Growing weed for dummies is actually a relatively simple affair, just plant some seeds in soil, at some water and in a few days, “presto-chango” you have your pot plants started. Cannabis is a very hardy plant that grows wild in many parts of the planet and it will do the same for you as well.

Even so growing growing it is one thing, but getting to pick the final product is something entirely different because everybody has heard of somebody who’s been ripped off. Then once you do get to pick it, having top quality but come from your project is another issue as well. Sure it’s nice to be smoking your own, but it’s even nicer when yours is the best around.

Plan Well Ahead of Time

So make a point of planning well ahead of time. Ask any successful gardener, horticulturalist or farmer for that matter and all of them will tell you the same thing. That is that they put the wheels in motion about a year ahead of time. Deciding where they were they were going to grow, gathering up what they were going to need, and doing initial preparations months before any seeds were planted.

Invest the Money that it takes

Add up the amount of money you’ve spent on buying your weed only over the last year alone and you’ll probably be in for quite a shock. Then if you’re like far too many people out there fro some reason you’ll started pinching pennies when it’s time to grow your own. It takes money to make money and a good full-size plant can yield up to a pound and even more, so always buy the best that’s available whenever you shop for your project.

Only Use Premium Grade Soil

For far too many first-time growers, “out of sight is out of mind” when it comes to root growth because they’re too busy focusing on the bright green growth. In all actuality however, any plant can only be as big and healthy as its root system. So only buy the best potting soil available and if you’re growing in containers don’t forget size does matter. Conditioners like vermiculite, perlite and lime also work to make for a healthy root system.

Hide Your Plants Well

Don’t be lulled into a false sense of security by growing in your backyard or upstairs on a back deck. Wede bandits are a determined lot and having a plant sitting out in the open outdoors is just like having $5000 sitting there for the taking. So make the extra effort to search out an area to hide them well in and then conceal them in with other bushes. Or if you’re doing it at your place pots on casters will allow you to bring them in at night.

Don’t Tell Anyone

It’s sad that people are the way that they are, but they are who they are and you can’t do anything about that. What you can do though is to make a point of not telling anyone what you’re up to. Now it might not seem like a big deal in the early stages of the growing season, but once your plant or plants get full-size and start in budding, if you did tell somebody you’ll wish that you could go back in time and change that.

Don’t Over Fertilize

Over fertilizing is one of the easiest mistakes to make when you’re in the initial growing need for dummies stage. Chemical fertilizers like rapid gro and miracle grow are acid-based, so it doesn’t take much to burn the root hairs. Also acid buildup by slightly overdoing over time can lead to root burning. So consider buying a spray bottle and learning how to foliar feed which is spraying it right on the plans.

Learn How to Deal With Rodents

If you’re growing outdoors then at some point you will be dealing with rodents. You may not realize it at first because in the early summer season there’s plenty of natural food to be had in the great outdoors. As the growing season rolls on though, and changes to fall natural food sources dry up for all the little critters, and it turns out that cannabis is one of their favorite treats. They like to munch on the lower plant stock, so learn the most effective ways for dealing with them.

Growing Weed From Seeds

There’s just so many choices now when it comes time to buy your seeds online and each one sounds better than the rest. Don’t get taken in by all the promotional hype because if you’re growing outdoors what you need is a good sturdy strain that could stand up to all the mother nature has to throw at it. Then if you’re growing in an area that gets cold in the fall you’ll need to make sure to buy a seed strain that buds up early enough.

“G13 Labs Midnight Kush is a mainly indica strain with an extremely psychedelic effect. This strain has the potential to grow large if given the space, she produces almighty rock hard resinous buds. She has a tendency to go a fantastic midnight purple colour in cold conditions. Due to one of the parents being an outdoor variety of Blueberry, Midnight Kush has a great resistance to mould.”

Don’t Harvest too Soon

The buds on the growing plant will appear far more mature and stronger while they’re still green and growing than they will be when they’re dry. Keep in mind that a lot of their weight is comprised of water, and also much of the smell goes out of them during the drying process. So conceal your plants well enough and don’t tell anyone so you can leave them out late in the fall. Pick them early and you’ll be surprised by how little weight you can end up with.

Dry Your Buds Properly

When you’re drying your final product you only have one chance to get it right. A cool sealed off dry area works best, so hang the branches in a closet or a closed up in dark room with the air conditioner on. The last thing you want is heat because warm air promotes decay and decay on drying buds means that your finished product will be brown it taste like Schwag. Don’t put a fan on them either or you you will lose all your smell.

