10 Simple Cloning Tips For Success
Cloning is an essential practice in cannabis cultivation. These 10 simple tips can improve your clones rooting rates and how long it takes to produce roots.
Speak Up For The Future of Dagga Cultivation in South Africa
The 2018 Constitutional Court ruling promised change for dagga-lovers across South Africa, recognising an adults’ right to grow, possess, and use cannabis in private. Yet today, with the Department of Justice and Constitutional Development’s draft regulations under the Cannabis for Private Purposes Act, we find ourselves staring down the...
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Is It Still Safe To Buy Clones In South Africa?
Buying clones has always carried some risk, but with today’s prevalence of viroids and how common sharing clones has become – the risk is greater than it has historically been. Although these risks exist, it’s still reasonable to acquire clones from trusted retailers who get their stock tested.
Frequent Asked Cannabis Germination Questions
We handle more than a dozen support queries each day, and many of them ask about how best to germinate seeds. A few common problems arise sometimes, like seeds collapsing under their own weight (damping off) or stunted, deficient seeds that were started in barky potting soils. Here are...
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How to Identify and Treat Mealybugs in Your Cannabis Grow
If you’ve ever spotted a weird cottony blob tucked into a stem joint, leaf vein, or root crown of your cannabis plant, chances are you’ve seen a mealybug. And if you ignored it? Well, there were probably ten more hiding just out of view. Mealybugs are one of those pests...
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Can Feminized Cannabis Seeds Be Male?
This is a question that comes up often in growing circles. Feminized cannabis seeds are marketed as producing only female plants, but growers sometimes report seeing what they believe are males. So can feminized seeds really grow into male plants? The short answer is that it is extremely unlikely,...
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The Cannabis Bottleneck & Where We Go Now
Genetics is at the center of every living thing on Earth. Each group is limited in its abilities by the genetic pool of variables that they’ve inherited. In the same way that our eye and hair colour is determined by our parents and theirs by their own parents, cannabis...
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Leafminers on Cannabis: How To Identify and Treat Them
Have you ever spotted weird winding lines in your fan leaves, like someone took a miniature Sharpie and doodled a maze through the leaf tissue? That’s not just weird plant stress. That’s a leafminer. And while they’re not the most dramatic pest in the lineup, they’re sneaky, and they’ll...
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Fungus Gnats In Cannabis: How To Identify and Treat Them
Fungus gnats are small, mosquito-like flies, typically black or dark grey, with long legs and a clumsy, drifting flight. You’ll often spot them hovering around the soil surface, especially after watering. The adults, while annoying, aren’t the main issue. The real trouble comes from their larvae.
Dealing With Aphids on Cannabis Plants: What to Know (and What Actually Works)
Aphids. Those tiny green (or sometimes black, white, or yellow) sap-suckers that show up uninvited and start causing quiet chaos in your cannabis grow. They’re not the flashiest pest, but don’t let their small size fool you; they can mess up your plants fast if you let them settle...
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