Yes. There is a lot of disinformation out there to turn you into a good consumer spending a good amount of money on things that dont work or you dont need. Unfortunately it's going to be rough for new people. There are vested interests wanting to screw up your grow just to sell you products to fix it, and worse.
(I'm talking as if you are growing indoors)
Lets get rid of the first myth. The recent invention of cannabis botany is a scam. There is only botany. We don't study the recent invention and its belief system.
Instead we study science, long standing horticultural techniques to grow it the right way.
First, cannabis is a short-day plant (long-night). In horticulture the correct way to grow short-day plants is: seedling 14 to 18 hours light. Vegetative stage: 12 hours lights on, 5.5 darkness, 1 hour light, 5.5 hours of darkness. This is known as 12-1 and keeps the plant in vegetative growth. Flowering: remove the one hour light in dark period. 12 hours lights on, 12 hours lights off. Now, each week shave off a little time. 30 minutes. So week 2 is - 11.5 lights on, 12.5 lights off. Keep doing this. If growing narrow leaf cannabis you want to get down to 8 hours lights on for that last week. Indica you want to go to 6 hours light that last week. This is what makes cannabis and all long-night plants happy. You get compact lush plants that ooze resin because they are happy.
The dirty trick is... they tell ya to grow it like it's a long-day plant. The exact opposite of what its evolution has made it for!
If you follow the cannabis scam, your plants are not going to be happy, stressed, because they are telling you to treat it like a long-day plant. So when you switch to flower, it's going to stretch like crazy. You dont want to be growing a bunch of stem on stressed plants. So dont fall for that bullshit. Just use the horticultural science for short-day plants. 12-1 and 8-16.
Just watch for the retarded statement: "Cannabis loves light!" - False.
It actually loves darkness. And you know why. Because it's a short day, long night plant. It's obvious. In india cannabis has been associated with Shiva, for thousands of years, and Shiva is the darkness, emptiness. Cannabis, yeah it needs light, but prefers darkness. Just like you must work to get food. It's not going to get more than 8 hours of intense light in nature.
Some plants go into photoprotection shut down near high noon near the equator. They actually stop for an hour or two then resume. On some strains you can visibly see them droop at hour 12 or 14 if they are under the wrong light schedule. That droop is photoprotection, the plant isnt doing anything. Transpiration has stopped. Its passed out asleep with full tanks. Blasting it with more light is just waste of electricity and it makes the soil dry out faster and you are watering/feeding more. Makes the room hotter. Bugs like this situation.
Next scam, seeds, genetics. There has been 30+ years of bad breeding practices that have left the state of cannabis genetics in a crisis.
For good marijuana, or medical marijuana you are going to need good genetics of regular seeds, not feminized or autoflowering
Autoflowering is a cannabis drug plant that has been crossed with a type of edible hemp called ruderalis. This is why their drug content is weaker and the effects last only about 20 minutes. These hemp hybrids are junk.
Feminized seeds are made by stressing the female, using chemicals to induce hermaphroditism, where it produces male sex organs, male flowers which have the pollen to make feminized seeds becaus there is no y chromosome. In nature, biology, the organism does what made the organism successful and in this case it is the hermaphroditic plant that was successful, so that trait is passed on.
Feminized seeds carry that now amplified hermaphroditic trait and it can pop up at anytime. Here is a feminized plant going hermie at week 6.5 see the yellow bananas? Now you know why they tell you to harvest these "fast finishers" so quickly.
Feminized/Hermaphrodites can ruin your entire grow. You can't trust those seeds.
On top of that, these artificial creations have weaker pest, mildew, and plant pathogen resistance. They also do not produce sinsemilla (true medical weed.) If you let them flower longer they will turn hermaphroditic or go into bud rot, or both. It never makes sinsemilla. They also require more watering, more nutrients. So they do actually cost more to grow. Imagine that, paying more to grow mediocre weed.
Their plan was for you not to be able to produce your own seeds, but be dependent on the seed company. Recurring payments. Unfortunately there is a lot of junk out there, and a lot of people who are ready to exploit you.
Additionally, you cant trust a single thing these seedbanks say. I recently read a description of "Mazar-I-Sharif" on one of these sites. Their description is that it's a three way hybrid, skunk and 2 others I cant remeber.
Mazar-I-Sharif... a skunk polyhybrid?
....This is intentional misrepresentation and marketing fraud. Mazar is a landrace IBL that goes back centuries. I trust 3 people for my seeds. People, not companies.
So maybe a few seed suppliers are not that way, but the problems along with it is so widespread and product so misrepresented that its wiser to bypass all of that altogether. Why take the risk when you dont have to.
So, if you dont want to be one of the cows to be milked, this is golden advice.
Study horticulture and how it relates to short-day plants and cannabis, not the recetly invented "cannabis botany" disinformation. Use regular cannabis seeds from a breeder you can trust for high quality genetics. Probably wont find them on google or paid advertisements by seed companies. If you need some good genetics to get started, people like us are still out there. And they spend a lot of money and have a lot of clowns erasing this stuff to keep the info away from you so you stay hypnotized, believing, buying, and repeat. That dependency, is slavery. And I am against slavery of all kinds.
