For newbies
Buy cannabis seeds for a beginner in Ukraine
Easy-to-grasp beginner-friendly weeds tend to be purchased by customers who grow marijuana commercially. This is explained by a plentiful harvest with minimal participation of the gardener. If even a little help is given to hemp, the result will be a noticeable increase in yield.
Cannabis Varieties for Beginner Growers
The basic rule when growing powerful marijuana is do no harm. This means that cannabis, with its extremely high vitality and adaptability, will survive and produce a good harvest if an inexperienced grower stops harming. Keep in mind that many actions of inexperienced growers, having a good purpose behind them, cause serious damage to the plant. Most often this is manifested in waterlogging of the soil.
The fact is that in addition to water, hemp roots need air access. To do this, it is recommended to add elements to the soil that facilitate soil aeration, for example, vermiculite or finely crushed foam. Some types of soil mix, showing a dry surface, retain moisture in depth. She has enough marijuana for several days. But a young gardener can start watering a plant every day. In addition to waterlogging and rotting of the root system, on the border between the root and the trunk, the young plant is often affected by the "black leg". This is a fungal disease that causes an annular drying of the stem at the very root. And the reason for this in 100% of cases is excessive watering of a young cannabis bush.
In some marijuana varieties, breeders have built a high resistance to fungal diseases, such as the AMS strain from the SensiSeed seed bank. In addition to forgiving the novice grower over watering, once the bud mass has been established, the dense buds of this variety are also protected from mold damage.
But for marijuana to make it into the beginners section, marijuana seeds need to have in their genetic code the inherent potential for drought tolerance and resistance to low temperatures.
Genetics from around the planet
Hemp grows on all continents of the Earth, with the exception of Antarctica. And in each region, it gradually develops and consolidates such properties that help to survive in a particular area. For example, hemp from the desert and steppe regions, releases its root to a depth of more than 2.5 meters to reach the water horizon. And in the bushes of marshmallow growing in marshy places, the roots are fibrous, creeping in the surface layer of the soil in order to be in the zone of the highest concentration of oxygen dissolved in water. There is marijuana that is adapted to the harsh northern climate, and there is a marijuana that can withstand the harsh ultraviolet radiation of the highlands.
Cannabis seeds for beginners contain the full range of adaptive mechanisms that make them very resistant to growing conditions.
IMPORTANT: such adaptive abilities of varietal marijuana should not be tested for strength. Beginner marijuana seeds easily tolerate occasional deviations in care, but with purposeful avoidance of care, it is fraught with a nominal yield.
When growing marijuana for beginners, one must always remember that the more attention is given to her, the more full-fledged harvest she will express her gratitude.
Special attention on the first grove
If this is the very first experience of growing marijuana, then serious attention should be paid to the composition of the soil. An ideal component that experienced gardeners must add to the soil is manure humus. It forms in old manure heaps that have lain outdoors for at least 3 years. In this conglomerate, almost all organic matter was processed by earthworms, and acquired an easily digestible form for cannabis root nutrition. When transplanting young plants into open ground, 3-5 liters of manure humus mixed with the main soil should be added under each bush.
IMPORTANT: manure humus contains a lot of nitrogen, but if ammonium nitrate (3 g / liter) is added during the first watering, then the starting phase of vegetative growth will come faster and be more powerful.
Do not forget about the acidity of the soil. For hemp, the ideal soil acidity is 6.5-7 pH. If this value deviates in one direction or another, then the absorption of minerals worsens, and vegetative growth first slows down, and then can completely stop. To determine the level of acidity, it is most convenient to use an inexpensive pH meter .
How to determine harvest time for a beginner
On the packaging of marijuana seeds, the seedbank indicates the duration of flowering of a particular variety. But these terms are conditional, and give a general idea of the ripening time. Indeed, when growing cannabis outdoors, the microclimate and lighting cycles are not subject to control, as a result, even the beginning of flowering will change with adjustment for geographic latitude.
For example, in the variety Amnesia , the duration of flowering is 8-10 weeks. If the seeds were sown near the Black Sea coast, then they will turn to color at the end of July, and in good hot weather, they will have time to ripen by the last decade of September. And if the same variety of marijuana is grown at the latitude of Moscow, then flowering will begin no earlier than the end of August. The weather in September and October will not be so friendly, and therefore it will be necessary to wait at least 10 weeks before harvesting, i.e. postpone it until November.
Ideally, you can determine the harvest time only on the basis of your feelings and preferences. If the gardener needs a powerful relaxation, then he must wait until the end, until the heads acquire a dark brown shade of trichomes. And if an invigorating hype is required, then the crop is harvested when most of the trichomes turn milky white. In this state, marijuana heads contain the maximum amount of THC.