Cut & Dried Strain Review: Cannatonic
Rachel Wilde gives her opinion of a lesser-known cannabis strain, Cannatonic. The strain is best known for its high CBD content.
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Hydroponic Nutrient Management: What Every Grower Should Know
When you choose to grow hydroponically, it becomes your responsibility to ensure your plants are receiving what they need to be healthy and productive. Follow Monica...
Boost Your Juice: Benefits of Cannabis Juicing
You don’t have to smoke or eat cannabis to enjoy its wide-ranging benefits. Making a cannabis smoothie will provide all kinds of healthy nutrients and CBDs in liquid...
Home Cooking with Cannabis: Guidelines and a Recipe
Maximum Yield's Watermelon provides more insight into enjoying home-prepared cannabis-infused foods and even provides a personal recipe of her own.
Dealing with Pythium Root Rot
Microorganisms are routinely introduced and cultivated in our hydroponic set-ups and gardens, but one such organism you don’t want to see is Pythium. It’s difficult to...
Maintaining and Troubleshooting pH Control Systems
For horticulturists using pH control systems, any type of failure can be devastating to a crop. Philip McIntosh looks at what can go wrong with these systems and ways to...
Understanding and Using NFT Hydroponic Systems
NFT systems can present problems — for both home and commercial growers — if they aren’t monitored properly.
Smoking and Vaping Cannabis Poses Health Risks
There is little peer-reviewed science available on how smoking and vaping cannabis grown with pesticides affects human health. However, most experts agree that inhaling...
The Importance of Growroom Hygiene
If you’re going to start growing produce and flower indoors, keep one thing in mind: cleanliness is next to holiness. Alan Ray details some of the things to remember...
Canines & Cannabis
While it has become popular to give dogs cannabis to ease a variety of ailments, there is little research to back up how Fido might react. Alan Ray explores the...
Going Deep with 10 Deep Water Culture Essentials
Deep water culture hydroponics is a great method for fast growing, heavy yielding crops. It’s accessible to new growers, but it’s not fail-safe. Here are 10 essential...
Pollinating in Greenhouses
Greenhouses are often verdant oases of lush, flowering plants of all kinds. They are often a treat for the senses when visited during colder and darker months. How...
Rockin’ the Rhizosphere
Understanding the benefits of microbial life in the rhizosphere of your hydroponic plants will go a long way toward growing healthy, productive crops. But how do you...
Preparing Your Plants for Harvest
You’re already prepping your garden for harvest as soon as you start it in the spring. The goal, after all, is to produce the healthiest garden possible. But the last...
Growing 101: Basic Plant Nutrition
Just like humans, plants need food to survive and thrive. Here’s a quick guide to get you started on designing your first nutrient regimen.
Is It Time to Say Goodbye to Your Cannabis Fan Leaves?
Dense canopies can cause a variety of problems in your grow room. By taking the time to get hands-on with your plants and removing excess fan leaves, you can save...
Experts
What would be the best way to plant a sprouting seed in aquaponics?
Great question! I take it to mean that you have a seed that has already germinated and is ready for transplant into your system versus successfully sprouting a seed that...
Can medical marijuana relieve the pain associated with shingles?
In most cases, the symptoms associated with shingles last about one month and resolve on their own. In these instances, cannabis (via inhalation or ingestion) can be an...
Ask A Grower: What To Do With a Cannabis Bumper Crop
Thank you for a great question. Regardless of what you plan to do with the stored crop, you want to preserve all the characteristics the buds had before they went into...
Should I consider companion plants for optimal pest control and nutrient balance?
That is a great question. There are a few companion planting options that can improve the health of your plants, as well as prevent harmful insects and diseases.The...
Can cannabis help prevent heart attacks?
Thank you for writing to me and keeping me on my toes for evidence-based opinion. Information is one thing, but in general medicine, it can come across as a little...
