Outdoor cannabis gardens lie at the mercy of the elements, and risk contaminating their surrounding environment with fertilizers and herbicides. Before you use chemicals on the farm, make sure to take advantage of nature itself for cheap and naturally farmed outdoor canna… Read article here: High Times
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Grow Hack: Control and Monitor Soil Water Content
Growing cannabis in containers, whether indoors, outdoors or in a greenhouse, allows gardeners to take full control of the soil and the water content of their plant’s roots. Plants growing in waterlogged soils will wilt and yellow much like plants growing in dry soi… Read article here: High Times
Grow Hack: Replace Noisy Air Pumps With This Silent Aerator
In addition to dissolved nutrients, cannabis roots need oxygen to continue serving their function in the plant. Air stones inject bubbles into a hydroponic nutrient solution, but the sound of buzzing air pumps is hard to get used to. Check out this simple solution that ae… Read article here: High Times
Grow Hack: 7 Ways of Silencing Your Growroom
Between extractor fans, circulating fans, air stone pumps and reservoir pumps, maintaining a climate-controlled indoor garden can make a lot of noise. The constant humming, buzzing and vibrating can leak into the ears of your neighbors below, above or on either side, and … Read article here: High Times
Grow Hack: Avoid Burrowing Pests Humanely
Burrowing rodents such as gophers, voles or moles can disrupt a garden by building mounds, digging tunnels and even feeding off of cannabis roots and trunks. Learn how you can keep these underground critters away naturally to avoid constructing labor-intensive underground… Read article here: High Times
Grow Hack: Prevent Mold During Growth, Curing and Storage
Mold afflicts cannabis to such an incredible degree that an entire subspecies of the plant had to evolve with a different anatomy to prevent mold growth. How ubiquitous is mold in cannabis? It’s roughly as common as under-cured pot, which means very common. Check ou… Read article here: High Times
Grow Hack: Increase Light Intensity By 60% With This Simple Trick
Indoor grow manuals always mention the importance of using reflectors to help take advantage of every ray of light your growlamp puts out, but some amateur growers may not realize exactly how much this really matters. Using some simple measurements and approximations, HIG… Read article here: High Times
Life Hack: 10 Stoner-Friendly Household Items
Throughout history, cannabis users have been known to work with what’s available to them. Whether it’s finding a new way to smoke or a way to keep their hands clean, there are different household items that can be used as tools and shortcuts for certain cannab… Read article here: High Times
Grow Hack: Does Switching from Metal Halides to HPS for Flowering Work?
Indoor grow specialists all over the world use blue-heavy metal halide lamps (MH) for vegetative growth and switch to red-heavy high pressure sodium (HPS) lamps for flowering, but is this pricey, laborious process actually beneficial for cannabis? Read article here: High Times
Grow Hack: Plastic Mulch For Higher Yields and Better Flavor
As the California Drought transitions into its fifth year the situation has gotten dire. Indoor, hydroponic gardens that are fairly water-efficient grow the majority of the top-tier cannabis on the medical and recreational markets, but lower-overhead outdoor fields grow m… Read article here: High Times