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Basics of growing weed, distilled into 10 steps

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wannabeagrower

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These steps are off the Growweedeasy.com website, but I wanted to make sure I really get it. They say the best way to confirm your understanding is summarize the idea in one or two sentences.

So to all the experienced growers of GWE, am I getting it right?

Step 1: Choose Your Place to Grow

Your best best is probably a grow tent sized to your space.

Step 2: Choose Your Light

Get an LED grow light sized to your grow tent. Or outdoor growers get the sun.

Step 3: Choose Your Growing Medium

Soil, coco coir, or hydroponics are your main choices. All grow good weed so pick what seems neat.

Step 4: Get Cannabis-Friendly Nutrients

Use nutrients meant for flowering plants, like General Hydroponics or Fox Farm. Should match your grow medium.

Step 5: Get Good Cannabis Seeds

Genetics is key to bud density, yields, and effects. You can't grow roses with wildflower seeds.

Step 6: Germinate Your Seeds

Use the wet paper towel method. Or just plant seeds knuckle deep in moist soil. Keep warm.

Step 7: Vegetative Stage – Only Stems and Leaves

Water plants on a schedule, give nutrients, check the ph, keep grow lights the right distance away.

Step 8: Flowering Stage – Cannabis Buds Grow

Switch to 12/12 light schedule with a timer to initiate budding, don't let plants get light during the dark period, give flowering nutrients.

Step 9: Harvest Your Cannabis Buds

Wait until buds are ready to harvest, especially watch out not to harvest early.

Step 10: Dry & Cure Your Buds

Cut the branches, trim big leaves, and hang in the tent until small stems snap. Cure trimmed buds in turkey bags or jars, with humidity packs.

Finally enjoy!

Am I missing anything important? If I just did that and nothing else, would I harvest good weed?
 
Hello Wannabe and welcome. Yes, you are missing a key factor and that is what style of plant training are you going to apply. Examples would be SCROG or Manifold's. Trimming plants is essential in my world and only gets learned by hands on. My 2 cents worth. Good luck and hang in there! And hello Golf, you know I'm an old not computer savvy person. I ask you what would a BOT have to gain by chatting on a forum like this? Just curious
 
Chipmunk said:
Hello Wannabe and welcome. Yes, you are missing a key factor and that is what style of plant training are you going to apply. Examples would be SCROG or Manifold's. Trimming plants is essential in my world and only gets learned by hands on. My 2 cents worth. Good luck and hang in there! And hello Golf, you know I'm an old not computer savvy person. I ask you what would a BOT have to gain by chatting on a forum like this? Just curious
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Chipmunk said:
Hello Wannabe and welcome. Yes, you are missing a key factor and that is what style of plant training are you going to apply. Examples would be SCROG or Manifold's. Trimming plants is essential in my world and only gets learned by hands on. My 2 cents worth. Good luck and hang in there!
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From what I understand, cannabis plant training is about improving yields and bud density, right? Like if you ignore training, the problem is mainly reduced yields and airy buds?

Or are there other downsides to not training plants?
 
That is some of the downside. Your bushy plants need to be opened up to where the light and air can reach most of the foliage. Your plants wont be as healthy if you leave them tight and bushy
 
golfnrl said:
It is interesting. I have asked two different AI bots weed questions and they both referenced this forum and the GWE web site. That makes me think the GWE web site is a data mine for AI.
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Do you think companies own and operate these bots for a monetary reason or something else?
 
I swear I'm a human and the only knowledge I want is help growing more weed. It does seem difficult for these big companies to make money off home growers. That's why they keep trying to make home growing illegal. I really feel like sharing our grow knowledge and getting it out there only helps more people grow weed in the world.
 
If a bot wanted to learn how to grow weed, it could just read and digest the entire web site if it was capable of completing that task. AI is not that advanced, in fact it is mostly an infant now. That may change in the future. When I hear about the virtues of AI, I just picture Batman and Robin in the bat cave, and asking the "computer" where the Joker will deploy his next nefarious plot...
 
Ckbrew said:
If a bot wanted to learn how to grow weed, it could just read and digest the entire web site if it was capable of completing that task. AI is not that advanced, in fact it is mostly an infant now. That may change in the future. When I hear about the virtues of AI, I just picture Batman and Robin in the bat cave, and asking the "computer" where the Joker will deploy his next nefarious plot...
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IDK...I am suspicious of talking to a machine so I asked google, 'can AI ask questions in a chat forum?' The answer was enlightening.
 
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