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  Canopy Management

  The Art of Plant Training and SCROG: Grow Bigger and Better

  As a gardener with years of experience, I have worked with a wide variety of plants, from vegetables to herbs with a strong focus on cannabis. Saying that training your...

  By: Samuel Belanger

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  Canopy Management

  Cannabis Training and Pruning Techniques

  Cannabis naturally grows in a fat Christmas-tree shape, with a large central cola (apical meristem) on top, and smaller buds at the growth tips on the ends of the...

  By: Grubbycup | Indoor Gardener, Owner & Writer of Grow with Grubbycup

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  Canopy Management

  Trellises, Super-Cropping & Ladybugs: Increase Your Yields by All Means Necessary

  Increasing the yield is always the key goal at the end of the day in any type of crop production. I always try and explain this in terms of space when gardening under...

  By: Lee McCall

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  Cannabis

  The Beauty of Bonsai Cannabis

  With all the many ways to grow cannabis, many growers are taking on the world of bonsai. The dream of a bonsai cannabis enthusiast is to have a miniature version of a...

  By: Luis Cordova | Plant Biotechnician, Pharmaceutical Scientist

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  Canopy Management

  Train Your Tomatoes: Training and Pruning for Bigger Fruit and Improved Yields

  There’s nothing quite like a ripe, sun-warmed tomato right off the vine. It’s an iconic part of summer. There are more than 10,000 varieties of tomatoes for...

  By: Monica Mansfield | Homesteader, Owner & Writer of The Nature Life Project

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  Canopy Management

  Benefits, Yields, and Different Ways of Growing Cannabis

  Consider Which Cannabis Strain You Want to GrowWhen growing cannabis many factors will determine which technique is best to use. The first and most important factor is...

  By: Luis Cordova | Plant Biotechnician, Pharmaceutical Scientist

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  Canopy Management

  How to Master Cannabis Mainlining

  Mainlining is an advanced high yield pruning and training method that blends several techniques to radically alter the structure of the cannabis plant to focus growth on...

  By: Michael Coffey | Cannabis Cultivator, Writer, Photographer, & YouTuber

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  Canopy Management

  Topping and Low-Stress Cannabis Training

  To obtain higher yields, the most productive indoor growers manipulate their plants into a low, wide, and flat canopy with multiple flowering sites at the &lsquo...

  By: Andrew Taylor | Head of Manufacturing, Research, & Development at FloraMax

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  Canopy Management

  How to Set Up a Screen of Green (SCROG) Cannabis Grow

  Throughout my life, one major value that’s been consistently hammered into my brain time after time is to always make the best of what you’ve got. Growing up...

  By: Kyle Ladenburger | Director of Regulatory Affairs for Age Old Organics & ENP Turf, Freelance Garden Writer

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  Plant Growth

  Easy Ways to Increase the Amount of Light Energy Reaching Your Plants

  When growing marijuana indoors, light energy has the largest impact on yield and performance. It is the main energy driving photosynthesis in an indoor garden.This is...

  By: Lee G Lyzit | Grower, Writer

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  Cannabis

  How Different Types of Stress Affect the Growth of Cannabis Plants

  While cannabis is a versatile plant, it can be sensitive, just like people. It reacts to the surrounding environment and it can either thrive or wither depending on the...

  By: Luis Rivera

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  Canopy Management

  3 Simple Tricks for Growing Cannabis at Home: Topping, Lollipopping, and Low Stress Training

  After two-plus months of nursing your cannabis plants to success, it is very disappointing to walk away with just a couple of ounces of dried bud.Luckily, you can easily...

  By: Dylan Osborn | Greenhouse Grower, Owner of GreenBox Grown