Element Hunting: Nitrogen ( a macro-nutrient) Before diving into this week’s topic, let’s define a few crucial terms that are used to discuss the role nitrogen plays in your garden and life in general. Use of the term organic: A chemist or physicist will tell you that just about any compound containing a Carbon is […]
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How to Transplant Medical Marijuana Plants
How to Transplant Your Medical Marijuana Plants Wondering when, how, and other specifics related to transplanting those prospering ladies in your garden? In this article we’ll take a look at the basics of properly and safely transplanting your medical marijuana plants. I’ll also discuss my method, which I’ve adopted from my partner @Indicantonio because I was tired […]
Miss MMJGeek’s Favorite Strains
Let’s Talk Medical Marijuana Strains With so many strains out there, it is becoming impossible to tally them all up, especially with underground breeders popping up everywhere. If you are as curious as me, this growing gene pool is making it impossible to single out a favorite strain to write about or add to my […]
Bounty Interview: Cannabis Community
@CannabisCommunity: an Instagram handle, hashtag, and persona in the Los Angeles cannabis community scene. The man behind it all sat down with me this week to talk about his ‘round the clock dedication to patients, contribution to the MMJ community, and his other day job at The HeadRoom Gallery (@headroomgallery)—the most talked about, but seldom […]
Odor Control for Indoor Grow Rooms
So your indoor garden stinks? Well, blame it on the girls! On their terpenes! While you might have some odor issues during veg stages, the true stinky giant doesn’t awake until early flower and only gets worse as the buds bulk and ripen. Terpenes are categorized as volatile organic compounds (VOC): Organic compound: chemicals containing Carbon VolatileOC: organic […]
How to Clean Your Indoor Grow Room
Our indoor gardens like to sit in soil, but not be surrounded by filth. Sometimes it’s hard to keep your girls in their pots and not all over your floor, but it’s important to practice proper hygiene in your grow room. Your gals will surely thank you for it. Let’s look at the components of […]
What is Reverse Osmosis?
REVERSE OSMOSIS (RO) From bubble-hash extract artists to every organic book in the canna community, reverse osmosis is everywhere! But before we look at its benefits and role in the cannabis community, let’s understand what reverse osmosis is and how it functions. The best video I’ve found that describes reverse osmosis can be found here. […]
How to Clone Your Medical Marijuana Plants
Before we get started, let’s define our objective. Cloning Cannabis: the act of taking a growing tip, cutting it, and creating an identical, self-sufficient replicate plant that has the exact same genetics as the mother. Genetics determine the traits a plant will express. For those of you who are visual learners (like me!), I’ve created […]
How To Main-Line
Main-line (mān’līn’) v. main-line, main-lin-ing A term coined by Nugbuckets- an innovative grower whose observant nature led him to develop a technique that growers everywhere identify as Nugbuckets’ main-lining. This technique may have been around before Nugbuckets, but it’s safe to say that he took it to the masses in a highly engineered format. So […]
How-to Tell if Your Medical Marijuana Plants Are Nutrient Deficient
I remember sitting there debating for hours, “… Should I?” A monologue performed for an audience of dancing cannabis plants, moving to the restless beat of fans. I posted the picture up on Instagram anyway: a magnesium-deficient fan leaf that should have been overshadowed by the voluptuous bud in the frame but instead was all […]