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Surfactants: Is Your Water Wet Enough?
Have you ever let a potted plant become so dry that the water just beads up and rolls off? Â When this happens, it is because the dry soil has become hydrophobic. It is repelling
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Slugger’s Grow Room: Blue Dream Harvest
Big Slugger invited us back to his grow room to see how his Blue Dream was coming along. Slugger’s garden was featured in an earlier article on pruning; and this was a nice opportunity
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Dipping
Foliar application of fertilizer, insecticide, and fungicide is common practice in both indoor and outdoor marijuana gardens.  Fertilizer products are absorbed through the leaf stoma and enter the plant’s system directly.  Most pesticides and
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Pruning Marijuana: Slugger’s Grow Room
Recently we were invited to check out Big Slugger’s indoor medical marijuana garden in northern California.  When we arrived, we found him hard at work pruning and thinning out the lower branches of his
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Removing Cannabis Leaves to Maximize Light
A few days ago, a friend asked me when he should start removing leaves on his indoor medical cannabis plants. The tops of the plants were becoming crowded with big healthy leaves; and he
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Light Cycles and Flowering Cannabis
In nature, cannabis plants (excluding ruderalis) begin to flower in the late Summer and early Fall. When the days start to become shorter and the nights longer, flowering signals are triggered by photoperiodism, beginning
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Injectors for outdoor garden fertigation
One of the best ways to fertilize a marijuana garden is through a fertigation system. Fertigation systems use injectors to draw a concentrated liquid fertilizer solution from a reservoir into a garden hose or
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Heat Management In Grow Rooms
For many indoor marijuana growers, managing heat is a constant uphill battle. Grow rooms use an enormous amount of equipment and electricity to maintain suitable growing conditions for marijuana plants. I have visited grow
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Carbon Dioxide: Fertilizer For The Air
Plant growth is fueled by the production of glucose through photosynthesis. This process requires three components–water, light and carbon dioxide (CO2).  In other articles, we address lighting and watering. Here, the focus is CO2 –specifically,
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How to Germinate Marijuana Seeds
Germinating marijuana seeds and caring for marijuana seedlings is one of the easiest steps in growing marijuana. That said, if you do not know what you are doing, it is also an easy step
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