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How to Protect Your Cannabis Plants Against Bud Rot

Cannabis flowers emerge after months of thoughtful work. While the bloom phase can be a particularly eye-catching part of the growing process, some of the challenges that pop up during this stage can be difficult to spot.  Botrytis blight—better known as bud rot—is one such example. This crop disease is caused by Botrytis cinerea, a [...]
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Super Cropping Cannabis: The Right Way to Apply High-Stress Training

At first glance, deliberately pinching and bending a healthy cannabis stem may seem like an unconventional choice. However, this technique, known as super cropping, is something many growers do deliberately, as it helps promote an even canopy and provides bud sites with greater access to airflow and light.  Super cropping is a form of high-stress [...]
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How to Identify Female Cannabis Plants

If you're new to cannabis growing, you may be diving into topics like watering, nutrients, lighting schedules, and how to germinate your seeds. But there’s another important skill that may be less obvious: knowing how to spot the early signs of female plant characteristics. Being able to identify female cannabis is important because female plants [...]
History of Marijuana

The History of Marijuana and Its Origin Story

It all started with a single seed. That seed grew into a plant and eventually made its way around the world, growing in popularity as decades went by. Researchers say the history of marijuana has been around since the Viking and Ancient China days—but where exactly did it come from? And how did it spread […]

The Key Differences Between THC and CBD

There’s a reason marijuana has been popular among physicians for centuries; plenty of the compounds found in the plant — called cannabinoids — have medicinal benefits, but we’re only going to talk about the two most popular and prevalent: tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and cannabidiol (CBD). These cannabinoids are responsible for providing the lion’s share of marijuana’s […]

Best Weed

These Five Countries Grow the Best Weed

For those of us who’ve been in the weed-smoking business long enough, we can usually tell when a strain hits just right. Marijuana connoisseurs value quality over quantity and part of that stems from the origin of a certain strain. Which countries grow the best weed, you ask? That’s what we’re talking about in today’s […]

Anesthesia

PSA: Marijuana and Anesthesia Do Not Mix

No one likes the thought of surgery. It’s something to hope to avoid for as long as possible yet becomes more inevitable as we age. Big or small, most surgeries require anesthesia—the medical term for a state of controlled, temporary loss of sensation or awareness. And guess what? Based on medical articles, marijuana and anesthesia […]