Awesome Purple Strains To Grow This Season
There’s something uniquely alluring about dark cannabis plants, and purple strains have risen to prominence over the last decade, thanks largely in part to Girl Scout Cookies and Grandaddy Purple, which tend to produce dark plants, even when hybridised with other strains. In this article, we’ll briefly touch on...
Read MoreFast-Flowering Vs. Regular Flowering: What’s The Difference?
If you’ve been browsing through seed catalogs in the last few years, you may have seen a variety of weed seeds called “Fast Flowering” or sometimes just “FAST”. While descriptive, this term is also broad and open to interpretation. At what stage does a strain become ‘fast flowering’ and...
Read MoreBiltong & Budz’ Ultimate Beginner’s Grow Guide
Growing cannabis is an extremely rewarding activity, but whether you’re doing it for personal satisfaction or to make a living, you should aim for the best quality flower possible. The process of learning to grow can take years to fine tune and any good grower will acknowledge that the...
Read MoreHow Accurate Are Cannabis Breeder’s Flowering Times?
Whether you’re growing your weed plants outdoors or indoors, having an idea of the flowering time of a strain can be essential. For indoor growers, this knowledge is used to time each crop, ensuring that the veg space doesn’t become overgrown and ensuring there’s a quick transition between the...
Read MoreFeminized Cannabis Seeds: Everything You Need To Know
If you’re new to growing, or just getting started buying seeds instead of growing from bag seed, you may be wondering about feminized seeds and what they are. This is a common question we get asked by first time growers. Unlike regular seeds which can be male or female, feminized...
Read MoreNutrient Feeding Schedules For Cannabis
Feeding schedules are developed by companies to give a nutrient guideline to growers, and with so many different nutrient companies on the market – it can be challenging to remember which ratio was for which nutrient. Most have their recommended feeding schedules on the bottles themselves, but if you’ve...
Read MoreThe Best Soils For Germinating Cannabis Seeds in South Africa
Germinating cannabis seeds can be a scary process, one mistake can lead to non-germination, and when that occurs we, as growers, immediately lose money on what was supposed to be an investment into our grow. We’ve handled thousands of customer queries over the years and the medium used for germination...
Read MoreCannabis Fade: Understanding the Final Stage of a Well-Finished Grow
One of the most visually striking moments in a cannabis grow occurs right at the end of the flowering cycle. Deep purples, warm reds, soft yellows and burnt oranges begin to replace the lush green canopy that defined the earlier stages of growth. This transformation, commonly referred to as...
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