The Bottom Line

If you’re just starting in learning about growing weed for dummies you have it made today. There’s just so much information available online now, so there’s absolutely no reason to experiment or be confused about anything that you do along the way. Take your time to study up on the topic and always remember that any money you spend buying weed can be much better spent growing your own.

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Weed growing games and the interest in them right along with products derived from the hemp plant are one of the off shoots of increased popularity of cannabis. Each new study as the results are made public reveals that more people are smoking it and that it’s also going mainstream.

That is that more of the folks who are smoking it now and they are decidedly getting older than they used to be in decades past, and they also have more disposable income. So of course weed growing games are becoming more popular, and not just with consumers either. This is because just as with any other other popular trend there has to be folks who operate on the supply end.

People just like you who design, copyright and market weed growing games. So if you’ve ever dreamed of getting in on the ground floor of a new marketing trend before the crowd shows up this might be the big opportunity you’ve been waiting for.

Your big chance because if you can design the right weed growing games that catch the public interest right now with the emerging market positioned where it is at the current time you could be in for a decades long lucrative financial joyride.

What About Medical Marijuana Laws?

Medical marijuana is big now and it’s a trend that’s going to continue to stay at the forefront of public interest. What this means is that you may want to consider making it an aspect of any weed growing games that you create.

It will allow you to connect up with a substantial market sector that continues to expand but there’s also something else to consider here.

That is that when it comes time to market your finished product any medical marijuana related aspects included in will for sure work to lend legitimacy to any weed growing games.Just imagine the market potential if you can convince a major chain store for instance to carry your game?

“Deluxe Weed is an easy to learn strategy game where you, and the other players, compete to grow the most pot plants. Deluxe Weed includes all of the cards from the original Weed Card Game and 7 new characters.”

So it sure wouldn’t hurt if you became familiar with medical marijuana laws and how you might be able to apply them to players in weed growing games . They’re more complex than you may realize and once you understand these complexities you’ll be better able to factor them in.

Also keep in mind that medical marijuana laws do vary from area to area, so make a point of learning all you can about them where ever they have been implemented.

Not Just Any Marijuana Growing Guide

Then marijuana growing guide would for sure also be of help but not just any marijuana growing guide either. A basic marijuana growing guide just won’t contain enough information for weed growing games.

Rather to create weed growing games that contain enough excitement and intrigue to make them competitive in the marketplace you’re going to need a marijuana growing guide that covers the aspects of guerrilla growing.

Guerrilla growing will place your players in the wild outdoors planting and tending gardens that are subject to so much more intrigue than plants that are simply growing in someone’s backyard or in a grow room.

A marijuana growing guide that covers guerrilla growing will also provide you with the information you’ll need to have feature growing on a larger scale. After all bigger is better.

“You must choose an area to grow your plants where it will be highly unlikely, even impossible, for people to ever stumble upon it.”

Then finally don’t forget that risk and challenge in all its various forms provides the core element of any truly great game that is ever become popular and a marijuana growing guide that covers guerrilla growing can sure provide you with plenty of information you need for doing just that.

Game Publishing is a Lot Easier Now

Weed growing games all have to be published in the end or what’s the point in even doing it.

This is because if you’re looking for a game that you and your friends can play a part in it for the money there’s plenty of weed growing games already available for you to choose from.

So game publishing and all that it entails is something that you’re eventually going to have to learn about or all your creative work was for nothing.

Now prior to the Internet board game publishing was a far more daunting prospect so back then there really were very few weed growing games.

“You can now publish a game without making it fully public – handy if you simply wanted to try out your game online, or maybe to share a game with just a few friends. Simply select “Unlisted”, and your game won’t appear when browsing the site – only people who know the link will be able to see it (so it works in a similar way to unlisted videos on YouTube).”

Larger established publishing houses simply didn’t want to deal with them out of concerns for the public image. All that has changed though so now you don’t have to go through an established publishing house because he could do it on your own over the Internet.

It’s a simple matter really of just submitting your finished product to Amazon for review and publication but you’re also going to need a website as well because Amazon doesn’t get involved with any type of promotion, so that’s your job. So while you’re browsing around the net for a marijuana growing guide you may also want to pick up some type of information product, perhaps an e-book that covers web design and search engine optimization.

Search engine optimization or what is more commonly referred to as SEO is that means by which you entice the gods who rule over the search engines to position your site closer to page one. Page one in your case would be the first page that comes up on a screen when anyone types in the keywords weed growing games.

Keep in mind here that everything begins with a dream so if you don’t dream big dreams you’ll never accomplish anything big. Of course there will be the doubters who will try to bring you down as they did with so many other people over the course of history who set out to achieve financial independence. Just stick to your guns and don’t quit because there is a market for good weed growing games.

