Marijuana Grower's Handbook - Page 6 - Blog Philosopher Seeds

Pruning marijuana crops has a very specific function, which is maximize performance in the growing space by cutting or diverting of the main branches. This enables the internal transfer of growth hormones (auxins) through the entire structure. This makes it easy to create a more robust and compact growth that allows you to get thicker flowers and high yielding marijuana plants.

Thanks to these methods you can grow a strain that is large in size in a small space indoors, or obtain a good marijuana crop outdoors on a balcony or terrace. In this way, you’ll get a great yield for each Philosopher Seeds variety through methods such as FIM pruning, LST (Low Stress Training), the well-known Super Cropping, and including a new shaping technique known as Wesley Cross Branch.

How to transplant marijuana plants

Usually, throughout the life of our marijuana plants, at some point we will have to transplant our plants to a container or larger pot, usually more than once. It is important to perform this task because the container will eventually be too small, and it will hinder the normal development of the roots and thus the growth and health of our cannabis plants.

With a correct transplant, we will allow the roots to continue to grow and so they will have a better substrate to be fed.

How to hide marijuana plants

In spring, the good weather arrives and we start to grow marijuana plants outdoors, where unwanted eyes could ruin the work of several months.

In this post we will tell you a few techniques to have your plants under control regarding shape and size so they can go unnoticed besides increasing your marijuana plants yield .

How to water marijuana plants in soil

First of all, you should know that choosing the type of soil is very important; for this reason you should look for a light, airy soil that can retain sufficient amount of water. The key is to find the balance: neither too much nor too little, the right choice basically depends upon every grower and his/her feeding schedule.

To improve your substrate in terms of water retention, you should use perlite and coco fibre. The proportions of these elements are also up to the grower, but often range from 10 to 20% of perlite, and 10 to 30% of coco fibre.

Most soil bags sold at grow shops already contain these materials with a pH suitable for growing marijuana. Philosopher Seeds highly recommends choosing these ones instead of buying substrate from the usual garden centre.

pH and EC in marijuana growing

Philosopher Seeds always encourages its customers to monitor the water pH and EC when watering and fertilising their marihuana plants: if these values are properly adjusted and under control, we ensure that our plants absorb all the necessary nutrients, keeping them healthy, without any kind of deficiency and getting the maximum yields.

pH is the coefficient that indicates how acid or alkaline the water is. Later on, we will show you how a different pH range is required depending on the growing medium.

EC is the electrical conductivity of water; in other words, the amount of salts dissolved therein. The more nutrients we use, the higher EC values we'll get.

Growing marijuana outdoors

Growing marijuana outdoors with Philosopher Seeds

In this post we will show you how to get a good harvest outdoors with the strains we suggest from our catalogue, since the first thing to do, which is very important, is to choose marijuana seeds that adapt well to where you are located and your growing method.

Growing autoflowering plants outdoors

Philosopher Seeds cares about all growers who want to use new strategies and techniques to improve their season crops. This is why autoflowering cannabis strains are becoming the first choice for many users to the detriment of regular and feminized seeds. These small plants end their full life cycle in just 70-80 days from seed germination, what makes that lots of growers prefer this type of seeds to be able to perform several crops per year: spring, summer and even autumm if temperatures are mild enough. They allow us to get excellent and abundant harvests at a very affordable price. Its feeding is easy, and they don't grow more than 1 meter tall, being discreet and perfect for guerrilla crops. The more hours of daylight, the better, so choosing the right spot to plant them is very important. If they receive a minimum of 10 hours of light per day, they develop compact and dense flowers with a thick layer of resin glands. Philosopher Seeds offers three autoflowering strains: Cheesy Auto , White Yoda Auto and Fraggle Skunk Auto . Three stable and autoflowering varieties that can yield more than 100gr per plant.

The top three most productive marijuana strains

In this top three list we will show you our most productive varieties, with which you'll get the highest amount of first grade buds, completely coated with resin. These strains are suitable for both indoor and outdoor crops, perfect to make resin extractions , gathering our beloved trichome glands. Philosopher Seeds works to offer high-yielding hybrids and purebreds with very particular organoleptic and psychoactive properties. A very interesting selection to tell you the main characteristics of these strains so you can easily choose which one suits best your needs and possibilities.

Jack el Frutero's yields

Jack el Frutero has a fast and vigorous growth, well-branched and with few leaves. The Jack the Ripper parent provides stability in the cross. Due to its Sativa dominance, we recommend starting the crop from seed placing 9-16 plants per square meter. This number of plants can be increased to 20-25 plants if we shorten the vegetative period to 1 week, beginning the flowering period practically from seed germination (7-10 days at 18/6 photoperiod). When growing Jack el Frutero you need a minimum of 60-70 days to get fully ripe buds.

Basic genetics applied to marijuana strains

To be able to create stable and top-quality marijuana strains, our breeding team always takes into account several basic plant genetic concepts that help us stabilizing the desired traits from our parents to their offspring. Mendel's Laws (Gregor Mendel 1885-86) were the foundations upon which plant genetics were based, explaining the inherintance of different traits among individuals of the same species. Thanks to these Laws, nowadays we can create autoflowering, purple or high-CBD strains, besides the large number of possibilities that arise if they are correctly understood. First, we all should know what is a landrace and what is an IBL (Inbred Line).

Growing autoflowering strains from Philosopher Seeds

In this new post we want to show you a growing report of our line of XXL autoflowering marijuana strains - Auto Line - where you will see the development of our varieties and which things you should keep in mind before starting your crop. It is very important for our team to offer you all the necessary growing data to obtain first-class buds, as well as achieving the estimated yield.

Growing Fruity Jack marijuana

In this post, Philosopher Seeds' team presents a growing report of one of our most demanded strains, Fruity Jack from our line Golo Line. To create this hybryd, Philosopher Seeds joined forces with Reggae Seeds, widely known for their Juanita la Lagrimosa strain, a crosiing between the New York City Diesel from Soma and Reina Madre from Mario Bellandi's Delicatessen Seeds, a renowned activist and prestigious cannabis breeder. The result of this crossing was surprising; the resuting strain had a 1:1 THC:CBD ratio, reaching 9% CBD levels in the best specimens. Since then, a lot of seedbanks and seed producers have greatly benefited from the work and efforts of this humble and commited cannabis seedbank.

Origins of autoflowering seeds by Philosopher Seeds

Marijuana seeds from Philosopher Seeds

We start this post with the presentation in our Blog of a new marijuana seedbank , Philosopher Seeds. The main idea of this initiative is to put on your hands all the necessary information to help you to better grow our strains and understand our philosophy of life and work. This space will be updated with all the information and pictures generated during our daily activity as a seedbank; growing reports, extraction methods, Cannabinoid analysis, smoke reports, quality control systems, cannabis events, etc...

This Blog is open to comments so that information flows in all directions, since it is vital for us to know your growing experiences and your satisfaction level regarding our products. In this way, we greatly expand the experimentation range, a key element for the evolution of our project as Marijuana seedbank.

Philosopher Seeds at 2014 Spannabis

Choosing marijuana seeds with Philosopher Seeds

The Philosopher Seeds' team wants to offer you the chance of meditating a bit about the choice of marijuana seeds, trying to give a more technical and precise view on this topic, and also explaining those growing parameters needed to easily grow cannabis seeds.

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