Cannabis Cultivation Guides

Hemp russet mites are microscopic pests that feed only on cannabis and hemp. You can't see them with the naked eye, so you'll usually spot the damage first. Watch for dull, brittle lower leaves with curled…

Cannabis crop steering is the practice of adjusting irrigation, nutrient strength (EC), and climate on purpose to push your plants toward leafy, structural growth or toward flower production at the right…

Low stress training (LST) means gently bending a cannabis plant's stems and tying them down so it grows wide and flat. Nothing gets cut, so there's little to no recovery time. Start in early veg while…

Growing marijuana at home starts with germinating the seed before you raise the seedling, care for your plant in veg and flowering, then harvest, dry, and cure your buds. A typical indoor grow takes about…

Cannabis nanners are exposed anthers, the small banana-shaped, pollen-bearing parts of a male flower, growing straight out of a female plant's buds. They're a sign of hermaphroditism, usually triggered…

Springtails on cannabis are tiny, harmless soil bugs that hop away when you water or touch the pot. They eat decaying organic matter — not healthy plants — so they’re rarely a threat to your grow. What…

Manifolding cannabis means topping a young plant and training it into one central hub with equal-length arms, so every branch ends in a cola of similar size. Most growers use the terms “manifolding" and…

ScrOG or Screen of Green is a method that trains cannabis plants to grow horizontally across a mesh screen or scrOG net instead of letting them climb vertically. The objective is a flat, evenly lit canopy…

A cannabis leaf symptom chart links what you see on a leaf, and where it shows up on the plant, to the problems most likely behind it. Leaves are usually where trouble shows first, whether it comes from…

A cannabis light schedule is the daily split between light and darkness, written as two numbers like 18/6 or 12/12. If you're growing feminized photoperiod seeds, run 18/6 from seedling through veg, then…

Knowing when to transplant cannabis comes down to looking at the roots. Move seedlings once roots reach the drainage holes and they have 3–5 sets of true leaves. Move clones once 1- to 2-inch white roots…

Plant growth regulators (PGRs) are natural or synthetic substances that change plant hormone activity to manipulate growth, development, and flowering. In cannabis cultivation, PGRs are used commercially…

Knowing how to get rid of leaf miners on cannabis starts with confirming the damage: check leaves for see-through tunnels that widen from one end, often with a dark line of droppings. Then pinch each tunnel…

Hop latent viroid (HLVd) is a tiny strand of infectious RNA that causes dudding disease in cannabis. Infected plants and clones show severely stunted growth and shrunken buds with diminished yields and…

The best cannabis pH level for soil is 6.0–6.3 (5.5–6.5 acceptable) and 5.8–6.2 (5.6–6.4 acceptable) for coco coir and hydroponic setups. Keep root zone pH inside those windows and your plants can take…

Lollipopping weed means pruning away shaded growth like smaller bud sites, branches, and leaves on the lower part of a cannabis plant so more of its energy goes to the bud sites up top. Those low sites…

The Sea of Green method takes lots of small cannabis plants, flips them to flower after a quick veg, and lets each one finish with a single cola. Most growers call it SOG for short, and it's one of the…

To clone marijuana, cut a 4–6 inch shoot from a healthy female plant in veg, just below a node. Strip the lower leaves, dip the base in rooting hormone, and set it in a damp medium under a humidity dome…