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Farmer Offers Chance to Pick Your Own Hemp to Make CBD Medicine
…devoting three acres to growing high CBD hemp organically. The crop is free of chemicals and contains under 0.3% THC, meaning the medicine made with this type of cannabis plant…
The Differences Between Hemp and Marijuana
…see how it all plays out. In the meantime, this story raises an important question: what is the difference between hemp and marijuana? Cannabis Cousins Hemp and marijuana are both…
Seed Germination And The Three S’s: Stratification, Scarification, Soaking
…need a chilling period before germination, including some perennials, wildflowers, wild grasses, and some varieties of cannabis. Stratification means exposing the seed to cold temperatures, imitating the wintering period they’d…
5 Cool Ways To Support Plants Through The Growth Cycles
…dormant winter period they’d naturally experience if left outdoors. Others, such as peas and legumes, nasturtiums, and cannabis require scarification, which involves scratching the hard seed coat with sandpaper or…
Best "Grow Your Own" Books to read over the Holidays
…and treatments and harvesting the products of a beehive and collecting and using honey. Where to buy Outdoor Performance Cannabis by Dustin Fraser with contributions from Kyle L. Ladenburger Based…
Nature's Happy Little Accidents: Plant Mutations And Abominations
…plant’s life cycle. Breeding and Mutations When breeding, some exaggerated attributes/mutations are used to our advantage. When selecting mother plants for breeding cannabis, if you happen to come across a…
The Tall Plant Indoor Garden System
…space. From bigger tomatoes to dwarf citrus to cannabis – Grobo offers fully automated, precision growing. Grobo offers you all the latest in indoor garden system technology. It’s a WI-FI…
Give Me A Break: Virtual Garden Tours Help Ease Stress
…growing cannabis. The tour uses Google street view and is meant to show people that cannabis cultivation is very similar to other forms of agriculture. Now get back to work!…
How Plants Produce Their Own Pest Control
…epilepsy. With the ending of the prohibition of cannabis, not only has a vast amount of research been undertaken into the pharmaceutical applications of terpenes and other secondary metabolites within…
A Broken System? Corporatism and Community Rights
Is the world falling apart, or is it waking up? We are confronting systemic racism amid a pandemic and, combined with an unprecedented level of growing financial devastation, it has…
Hemp Produces Pollen The Bees Love
Hemp may be an unexpected hero when it comes to saving declining bee populations. A recent study, believed to be the first of its kind in cannabis fields, has found…
US Farm Bill Makes Growing Hemp Legal
…2018 farm bill, signed into law by President Donald Trump in December. Hemp is part of the cannabis family, which is why the DEA had it classified as a schedule…
Phytoremediation: Using Natural Plants To Rejuvenate And Clean The Earth
…cannabis family, there are still laws in place around the world that make growing the crop illegal. Proponents, however, tout hemp as one of the most sustainable and eco-friendly crops…
Pepper X: New World's Hottest Pepper
…Currie’s path to breeding the hottest pepper in the world interesting. Always into horticulture, he was already growing peppers in the late ’80s, and cannabis (long before it was legal…
The Fundamentalists Of Korean Natural Farming
…and surely gained momentum and spread throughout the entire world. With laws relating to cannabis production in the Americas over the past few years, there has been a great deal…
Local Growers Extended: How Porcupine Experimental Forest Farm Makes It Work
…an acre. Regan has a license to grow medical cannabis; four different varieties can be found throughout the garden and greenhouse. Beyond years of backbreaking work, what’s their secret? They…
My Fascination with Germination: A Grower Shares Some Tips And Tricks
…maintain adult plants or bring cannabis to flower are unnecessary for the early life stages. In fact, using strong fertilizers early on can harm the seedlings. Keep them warm, keep…
Vertical Farming Market Growth
…in with cannabis in the vertical agriculture segment of indoor growing either, because well, tall plants just don’t stack well. But that’s also why the vertical farming investment researchers downgrade…
Using Climate And Irrigation As Crop Steering Tools Through Flowering And Fruiting
…factors and how you physically prune your crops will influence how you steer your plants. Cannabis Flower Generative vs. Vegetative While working with hundreds of growers over the last few…
5 Cool Ways To Beat The Heat In The Grow Room
…you create. From flowers and vegetables to cannabis, many varieties and strains are remarkably tolerant of heat and drought conditions. When temperatures peak, they’ll thrive, and because they’re built for…