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Drying, Curing, and Trimming Cannabis: A Grower’s Guide

You’ve taken care of your plants for months, and now, the buds are fully mature. Harvesting your cannabis can be a significant milestone, especially for first-time growers. However, many cultivators consider this step more of a halfway point than a finish line. Why? Because drying and curing cannabis correctly can make as much of a difference in the buds’ final quality as the cultivation process itself.
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A cannabis plant with a wilted, yellow leaf.

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 fungus that attacks cannabis flowers, as well as other types of plants. A type of gray mold, it can spread within the interior of a cannabis flower before reaching the surface.
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What Is a Botanist? What They Study and Why It Matters to the Cannabis Industry

When researching plants and cultivation, you may come across the term ‘botanist’ and wonder what it means. A botanist is a scientist who studies plants. Their work can range from small cells and genes to forests and ecosystems. Botanists can work outdoors or in laboratories depending on their specific area of study. Their work is important because it helps with plant breeding and conservation. This blog explains what a botanist does and how their work helps with cannabis cultivation. Botany is the scientific study of plant life, while a botanist is someone who studies and works within this field.
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Cannabis Trichomes

Look closely at a finished cannabis flower and you’ll see it’s covered in something like frost. Those are trichomes. Trichomes on weed aren’t decoration; almost every cannabinoid and terpene in your jar was made inside those glands. Learning to read them is the most useful skill a home grower can pick up, because the same plant harvested three weeks apart gives you two noticeably different results.
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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 training (HST) that involves gently compressing the stem before it’s bent and gently guiding the branch outward while ensuring its outer skin remains intact. When done correctly, supercropping reshapes a plant’s growth while ensuring the bent branch remains connected, functional, and able to recover.
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Low stress training setup for a cannabis plant in the vegetative stage.

Low Stress Training (LST) for Cannabis: A Step-by-Step Guide

Low stress training (LST) is one of the most effective, low-risk ways to maximize your harvest. This cannabis cultivation technique involves gently bending and securing your plants’ branches to reshape the canopy, expose more bud sites to direct light, and ultimately produce greater yields. Many growers use LST  because it tends to be a gentler and less time-consuming approach in comparison to other training techniques. For instance, ScrOG can be highly effective in establishing a broad, even canopy, but also requires greater up-front effort, while topping, a high stress training (HST) technique, involves pruning your plants, which produces added 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 alone develop the potent, resin-coated flowers responsible for producing a high. Male plants do produce flowers, but these small, grape-like clusters generate pollen, not resin, and have much lower levels of cannabinoids and trichomes.
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Strawberry Cough Muha Explained

  Strawberry Cough first emerged in ‘90s-era NYC and immediately charmed local connoisseurs with its bright, nimble high and potent THC levels. As the offspring of Haze and Strawberry Fields, it blends the former’s sharp, insightful vibes with the latter’s soft, fruity notes. It is also the strain in Strawberry Cough Muha Meds products. Its reputation built steadily through word-of-mouth during the 2000s and ultimately propelled this strain to fame. Strawberry Cough also went on to win Best Flower at the Cannabis Cup in 2013.
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8 Challenging Strains for Ambitious Growers

Many cannabis strains are naturally forgiving and low-maintenance. While the following picks won’t show up on any beginner-friendly lists, they’re some of the best cannabis seeds for advanced growers looking to fine-tune their skills. Like all cannabis plants, they each have their own unique character and distinct high, making them staple picks for many cultivators despite their trickier growing styles. While it may sound counterintuitive, formidable strains like the following eight are also valued precisely because they’re more difficult to grow.
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The Best Sativas to Grow at Home

Sativa cultivars are a favorite for growers who want tall plants, bright flavors, and big personality in the garden. They’re often known for citrus, berry, haze, diesel, and sweet fruit notes, which makes them a solid choice if you want your home grow to feel a little more flavorful than the usual earthy cannabis lineup. That said, not every sativa is easy to manage at home. Some stretch hard, take longer to flower, and need more room than a compact indica.
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