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This whole ball is dropped into a baseball-sized hold in the permanent soil. If you are growing/transplanting indoors, you should use a green
safe light (purchased at nurseries) during the transplanting operation. If you are transplanting outdoors, you should time it about two hours
before sunset to avoid damage to the plant. Always wear cotton gloves when handling the young plants. After the plants are set in the hole,
you should water them. It is also a good idea to use a commercial transplant chemical (also purchased at nurseries) to help then overcome the
shock.
INDOOR GROWING
Indoor growing has many advantages, besides the apparent fact that it is much harder to have your crop "found," you can control the ambient
conditions just exactly as you want them and get a guaranteed "good" plant. Plants grown indoors will not appear the same as their outdoor
cousins. They will be scrawnier appearing with a weak stems and may even require you to tie them to a growing post to remain upright, BUT
THEY WILL HAVE AS MUCH OR MORE RESIN! If growing in a room, you should put tar paper on the floors and then buy sterilized bags of soil
form a nursery. You will need about one cubic foot of soil for each plant. The plants will need about 150 mL. of water per plant/per week. They
will also need fresh air, so the room must be ventilated. (However, the fresh air should contain NO TOBACCO smoke.) At least eight hours of
light a day must be provided. As you increase the light, the plants grow faster and show more females/less males. Sixteen hours of light per
day seems to be the best combination, beyond this makes little or no appreciable difference in the plant quality. Another idea is to interrupt the
night cycle with about one hour of light. This gives you more females. The walls of your growing room should be painted white or covered with
aluminum foil to reflect the light. The lights themselves can be either bulbs of fluorescent. Figure about 75 watts per plant or one plant per two
feet of fluorescent tube. The fluorescents are the best, but do not use "cool white" types. The light sources should be an average of twenty
inches from the plant and NEVER closer than 14 inches. They may be mounted on a rack and moved every few days as the plants grow. The
very best light sources are those made by Sylvania and others especially for growing plants (such as the "gro lux" types).
HARVESTING AND DRYING
The male plants will be taller and have about five green or yellow sepals, which will split open to fertilize the female plant with pollen. The
female plant is shorter and has a small pistillate flower, which really doesn't look like a flower at all but rather a small bunch of leaves in a
cluster. If you don't want any seeds, just good dope, you should pick the males before they shed their pollen as the female will use some of
her resin to make the seeds. After another three to five weeks, after the males are gone, the females will begin to wither and die (from
loneliness?), this is the time to pick. In some nefarious Middle Eastern countries, farmers reportedly put their beehives next to fields of
marijuana. The little devils collect the grass pollen for their honey, which is supposed to contain a fair dosage of THC. The honey is then
enjoyed by conventional methods or made into ambrosia. If you want seeds - let the males shed his pollen then pick him. Let the female go
another month and pick her. To cure the plants, they must be dried. On large crops, this is accomplished by constructing a drying box or drying
room. You must have a heat source (such as an electric heater) which will make the box/room each 130ø. The box/room must be ventilated to
carry off the water-vapor-laden air and replace it with fresh. A good box can be constructed from an orange crate with fiberglass insulated
walls, vents in the tops, and screen shelves to hold the leaves. There must be a baffle between the leaves and the heat source. A quick cure
for smaller amounts is to: cut the plant at the soil level and wrap it in a cloth so as not to loose any leaves. Take out any seeds by hand and
store. Place all the leaves on a cookie sheet or aluminum foil and put them in the middle shelf of the oven, which is set on "broil." In a few
seconds, the leaves will smoke and curl up, stir them around and give another ten seconds before you take them out.
TO INCREASE THE GOOD STUFF
There are several tricks to increase the number of females, or the THC content of plants: You can make the plants mature in 36 days if you are
in a hurry, by cutting back on the light to about 14 hours, but the plants will not be as big. You should gradually shorten the light cycle until you
reach fourteen hours. You can stop any watering as the plants begin to bake the resin rise to the flowers. This will increase the resin a bit.
You can use a sunlamp on the plants as they begin to develop flower stalks. You can snip off the flower, right at the spot where it joins the
plant, and a new flower will form in a couple of weeks. This can be repeated two or three times to get several times more flowers than usual.
If the plants are sprayed with Ethrel early in their growing stage, they will produce almost all female plants. This usually speeds up the [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]