How to Grow your own Marijuana (LEGAL)

Okay, Since i know i'm going to get MANY comments about this being illegal and not aloud on sythe
YOU
ARE
WRONG
This guide teaches you how to grow the common Marijuana plant, Male Marijuana plants are completely legal, though i will use Female plants as example, wich do get you high, it's completely legal for me, If you use Female seeds you are stating that you accept full responsibility for the fact that you are commiting a crime (depending on where you live) and that nor sythe, or myself has anything to do with your intentions, This is a legal guide, how you use it is your decision.



Pros and Cons of Marijuana:
Apart from popular belief, if any flamers talking about marijuana being a drug actually did some research, they'd realise that marijuana is a proven cure to 200+ sicknesses and is proven to reduce the chances of the following:
Cancer
Depression
Multi Sclerosis
And MANY others.
The only reason Marijuana is illegal (stated by a popular leader of the United States of America) is because "it would crash the prison system and the economy".
By saying that, He means if Marijuana where legalized, Everyone whose been inprisoned for it must be dealt with
And popular company produced Headache relievers, pain relievers, muscle stimulants, muscle relaxers, anti depression and many more leading medicine would be put out of business.
The current exchange of all medicine in the USA is approx 600B.



This is a LONG, DETAILED guide, If you don't like marijuana or want anything to do with it, i suggest leaving now.


Lets get started!


Table Of Contents:
> Overview
> Genetics and the plant
> Indoors and Outdoors
> Hydroponics
> Plant food and nutrients
> Ph and fertilizers
More, Coming Soon! Request anything that's not clear enough!




Overview:
Marijuana being one of the oldest plants known to man, and also one of the most potent medicine in its natural form (un-laced) is a common Anti-Depressant, pain reliever and more. Getting "high" off of marijuana is illegal in the U.S.A so i do not recommend growing female plants there. Male plants are completely legal.


There are few things in life as good as your own weed, grown by yourself at home out in the garden and indoors in pots...

Most people think of gardens as a seasonal, yearly project, but it's actually less time consuming and more rewarding to keep the garden going year round. If one were to attempt to grow year round, indoor gardening techniques will be needed at least during winter to keep the garden producing. You will have herb fresh at all times, there is no worry of mass storage thru the winter and spring, it requires less space, and once established, requires only minimal attention every week to keep it producing at optimal levels.

The best part of being a gardener is it connects you to the earth. It connects you with nature, and is spiritually enriching. Try giving your plants energy by beaming good thoughts and energy at them every time you visit them. I find this helps me as much as it helps them; my plants seem to respond to it favorably, i would very much like if you don't have anything nice to say not to share it with me on this thread, i know i'm a very in depth and "odd" person when it comes to growing marijuana, but it really does work, and thats a proven scientific fact.

Genetics and the Plant:

It's very important to start with good genetics. You should attempt to find seeds from local gardeners that are acclimated and bred for local climate and best floral characteristics. Potency, aroma, fast growth, early maturation, resistance to fungus and pests. All of these factors are considered by the seasoned gardener and you will benefit enormously by finding a friend to get you started on the journey that never ends...

Attempt to find an Indica/Sativa hybrid if possible, as this will have the best high and good characteristics for indoor growth as well. Indica plants have a heavy, stony high that is tiresome, and sativas' are hard to grow indoors due to high light requirements, and late flowering traits, so a hybrid can be bread that will have the energetic, cerebral high of the sativa and the early maturation tendencies of the Indica plant.

The Indica plant is easily recognized by its extremely broad leaves that are very rounded on the sides. The Sativa has very narrow, finger-like leaves. A hybrid will have qualities of both and have leaves that are a cross of these two types, thinner than an Indica, but much broader than a Sativa. It is possible to recognize a good hybrid by the leaves once you know what to look for.

Look for seeds that are dark brown or light grey. Some may have dark lines inset into these colors, like tiger stripes. White, small seeds are immature and should not be planted.





Indoors and Outdoors

The pros and cons:
Outdoors, you obviously have more space, depending on where you want to grow, except your plant is exposed to chemicals and bugs and what not.
Indoors, you can grow "dro" (Hydroponic) plants wich is high grade weed.

