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A step by step guide to the growth of marijuana.

If you grow marijuana seeds indoors consider these suggestions:

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When you grow marijuana the four stages prior to harvesting include:

1. Buy marijuana seeds

2. Germination - takes up to 5 days
3. Vegetation - takes 4 - 6 weeks
4. Flowering - takes about 8 weeks

Germination
Germination is important to grow marijuana properly.
Use distilled tepid water - soak paper towel & ring out excess. Soak seeds for half an hour, lay them on half of the paper towel & fold over the seeds, and then place on a plate. Place bowl upside down over setup to maintain moisture and reduce light. Within approximately 2 days the seeds will crack and germination is complete (up to 5 days). Avoid handling the seeds and place them sprout down to grow marijuana.

Vegetative Stage

-Watering
Vegetative state: water approximately twice daily. Flowering stage: water once a day (at the time lights are turned on).

Flowering

During flowering stage, reduce lighting to 12 hours a day. Change fertilizer to 10-20-10 or 5-50-17 (1 teaspoon). Include salt (1/2 teaspoon) + trace element food (1 teaspoon) to one gallon of water. Begin flowering stage when plant is 12 inches tall or taller. Reduce humidity by watering only once a day with lights on.

Harvesting

When 80% of white hairs on the female plants change colors, harvest.  Do not harvest too late or too soon!

Curing

Curing turns your raw buds into a high quality smokeable product.  This is one of the most important parts of the process. Just like wine, whiskey, and cigars, marijuana benefits from being put through an aging process. They all work basically the same way, by taking advantage of natural biological processes, which break down complex molecules into simpler sugars. Do it right and you will have a sweet smoking, mild tasting herb that retains its potency and will be the envy of all your friends. Do it wrong and you'll know why home grown has such a lousy reputation with a product that has lost half its potency by Christmas and is worthless by March.

Curing will not raise the potency. It will however bring out the best of what is there already, as well as helping to retain potency. Curing mellows the smoke, making it much more pleasant in taste and smoothness. It also preserves the THC inside the glands and slows down the inevitable loss of potency over time.

Many biological processes continue inside the buds at a cellular level even after they are cut off the plant. Chemical reactions go on, certain molecules are changed into others. These natural processes can continue in the buds for days after harvest.

One molecule that is present in all green plants is chlorophyll. It's an essential part of the photosynthesis process, which is how plants make food. The chlorophyll molecule includes sulfur and tastes horrible when burned. It's what makes homegrown taste so bad. You want to get rid of as much of it as possible.

Once the buds are harvested, they are not able to collect any more sunlight or receive water and nutrients from the roots. Photosynthesis and chlorophyll production cease. But the cells are still alive and continue consuming energy. The chlorophyll is broken down to feed that need. It changes into plant sugars, primarily glucose.

As long as the buds stay moist and warm, this biological process can go on. You should leave the buds inside the plastic bags you collected them in for at least 24 hours after harvest. Just let it "sit and stew." Maintain them in a warm, not hot place. Let as much of the chlorophyll as possible break down.

After a day, check your buds. If you see any evidence of mold, or smell sharp, vinegar like odors, take them out of the bags and go to the next step immediately. Otherwise, stir them up and leave for one more day.

You can not safely leave them in the plastic bags for more than two days. After that time the plants will begin to mold. Transfer the buds to paper grocery bags. Each bag should be about 1/4 full, no more. Try to stand the stems up on end as much as possible so that air can move freely around the buds. Leave lots of room, you do not want it at all packed close together at this point. Fold the top over so that it does not dry out too fast. Enough air should be able to pass through the walls of the paper bag. Put the bags in a cool to warm (50-65?), dry place with good air movement. Your attic may work, your basement probably will not.

Allow the crop to continue to slowly dry inside the bags. Check on it every day and stir it up. Keep the buds loose inside the bag. They will mold if they are compressed into clumps and air can't get to it. If at any time you see mold, leave the top open on the bag. If the mold is really taking hold, take the affected buds out of the bag and lay them flat on newspapers to dry out quickly. Otherwise though, it should take your buds at least another two weeks, and probably three, to completely dry inside the brown bags. Be patient. Curing your pot by slowly drying will improve both the quality of the smoke and preserve the potency.

Using the paper bags will allow your plants to slowly cure. Sometimes growers will hang their plants upside down in bundles. They think that gravity will pull any plant sap down into the buds increasing the potency. But the THC is located in the glands on the buds, not in the sap, so it doesn't make any difference. Personally, I do not recommend hanging them in bundles. They dry out too fast and there is a greater chance of resin glands being knocked off.

Properly dried buds should be dry enough that it will break apart when rubbed between your thumb and fingers. That's break apart, not shatter into dust. It should still be flexible enough to bend and sticky to the touch. It should also feel somewhat "spongy" if compressed.

Over drying the pot will cause it to burn hotter and harsher. The resin glands will break off easier too, which will reduce potency. Pot that has been over dried will break into dust if you squeeze it. If you accidentally over dry it, you can rehydrate it somewhat by putting the buds into a plastic bag along with a couple drops of water for a day or two.

Of course you are going to be anxious to sample your harvest. While you definitely want to take the time to cure the bulk of your crop in the manner I described above there is one way that you can quick dry a bud or two to give you a taste. Take a small bud, wrap it up in some napkins and lay it on the dashboard of your car for a few hours with the windows rolled up. Even if it is not real hot and sunny, the bud should dry out enough to smoke within a day. You shouldn't lose too much potency that way. It will still be enough to give you a good buzz.

Drying in your oven will yield an inferior product. The heat will evaporate the THC and the chlorophyll taste will be nauseating. Don't bother.

After curing, nasty tasting chlorophyll has been converted into sweet smoking glucose. Dope that has been dried too fast won't have that benefit. It will have a distinctive "home grown" taste. A taste that is not particularly pleasant.

The potency is preserved in properly cured weed because it conditions the THC glands and prevents them from rupturing their contents or breaking off. The plant tissues remain flexible and are more likely to give rather than break. That's why you don't want to over dry. If you do, the glands can break off and be lost. 
 

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