How To Care For Your Cannabis Plants? 420 Guide for Beginners
Plant Care is a chore, that everyone learns to love. Interacting with the cannabis plant often as it grows teaches you much about producing happy, healthy weed. Sometimes it is hard to tear yourself away from the tantalizing vista of glistening stacked calyxes – even after chores are done.
Happy weed is weed that has all the nutrients it requires and regular clean pH balanced water. Knowing about pests and diseases, that can affect cannabis indoors and out means early identification and solution.
The best light for vegetating cannabis
When bringing plants outdoors, I like to get started as soon as the season allows. That means no more rain or freezing temperatures. I like to take the plants outside for extended periods during the day, over the course of a week or so, to let them get used to the bright sunlight and temperature variations of an outdoor environment. This is known as “hardening”,a process that keeps the plant from suffering too much stress (shock) when moving from one environment to another. While the marijuana plant is very hardy, shocking it can set its growth dormant for several days to several weeks.
Once you have germinated the seeds and they begin to sprout you can plant them in soil and give them light 24/7 for the first few weeks.
More expensive cannabis grow lights give higher wattage which will be needed for the plant's vegetative growth stage and flowering stage.
In vegetative growth they need 18 hours of light and six hours of darkness. In the flowering stage they need 12 hours light and 12 hours dark.
Feeding and watering young plants
Cannabis is a very light feeder, but it does need some food in order to achieve high yields of quality flower. Deciding when and how much nutrient solution or water to apply to your cannabis plants can be tricky, especially to explain on paper, as it is dependent on many factors. As a general rule, it is best to let the pot dry down until it is very light to pick up (compared to after a watering) before watering. You can keep a pot full of your growing medium that has not been watered to compare, once the pot with the plant in it feels close to the empty pot in weight, it is time to water. If the plant wilts, you have waited too long to water. Overwatering (in frequency) is the most common problem when growing plants, if the growing medium never dries out, the roots will never receive sufficient oxygen that they need to survive. Alternatively, it is impossible to give it too much water at one time. In fact, you want to have at least 15-20% (preferably more) of the water or nutrient solution you apply to run out of the bottom of the pot, which provides leaching of unused minerals that tend to build up in the media.
Air Circulation, Temperature and Humidity
Ideally throughout the flowering process, temperature changes slightly between the light and dark cycles. During the 12-hour light cycle, when indoor grow lights are on, try to keep the temperature in your growing area between 75 to 85 degrees Fahrenheit. During the 12-hour dark cycle, when lights is removed, temperature should drop slightly to mimic night.
Keep the humidity at a steady 70 percent to prevent pest issues and encourage better flower production. You can use a humidifier for grow tent. While you don’t want fans to blow directly on the plants for extended periods, keeping fresh air circulating by blowing it around the plants will help ensure proper ventilation.
Happy weed is weed that has all the nutrients it requires and regular clean pH balanced water. Knowing about pests and diseases, that can affect cannabis indoors and out means early identification and solution.
The best light for vegetating cannabis
When bringing plants outdoors, I like to get started as soon as the season allows. That means no more rain or freezing temperatures. I like to take the plants outside for extended periods during the day, over the course of a week or so, to let them get used to the bright sunlight and temperature variations of an outdoor environment. This is known as “hardening”,a process that keeps the plant from suffering too much stress (shock) when moving from one environment to another. While the marijuana plant is very hardy, shocking it can set its growth dormant for several days to several weeks.
Once you have germinated the seeds and they begin to sprout you can plant them in soil and give them light 24/7 for the first few weeks.
More expensive cannabis grow lights give higher wattage which will be needed for the plant's vegetative growth stage and flowering stage.
In vegetative growth they need 18 hours of light and six hours of darkness. In the flowering stage they need 12 hours light and 12 hours dark.
Feeding and watering young plants
Cannabis is a very light feeder, but it does need some food in order to achieve high yields of quality flower. Deciding when and how much nutrient solution or water to apply to your cannabis plants can be tricky, especially to explain on paper, as it is dependent on many factors. As a general rule, it is best to let the pot dry down until it is very light to pick up (compared to after a watering) before watering. You can keep a pot full of your growing medium that has not been watered to compare, once the pot with the plant in it feels close to the empty pot in weight, it is time to water. If the plant wilts, you have waited too long to water. Overwatering (in frequency) is the most common problem when growing plants, if the growing medium never dries out, the roots will never receive sufficient oxygen that they need to survive. Alternatively, it is impossible to give it too much water at one time. In fact, you want to have at least 15-20% (preferably more) of the water or nutrient solution you apply to run out of the bottom of the pot, which provides leaching of unused minerals that tend to build up in the media.
Air Circulation, Temperature and Humidity
Ideally throughout the flowering process, temperature changes slightly between the light and dark cycles. During the 12-hour light cycle, when indoor grow lights are on, try to keep the temperature in your growing area between 75 to 85 degrees Fahrenheit. During the 12-hour dark cycle, when lights is removed, temperature should drop slightly to mimic night.
Keep the humidity at a steady 70 percent to prevent pest issues and encourage better flower production. You can use a humidifier for grow tent. While you don’t want fans to blow directly on the plants for extended periods, keeping fresh air circulating by blowing it around the plants will help ensure proper ventilation.
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