Take care.
(I'm talking as if you are growing indoors)
Lets get rid of the first myth. The recent invention of cannabis botany is a scam. There is only botany. We don't study the recent invention and its belief system.
Instead we study science, long standing horticultural techniques to grow it the right way.
First, cannabis is a short-day plant (long-night). In horticulture the correct way to grow short-day plants is: seedling 14 to 18 hours light. Vegetative stage: 12 hours lights on, 5.5 darkness, 1 hour light, 5.5 hours of darkness. This is known as 12-1 and keeps the plant in vegetative growth. Flowering: remove the one hour light in dark period. 12 hours lights on, 12 hours lights off. Now, each week shave off a little time. 30 minutes. So week 2 is - 11.5 lights on, 12.5 lights off. Keep doing this. If growing narrow leaf cannabis you want to get down to 8 hours lights on for that last week. Indica you want to go to 6 hours light that last week. This is what makes cannabis and all long-night plants happy. You get compact lush plants that ooze resin because they are happy.
The dirty trick is... they tell ya to grow it like it's a long-day plant. The exact opposite of what its evolution has made it for!
If you follow the cannabis scam, your plants are not going to be happy, stressed, because they are telling you to treat it like a long-day plant. So when you switch to flower, it's going to stretch like crazy. You dont want to be growing a bunch of stem on stressed plants. So dont fall for that bullshit. Just use the horticultural science for short-day plants. 12-1 and 8-16.
Just watch for the retarded statement: "Cannabis loves light!" - False.
It actually loves darkness. And you know why. Because it's a short day, long night plant. It's obvious. In india cannabis has been associated with Shiva, for thousands of years, and Shiva is the darkness, emptiness. Cannabis, yeah it needs light, but prefers darkness. Just like you must work to get food. It's not going to get more than 8 hours of intense light in nature.
Some plants go into photoprotection shut down near high noon near the equator. They actually stop for an hour or two then resume. On some strains you can visibly see them droop at hour 12 or 14 if they are under the wrong light schedule. That droop is photoprotection, the plant isnt doing anything. Transpiration has stopped. Its passed out asleep with full tanks. Blasting it with more light is just waste of electricity and it makes the soil dry out faster and you are watering/feeding more. Makes the room hotter. Bugs like this situation.
Next scam, seeds, genetics. There has been 30+ years of bad breeding practices that have left the state of cannabis genetics in a crisis.
For good marijuana, or medical marijuana you are going to need good genetics of regular seeds, not feminized or autoflowering
Autoflowering is a cannabis drug plant that has been crossed with a type of edible hemp called ruderalis. This is why their drug content is weaker and the effects last only about 20 minutes. These hemp hybrids are junk.
Feminized seeds are made by stressing the female, using chemicals to induce hermaphroditism, where it produces male sex organs, male flowers which have the pollen to make feminized seeds becaus there is no y chromosome. In nature, biology, the organism does what made the organism successful and in this case it is the hermaphroditic plant that was successful, so that trait is passed on.
Feminized seeds carry that now amplified hermaphroditic trait and it can pop up at anytime. Here is a feminized plant going hermie at week 6.5 see the yellow bananas? Now you know why they tell you to harvest these "fast finishers" so quickly.
Feminized/Hermaphrodites can ruin your entire grow. You can't trust those seeds.
On top of that, these artificial creations have weaker pest, mildew, and plant pathogen resistance. They also do not produce sinsemilla (true medical weed.) If you let them flower longer they will turn hermaphroditic or go into bud rot, or both. It never makes sinsemilla. They also require more watering, more nutrients. So they do actually cost more to grow. Imagine that, paying more to grow mediocre weed.
Their plan was for you not to be able to produce your own seeds, but be dependent on the seed company. Recurring payments. Unfortunately there is a lot of junk out there, and a lot of people who are ready to exploit you.
Additionally, you cant trust a single thing these seedbanks say. I recently read a description of "Mazar-I-Sharif" on one of these sites. Their description is that it's a three way hybrid, skunk and 2 others I cant remeber.
Mazar-I-Sharif... a skunk polyhybrid?
....This is intentional misrepresentation and marketing fraud. Mazar is a landrace IBL that goes back centuries. I trust 3 people for my seeds. People, not companies.
So maybe a few seed suppliers are not that way, but the problems along with it is so widespread and product so misrepresented that its wiser to bypass all of that altogether. Why take the risk when you dont have to.
So, if you dont want to be one of the cows to be milked, this is golden advice.
Study horticulture and how it relates to short-day plants and cannabis, not the recetly invented "cannabis botany" disinformation. Use regular cannabis seeds from a breeder you can trust for high quality genetics. Probably wont find them on google or paid advertisements by seed companies. If you need some good genetics to get started, people like us are still out there. And they spend a lot of money and have a lot of clowns erasing this stuff to keep the info away from you so you stay hypnotized, believing, buying, and repeat. That dependency, is slavery. And I am against slavery of all kinds.
Take care.
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