If you live in the flat area of the country, one that doesn’t have any mountains or thick forests you may still be in luck. This is because if there’s a swamp that you have access to you may be sitting on a gold mine for growing weed out doors.

They’re bright green, lush with growth, and full of water so that covers all the basics for guerrilla gardening. It’s just a matter of knowing what you need to do to get your plan going and then once your plants are in you’ll be surprised at how big and healthy they can get in a swamp.

Once you learn how to grow weed out doors this way though, you’ll find out that there’s just two glaring downside. One is that it’s expensive because everything has to be purchased package and carried in.

Then the second downside to swap growing is that it’s a lot of hard work, and the fact that you have to do all that work slogging around in mud doesn’t make it any easier.

Loading Your Basic Gardening Supplies

Don’t make the mistake of thinking that you need flat ground grow weed in a swamp because you don’t. You grow all your plants in big pots so I’ve even sat them down on milk crates in water that was up to my knees.

You see, it’s just like you’ve seen before with houseplants, the exact same principle. A plant in a pot that’s sitting in a dish of water only this time the dish of water is the swamp.

So the first thing you need to do is find a way in that won’t leave a trail because all you have to do is pass through the cattails walking in mud just once you’ll have a trail.

Look for a fallen log or tree hanging tree limb that you can climb on and walk down into the cattails and shrubs or better yet a body of water that you can walk through.

Water is perfect because you could slash through it all you want all summer long and leave no indication you’ve ever been there.

You’re going to haul in large bags of premium grade potting soil like super soil or miracle grow potted soil, large bags of vermiculite, and large bags of perlite. That’s what you’ll mix your growing medium from.

Then you’re also going to need some basic tools and perhaps some milk crates if you plan on setting your pots up in water. You’ll also need to take in a couple of 5 gallon buckets that you painted flat black or primer Brown.

Now the best time to get you materials in is the wintertime when the swamp growth has all died back. The reason here is that when springtime arrives all the new growth will come back to cover up the mess you made. Then lastly if at all possible find a place where you can throw everything you need to go in your garden up over the bushes so you have a nice clean entrance area that isn’t all torn up from your back and forth traffic.

Peat Pots Worked Best for Me

I’ve tried a few different types of containers over the years and in the end what ended up working out the best was giant peat pots.

They’re planting pots that are made out of peat moss that you can at your local nursery, and make sure you buy the large ones. They’re dull brown so the blend in perfectly against the brown mud.

Large means that they’re about 20 gallons. Now get ready though because they are expensive and I don’t how much they cost now but back when I was doing it the really big pots were about $15 each.

“The other proposal that I find very interesting is the fertilpot. These pots made ​​from plant fibers that can be used for both horticulture and ornamental nursery. They come in many shapes and sizes and have the distinction of being very flexible.”

I tried grow bags that I made out of green plastic garden fabric that I stitched together with fishing line but they were difficult to move around after they were full.

They’re too hard to pull up if they settled too deep in the mud or to shove around to a lower area when the water receded during the summer, and it usually will. You also can’t stand grow bags up on milk crates.

Plastic pots are also non-biodegradable and it’s not that I’m some type of naturalist here either.

You see, after the summer is done and your plants are picked last thing you want to leave is a big mess of plastic pots sticking out like a sore thumb.

Also keep in mind here that you can’t re-use the soil the next summer because it will be crammed full roots and completely waterlogged.

I’ve tried it. With peat pots, after you pick and you’re done you can just stomp them into the mud or shove them into the water.

So take a screwdriver and stab about 20 holes in the bottom of each peat pot so you up plenty of access holes for the water to get in. Now don’t think that the water will soak through the pot cause they’re made with peat and some type of waterproof binder so it won’t. Also the four or five little square holes around the bottom edge just aren’t enough.

Next start looking around for places to arrange them and you’ll probably have a tendency here to scatter them far apart so they’ll blend in better. The problem here though is that you’ll be stuck having to tend and water them and the more you walk in the mud the deeper the channel gets, and it gets tough.

So try to keep them close together in groups and don’t worry because I’ve flown over a swamp garden an airplane and the plants blend in perfectly. They’re the exact same color as cattails in the type of trees and foilage it grows around marshes.

They even lean over a little bit like marsh foliage tends to, so it’s only towards the end of the season when the cattails start to die back that they’ll be visible from the air.

Final Set Up and Away You Go

So if you’ve done everything according to plan springtime will roll around and you’ll have all your material tucked away in your swamp, up on dry ground or sitting on a wooden pallet that you carried in to store things on.

