Category: Grow Magazine
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NBA + CBD
The NBA’s Brooklyn Nets and the WNBA’s New York Liberty have become the first teams in their leagues to partner with a CBD beverage company. Each can of Mynd Drinks contains 25 milligrams of CBD (cannabidiol). Mynd Drinks is also partnering with Major League Baseball’s Chicago Cubs. The partnership means that Mynd will sponsor some…
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Reclassifying Marijuana
By now, you’ve heard the news that the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration will move to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug, but it would still be a controlled substance. This historic shift in American drug policy is a long time coming, and the agency’s biggest shift in 50 years won’t happen quickly. The proposal…
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Mythical Myrcene
“I used to feel high, now I just fall asleep.” Terpenes are the talk of Cannabis Town and myrcene crosses our lips more than most. Symbolic of the many questions surrounding modern sinsemilla, myrcene is both in your face, yet elusive, blamed for couch lock while touted as an effective sleep aid, plays a key…
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Complex Caryophyllene
“Back in the day, good weed was spicy, now it’s so sweet!” Myrcene is a single terpene with unique characteristics that expand its single molecule complexity. While myrcene is the most common monoterpene found in cannabis, many of the most widely occurring sesquiterpenes are caryophyllenes, a family of structurally and biosynthetically related compounds that often…
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Harvest 101
So you have decided that you want to try your hand at Cannabis cultivation? While many will say just plant and add water, which will produce something, there are methods and skills you can use to ensure better chances at high-quality flowers. Growing cannabis correctly is a fairly time consuming labor of love. With all…
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Starting From Seed
While planting rooted cuttings is a common way to propagate cannabis plants, the time honored tradition of starting with seeds is still the choice of many. Advantages to starting Cannabis plants from seeds include having a taproot, possibility of male plants for making more seeds, variety, ease of transport, and storage. Proving Cannabis seeds contain…
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White Caps
In 2017, after two years of construction and $4.5 million, CannaLife Solutions finished one of the most technologically advanced indoor production facilities. It is a grower’s dream and I landed the job in July 2017, when I was brought on board as head grower and general manager. The facility, with its 19 independently controllable and…
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The Aliens Came Down …
The aliens have reclaimed a legend in the cannabis community. If you were ever on the old forums back in the day — like ICMag or Overgrow — you most likely came across BushyOldGrower, aka BOG. Overgrow was an online forum where people could follow you, but instead of “likes,” you would get good and…
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Terpenes
In previous articles, we discussed the landrace origins of traditional marijuana and hashish, the cannabinoids they contained, and their occurrence in modern sinsemilla cultivars. The primarily psychoactive molecule in cannabis has always been THC, and some traditional cannabis also contained some CBD. Modern sinsemilla cultivars are generally higher in THC than in the ’70s, and…
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When To Say When
Trichomes are the hair-like structures found on plants. Stinging nettles have trichomes that inject an irritant when they are brushed. Mint plants have trichomes containing the essential oils that give them their distinctive smell, and sundew plants have sticky trichomes that trap insects. Cannabis also has trichomes containing concentrations of more than a hundred different…