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1. The Medical Marijuana Growers Guide. NATURES PHARMACY.: Organic no till cannabis cultivation from seed to harvest.
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The Medical Marijuana Growers Guide has been rewritten to include more detail on cannabis cultivation. Learn how to grow medicinal grade marijuana from seed to harvest. This quick start guide starts out with how to build a grow room and create the perfect indoor environment for cannabis cultivation. Learn how to grow marijuana from seed and from clones. Learn the five stages of plant development and how to reach the plants full genetic potential. Learn about plant nutrition, microorganisms and how they complete the nutrient cycle. Increase quality and yield thru organic no-till style agriculture while reducing the need to use harmful chemicals. This guide also covers the art of drying and curing. Producing cannabis for the connoisseur. The guide is an easy read and whether you are a beginner, a hobbyist or a seasoned professional entering the legal medical or recreational market, something can be learned from this guide and my 45 years of practical experience. With the information in this book, you should be able to hit 2-3 pounds per 1000w light. Turn on your automatic updates to receive the updated version. With legalization around the corner, anyone can enjoy growing marijuana for its nutritional and medicinal benefits as well as its recreational benefits. Peace and prosperity for all.2. Organic Mushroom Farming and Mycoremediation: Simple to Advanced and Experimental Techniques for Indoor and Outdoor Cultivation
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What would it take to grow mushrooms in space? How can mushroom cultivation help us manage, or at least make use of, invasive species such as kudzu and water hyacinth and thereby reduce dependence on herbicides? Is it possible to develop a low-cost and easy-to-implement mushroom-growing kit that would provide high-quality edible protein and bioremediation in the wake of a natural disaster? How can we advance our understanding of morel cultivation so that growers stand a better chance of success?
For more than twenty years, mycology expert Tradd Cotter has been pondering these questions and conducting trials in search of the answers. In Organic Mushroom Farming and Mycoremediation, Cotter not only offers readers an in-depth exploration of best organic mushroom cultivation practices; he shares the results of his groundbreaking research and offers myriad ways to apply your cultivation skills and further incorporate mushrooms into your lifewhether your goal is to help your community clean up industrial pollution or simply to settle down at the end of the day with a cold Reishi-infused homebrew ale.
The book first guides readers through an in-depth exploration of indoor and outdoor cultivation. Covered skills range from integrating wood-chip beds spawned with king stropharia into your garden and building a trenched raft of hardwood logs plugged with shiitake spawn to producing oysters indoors on spent coffee grounds in a 44 space or on pasteurized sawdust in vertical plastic columns. For those who aspire to the self-sufficiency gained by generating and expanding spawn rather than purchasing it, Cotter offers in-depth coverage of lab techniques, including low-cost alternatives that make use of existing infrastructure and materials.
Cotter also reports his groundbreaking research cultivating morels both indoors and out, training mycelium to respond to specific contaminants, and perpetuating spawn on cardboard without the use of electricity. Readers will discover information on making tinctures, powders, and mushroom-infused honey; making an antibacterial mushroom cutting board; and growing mushrooms on your old denim jeans.
Geared toward readers who want to grow mushrooms without the use of pesticides, Cotter takes organic one step further by introducing an entirely new way of thinkingone that looks at the potential to grow mushrooms on just about anything, just about anywhere, and by anyone.
3. The Cannabis Encyclopedia: The Definitive Guide to Cultivation & Consumption of Medical Marijuana
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The award winning Cannabis Encyclopedia is the definitive guide to medical marijuana cultivation and consumption. It explains all the essential techniques to grow indoors, outdoors and in greenhouses. All gardening practices are well-researched and illustrated with easy step-by-step examples and instructions.More than 2,000 beautiful color images illustrate this 596-page book. The large 8.5 x 11-inch format, three-column pages are easy to read and packed with up-to-date information that make this book essential for all cannabis gardeners and patients.
Chapters on medical cannabis history, cannabinoid measurement and medical varieties provide a firm background for medical patients and caregivers. The Medicinal Concentrates and Cooking with Medicinal Cannabis chapters feature many different methods to concentrate and consume cannabis.
Each stage of plant growth is detailed and graphically explained seed, seedling, vegetative growth, clones and mother plants and flowering. Harvest, drying and curing information aims to preserve cannabinoids. Garden room design, construction and maintenance, greenhouse construction and care, outdoor gardens from backyards and patios to large remote fields are all explained in full detail and many step-by-step examples.
Four case studies feature two indoor gardens, one with LED and HP sodium lamps, Jorges backyard garden and a big garden in Humboldt County, CA. Each aspect of cannabis cultivation is examined in detail with a focus on organic practices preserving the sanctuary, meters, air, light, lamps and electricity, soil, containers, water, nutrients, additives, container culture and hydroponics, diseases and pests and breeding.
The comprehensive Nutrient chapter has individual drawings of 14 cannabis plants showing nutrient excess and deficiencies. The Breeding chapter explains methods, plant crosses, back crosses, true breeds, hybrids, etc. and provides step-by-step illustrated instructions on starting your own home breeding program. Learn exactly how to increase yields, increase cannabinoid potency, and make eco-friendly decisions from the expert, Jorge Cervantes. His advice is basic, detailed and reliable.
