Cultivation

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Book Review: ‘Idiot’s Guide: Growing Marijuana’
By Dave Carpenter on June 25, 2017
Big Lit makes a move on America’s new botanical sweetheart — cannabis. It finally happened. One of the “Big Four” publishing firms, Penguin Random House,...
Pinkleberry – Pretty in Pink
By Caitlin Podiak on June 1, 2017
Green Source Gardens grows luscious, pink outdoor cannabis from seed using sustainable cultivation techniques. Amidst the forested foothills at the junction of the Siskiyou and...
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Home Gardening 101
By Dave Carpenter on May 13, 2017
When a backyard suburban garden produces enough cannabis to sustain 20 of your closest friends for a year. “It’s pretty wild to see a marijuana...
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Shooting Shotgun Willie’s Secret Stash
By Julia Clark-Riddell on May 3, 2017
A through-the-lens look at an outlaw icon’s special suppliers. Cannabis photographer, Kristen Angelo, has seen many facets of the industry. “In the cannabis industry, I’ve...
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30% THC Alert: High-Octane, High-Performance
By David Downs on April 24, 2017
Western U.S. growers RB26 have a Cornell business school background and a 100-pound back-order list. People who wonder what cannabis will look like in five...
Tissue Culture & Synthetic Seeds: Buds Without Borders?
By Ellen Holland on April 21, 2017
"Synthetic seeds" may sound like the stuff of science fiction, but some industry experts say — if it gets big enough — the cannabis cultivation...
LISTEN: Talking Gelato with Sherbinski
By Cannabis Now on April 17, 2017
In issue 25 of Cannabis Now, we explored the origins of Gelato, a strain that's inspired such ferocious excitement that people have their exact favorite phenotype...
Marijuana Migrations
By Dave Carpenter on April 15, 2017
How pot growers are adapting to a changing climate. By 2013, Jacob Sullivan had seen enough. Plagued by fickle growing conditions, consecutive scorching hot days,...
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Cultivators Knocked Out of Medical Ring Rise for Recreational Rematch
By Jimi Devine on March 25, 2017
TKO enters adult-use cannabis marketplace. In 2012, the team at TurnKey Organics (TKO) began with the mission of providing organic cannabis of the highest grade...
Supplemental Sunlight + LEDs = Maximum Energy Savings
By Cannabis Now Sponsor on March 18, 2017
The billion-dollar cannabis industry and the constant energy consumption it requires is pushing the U.S. electric grid to the limit. One scientist has created a solution...
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Learning How to Grow Cannabis with a Master Cultivator
By Ellen Holland on March 13, 2017
Harry Resin is a world-renowned cannabis breeder and cultivator with figurative roots in Amsterdam — where he perfected his craft and made his name —...
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10 Things to Know About Terpenes
By Emery Garcia on March 11, 2017
Learn about the compounds that give cannabis its scents, flavors and effects. The cannabis industry is abuzz over terpenes. Everyone in the know is claiming it’s...
Grow Pods, Deploy!
By Cannabis Now on March 11, 2017
Four essential units for modular indoor growing, from novice to baller status. The right to cultivate a little homegrown cannabis is spreading across America, but with...
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California’s Wine Industry Can’t Hold a Candle to Cannabis
By Chris Roberts on February 16, 2017
California wine has served as a vinicultural golden standard since the world-changing upset of the 1976 "Judgement of Paris" shattered the myth of French wine...
Humboldt Fights to Survive – Meet the Sun Growers Guild
By Caitlin Podiak on February 14, 2017
Humboldt has long been associated with magnificent marijuana, but the expansion of corporate cannabis has some long-time cultivators banding together to preserve their culture and...
Assessing the Oregon Cannabis Climate
By Emery Garcia on February 14, 2017
Cultivators in Oregon faced both environmental and legislative challenges during the 2016 grow cycle. For Oregon cannabis enthusiasts, 2016 was an exciting year. The state...
The Many Appellations of Marijuana Country
By Chris Roberts on February 13, 2017
The concept of "terroir" is central to wine making — and branding. Now California cannabis, already a brand in the illusory sense, is making moves...
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Inside San Francisco’s Best Head Stash
By Ellen Holland on February 7, 2017
The grow room of breeder Harry Resin is filled with exclusive and rare types of cannabis. When Harry Resin cracks open the industrial-sized storage cabinet...
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Dutchies Pass to the Left: Exploring a Legendary Breeder’s Indoor Grow
By Ellen Holland on January 24, 2017
Amsterdam Weed Royalty Has Decamped for California. Inside the grow room the longtime marijuana breeder who goes by the name Harry Resin photographs the 6-gram...
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How To Keep Rodents Off Your Cannabis Plants Naturally
By Mitchell Colbert on January 4, 2017
Like any other plant, cannabis needs protection from pests and vermin. But the widespread reliance on toxic chemical pesticides, especially in cultivation capitals like Humboldt,...