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Good book to get the beginner started with closet growing. It helped me in setting up my GR, with great advice about lighting, environmental concerns, feeding, growing and flowering. Read and learn before you start your hortocultural project:)
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Foreword Preface Chapter 1: THE THEORY Chapter 2: PERSPECTIVE Chapter 3: THE SPACE Chapter 4: NOVEL GARDENS Chapter 5: THE PLANT Chapter 6: VARIETIES Chapter 7: PLANT REQUIREMENTS Chapter 8: LIGHT Chapter 9: LIGHTING ACCESSORIES Chapter ROOTS AND 10: CONTAINERS Chapter THE PLANTING 11: MEDIUM Chapter PH 12: Chapter WATER SYSTEMS 13: Chapter NUTRIENTS 14: Chapter AIR AND 15: TEMPERATURE Chapter CARBON DIOXIDE 16:
Chapter ODOR AND IONS 17: Chapter SETTING UP 18: Chapter PLANTING 19: Chapter VEGETATIVE 20: GROWTH Chapter FLOWERING 21: Chapter DRYING 22: Chapter CUTTINGS AND 23: CLONES Chapter PROBLEMS 24:
Chapter 1
THE THEORY The most important factor in producing high yielding potent marijuana is the plant’s genes. The goal of the grower is to cultivate a garden of healthy, vigorous, fast-growing plants which are induced to flower while they are still short. Indoor marijuana farms are limited spaces. To succeed they must be used as efficiently as possible. To get the highest yield gardeners grow many small plants rather than a few large ones. Smaller plants yield more per square
foot of space, mature faster, and are easier to care for than large ones. People used to think that size or age were important, but they soon found out that maturity or ripeness is the important factor. As the buds on the plant ripen, their potency increases. Depending on how intensive the technique and the variety being grown, plants are forced to flower when they are between 8-15 inches tall. Mature plants reach a height of 18-30 inches. Plants forced when they are small have little chance to develop side shoo