You’ll also have a nice supply of healthy female starts all ready to plug in. Young plants that are about a month or so old, about a foot or so tall with nice healthy stalks.

So pour about a half a bag of potting soil into a pot, add in a good dose of perlite and then mix well. The perlite holds air so it will make sure that the soggy area towards the bottom that will contain plenty of air for the roots during the summer.

Add some more soil, along with the a little more perlite but this time start mixing in Some vermiculite because vermiculite works like little sponges to suck water up and store it.

Now I have tried using straight potting soil without doing this vermiculite perlite, mix and the differences are glaring. The plants don’t turn out as well and the top end of the pot that’s exposed to the air will be noticeably dry.

Mix in the vermiculite and perlite though and you’ll have nice moist soil at the top of the pot, healthier plants. Then after you pick them you can hack into the soil and see that towards the bottom the roots really like the air that the perlite provides.

So fill your pots up this way making sure that you don’t compact the soil, plug a nice healthy female start in each one and give it a good dose of water. Don’t flood them when you water them though because when you do that it will force all the air and nutrients out of the soil.

Carry a bucket of water over and use a dipper to dose the water on gradually. Or if you’re lucky you can set up some type of hose system so you aren’t stuck carrying heavy buckets of water.

Now the beauty of learning how to grow weed outdoors in swamps is that your plants won’t need regular watering, and in fact you can go as long as three weeks without seeing them, what a surprise you’ll get too.

You can get phenomenal growth in the full sunlight of a swamp so three weeks can mean 3 feet of growth, and even more. Believe me, it can be quite a shock to come back to six-foot tall trees when the last time you saw them they were little 3 foot tall bushes.

They will need to be fertilized though, and also you’re going to find that you”ll be pretty busy each visit cutting back the swamp growth.

It grows lush too end the bigger your plants get the more room there going to need so make sure that you have a long bladed razor knife or some other type of sharp knife that you can use to cut back cattails and foliage.

Rodents are also huge problem in swamps and even if they don’t bother you in the beginning, they’re still there waiting and watching.

Just as soon as late summer arrives their natural food source of tender shoots will be gone, and that’s when they’ll turn on your plants to start chewing on the stocks. So be generous with blocks of rat poison that you break up spread around. You could buy at your local ranch supply store.

Then your last bit of advice here is to carry all of your trash out after you finish setting up, all the empty potting soil bags. Now it can be real tempting in a swamp to just stomp them down into the mud, but don’t.

Pack them up and carry them out because they don’t break down, and all it takes for an animal to carry a piece of plastic from potting soil bag out of your grow area, and for someone to find it and your cover will be blown.

How do you grow weed is a question that more people are asking today and fortunately for all of them answers are more readily available than they’ve ever been before. Hey!, this is the age of the Internet so it’s all out there for anyone who cares to look.

Not only answers to the question “how do you grow weed” though, but also just as importantly information on how not o grow weed.

Info to debunk so many of the common myths that have been floating around out there for too long. Myths and misinformation that can not only get in the way of the quality of your final product but interfere with the “quantity” as well.

So just keep on reading and see if any of them sound familiar to you because hopefully at least some of the information that you pick up here will stop you from making these three all too common costly mistakes.

Plucking Growing Pot Plants Leaves Stimulates Growth

Now this one has been around for too long and it’s time that it got put to rest. It’s a real problem too because when you’re first going through the initial “how do you grow weed” stage you can get sucked in by this bad habit.

You plucked a few leaves off to create more room and light for new shoots to grow up… and they do.

“Basic requirements – Marijuana plants need water, light, nutrients and suitable air , ventilation and temperature. However you choose to grow weed you should bear these basic requirements in mind and ask yourself at each stage how can I improve what I offer my plants”?

Then when the plant starts budding you pluck out more leaves and even more little shoots come out.

The problem here though, is if you just leave the growing pot plants alone everything will come up anyway, only “bigger and better”.

So never ever pluck any leaves off of a plan for any reason. The leaves of the plant are where it creates and stores its growth energy and if you take them off you’ll end up with dwarf plants.

Growing Marijuana Plants Prefer a Hot Climate

Now anybody who’s taken a trip down into Mexico or further on into South America knows all too well how this myth got started.

It’s “hotter than hell” down there in the summertime and for decades before the market in domestic product took off, pretty much all the smoke came up from that direction.

So folks simply put two and two together, and decided that growing marijuana plants preferred a hot climate.

So then just what type of climate do growing marijuana plants do best in? It turns out that the ideal temperature for growing marijuana plants is about 82°C.

“Movement of the air keeps the temperature from getting too hot. Make the inlet near the bottom of the room and twice as big as the outlet located near the top of the room.”

