Cannabis growing guides
Learn cannabis cultivation with practical guides to nutrients, NPK ratios, grow lights, hydroponics, cloning, vegetative growth, flowering and harvest.
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Start with the fundamentals
New to growing or troubleshooting a setup? Begin with these five subjects: the physical room, lighting, balanced nutrients, flowering and the plant's full life cycle.
LightGrow LightsCompare LED, HPS and other fixtures by canopy coverage, heat, electricity and safety.Read guide →
PlanningGrow Room SetupPlan usable space, safe power, airflow, water and maintenance access before buying equipment.Read guide →
RootsPlant NutrientsUnderstand NPK, growing media, pH, dissolved salts and the difference between symptoms and causes.Read guide →
FloweringFlowering CannabisFollow bud development, light cycles and the changes that happen during flowering.Read guide →
Life cycleSeed to HarvestSee how germination, vegetative growth, flowering and harvest fit into the same growing cycle.Read guide →
Harvesting Marijuana Buds Video
Trichomes When to Harvest Determining when your cannabis plant is ready for harvest is the most important part of harvesting marijuana buds . As a medical marijuana grower,…
Nutrients For Growing Marijuana
There are so many companies making Nutrients and Grow Chemicals for cannabis that it can be very confusing when it comes time to buy nutrients for your marijuana plants. I have…
What are the Best Nutrients for Growing Cannabis
Finding the best grow nutrients for your cannabis plants can be time consuming and very expensive if you don't know what nutrients cannabis needs to grow, when to feed the plants…
How to Grow Cannabis Indoors: A Beginner’s Guide
You’re interested in learning how to grow cannabis indoors for the first time? Understand that growing cannabis indoors presents a unique set of challenges for the new hobbyist,…
Flowering Marijuana Plants for Buds
Flowering Marijuana Plants for Buds indoors or Outdoors, cannabis plants flower in the fall when days become shorter and when the marijuana plant signals itself that annual life…
Spider Mites
A marijuana growers worst enemy in the grow room is spider mite infestation. They will reproduce and spread their offspring at a rate that you will NOT be able to keep up with.…
Flowering Light Cycle for Marijuana
The Flowering Light Cycle is the cycle you set your High Pressure Sodium Lights on to bud your marijuana plants. There is a basic light cycle and a more experienced growers light…
NPK Ratios Explained
Why NPK ratios are so important when growing cannabis. NPK is an acronym for Nitrogen (N), Phosphorus (P), Potassium (K) – Three nutrients cannabis plants must have in order to…
Grow Room Setup for Medical Marijuana
Whether soil or hydroponics, indoors or out, greenhouse or warehouse, I am here to assist you in grow room setup like a pro using my many years of experience in Grow Room Design &…
Harnessing the Power of Fox Farm Nutrients
Fox Farm Nutrients are used in the vegetative and flowering / budding stages of growing marijuana, as they are formulated specifically for marijuana plants, giving each plant the…
Cloning Marijuana Mother Plants Video
Cloning Marijuana Mother Plants involves cutting a growing branch tip and rooting it. Moreover, cloning is taking one cell of a plant and promoting its growth into a plant.…
General Hydroponics Nutrients
General Hydroponics Nutrients (GH) for marijuana growing are the best in my opinion. The General Hydro Flora Series , flora bloom, flora micro and flora grow are what I have used…
Hydroponic Systems for Growing Marijuana
Using a Hydroponic system to grow indoor cannabis is one of the best decisions you can make when it comes to growing the biggest plants in the shortest time. Hydro grow systems…
Flowering Week 6
Marijuana plant Flowering Week 6 Harvest Time is determined using a few methods. Knowing the flowering time of the specific strain you are growing is most important. This strain I…
Grow Cannabis: From Seed to Harvest
Looking to learn how to Grow Cannabis? You're in the right place! This cannabis growing guide is designed to help you find the info you need to learn the cannabis growing process,…
What's the Best NPK Ratio for Cannabis Nutrients
What’s the Best NPK Ratio for Cannabis Nutrients? If you’re new to growing cannabis or still in the beginning phases, trying to figure out the best nutrients for your cannabis…
Flushing Nutrients
Flushing Nutrients from your marijuana plants is done every 10 days to ensure that the plants and roots stay clean from salt build-up, remove fertilizer residues that can…
Detecting Male or Female Cannabis
Detecting Male or Female cannabis plants is pretty simple to do. Cannabis plants should show first signs of their sex, male or female, within the first 2 weeks of flowering. The…
Hanging Buds to Dry
Hanging Buds to Dry is the next step after you have harvested your marijuana plants. Once you have determined that the plant is ready to harvest by using a jewelers loupe to check…
PK Boosters for Growing Cannabis Plants
PK Boosters are used be cannabis growers looking to get the most out of their cannabis plants. Advanced Nutrients Big Bud is what we used on this indica plant. What does PK…
Grow cannabis week by week
Move from early vegetative growth through flowering with ten connected stage guides, current feeding calculations and practical grow-room tools.