wn in most
of these soil types but you will see that there may be some problems
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with a few of them.
(Also there is a type of artificial medium on the market called
Perlite. It is a good medium but does not come with any nutrients and
generally needs to be mixed with another soil type. Vermiculite is
another product like Perlite which should be treated the same way.
Mix them well with soil if it is your first time using them. With a bit of
experience you should be able to control the mixture ratios better.)
Sand and Silts:
Figure 5.19 - Sand.
Sand soils can be pure sand or a mixture of sand and soil. The
problem with sandy soil is that it drains water and minerals out too
quickly. This means that it is a very dry soil and not suitable for our
needs. These soils can waste our time and money.
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Silt soils are nearly the same as sand soil except they are more
clay-like and of a darker color. Silts hold nutrients well but do not hold
water very well. Like sands they are prone to quick drainage. Sands
and Silts are rarely used on their own to grow cannabis. Mostly it is
mixed with other soil types.
Clay:
Figure 5.20 - Clay
Is a stiff tenacious fine-grained earth consisting of hydrated
aluminosilicates that become flexible when water is added. Marijuana
roots do not really like clay. Clay can rarely be used on its own to grow
Cannabis. Mostly it is mixed with other soil types.
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Loam:
Figure 5.21 - Loam
Loams tend to be a mix of all of the above. The combination
of the mix is always stated on the bag. In fact, in most cases normal
soil that you buy in the shops has sand, silt and clay mixed in with it.
When you encounter a bag of soil it is nearly always going to be a
Loam. Loams are very fertile soil composed chiefly of clay, sand, and
humus. They are highly recommended. It must be noted at this point
that you do not want to bring natural outdoor soil in. This is because
the soil may not be sterile and it may contain bugs and pests. Always
buy soil from a gardening shop. Soil is the cheapest part of your grow.
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Humus:
Figure 5.21 - Humus
Is the organic constituent of soil, formed by the
decomposition of plant materials and can be bought in bags at the local
gardening shop. Most of these products try to eliminate bugs and other
living matter from the soil but sometimes this is not 100% successful.
Don’t be too surprised if you find a worm or green fly in the package.
Humus is also sometimes known as compost, but compost is the final
mixture of manure (which is of organic origin), loam soil and some
other mediums with added organic matter. Humus is that added
organic matter stuff.
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POTS
Figure 5.22 - Plant in three gallon pots by BushyOlderGrower
Basically pots come in all shapes and sizes. Marijuana plants
are best kept in pots that are somewhat large (1.5 - 3 gallon pots)
because cannabis does grow long roots.
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Also you are better off buying a pot that has some form of
perforaSensi
t damage the roots. When you
have done this push your fingers down into the side and lift the plant
and soil out. You will have some breakaway soil but this does not
matter as long there is not too much of it lost. Quickly place the plant
into the larger pot and fill with soil. Give your plant some water so
that it will take to the new soil. Never ever try to lift your plant by the
stem. Even though the stem may look safe and strong this nearly
always causes problems down the line. You should always have a firm
grip of the soil when transplanting. Some people like to clean the
roots, but I would not recommend it for cannabis. If your soil is very
compact you may be able to turn the pot upside down and tap the
whole medium out as one solid mass.
During some transplants the cannabis plant may go into
shock, even if your transplant was clean and perfect. If you have kept
your plant well it should survive. If the plant has not been looked after
it may fail quickly. A good grower always takes care of his/her plants.
Transplant shock is caused by a disturbance of the roots. If the roots
are cut or fall down, the plant does not respond well to this. This is
why you must always make sure that you keep a firm hold of the soil
during transplants. Also refrain from feeding them for 1 week if you
can. There are some transplant feeding products that work as
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hormones out there and you may wish to have a look at those.
GERMINATION SOIL
There are many soils out there that advertise themselves as
germination soils. They basically are the same as any other soil except
they contain micronutrients and are kept somewhat 'clean' (the soil is
sifted and no compost is added). Ordinary loam soil with a pH of 7 and
an NPK of higher or equal amounts of N than P or K is good for
starting seeds in. Even the ratios of NPK @ 5:1:1 or 8:4:4 are good.
Just make sure that the N is equal too or higher than the P and K
factors on the label. More about soil later.
INDOOR AND OUTDOOR GROWING
We are now coming to the first core divide in growing
marijuana. At this stage you should now know something about the
History of Cannabis, How it is smoked, Cannabis Species, The
Cannabis High, Seeds, How to choose and obtain seeds, Grow factors,
The life cycle of the plant, Propagation, Germination and
Transplanting. Now all these things are generally pre-production
methods except for Transplanting. You are about to take your seedling
and put it into your main grow area. This means that for the next 3 - 9
months your plant is going to be located in a certain environment.
