Learning to Grow Marijuana

Recently in Canada (late 2018) marijuana became legal for recreational use. This changes a lot of things for Canadians. It's a great time to learn how to grow.

The internet is swarming with good and bad information about growing. My goal here, is to feature a take on growing from a couple of great angles. A professional grower on the side of "by the book" from a store owner. And a take from an " old school" grower and what they do that works for them. There are some differing techniques between the two and both are successful, it would be nice to have a view of both. Once I achieve this, I will have a blog page done for each.

In addition to a few different takes on growing, you can choose from soil or hydroponics, weed grows well with either one.

There are training techniques that we will explore too. Two common methods to explore are "scrog" training' this uses a screen over the plant to train it to push out multiple colas. LST, low stress training; this method uses tying down or directional manipulation to create the additional colas.

My husband came up with a new step to his LST in his latest grow, where he tipped the early seedlings in their pots on their side, creating a natural, early growth of additional colas, resulting in young seedlings that were already growing an entire canopy before they were 6 weeks old. It put these plants well ahead in their LST and so far, we are quite pleased with the results.

Leaning the pots of the seedlings gave them a head start for their LST

Ordering seeds was next up on the to do list. Picking what type and strain you want is so hard, there are so many options and so many suppliers out there now that it's legal. We have ordered from Crop King Seeds a couple of times now, and we had 100% pop in the seeds so from our opinion of experience, they provide high quality seeds. Our seeds have finished off as nice plants too. They have some great tips and information on their website as well if you just want to do some reading up.

Crop King Seeds provides details instructions on the correct way to pop your seed. Even their catalogue is informative! You can look through the strains they offer, with great details. The booklet also includes some interesting facts and tidbits about Marijuana.

A heat mat or some source of heat will not go astray in this stage. Heat mats are kind of small though so if you have a table you are growing on, a small portable heater with a safety feature and temperature set under the table works great, if you cover the sides of the table the top of the table heats nicely. This will help the seedling to grow in the beginning.

You'll need somewhere to grow. What we did was find a designated and isolated room for the grow. We had an unused closet in an unused room that was perfect for the job.

A closet, a box, the bathroom...people find or make all sorts of things for their plants, get creative! If you live somewhere that has a long enough growing season you can also try growing outside or in a greenhouse.

The next step will be to set the room up with accessories and lighting. We started small with our grow lights and added more as we went. We tried a variety of lights too, all for the sake of the experiment. We have been told that HPS is the best but, it is also most expensive so we haven't gotten that far yet.

Here is a list of steps, stages and supplies for a quick break down, we will fill this in and update as we go.

Be sure to check back often as we will be growing and expanding the pages of information on this topic very soon.

Happy growing everyone!

*This page is still under construction and will be updated frequently. Please feel free to drop me an email if you have something in mind that you would like to see on here to help with learning to grow.

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