What is your biggest question about growing cannabis?

[oldandintheway]

I was just given an awesome 8x8 tent that I have in my garage. I my thinking now is to upgrade my growlights, I'm kinda stuck between Mars Hydro and Spider Farmer. I've read Nebs thoughts on both but what does the brain trust have to say? Gonna have to have one hell of a ventilation system I'm guessing. Thanks in advance!

[Southside]

Anybody know what this can be from

[Jgrimaldo6969]

My nugs are getting dense I grow outdoors I get my seeds and nutrients from a u.s seed bank called NukeHeads the seeds are great all my orders I received in 5-8 days I just plucked a bud weighed it wet 2.3 g. And cured for 10-14 days weight was 1.73 g. Good smooth, relaxed not bad oh yeah seed bank easy pay buy purchase a gift card or bitcoin, credit card .

[rosebud]

How soon can one start pruning and how much pruning is too much.

[55oldman420]

I am new to growing so have many questions. I just posted some pics and info maybe you can help.

[Cronk]

7-8 grams is huge for a nug, no? I've not seen that yet

[soonboomer]

I've bought a substantial amount of high grade dispensary weed over the past two years and have often gotten buds that weigh as much as 7-8 grams. Not massive, but much bigger than anything I've been able to grow.

[Cronk]

no, I've never seen large colas in a dispensary. All buds have been fairly small. maybe cured down to that size? perhaps they have some kind of vacuum for removal of oxygen, and that helps the tightness? just a wild guess

[Puglover1]

I was surmising that dispos harvest earlier. I check their trichs when I buy an 1/8th, I don't see ambers trichs. The last few weeks seem to make trichs less visible to the naked eye for me, growing in a closet. I know I got a nice jar of kief from my dried buds before jarring. They must use a trimmer then someone goes over the buds by hand. I've seen street weed be as hard as dispo weed but smaller nugs, it makes me wonder. I think they trim them down far because they use everything to sell in one form or another - shake, pre-rolls, extracts, etc. etc. I doubt if you buy an ounce - I haven't - at the dispensary that you'd get any long hard colas - do you?

[Cronk]

I never thought about heat. pros have climate control, yeah? My tent gets in the 90s for sure, right at the limit. I'll see about getting the temp down although my winter grows aren't really any different.

[soonboomer]

I agree. I'm an outdoor grower, and the photos I grew last year, as well as the two auto's I harvested a couple of weeks ago, all smell, taste and smoke great........but the nugs are much looser than what you buy at the dispensaries. I've read that lots of sunshine is the best way to get dense nugs, but also that excessive high temps can cause them to be loose. I'm getting mine more shade than I did in previous grows, but it's all just trial and error for me.

[Cronk]

question is.....how do the pros get such dense, crystalline buds when every time I dry and cure my buds are very different looking. dispensary buds are very crystal in structure and have been trimmed so close that there is little hint of sugar leaves, just dense rocks.

is this done with a special finish technique in the last weeks of growth? do they just have a knack for trimming? is their curing technique different that drying and jarring?

I would really like to know

my buds look good and smoke well, they just don't have that pro look. My last grow I discovered cutting all nitrogen in the last 6 weeks or so and using just a bud candy type of nute for bud development. There is enough nitrogen and other stuff to carry the plants after the stretch and this makes them less fluffy, more dense. Still....I need those hard nugs

[LIGrow]

Great analogy...I am a new grower and have been humbled, repeatedly.

[SoOrbudgal]

Hey man don't over think this. Don't fry those little seedlings if they sprout. Read about just basic stuff on your first grow, folks make this too stupid scientific. A low wattage CFL is all seedling needs for first wk or two. If you can make it past 2wks great. But you need to read up on seedlings it's all here under turtorials.

[Puglover1]

I use hygrometers sitting on top of the soil mix or resting on top of two bags that are close to each other. One was cheap from amazon, the other is the one I used to dry my first harvest. I haven't started weed in cups yet but with herbs I only used water, it didn't take that long for them to be root bound. Watch them, if you see a deficiency it's often cal-mag that's needed first. Not sure of your lights/intensity or strain you're starting. Sounds like you have a cannabis grow in progress, or other plants already growing in your tent?