For some people, cannabis cultivation is a hobby. Others a life-long passion. I know people in their 60s. Even in our most progressive states, however, the law is far from simple. That means you can have three vegetating and three flowering at any given time.
Before someone even begins to consider the genetics of their preferred strain, they should first ensure that their apartment is cannabis-friendly. There are five main factors to consider: space, temperature, humidity, the pH of water, and the amount of light. Space: 3 x 3 x 5 feet, minimum. That said, closets help growers control light pollution when the plant is in its flowering cycle — one of the main reasons home growers favor them over larger spaces, such as living rooms.
Temperature: 68 to 78 degrees Fahrenheit. Relative humidity: 30 to 45 percent. A lot of times your tap water will be 7. You can use what they call pH down. Light: 2,k. Position the light directly overhead. The 10 best SoCal pot shops worth seeing in person right now. From art galleries and speakeasies to deli themes and circus vibes, dispensaries have gone next-level.
I saw becoming an L. I knew these folks would be out there, somewhere, just as I was, hopping on the quarantine gardening train for some of the same reasons — and no doubt some different ones.
Some would be planting their own pot to do an end run around corporate cannabis which, with each passing day, looks more and more like Big Pharma and Big Tobacco.
Others would pursue pot parenthood to save money buying weed in L. Growing your own is legal in the Golden State, but it remains illegal under federal law. I planted my first seed on Oct.
Based on the grow guide included in my kit, my plant would be ready to harvest just before Christmas. Fast-forward two months and, instead of the towering THC-laced tannenbaum I was hoping for, I was headed into Christmas week with a seedling — all of 5 inches tall — curving out of its pot at a degree angle. Since A Pot for Pot purchases include growing consults via email, I sent off a few photos and a plea for help.
What a cute little plant! But the silver lining, as Taylor pointed out, was that because of her stunted size, there would be more than enough nutrients in the soil mix to support a second attempt in that same pot. So after a few weeks of mourning, I decided to give pot-plant parenting a second try. And this time around, I was determined to spare no expense — potential tax savings be damned.
I invested in a bathroom scale so I could weigh the plant between waterings, and when Taylor offhandedly suggested an LED grow light so I could raise my little green girl indoors, I immediately ordered one and cleared a spot in my garage, not far from where my hard-partying friends used to routinely smoke plants like her in the pre-pandemic days.
And that six-plant limit? She made the velour tracksuit an L. Now she reveals her second act. Mother-son pot entrepreneurs? Vape pens that match your track pants? We have questions. Taken altogether that means your ability to become a legal pot-plant parent in L. In mid-January, I planted my second seed. Leaves will appear wilted before turning dark and crispy. The deeper the frost, the more of the plant that will get damaged. Note that potted plants experience more severe temperature fluctuations than plants in the ground, making them more susceptible to frost damage.
If the rain will be there to stay, mold awaits—cut your losses and harvest before things get soggy. Covering your plants will help, but there will still be moisture in the air. You can cover plants with a few tall stakes and a tarp, just be sure to remove the cover when the cold or rain passes to let plants warm up and get the sun and air they need.
When growing weed indoors, you can harvest as much or as little as you want. The sky—rather, your grow room—is the limit. Weed can take anywhere from months to grow from seed to harvest, so you can fit in as many as four harvests of smaller plants, or one or two harvests of bigger plants each year. You can even fit in more than four harvests a year if you start with clones or autoflower seeds, both of which shave off some weeks of the grow cycle.
By and large, cannabis grown outdoors gets harvested once a year. In some tropical regions, you can squeeze in a second harvest in a year because of the climate. You can set up your outdoor weed grow to have more than one harvest a year if you grow autoflower seeds. Because of this, you can start growing a set of autoflowers early in the season, around March or April, harvest them in June or July, and then start growing a second set for harvesting in the fall.
Light deprivation, or light deps, are another technique to get multiple outdoor harvests in a year. A tarp is placed over a greenhouse to cut off the amount of light outdoor weed plants receive, giving you the ability to control the flowering cycle of plants. As with autoflowers, this will allow you to fit in multiple outdoor harvests in a season.
The drawback to light deprivation is you have to have a greenhouse and other equipment, and you have to place and remove the tarp every day.
If marijuana plants receive too much light on even one day, it can confuse them and ruin their flowering and bud production. But you may still want to harvest all strains at once to get trimming done all in one sitting, just keep in mind that some strains might get harvested on the early side and some on the late side.
Wet trimming involves trimming buds immediately after the plant is cut down, and with dry trimming, chopped plants are hung up to dry for several days before trimming.
Make sure scissors are ergonomic and will fit comfortably in your hand, as you will be holding these bad boys for quite a while. With time, these scissors will get very sticky, so get a pair that will clean easily, or buy two pairs so you can switch between them. There are many types of scissors you can buy; some are spring-loaded, some not.
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