Table of Contents
Varieties
1 Testing the Varieties: Which Strain is Right for You? 10
How to test many varieties' growth and potency
Growing many plants in a small space
2 Cultivar Bazar: High Quality Strains for Hobbyists 20
Tips to Increase Efficiency
3 Lessons from a Hawaiian Garden 28
Outdoors: Extending the Light Period to Keep Plants Growing Vegetatively
4 Hawaiian Legal 34
Indoors: Extending light period for vegetating
5 Lessons from a Jamaica Winter Garden 38
Growing in a short-day environment using close planting
6 Plant Regeneration: How to Achieve a Second Harvest 42
7 Tweaking Bud Potency Using UV Light 44
8 Summer Interlude: Wick System in my Greenhouse 48
The low-water, easy-to-care-for wick system
Manicuring & drying
9 Building Wick Systems 52
The most environmentally friendly setup
10 The Benefits of Small Plants 56
11 Cannabis Seeds or Clones: Which is Right for You? 60
12 Your Essential Guide to When Cannabis Buds Are Ready to Harvest 64
Growing with the Seasons
13 California Winter Garden 70
Starting clones in a greenhouse
How to have a successful spring harvest
14 Fall Quickie Garden 80
How to plant late in the season for a fall harvest
15 Winter Garden 84
Using natural and supplemental light
Growing with, the changing seasons
16 A Three-Month Spring/Summer Garden 88
Planting to maximize light
Mobile gardens
Outdoors or in a greenhouse? Both!
17 Ask Ed: Common Drying and Harvesting Questions 98
18 Garden Fever 104
Exploring different hydroponic methods
Simple light deprivation methods to speed up ripening
Going Commercial
19 Ketama: Morocco's Cannabis Paradise 114
Traditional use of tight planting for greater yield
20 Inside Kind Love's Marijuana Production Facility 118
Professional cloning techniques
Air circulation techniques
Tips for increasing efficiency at home or in a commercial garden
21 Ask Ed: Common Lighting Questions 122
22 Oakland Garden: Is This the Largest Urban Grow in the United States? 124
Large scale container growing
SOP (Standard Operating Procedure) of harvest
Rainy Day Craft
23 Hashimals: Enjoying the End Product 134
24 Ask Ed: Pot-Pourri-A Final Selection of Questions from Readers 138
Sponsors 140