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.
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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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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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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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...
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How to Store Cannabis Seeds (Short & Long-Term)
Cannabis seeds, like all living things, have a window of viability whereafter germination can become challenging, or even impossible. Most cannabis seeds can be stored for between 2 to 3 years from their harvest date in a cupboard, or more than 5 years in a fridge or freezer, before...
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5 Simple Tricks For Beginner Growers To Improve Their Flower Quality
Growing cannabis is one of those things that a lot of people try and then give up on shortly afterwards. Often because they aren’t happy with the quality of their flower and the amount of effort they took to get there. If you’re in a similar position or simply...
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Can You Tell If A Cannabis Seed Is Female Before Planting It?
About a decade ago, there was an article shared on social media showing growers how they can look at their seeds and tell that they’re female just from looking at them. More recently, there have been claims that AI tools can analyze seeds and tell the grower even before...
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How to Read a Cannabis Seed Pack: Labels, Terms & What They Mean
If you’re new to buying cannabis seeds, you may see the back of some packaging and feel a bit lost at what all is being shown, and its relevance to your grow. While each breeder approaches this differently, and some packaging gives very little information, others have a lot...
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