The temperature that you’d experience outside on a perfect spring day, when it’s not too hot, and not too cold. T-Shirt and shorts weather. Now you can’t control the temperature outside but you sure can control it if you’re growing indoors. So do your best to keep your plants happy in the climate that they prefer and they’ll reward you well when it’s time to produce some premium grade bud.

Over Fertilizing Will Stimulate Growth

Take a look at yourself in the mirror after the holiday season has passed and you don’t need to be a rocket scientist to figure out the over consuming “stimulates growth”.

So then what about when it comes to growing weed? Can you get more growth out of them if you over fertilize?

Now up until only recent years the myth was then if you jolted your plants with extra 0-10-10 Bloom at budding time it would give them a kick in the butt that they needed to get on with the job.

“Fertilize after first 2 spiked leaves appear follow the label. DON’T FERTILIZE EVERY TIME YOU WATER!!! Start with 25% and work your way up! Leach the plants with lots of pure water every 2-4 weeks. Organic growing is recommended. Its tastes better and burns much better. If the leaves suddenly twist or fold under, Leach and Spray with pure water for several days!”

In reality though, over fertilizing your plants “at any time” during any stage of any growth cycle will only lead to burnt root hairs and in turn stunted growth.

What you need to understand here is that chemical fertilizers contain acid, so the roots can only handle so much at any given time.

Now folair feeding on the other hand is another story altogether because the fertilizer never even touches roots when it’s sprayed on the leaves.

Even so, before you go spraying a bunch of chemical fertilizers on your plants you need to study up a little bit on foliar feeding techniques to make sure that you don’t do more harm than good.

The list of maladies that it’s effective for treating is huge. Way too many to mention here because I could fill up a whole page just with them. So getting a doctors recommendation today is easy, and in fact you can find their ads posted all of the Internet.

Then quite contrary to popular belief you don’t need a “prescription” as with a regular controlled drug. In this case in accordance with the way that the laws written, it only requires a doctor’s “recommendation”. In fact the laws in each state are written so vaguely written that a recommendation doesn’t even have to come from a formal doctor visit.

Believe it or not, a doctor can simply turn to you in a grocery checkout line and casually recommend that you use medical marijuana and chances are that the way the law reads where you live, if there is one where you live, that is legal compliance for growing medical marijuana.

Now of course no one in their right mind would consider something as casual is that legal grounds to stand on but I use that to make a point here. Something to help you understand just how big the “gray areas” are between the black-and-white issues surrounding the topic of growing medical marijuana.

So then rather than filling page after page with explanations to fill in all the gray areas of confusion surrounding this issue, I have chosen instead to compile a list of the 10 most common questions and answers that patients like yourself are asking.

“In 1972, the US Congress placed marijuana in Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act because they considered it to have “no accepted medical use.” Since then, 16 of 50 US states and DC have legalized the medical use of marijuana.”

Q - Is it really legal for me to grow cannabis in my home if I have a written recommendation or card from a doctor?

A - The answer to that is yes and no. It is still against federal law to grow any kind of marijuana and some compassionate use laws that allow for it’s usage such as in California make no mention of how people can acquire it. Study the law carefully in your state to understand it completely before you start in growing.

Q - Then how is it that people are allowed to grow it?

A - The authorities in your area may be allowing small personal use grows for medical use due to popular opinion. County sheriffs and district attorneys have to get reelected every four years, so they do keep track of local public opinion on issues and factor them into their decisions when deciding who they’re going to focus on for criminal prosecution.

Q - So then can I be arrested and criminally charged for growing medical marijuana?

A - The answer to this question is “yes you can” be arrested and charged with cultivation of marijuana even if you have medical clearance. It’s all up to the police and the district attorney with regards to who and why they arrest and charge. Also keep in mind here that just because you’re arrested and charged doesn’t mean that they have any plans of taking you to trail.

Q - Then why would they arrest me in the first place?

A - The reason this happens is because medical marijuana cultivation cases tend to be very expensive to fight and the police and district attorney’s know this. You’ll be required to come up with 10% of the bail, usually in the area of $20,000-$30,000, come up with $5000 for a attorneys retainer fee, than your doctor will charge you $3000 a day to testify on your behalf in any preliminary pretrial hearings.

Q - That adds up to $15,000 or $20,000 pretty fast. Why so much money?

A - The reason it’s so expensive is because doctors and lawyers have always been expensive to hire and just because your doctor prescribes medical marijuana or local attorneys specialize in medical marijuana cases doesn’t mean that they are in any way kind and benevolent. Just like any other doctor or lawyer they’re going for as much money as they can get out of you.

