7 Easy Steps Of Growing Cannabis

Growing Cannabis starting from Zero.

Growing cannabis takes practise, just like any other type of horticulture. Learning it is simple, but mastering it takes a delightfully stoned lifetime. Growing your own weed need not be intimidating. The procedure can be as cheap or expensive as you wish, and it is not difficult.

You should begin your marijuana growing journey by being familiar with the basics of cannabis cultivation. Your end returns will be maximised if you make well-informed judgments early. You'll have a great knowledge foundation to become a skilled marijuana grower with these seven fundamental steps.

 

Step 1: Cannabis seeds

There are three types of cannabis seeds to choose from: Feminized, Medical, Autoflowering. Your choice will depend on the available space you have. You taste and the effect you are looking for.

The options are overwhelming. Sativa, indica, ruderalis, and a variety of hybrids are all available options. From individual perspective, you are aware of your preferences. Which strains have previously fit your groove? What specific strains have effectively treated your particular ailment? They are most likely a great place to begin.

Now think about your current situation while keeping your particular preferences in mind. Are you growing in a little cabinet where compact, quickly mature plants like indicas or autoflowering varieties would make the best use of your available space? Or do you have a sizable backyard where you could raise a few monsters in the ground or in enormous pots?

Step 2: Cannabis Basics.

You need certain basic items for your cannabis plant to flourish at its best and produce the luscious buds for you.

LIGHT: Marijuana plants require more than eighteen hours of light each 24-hour period for good growth. Indoors: you can manage this using timers. Outdoor germination needs to wait until the plants can be exposed to more than twelve hours of daylight and get at least eight hours of direct sunlight daily.

GROWING MEDIUM: Whether growing indoors or outdoors, organic growers use  specific types of soil. But there are other options besides soil.

Coconut coir, perlite, vermiculite, or rock wool are examples of neutral media that solely depend on nutrients.

Pure hydroponics, deep water culture, and aeroponics do not require any mediums at all. The nutrient mixture provides nutrients directly to the hanging root structure. 

AIR: Cannabis needs fresh moving air to grow strong and conduct gas exchange properly. Your plants will be exposed to both gale and breeze outdoors without any issues. Your plants will require a fan for air circulation, a fresh air intake, and a stale air exhaust indoors.

Mold, bugs, and sluggish development thrive in the still environments. Plant growth will be slowed down by a buildup of inhaled gases.

WATER: Cannabis requires water to grow, develop, and perform its biological tasks, just like all other living things. If you reside in an area with consistent rainfall, nature may provide everything your outdoor crop requires. Cannabis plants of all sizes are notoriously thirsty. You would undoubtedly need to supplement water between rains if you plan to go big.

Inside, water acts as a carrier for nutrients. Hydroponic and soilless systems are routinely flushed with unaltered water. Your water's pH is highly essential. A reliable pH metre is a crucial component of the clever cannabis grower's complete grow kit.

TEMPERATURE: Cannabis is a fairly fast - growing plant that can thrive in both heat and cold. However, it is capable of experiencing excessive levels of stress and breaking, just like you or I can. A cannabis plant could drown or boil to death. Both growth and stasis are options. If the temperatures are too high or too low for too long, it will enter survival mode. The accepted optimal temperature for healthy cannabis development is 20 C - 25 C / 68 F - 77 F.

Fans, air conditioners, heating and cooling mats make it simple to accomplish this for indoor growers. Lights produces heat that needs to be ventilated.

Outside growers, you must choose your. right time for growing cannabis. Know the weather where you live well. Use a sun cycle software or chart to ensure that your timing is accurate. If you plant too early, there's a chance that cannabis will instantly begin to flower and then regress when the light level rises. We don't want this. When flowering begins, your flowers won't develop properly. If you wait too long you will have little plants with fewer flower sites.

NUTRIENTS: Like all living things, cannabis needs nutrients to grow. Your plants can have enough nutrition for their whole life cycle if you use a finely ground soil mix that is rich in compost, living creatures, vitamins, and minerals.

Compost tea and other organic watering mixtures, such as molasses or feather meals, enhance soil quality and promote wholesome plant growth.

With hydroponics or neutral mediums, pre-formulated nutrient blends are used to satisfy all of the plant's nutritional needs. (Usually designed specifically for marijuana growers). Whatever plant substrate you select, specialised mixtures are developed especially for it.

HUMIDITY: When you grow outside, this is a factor over which you mostly have no control and are at the whim of the weather. The positive side is that your plants get incredibly strong thanks to the fluctuating humidity and the strong biological processes required to adapt to a shifting grow environment!

