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With a name like bud rot, you know it can’t be good. Cannabis bud rot is something no grower ever wants to see in the later phases of plant maturity. Salvaging bud rot is difficult, but if you catch it early enough you can treat it. It’s important to be able to spot those early signs and even more important to understand the common bud rot causes so that you can help you prevent it. What is bud rot?  Put simply, cannabis bud rot is a fungus or mold that can grow on cannabis plants. More technically it’s known as botrytis cinerea, or gray mold. The pathogen initially develops from the center of the buds, and stem and normally appears...

Nothing is more exciting than watching your own cannabis plants reach maturity. But work doesn’t stop once the buds start appearing. After carefully cultivating your plants for weeks, there are a few important final tasks: timing your harvest right, trimming your buds properly, drying them correctly, and curing them. These steps are crucial to ensuring a high-quality crop. Continue reading →

Regular cannabis seeds will generally develop into both male and female plants.  If you’re unlucky, you may end up with the odd hermaphrodite plant.  You need to remove both males and hermies as quickly as possible.  Males don’t carry bud and you don’t want them fertilizing the females which do.  Hermies do carry bud, but it’s very low quality.  They also carry pollen and so can fertilise productive females.  Basically, they’re more hassle than they’re worth.  The best time to sex marijuana plants is during pre-flower.  This is when they first become identifiable as male or female.  Continue reading →

When you want to grow marijuana, there are two ways you can do it. You can plant a seed and simply watch it grow. Or, you can learn how to clone weed. Cloning marijuana is an easy way to add to your crop and keep enjoying your favorite strains. A marijuana clone is an exact genetic copy of your favorite plant. Continue reading →

High-quality cannabis seeds have a germination rate of around 100% if cultivated within six months. But growers often want to wait longer, perhaps using just some of their latest batch or collecting the seeds from a successful harvest and saving them for future use. Thankfully, it’s possible to effectively store marijuana seeds until you’re ready for your next crop. But using the right techniques is crucial. Knowing how to store marijuana seeds is fundamental to ensuring their viability. Continue reading →

It doesn't matter if you're growing a couple of little autos in your cupboard, or an outdoor crop full of the biggest Sativas you can get your hands on, one thing is true for all weed growers - we want to help our ladies along to the largest possible yields! Some may look to add a bunch of (mostly) unnecessary additives, while others might pray to the old gods and new, but many skip one of the easiest ways to guarantee a bump to the final harvest - Low Stress Training, or LST. What is low stress training cannabis? Low stress training is a cultivation technique (actually more than one, but we will get into that a little further down...

If you’re used to rolling joints, you’ll have a head start on learning how to roll a blunt, but even if you haven’t, it’s OK.  Anyone can learn how to roll a blunt it just takes a bit of knowledge and a bit of practice.  Here’s a step-by-step guide. Continue reading →

Nothing is more exciting than watching your own cannabis plants reach maturity. But work doesn’t stop once the buds start appearing. After carefully cultivating your plants for weeks, there are a few important final tasks: timing your harvest right, trimming your buds properly, drying them correctly, and curing them. These steps are crucial to ensuring a high-quality crop. Continue reading →