Q - So then how can I protect myself from being caught in “any type of mess” for growing medical marijuana?

A - The answer is simple here is to “tell no one” what you are up to, particularly if you plan on selling any of the marijuana that you grow because that for sure is illegal and a far easier case to prosecute because it doesn’t fall into any gray areas in the medical marijuana issue. It’s called “distribution” and it’s a serious felony.

Q - So then who can I trust because I at least must talk to my doctor to get the recommendation?

A - Trust no one and that includes your doctor or any attorney that he may recommend to you for an initial counseling session on the issue. It’s none of their business. Don’t let it slip by you that every time one of your doctors patients gets arrested and charged he or she gets to make a ton of money off of them as a professional witness. Then the same thing for applies to an attorney.

Q - Do I have to notify local authorities of my I intentions to grow medical marijuana?

A - The answer here is “no you do not and should not” show the cops anything. You’re not required to and it doesn’t offer any sort of protection with regards to being raided and charged.

Also in the event that you should run into any sort of legal problems down the road, the fact you may have notified the authorities “counts for nothing”. Of course the cops will come and check out your grow if they’re notified but only for the purposes of making a possible criminal case out of it. Also remember that they’re under no obligation to keep any of your information private.

Q - What else can I do to protect myself?

A- There are number of things that you can do and one of them for sure is to find out what your local prosecutors quantitative policy is for people growing medical marijuana. That is what is the amount of plants and finished cannabis that they recommend that you stay under.

Then secondly you need to be aware that provide anyone else with cannabis, “whether you charge for it or not” is a felony. Also avoid making contact online with any local community-based activists who have set up websites.

For instance if you type in “medical marijuana” an then the county you live in into your computers search engine you may find some local pastor who’s making himself available online for counseling and legal advice. Be aware that it could be a “trap site” that the cops have set up to “fish for growers”.

Q - So is there any place where law enforcement authorities on a local level have completely given up pursuing people growing medical marijuana?

A - As a matter of fact there area few such places and one of them is San Francisco California where prosecutors have completely “thrown in the towel” on any type of medical marijuana grow operation.

Oakland California is another place where the rules have become even more loose because in Oakland you really don’t even need a medical marijuana recommendation. They simply can’t find 12 people in these cities to seat a jury with and have any hope of a conviction, so they’ve completely given up.

Cannabis can be a deceptively easy plant to grow, and in fact just like roses and grapes it can actually be found growing wild in many countries around the globe.

But just like roses it’s important to keep in mind that in the end what you’re really growing is flowers. Then just like grapes to be made into wine there’s aesthetic, flavor, and aroma issues that need to be considered as well.

So for the backyard gardener whose operating without the benefit of a cannabis growing guide the prospect can be as easy as sprinkling some seeds around on the bare ground. They’ll get plants too, and just like a healthy well fed tomato plant the rate of growth can be surprising. Two and 3 inches per day is not uncommon.

When it comes time to producing flowers however, which is what the buds are comprised of, the final harvest can fall well short of what they may have estimated judging on the rate of plant growth. Then to top that off, the quality of the limited amount of bud they’ll end up with can also be sorely lacking. This in spite of a successful summer growing season.

Cannabis Growing Guide to Outdoor Seeds

So it all begins with the seeds and the last thing you should do is plant seeds that you’ve picked out of a bag of cannabis that you bought, regardless of the quality.

The reason here is that over the course of the last few decades plant geneticists in places like Amsterdam have managed to successfully isolate a large variety of cannabis strains.

So that bag you have may in fact be grown from a specialized “indoor” hybrid.

“Hybrid is really a expression used to explain marijuana plant offspring created by crossbreeding two different ‘true-breeding’ parents. True-breeding marijuana plants will produce in keeping with type if produced using their own seed products, so different decades will share similar qualities.”

So the problem now is that just like any type of hybrid strain of plant or animal, along with the positives that were targeted or sought after during the hybridization or genetic isolation process come some negatives.

Things that were perhaps lost in exchange for perhaps better flavor and aroma. Genetic traits like a plants natural resistance to insects and root fungus.

Not to worry though because strains that grow better and produce a higher quality product “outdoors” have also been isolated and the good news is that they’re now easier than ever to buy online. So not only can you buy the outdoors seeds you need but you also have a very broad selection that allows you to pick out the size and the shape of the plants as well, along with the color and flavor of the finished buds.

Start Out With a Flat of Plant Starts

Then even though it’s now possible to order up a specific strain of outdoor seeds online, just like a litter of, say puppies from a specific breed, in spite of their shared genetics each one of those seeds can produce plants with their own unique subtle characteristics.