Controlling indoor humidity is crucial from seed to flower. In order to perform their daily tasks, leaves aspirate air moisture. An area free from pests and mould benefits from properly adjusted humidity.

Step 3: Lighting for Cannabis Indoor Growing

The variety of lighting and growing tents available for indoor cannabis cultivation has really exploded. The decisive aspect will next be your budget.

GROWING TENTS: Sophisticated growing tents that have been expertly designed and are ready to use for cannabis are available. If you have extra couple of hundreds of dollars. Lights, fans, distinct compartments for clones, timers, and carbon filters are all ready for use.

LIGHTS FOR EVERY BUDGET: On the opposite end of the scale, a basic but highly effective CFL (Compact Fluorescent Light) or tiny LED panel (Light Emitting Diode) system for less than $300. In a spare growing tent, excellent buds are growing. Other small-space-friendly compact fluorescent lights, such as T5 battens, are available in a variety of spectrums for vegging and flowering.

Traditional grow light types include HPS (High-Pressure Sodium) and MH (Metal Halide) lamps. A 1.5 by 1.5 metre area may be effectively lit by a 1000W HPS with reflectors and offer outstanding growth. Similarly, a 600W MH lamp will illuminate the same amount of area and, at the conclusion of the grow cycle, produce cannabis of the highest quality. It is important to take into account the heat these lights produce. Your growing tent will rapidly get too hot for healthy cannabis development if it is not effectively cooled.

Step 4: Cannabis Seedlings and Germination

The germination of your seeds marks the start of your entire cannabis growing journey. Each healthy seed is fully equipped with the knowledge required to raise the type of plant you have selected. The life cycle can start as soon as the proper conditions are met. Before three prerequisites are satisfied, seeds won't begin to grow. A good location, water, and the right temperature (warmth).

Cannabis cultivation is a natural process without rigid guidelines. It is an art that must be mastered rather than a linear system to learn. Cannabis may be cultivated using a variety of equally efficient techniques. You'll eventually discover the one that suits you the best.

STRAIGHT INTO THE MEDIUM: By spreading the seeds directly in your medium, you can prevent transplant shock. Most of the time, it is simpler to start seeds in a tiny pot made of your preferred medium before moving them to the garden or larger pots.

PAPER TOWEL: Seeds are placed on a paper towel that has been wet, placed on a plate, and kept in a warm, dark spot. To hold on to moisture and humidity, a plate or piece of plastic is typically placed on top. Your seeds should sprout in a week to a few days. 

JIFFIES, PLUGS AND ROCK WOOL STARTERS: Simple to manage since fifty seeds can germinate in a very little area. Once the seedlings have grown, they may be planted in their permanent location without causing root damage.

IN WATER: Simply soak seeds in enzyme enriched water until you see the tap root appear then put in your medium. The seedling will quickly strike and break the surface about a week later.

Photosynthesis starts when your plants emerge from the soil and the cotyledons open to expose the first genuine leaves after shedding their seed husks. Now that you have a real marijuana seedling, it will soon grow into a booming outside tree or a heavy resinous inside micro plant.

Step 5: The Cannabis Plant's Vegetative Stage

When green leaves come into contact with light, photosynthesis starts in earnest. The vegetative phase of your plants has started as they begin to metabolise.

INDOORS: the lighting is programmed for an 18-hour day and 6-hour night schedule. You can customise this to intervals of day that work for you; it is not need to correspond with the real daylight hours. You may save a lot of money by operating electrical equipment off-peak.

Your plants are happy in their organic soil or are receiving nutrients meant for the vegetative stage. The temperature is kept under control and your young plants are strengthened by many fan-forced breezes. Exotic techniques can be applied, such as increasing the atmosphere's carbon dioxide level. Indoor cannabis has the ability to develop faster and produce more flowers with low-stress training and scrogging.

What Is The Duration Of The Vegetation Phase?

It's up to you how long the vegetative stage lasts. Depending on whether you want a dense grove of tiny plants, like with the Sea of Green grow technique. Alternatively, you may select a few bigger plants and top and mainline them to create big bloom clusters.

OUTDOORS: During the spring and into the summer, cannabis grows quickly as the number of daylight hours increases. A plant can reach a height of three or four metres during the vegetative phase if it has unlimited root space and strong genetics.