4. Marijuana Grower's Handbook: Your Complete Guide for Medical and Personal Marijuana Cultivation
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"Marijuana may not be addictive, but growing it is." -- Ed Rosenthal
5. Marijuana Horticulture: The Indoor/Outdoor Medical Grower's Bible
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With 512 full color pages and 1120 full color photographs and illustrations, Marijuana Horticulture: The Indoor/Outdoor Medical Grower's Bible is the most complete cultivation book available. The Fifth Edition of the former Indoor Marijuana Horticulture: The Indoor Bible was originally published in 1983, when it immediately became a best seller. More than 500,000 copies of the Indoor Bible are in print in Dutch, English, French, German and Spanish.New greenhouse and outdoor growing chapters make this a book both indoor and outdoor growers will keep under thumb. The other 15 chapters (17 total) are all updated with the most current information, completely rewritten and significantly expanded. For example, Dr. John McPartland contributed an all new medical section - The books credits list more than 300 contributors and reads like a who's who in the world of cannabis cultivation.
6. The Essential Guide to Cultivating Mushrooms: Simple and Advanced Techniques for Growing Shiitake, Oyster, Lion's Mane, and Maitake Mushrooms at Home
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The Essential Guide to Cultivating Mushrooms Simple and Advanced Techniques for Growing Shiitake Oyster Lion s Mane and Maitake Mushrooms at HomeDescription
From the basics of using mushroom kits to working with grain spawn, liquid cultures, and fruiting chambers, Stephen Russell covers everything you need to know to produce mouthwatering shiitakes, oysters, lions manes, maitakes, and portobellos. Whether youre interested in growing them for your own kitchen or to sell at a local market, youll soon be harvesting a delicious and abundant crop of mushrooms.
7. Marijuana Horticulture Fundamentals: A Comprehensive Guide to Cannabis Cultivation and Hashish Production
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8. Aloes and Agaves in Cultivation
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Aloes and Agaves in CultivationDescription
Aloes and Agaves in Cultivation is a comprehensive look at aloes and agaves as ornamental plants for Mediterranean landscapes. Over 1000 beautiful images of these sculptural plants are provided, primarily in California landscape settings. This book is about how we work with these plants outside of their native habitat, with insightful commentary and suggestions from Jeff Moore, a nursery owner with over 30 years of experience.9. Marijuana : Growing Marijuana: Beginners To Experts Ultimate Easiest Guide For Growing Large Buds Of Marijuana Plants.The Grow Bible To Get Big Yields ... Cultivation,Cannabis,House Plants)
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Marijuana Growing Marijuana Beginners to Experts Ultimate Easiest Guide for Growing Large Buds of Marijuana Plants the Grow BibDescription
GET HIGH NOW WITH THE BIGGEST AND SWEETEST OF BUDS
The basics of growing Cannabis can be easily grasped by remembering that it is a plant. Growing Marijuana outdoors is just like growing any other plant outdoors. You just plant a seed in soil and let nature take its course.
Plants are not particularly designed to develop indoors. However, due to Marijuana being an extremely controlled substance, and growing it is deemed illegal in most states, growing it indoors away from prying eyes is almost always necessary.
Therefore, in order to successfully grow Marijuana, you must fool them into believing that they are growing in the great outdoors. This task of fooling the plants into thinking that they are growing outdoors takes a significant amount of time, knowledge and patience to pull off. This, however, is what this book will teach you how to do.
This book will teach you all the things you need to know on how to grow Marijuana indoors. In addition, this book will also teach you how to increase your yield and make the most out of your crops. So, sit back, relax, and let your Marijuana growing education begin by buying the book NOW! ;)
Look at some of the Neat stuff you'll learn in this book:
- How Plants Grow
- Building an Indoor Garden
- Choosing A Grow Medium
- Transplanting
- High Yield Hydroponic Systems
- Different Effective Grower Setups
- Marijuana Seeds Selections
- Trevor's Round Gulley & Drip Table System
- Bob's Bucket System
- And Much, Much, Munchies More!
Buy a copy today! Get the book today and get bigger buds with the techniques included ! ....and remember not to get high on your own supply ;) but that's ok since this book teaches you best way to big yields!
Check Out What Other Learners Are Saying...
"Man I am too HIGH to talk right now!!"- Dale
"The biggest killer on the planet is stress and I still think the best medicine is and always has been Cannabis." - Willie Nelson
"Nelson Just pass the weed !" - Saul
10. Mushroom Cultivation: An Illustrated Guide to Growing Your Own Mushrooms at Home
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Understanding how mushrooms grow is crucial to successfully cultivating them, and Mushroom Cultivation offers comprehensive instruction both on how mushrooms grow and how you can cultivate them yourself to enrich your soil, speed up your composting, and even to suppress weeds. Somecultivate mushroomsfor medicinal use ormake them into teas and tinctures.
After reading Mushroom Cultivation, you'll discover that growing a mushroom is really no more difficult than growing a tomato. You just need a slightly different set of skills.
11. Transcendentalism and the Cultivation of the Soul