Doogan
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Horticulture: Light, air, water, nutrients, growing medium and heat.
Life cycles: 3 to 7 days of germination, seedlings about a month,......depending upon your desired size...
Life cycles: 3 to 7 days of germination, seedlings about a month,......depending upon your desired size...
- Germination: Moisture, heat, and air
- Together they activate hormones within the durable outer coating of the seed
- Cytokinins: signals more cells to form and gillerellins to increase cell size
- Gibberellins: Regulates growth and influence various developmental processes.
- Stem elongation, germination, dormancy, flowering, sex expression, enzyme induction and leaf/fruit senescence.
- Auxins: Cardinal role in coordination of growth & behavioral processes in the plants lifecycle and are essential for plant body development.
- Together they activate hormones within the durable outer coating of the seed
- Seedling growth:
- 16-18hours of light
- Roots develop
- Vegetative growth:
- 16-24 hours of light
- roots take on specialized functions
- The center and old - contain H2O trans system and many also store food
- The tips produce elongating cells
- The single-cells root hairs are the parts that ACTUALLY absorb H2O and nutrients
- Air or wind makes stems/stalks stronger
- Once leaves expand they start to make food (carbs)
- Chlorophyll: Converts CO2, water, light into carbs and oxygen
- Photosynthesis
- Stomata: Tiny breathing pores on the underside of the leaf that funnel CO2 into contact with H2O
- For photosynthesis to occur, interior leaf tissue must be moist
- Also permit the outflow of H2O vapor & O2.
- Pre-flowering:
- Pre-flowers after 4th week of veg.
- Sex can be determined
- Males flower before females (~1week into 12/12)
- Mother-plants:
- 18-24 hours of light to keep in vegetative state
- Clones taken
- Cloning:
- 10-20 days to grow strong roots
- 18-24 hours of light
- Flowering:
- Outdoors they flower in the fall when the days get shorter
- leafy growth slows and flowers form
- 12/12 light
- Sinsemilla - seedless
- THC production peaks out in unfertilized feeding
- Strains: Technically and legally, ALL cannabis, whether rope or dope is classified as cannabis, "Sativa". Regardless of origin, ALL cannabis is considered (C. Sativa), Under international law.
- However, Cannabis Sativa can be further classified: (Each a distinct growth, look, smell & taste)
- Cannabis Sativa
- Cannabis Indica
- Cannabis Ruderalis
- Cannabis Afghanica
- However, Cannabis Sativa can be further classified: (Each a distinct growth, look, smell & taste)
- Sativa: Asia, the Americas, and Africa (Durban Poison - from South Africa)
- Each area has specific characteristics
- Same general traits:
- Tall
- Leggy
- Wide internode spacing
- Large sprawling root systems
- Large narrow-bladed leaves
- It is said to grow better outdoors
- Sativa blooms later than Indica