One of the best solutions to energy verses output for most home gardeners is to use outdoor light for flowering and use continuous light indoors for germination and vegetative growth. This will take advantage of the natural light/dark cycle and cut your energy use in half compared to the same operation indoors. A small greenhouse can be built of Filon fiberglass or PVC sheets that is innocuous and looks much like a storage shed or tool shed so it's not likely to raise suspicions.

PLANTING INDOORS

An indoor space should be found that can be used to germinate seeds; these vegetative starts are placed outside to mature in the spring after last freezes are over. The space can be a closet, a section of a bedroom, a basement area, an attic or unused bathroom. Some people devote entire bedrooms to growing.

The space must be light leak proofed, so that no suspicious light is seen from outside the house. This could invite fuzz or rip-offs.

The space should be vented. Opening the door of a closet can be enough ventilation if the space is not lit by big lights that generate a lot of heat. Separate exhaust and incoming air vents are best. One at the top of the room to exhaust air into the attic or out the roof, and one to bring in air from an outside wall or under-floor crawl space. Use fans from old computer cabinets, available from electronic liquidators for $5 each. Dimmer swithes can be used to regulate the speed/noise of the fans. Use silicon to secure the fans to 4-6" PVC pipe pushed thru a round hole cut in the floor and ceilings. Use lots of silicon to damp the fans vibrations, so that the walls do not resonate to the fans' ocsilations.

Line the walls with aluminum foil, dull side out to diffuse the light and prevent hot-spots, or paint the walls bright white to reflect light. Aluminized mylar, 1 mil thick is best.($20 for 25 feet of a 4' wide roll.) Mirrors are not good to use, since the glass eats light!

Line the floor with plastic in case of water spills, etc. Set up a voltage interrupt socket and be sure the electrical wiring will handle the lamps your going to use. Always place ballasts for HID lamps on a shelf, so they are above floor level, in case of water spills. Spacers place on the floor under a ballast will work too.

A shelf above the main grow area can be used to clone cuttings and germinate seedlings. It will allow you to double the area of your grow space and is an invaluable storage area for plant food, spray bottles and other gardening supplies. This area stays very warm, and no germination warming pad will be needed, so this arrangement saves you $.

Hang a light proof curtain to separate this shelf from the main area when used for flowering. This will allow constant lights on the shelf and dark periods in the main grow area. Velcro can be used to keep the curtain in place and ties can be used to roll it up when tending the garden. Black vinyl with white backing works best.

Now you need light. A couple of shop lights will be fine if you just want to start plants inside and then take them outside to grow in a small greenhouse. They can be purchased with bulbs for about $10 each, or without bulbs for around $8. Try to find them on sale. Use one Cool White and one Warm Light type bulb in each to get the best light spectrum possible for plant growth. Do not use expensive Grow Lux type bulbs, as they do not put out as much light, and therefor do not work as well in most situations (go figure). If Cool White is all you can find, or afford, use them. They work fine, and are by far the cheapest.(About $1-2 each.)

SHELF GROWING

Shelf gardening with fluorescents may be the trend of the future, since the materials are so inexpensive, and easy to obtain. Fluorescent lamps are great for shelf gardening. In this system, many shelves can be placed, one above the other, and fluorescent lamps are used on each shelf. Some shelves have 24 hour lighting, some have 12 hour lighting (for flowering). Two areas are best, perhaps with one other devoted to cloning and germination of seed.

Shelf gardening assumes your going to keep all plants 3' or shorter at maturity, so all shelves are 3-4 feet apart. Less light is necessary when you have plants that are this short and forced to mature early.

One drawback to a shelf garden like this is that it is very time consuming to adjust the lamp height every day, and it is harder to take a vacation for even a week with no tending of the garden. This applies mostly to the vegetative stage, when plants are growing as much as an inch per day. Lamps on the flowering shelves are not adjusted nearly as often.