Modern plants are frequently topped and under-shucked during their whole development span. In the bloom stage, this promotes an even canopy that will fill with buds of the same size. As long as there are more than twelve hours of daylight, cannabis will continue to grow vegetatively. Your cannabis will begin to blossom sooner or later depending on how far you are from the equator.

Step 6: The Healthy Cannabis Plant's Blooming Period

The phases of growth for the marijuana plant known as blooming, flowering, and budding are the same. As scents begin to emerge, the upcoming months will be interesting. Interesting floral arrangements that are exclusive to your strain of choosing also start to appear. When the vegetative phase of the cannabis plant ends, the separate chapters of the flowering phase begin.

When summer's heat is over and fall is on its way, the first stage of blossoming may be observed outdoors. By switching to a twelve-hour day, twelve-hour night photoperiod indoors, you can determine when blooming starts.

Cannabis reacts to hormonal changes by continuing to grow vegetatively or starting to flower, depending on the species. APD and autoflowering mainly come in two varieties:

Absolute photo-determinate plants, also known as APD plants, depend on a hormone that is light-sensitive to continue vegetating. When activated, this hormone stops flowers from blooming.

Low light conditions and longer evenings leave it inactive. Nights lasting at least 12 hours will cause flowers to bloom.

This same hormone is age dependant in autoflowering strains. Regardless of photoperiod, blooming starts when the plant reaches a specified age that is specific to that species. It may just be two weeks since germination at this point.

The Various Blooming Stages

DIFFERENTIATION: The growth pattern changes significantly during the start of the blooming period. Branch development starts to zigzag and compress with less space between nodes instead of the striving and stretching symmetry of vegetation. Differentiation is clearly seen.

BLOOMING: The phases of flowering are the same in all species, however they last varying amounts of time. Weeks before a long-maturing sativa, a fast indica will be cured and ready for smoking.

Proper blooms will start to develop soon after differentiation. At the branch internodes, calyxes will swiftly produce puffballs with pistils on them. Young trichomes on the surfaces of the pistils, calyxes, and leaves are already generating much-desired resins.

Step 7: Harvesting, Curing, and Drying for the Best Buds

Over the last week, do not add fertilisers, your plants will thoroughly rinse with clean water. This ensures a pure flavour free of nutritional and salt aftertastes.

When Will My Marijuana Be Mature?

The pistils are now turning colour and shrivelling back as they are heavily coated with trichomes. Depending on the species, emergence colours could be deep orange, mauve, brown, or red. The flower clusters have grown so large that they resemble an inside-out turn.

These signals indicate that it is now time to reap the rewards of your labour.

Harvest trichomes with 20–30% amber content for increased THC concentration.
Harvest when trichomes are between 60 and 80 percent amber for a more diverse cannabinoid profile. Be careful because there could only be a twenty-four-hour difference in this situation.

The Marijuana Plant's Harvest

The method of harvesting is flexible. 

Learn by doing.

Some people may wet trim, which involves removing every leaf while the plant is still standing, and then further dismantle the plant. Branches can be dried by being hung up or by placing individual buds on a rack. Some people merely pick and hang the entire plant after removing the huge sugar leaves.

The only absolute guideline is to handle things carefully. The tiny trichomes should be disturbed as little as possible.

Cannabis Curing and Drying
Dry your buds in a room that is dark, cold, and dry. This procedure should go extremely slowly and take a minimum of two weeks.

Check items often for overdrying or mould
Thin branches are easily broken when they are dry. Thick branches will retain some flexibility.

Because to the degradation of the chlorophyll, species-specific colours have taken the place of the green of growth. As the buds' real dry colours develop, they might take on hues like fawn, brown, a light green, or even deep blue and purple.

Storage of Cured Buds

Put your treasure in a glass jar that is well sealed. For the first two weeks, "burp" or open the jar's lid once a day. This eliminates accumulated moisture, which might cause your buds to mould. Just once a week should be used to burp the jar after the flowers are dry to the touch. You don't want to have weeks of laborious work ruined by carelessness.

How Long Does Marijuana Take To Cure?

You are free to Cure for as long as you like. A water molecule is lost by the psychotropic substances when they are adequately healed, increasing their psychoactivity. When treated properly, this takes at least six weeks. The cure goes more smoothly the longer it takes. Keep your jars somewhere cold and dark. When THC is exposed to light, it gradually breaks down into other cannabinoids.

If you are unclear about the bud's dryness sample your product. Due to the waxiness of the resins, dry cannabis doesn't actually feel entirely dry. The talent and feel will come to you soon.

Cheers Growers!