Little differences that slightly separate each one from the others.

Little things like flavor, color and general health that make some more preferable than the rest.

So this is why you don’t want to just stick your seeds in the ground and go “with whatever” pops up. Instead what you’re going to do is plant about three times as many seeds in cups of potting soil than the number of plants that you intend on growing.

“Chrystal limit is a stable indica/sativa hybrid of two potential marijuana strains, Crystal and K.C. 606, and one of those cannabis which has no limits. Her highest qualities have been noticed – she won the first place at the HighLife Cup 2002.”

About a third of them will end up becoming males which will leave about twice as many young plants for you to select the best out of.

A Few Tips on Soil Mulching and Conditioning

Cannabis plants grow best in a well conditioned soil for deep rooting.

Then given the value of the crop that you’re going to harvest you may want to invest a little more money in higher priced soil conditioners.

Conditioners like Canadian sphagnum peat moss, vermiculite and perlite. Cannabis also does better in a pH balanced soil, so if you’re going to use the peat moss which tends to be a bit acidic you’ll also want to add some lime to the mix.

“Some garden experts suggest that lime is a soil amendment. Others claim that it is a soil conditioner.
These are both rather vague terms.”

Common lawn lime is also marketed as dolomite and it works just fine for sweetening soil. Or if you’re gardening in a mountainous region were soil tends to be naturally slightly acidic you’ll want to add some lime into the growing mix even if you’re not mulching in any peat moss in.

Also keep in mind as you’re preparing your grow bed that the volume of it will work to determine the size of the plant that grows in it.

Tips and Pointers for The Final Budding Stage

Then at the end of the summer growing season when early fall begins setting in, the initial budding stage becomes evident by small white hairs that start sprouting on the tips of the branches.

A time when the nutrient intake of the cannabis plant also begins to change with nitrogen intake going down while potassium and phosphorous consumption goes up to produce the flowers that will make up the buds.

So adjust your fertilizer blend accordingly and there’s also one other thing to keep in mind here.

That is that the large swollen heavy seedless buds that you’re cannabis plants will produce is an “unnatural process” because under normal circumstances the plant would be pollinated.

“If you’re growing outdoors during the summer, you can cover your greenhouse with a blanket during the appropriate times, so that the plants get about 12 hours of light and 12 of dark.”

So it in turn causes an unnatural level of stress on the joints of the branches where they meet the stock, that can result in them snapping off. So as the branches become weighted down by growth you’ll want to use tie wire to keep them from snapping off, particularly in a rainstorm.

Attach a piece of tie-wire about a foot or so out on each branch from where it joins to the stock. Then take the other end of that section of tie wire and run it back to the main stock about a foot or so up from the joint into the stock. When you’re done each branch on your plant will have its own supporting wire holding it in place in the same fashion as cables are used a suspension bridge to hold the road up.

Harvesting and Drying Your Final Product

Now the longer you leave the flower buds out on the plant to accumulate and get heavier, the more potent they’ll become, up to a certain point.

That is that you don’t want to leave them out too long at the end of the fall season if you live in an area that’s prone to wet weather because they are susceptible to mold if they stay wet too long .

Then another thing to keep in mind here is that once the buds stop producing white hairs at the tips, and the existing hairs begin to dry and turn brown, the flowered process has completed.

“Having spent time, money and effort growing your marijuana, it is a shame to let it all down by not drying and curing the harvest properly. Luckily it’s not a difficult thing to transform the sticky flowers into a good smoke, but there are a few rules.”

To harvest them simply cut the entire branches away from the stock and hang them upside-down from a string or wire strung across a cool dark room in much the same way as you would hang laundry.

A dark room so the chlorophyll in the buds will be dissipated is much as possible and also a cool room so the finished product will remain fresh smelling and flavorful. Then on a final note: finished cannabis buds keep best in a sealed plastic bag in a freezer.

With so much emphasis on indoor growing in recent years too many people have forgotten about all the benefits of growing marijuana outdoors. Everything is provided for you outdoors. Light, temperature control, timing, ventilation and it’s all free. Plants also grow bigger and better outdoors too, with a tendency towards higher potency.

Only Grow With Outdoor Seed

The type of seed that you use makes a huge difference in what you end up with, so you need to make sure that you buy and use outdoor seed.

Indoor seed is produced by plants of a type that has been selectively grown to be more aclimated to the mild indoor environment. Strains that have been developed strictly for their flavor, potency, and aroma.

“Some plant geneticists are plant breeders (quantitative genetics) who produce superior plants through selective breeding. Molecular plant geneticists track down genes to discover their functions and identify genes useful for creating improved plants.”