Normally, the lamps should be kept within 2 inches of the tops of the plants, with the plants arranged such that they get progressively taller as the end of the lamps go up, so that all plants are within this 2" range. This is an ideal however, and if you do go on vacation, adjust the lamps so that your sure the plants will not be able to grow up to the lamps within that length of time. If enough flourecents are used to completely saturate the shelf with light, the spacing issue will not create spindly plants. They will mearly grow a little slower if the lamps are not very close to them.

An alternative is to use fluorescent lamps for cloning, germination and early seedling growth on the top shelf of a closet, then switch over to HPS for heavy vegatative growth and/or flowering in the main closet area.

Position the HPS such that it won't need adjustment, at the top most possible point in the closet or room. Most HPS installations will not require lamp height adjustment. Just attach the lamp to the underside of shelf or ceiling as high as possible, and if you want to get a few plants closer to it, put them on a temporary shelf, box or table to get them closer to the lamp.

A shelf is all that is necessary with this type of setup, preferably at least 18" wide, up to about 24" maximum. This area must be painted a very bright white, or covered with aluminum foil, dull side out to reflect light back to the plants. (Dull side out prevents hot-spots; diffuses light better.) Paint the shelf white too. Or, use aluminized mylar, a space blanket, or any silvery surface material. Do not use mirrors, as the glass soaks up light.

Hang shop lamps from chains and make sure you can adjust them with hooks or some other type of mechanism so they can be kept as close to the plants as possible at all times (1-2"). If the lamps are too far from the plants, the plants could grow long, spindly stems trying to reach the lamp, and will not produce as much bud at maturity. This is due to internode length being much longer. This is the length of stem between each set of leaves. If it is shorter, there can be more internodes, thus more branches, thus a plant that provides more buds in less space at harvest time.

Shelf gardening is sometimes referred to as Sea of Green, because many plants are grown close together, creating a green canopy of tops that are grown and matured quickly, and the next crop is started and growing concurrently in a separate area of continuous light. Clones are raised in a constant light shelf, until they start to grow well vegetatively, then placed on a 12 hour per day shelf to flower.







Under Construction, Post and tell me how i'm doing.

 

Al Oh Al

10/10

 

You obviously have no idea what a drug is.

 

you want an essay on marijuana, my year 6 english oral was better... i don't see anything here that is actually helpful too someone growing marijuana... you give lots of info and no specifics... how cool.

basically you talk alot about plants but not how too grow them...

 

Dark, If you read the whole thing you would see that it is UNDER CONSTRUCTION, As in STILL BEING MADE.
It's not easy to make a 9month tutorial in a day.

And yes i do, it is considered a drug, but what i meant by that is, drug or not, it is by far the farthest "drug" that is still legally considered a "drug".

That's like if people told you it was illegal to laugh, you would conclude, that must be the stupidest "law" there is, Well marijuana is the stupidest "drug" that there is.
Never heard of ANYONE dying from marijuana, Yet if you take 13 asparin it'll be your last headache (KW<33).

 

good so far

 

Thanks for the feedback, I now have a mailing list for people who are interested on growing and other marijuana facts, just PM me your E-Mail

 

10/10

Looks like a great effort.

 

Great Guide.
Fuck Male Buds.
Pick them Shits out or use a Strain of Bud that only grows Female Buds.

Even though I already Know how to Grow Bud,In My Closet ftw xD.

8/10

 

hahaha 10/10

 

dis is sexy shit 10/10

 

weed sucks tbh

 

Are you part of some kind of legalization for marijuana? Because i wanna know where you get those biased facts of yours. I thought this was a guide on how to grow marijunana, not why you believe its dumb to be illegal.

The guide is kind of plain. 5/10. Adding more details would be nice.

 

No im not.
I'm writing a guide on a 9 month process, so you must bear with me timewise.

 

The guide has great potential but You barely said anything on how to actually frow the weed instead giving way too much information.

Anyways I'de give it a 6/10.

 

nice guide.

It would be cooler if there were more pictures though :/

 

its okay.. more pics 3/10

 

nice guide
happy that i live in the netherlands hehe

 

nice.. but maybe more pics should be added...8/10

 

It was good, could use more pictures, but it's long and looked like it took a while, so I'll give you a 9/10. Thanks.