That environment is either indoors or outdoors. So let us talk about
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each in brief for a moment.
GENERAL INDOOR GROWING
Figure 3.9 - Indoor Grow room picture by Shipperke.
Light is the most important factor next to choosing your
strain that you must consider. There are two main ways to light your
plants indoors - Natural light and artificial light. Both ways have
advantagesensi-seed
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Malayan tribesmen who ran amok high on marijuana? Were Patrice Lumumba's followers
under the influence of cannabis when they displayed "orgiastic frenzy and homicidal
ferocity" in battle?1] Was Victor Licata intoxicated by marijuana when, on October 17,
1933, in Tampa, Florida, he hacked his entire family (father, mother, and three brothers)
to death with an axe?[2] Have India's holy men been inspired by the cannabis high?
Answers to these questions depend more on what we think of marijuana than what
actually happened historically. Recorded history is largely myth-making, an effort to align
supposed events with our own ideology.
Marijuana has played a medicinal role in every area in which it was grown, including
the United States where from colonial days until well into the twentieth century it was
used to cure a
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insanity, stuttering, migraine headaches, flatulence, epilepsy, delirium tremens, asthma,
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law outlawed its possession and sale, marijuana was a staple in many patent medicine
catalogues.3] Today, of course, very few physicians take marijuana's therapeutic role
seriously; in fact, physicians usually define drug abuse as the use of a drug outside a
medical context.
That marijuana use is invariably abuse is deduced from the fact that
marijuana has no legitimate medical treatment function whatsoever; any use, in the
medical view, is by definition misuse or abuse. Although the therapeutic argument for
marijuana will occasionally be invoked by users and pro-pot propagandists, in general,
most do not take it any more seriously than the physicians do; they are content with the
argument that the drug is simply harmless and does not cause or compound any medical
problems.
The use of marijuana, or Indian hemp, for medical purposes considerably predates its
use for psychoactive purposes. Its origins as a medicinal herb are, of course, lost in primal
obscurity. Norman Taylor, a botanist, writes that mention of hemp may be found in a
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.
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Cannabis sativa at his disposal in pre-Colombian times," agrees Michael Harner, an
anthropologist who studies the use of psychoactive substances among Indians. Were
Malayan tribesmen who ran amok high on marijuana? Were Patrice Lumumba's followers
under the influence of cannabis when they displayed "orgiastic frenzy and homicidal
ferocity" in battle?1] Was Victor Licata intoxicated by marijuana when, on October 17,
1933, in Tampa, Florida, he hacked his entire family (father, mother, and three brothers)
to death with an axe?2] Have India's holy men been inspired by the cannabis high?
Answers to these questions depend more on what we think of marijuana than what
actually happened historically. Recorded history is largely myth-making, an effort to align
supposed events with our own ideology.
Marijuana has played a medicinal role in every area in which it was grown, including
the United States where from colonial days until well into the twentieth century it was
used to cure a variety of ills: acute depression, tetanus, gonorrhea, insomnia, malaria,
insanity, stuttering, migraine headaches, flatulence, epilepsy, delirium tremens, asthma,
cancer, and chronic itching—with understandably mixed results.
Until 1937, when federal
law outlawed its possession and sale, marijuana was a staple in many patent medicine
catalogues.3] Today, of course, very few physicians take marijuana's therapeutic role
seriously; in fact, physicians usually define drug abuse as the use of a drug outside a
medical context. That marijuana use is invariably abuse is deduced from the fact that
marijuana has no legitimate medical treatment function whatsoever; any use, in the
medical view, is by definition misuse or abuse. Although the therapeutic argument for
marijuana will occasionally be invoked by users
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most do not take it any more seriously than the physicians do; they are content with the
argument that the drug is simply harmless and does not cause or compound any medical
problems.
The use of marijuana, or Indian hemp, for medical purposes considerably predates its
use for psychoactive purposes.
Its origins as a medicinal herb are, of course, lost in primal
obscurity. Norman Taylor, a botanist, writes that mention of hemp may be found in a
pharmacy manual from 2737 B.C., supposedly written by a Chinese emperor, Shen Nung.
4] This story found its way into a vast number of essays on marijuana,5] mincluding my
own.6] The Assassins killed out of fanatical religious
devotion—hashish or no hashish—and the American Indian did not become peaceful as a
result of smoking marijuana in his pipe, a myth which the procannabis side propagates to
demonstrate the weed's pacific properties; the Indian had no marijuana to put in his pipe.
"The American Indians never used it in their peace pipes," writes Richard Evans Schultes,
one of the world's experts on ethnobotany; the "American Indian... did not anywhere have
Cannabis sativa at his disposal in pre-Colombian times," agrees Michael Harner, an
anthropologist who studies the use of psychoactive substances among Indians.
