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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 →

If you didn’t know by now...girls rule in the world of weed. That’s because female plants are necessary for producing high-quality buds with high THC levels. In fact, unless a grower is breeding - male plants are typically discarded as soon as the sex of the plant presents itself. But, what if you didn’t have to wait for growth to tell the sex of cannabis seeds? There’s a common myth across the industry that you can identify the sex of cannabis seeds before they sprout. So, is it true? We set out for the answers, to find out. What do cannabis seeds look like? Cannabis seeds are small and oval shaped about the size of the head on a match...

Weed butter or cannabutter is what you get when you extract all the medical goodness from cannabis plants and trap it in fat.  You can then ditch the bulky plant matter (try the compost bin) and use your bud butter to make yourself some yummy cannabis edibles.  Continue reading →

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...

There’s nothing worse than working months towards a crop, only to be disappointed with less than ideal yields. But luckily, you can avoid the frustration from the start. When growing cannabis, to increase yields there are a few tricks you can easily implement. Keep reading to learn how to increase cannabis yields, with tips from the pro’s. Continue reading →