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Herbalists over the millennia have always pulled their herbs and hung them upside down indoors. I don't think you can really improve over that kind of experience, except for convenience in space and time in our modern world.

Since leaves provide nutrients to the plant, my advice is to defoliate only leaves that shade too much of the growing tips, or look like they are crowding out other plants in the tent. BTW, don't toss them out. Dry them and grind them up for cooking herbs. I cut off the stems (petioles?), as...

When I was actively growing in a corner of my bedroom, I used 3 gallon kitchen trash bins, as they were tall and rectangular. They didn't take up as much room in my 3 x 3 tents, and I got good-sized rootballs. Height was controlled by fimming or bending and securing longer branches. Use...

Go with your "gut instinct" and do what you are able to while you recover from Rona. With all those pretty hairs, it won't be long to harvest. :)

If you are going in for a drug test, you will automatically fail if your pee is mostly clear because you watered it down. It is an old myth that lots of water will flush out your system. The THC is in your fat cells and takes a long time to metabolize out.

I never tossed the males during the years I grew my own. I loosely ground everything (male and female) but the stems and roots into "cooking herbs", or heated them up with cocoa butter and made capsules. Nothing elaborate, just quick and cheap. The recent discussion on cannabis dust was...

Thank you for this thread! I am caught up. It is encouraging to hear that what I used to call "cooking herbs" (ground cannabis) is now called Dust. My dust recipe is dried leaves, pollen, pods,mini buds, left over mash, and shake, And I mix the strains in quart mason jars. So I have an ample...

I assume the spoon is a tablespoon?

When I was growing, in a 3 x 3 ft enclosure, I had 2 Mars 300's up top and 4 pairs of CFLs lower to fill any shadows. IMO, I think a micro grow cant let the plant develop to its fullest potential. You cant FIM and to make more colas, and you sacrifice head room. Plants need room to spread out...

You can ingest it, instead of smoking. It's a different kind of high, gentle, subtle at my doses. It does cut down on joint pain and calms me down. Great for getting a good night's sleep. You can just grind the leaves and popcorn buds and use it for cooking herbs or capsules. I also quit...

It's probably in my perpetual grow journal. I'd go to the gallery and look for the pics using the tomato cages. I always pinch out the fourth node, and then when each branch grows 4 nodes, pinch out the tops again. When those 4 grow 4 nodes, the final pinching out will give you your 8 future...

Not all my stews have fat, as I'm on a weight-loss regiment, so the capsules have Coconut oil as the carrier. I heat that mixture together just enough to melt the Coconut butter so I can get the mixture into the 00 capsules. Then I just pop them into the freezer to keep them fresh. My next...

After I graduated from CFL's, I bought 2 MARS 300's for a 2 ' x 4 ' grow area. I was very happy with their penetration through the canopy, their simplicity, and the delivery service. My later grows show what I got with the MARS 300's, which were only $80 each panel at the time. 135W draw from...

This is very close to what I do for my cooking herbs. I don't decarb because when used in cooking, I figure the ground herb gets decarbed. And most of my stews and soups have enough fat to act as a catalyst. it's been a while since I made capsules (dust + coconut oil). And I got out of the...

Topping them at node 5 is great if you have limited headroom, because you can top twice more at node 5 for more branches and higher yield, without hitting your lights. Just be sure to keep the inner part of the plant trimmed out for best light penetration.