Were
Malayan tribesmen who ran amok high on marijuana? Were Patrice Lumumba's followers
under the influence of cannabis when they displayed "orgiastic frenzy and homicidal
ferocity" in battle?1 Was Victor Licata intoxicated by marijuana when, on October
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to death with an axe?2 Have India's holy men been inspired by the cannabis high?
Answers to these questions depend more on what we think of marijuana than what
actually happened historically. Recorded history is largely myth-making, an effort to align
supposed events with our own ideology.
Marijuana has played a medicinal role in every area in which it was grown, including
the United States where from colonial days until well into the twentieth century it was
used to cure a variety of ills: acute depression, tetanus, gonorrhea, insomnia, malaria,
insanity, stuttering, migraine headaches, flatulence, epilepsy, delirium tremens, asthma,
cancer, and chronic itching—with understandably mixed results.
Until 1937, when federal
law outlawed its possession and sale, marijuana was a staple in many patent medicine
catalogues.[3 Today, of course, very few physicians take marijuana's therapeutic role
seriously; in fact, physicians usually define drug abuse as the use of a drug outside a
medical context. That marijuana use is invariably abuse is deduced from the fact that
marijuana has no legitimate medical treatment function whatsoever; any use, in the
medical view, is by definition misuse or abuse. Although the therapeutic argument for
marijuana will occasionally be invoked by users and pro-pot propagandists, in general,
most do not take it any more seriously than the physicians do; they are content with the
argument that the drug is simply harmless and does not cause or compound any medical
problems.
The use of marijuana, or Indian hemp, for medical purposes considerably predates its
use for psychoactive purposes.
Its origins as a medicinal herb are, of course, lost in primal
obscurity. Norman Taylor, a botanist, writes that mention of hemp may be found in a
pharmacy manual from 2737 B.C., supposedly written by a Chinese emperor, Shen Nung.
4 This story found its way into a vast number of essays on marijuana,[5 mincluding my
own.[6 The Assassins killed out of fanatical religious
devotion—hashish or no hashish—and the American Indian did not become peaceful as a
result of smoking marijuana in his pipe, a myth which the procannabis side propagates to
demonstrate the weed's pacific properties; the Indian had no marijuana to put in his pipe.
"The American Indians never used it in their peace pipes," writes Richard Evans Schultes,
one of the world's experts on ethnobotany; the "American Indian.
.
.
did not anywhere have
Cannabis sativa at his disposal in pre-Colombian times," agrees Michael Harner, an
anthropologist who studies the use of psychoactive substances among Indians. Were
Malayan tribesmen who ran amok high on marijuana? Were Patrice Lumumba's followers
under the influence of cannabis when they displayed "orgiastic frenzy and homicidal
ferocity" in battle?1 Was Victor Licata intoxicated by marijuana when, on October 17,
1933, in Tampa, Florida, he hacked his entire family (father, mother, and three brothers)
to death with an axe?2 Have India's holy men been inspired by the cannabis high?
Answers to these questions depend more on what we think of marijuana than what
actually happened historically. Recorded history is largely myth-making, an effort to align
supposed events with our own ideology.
Marijuana has played a medicinal role in every area in which it was grown, including
the United States where from colonial days until well into the twentieth century it was
used to cure a variety of ills: acute depression, tetanus, gonorrhea, insomnia, malaria,
insanity, stuttering, migraine headaches, flatulence, epilepsy, delirium tremens, asthma,
cancer, and chronic itching—with understandably mixed results. Until 1937, when federal
law outlawed its possession and sale, marijuana was a staple in many patent medicine
catalogues.3 Today, of course, very few physicians take marijuana's therapeutic role
seriously; in fact, physicians usually define drug abuse as the use of a drug outside a
medical context. That marijuana use is invariably abuse is deduced from the fact that
marijuana has no legitimate medical treatment function whatsoever; any use, in the
medical view, is by definition misuse or abuse. Although the therapeutic argument for
marijuana will occasionally be invoked by users and pro-pot propagandists, in general,
most do not take it any more seriously than the physicians do; they are content with the
argument that the drug is simply harmless and does not cause or compound any medical
problems.
The use of marijuana, or Indian hemp, for medical purposes considerably predates its
use for psychoactive purposes. Its origins as a medicinal herb are, of course, lost in primal
obscurity. Norman Taylor, a botanist, writes that mention of hemp may be found in a
pharmacy manual from 2737 B.C., supposedly written by a Chinese emperor, Shen Nung.
4 This story found its way into a vast number of essays on marijuana,5 mincluding my
own.
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