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D'Qar Cannabis Plant grown in the Simcoe Mountains of Washington.
Growing Cannabis

Why Vigorous Genetics are the Ultimate Pest Defense

In that secretive world, you quickly learn a few brutal truth: pests and pathogens aren't your primary problem. They are merely the cleanup crew sent to finish off the weak. If your plants are being "taken out" by spider mites or powdery mildew, you need to look deeper than the bug itself. Usually, you’re looking at a failure of vigor... a genetic deficit that makes your crop weak and susceptible. Or a poorly grown crop that is having issues.
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Cannabis plant beginning to die from old age...
Growing Cannabis

Yellow Leaves in Flower: Flush or Feed?

Seeing yellow leaves as the plants begin flower can send a grower into a panic. Your first instinct is usually to dump a gallon of high-nitrogen "grow" nutrients on them or, conversely, to flush them with ten gallons of water because you think you’ve overdone it. Before you do either, you need to understand if you even have a problem.
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Identifying Bud Rot, an d Powdery Mildew in Cannabis Plants
Growing Cannabis

How to Stop ‘Bud Rot’ Before It Starts

Jerry here. There is no worse feeling for a grower than getting within a week or two of harvest, looking at a massive, sticky cola, and noticing a single, tiny grey leaf poking out of the side. You pull on it, and the whole center of the bud comes out as a mushy, grey, moldy mess. I have had to simply discard huge fully flowered 15 ft tall giants!
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