Transform A Struggling Cannabis Grow into A Massive Yield

Here’s how Ed Rosenthal revived a struggling outdoor cannabis grow into a massive harvest yield. Ed walks you through his latest consultation on an acre commercial cannabis grow in urban California.

New Year’s Resolution #3 – Expand Your Repertoire: Try Growing from Seed

In part three of my “resolutions” series I explore growing cannabis from seed vs. clones.

New Year’s Resolution #2: Avoid The Heartache Of Bud Rot And Powdery Mildew

No cannabis grower wants to experience powdery mildew that ultimately gives rise to bud rot. Fungus grows when it finds the right moisture level, temperature, acidic conditions, and a reliable source of food. Learn the things you can do to protect your marijuana plants from these diseases.