But just like so many other plant varieties that have gone through a genetic selection process, along with the positives like better flavor and smell comes some negatives.

Resistance to pests for instance is one that you’ll get with indoor seed and they also tend to be prone to root problems so they’re more susceptible to things like root rot.

Now this doesn’t mean however, that marijuana grown outdoors with outdoor seed will be less potent or flavorful because of it’s grown properly it can in fact be better than indoor product.

You also need to know that there are several varieties of outdoor seed, so check out the descriptions well before you buy to make sure that you get the type that suits you best. Hash bud plants for instance grow short, so they’re a good choice for discreet backyard growing.

Learn How to Mix Premium Grade Soil

The plants you grow will only be as big and healthy as the root system that supports them. If the roots can’t grow then the plant won’t grow and it’s as simple as that.

“As the number of your plants increase, you might want to consider and concoct your own blend so as to make sure that each plant has its feet (roots) buried in the kind of soil that is best suited to its species.”

So it’s easy, that is that you need to provide the best growing medium possible to fill your containers or grow beds with but unfortunately for a lot of people this part of it is a bit of a mystery.

So rule number one is to only use the best products available to blend into your soil up with, so that means cheap manure type ingredients are out.

Cow and chicken crap works great for vegetable gardens because it’s cheap and provides a broad range of nutrients. You’re not growing vegetables here though, and you can’t afford the risk of things like fungus and root burning that comes with these types of soil blenders.

Peat Moss is the best product to add loam with but if you don’t have the money for that then go with something like red wood shavings. Peat moss tends to be a little acidic though, so you’ll need to add some dolomite which is a powdered white chalk in with it. Then fine sand also works to help with drainage and then if you have a little more money to spend vermiculite works to stabilize nutrient distribution and leaches in magnesium. Perlite also works great for holding air and keeping your soil for becoming compact.

Learn to Use Chemical Fertilizers

When you’re growing marijuana outdoors fertilizer is the food that they eat and concentrated chemical fertilizers are the best way to go at feeding time.

Don’t be afraid of the word “chemical” either because chemical fertilizers aren’t complex and dangerous like other chemicals that you may be trying to stay away from.

“It has been compared to intravenous feeding on people, in the sense that nutrients are delivered straight into the plant leaves and tissue in the same way intravenous delivers nutrients straight into the blood stream. To be more accurate, experts point out that plants access foliar feeding nutrients through stomata, which are basically pores on the leaves.”

They’re simple and basic like table salt and no more dangerous than salt either.

The problem with chemical fertilizers though, is that because they’re concentrated it’s just so easy to overdo it with them. To over fertilize and that in turn leads to root burning which in turn causes stunted plant growth.

Also know right here that root burning problems brought about by over fertilizing when growing marijuana outdoors tend to happen gradually. Too much being added over a period of weeks that eventually builds up to dangerous levels.

So one thing you may want to try, is along with using a mild chemical fertilizer solution on the roots is foliar feeding where you actually spray a chemical fertilizer solution directly on the plant itself. Foliar feeding works great for growing marijuana outdoors and you’ll for sure see this when your plants respond immediately to it.

Just mix up a concentrated solution of water soluble chemical fertilizer in a sprayer, add a few drops of liquid dish washing soap the act is a wetting agent and then spray it liberally on the leaves.

Don’t Try to Force Your Plants to Do Anything

Then your final word of advice here is that when you’re growing marijuana outdoors you really can’t force them to do anything.

Now it’s a different story when you’re going indoors because you can change the light timing schedule them to bud for instance.

“There’s a good chance that this bud was subjected to nutrient solution burn. These symptoms are seen when the EC concentration of hydroponic solutions is too high. These symptoms also appear when strong nutrient solution is splashed onto the leaves under hot HID lamps, causing the leaves to burn under the solution.”

Outdoors it’s another story altogether though, because you’re growing on mother nature’s schedule and she just likes to take her time.

So over fertilizing with 0-10-10 flowering blend to speed up budding for instance will lead to root burning which will in fact slow down the process. If you want fast buds buy seeds from plants that are bred to bud quickly but you may have to sacrifice a bit on potency and flavor. Even so some strains of marijuana do bud up substantially quicker than others.

Then during the midsummer vegetative state when you’re growing marijuana outdoors don’t pick any leaves off the plant in an attempt in an attempt at get them to grow quicker or to produce more bud shoots.

It’s a myth that in fact will lead to slower growth with fewer and smaller buds. The leaves are where plants produce and store energy, so the more that your plant has, and the bigger they are, the better off it will be.