Gorilla Marijuana Growers Guide
Gorilla Marijuana GrowingThe purpose of this gorilla marijuana growers
guide is to help beginners supply themselves with hemp using standard items
from hardware stores. If enough people grow their own, trafficking in hemp
will be eliminated and quality will greatly improve. To start you need a
small space - a closet roughly 60x150x200 cm (that's 2x5x6 ft for the
archaic). Cover the walls, ceiling and doors with aluminized Mylar (if you
can find it) or aluminum foil, shiny side out. This saves light for the
plants, ideally, the only light absorber in the room is plant. (Mirror tiles
are an option for the really rich). The next step is to put lights in the
room. Fluorescents are the cheapest and most readily available. Shop light
holders will hold two 120 cm (4 ft) bulbs. Each bulb is rated at 40 watts. 5
sets of shop lights will give 5 or 6 plants enough light for good results.
That's a total of 10 bulbs or 400 watts. The type of bulb does not really
matter, wide-spectrum grow bulbs if you can get them are great but regular
shop lights work fine. If the closet is already warm, some ventilation is
required. Space under the door and an equivalent 10 square cm (~4 sq in)
hole out the top of the closet is adequate. Alternatively, you can leave the
door open a couple of cm and put aluminum foil along the wall near the door
to prevent too much light leak. Do not let the room temperature get over 35
C (95 F) as this hurts growth. Optimal temperature is 27-30 C (80-86 F).
Less than 21 C (70 F) is too cold for good growth. Vertically mounting the
lights is best as this provides light to the entire plant. Putting one in
each corner and one over head will also work well. Use bricks or 2x4's to
raise the lamps off the floor, or use the hangers to hold the shop lights up
on the wall. If you know how, buy sockets, boxes and 3 wire cable (14 gauge
or better) and build an extension cord for all the shop lights. The boxes
can also sit on the platforms holding the lights up or can be tied up above
the floor. If you have a water accident you don't want your electrical
components to be involved - it could kill you. If you don't know how and
don't have any friends who do then buy the 3 ft extension cords with 3
sockets on the end. Use one socket to plug in the shop light and another for
the next extension cord. The reason for doing all this is for the timer
you'll need to put on the lights and because most shop lights only come with
a 6 inch cord. Once your room is set up it should seem BRIGHT since the
walls are all mirrors. Now we come to the planting. Rockwool is the best
medium but is not universally available. Potting soil mixed with perlite,
lava, sand or styrofoam in a 50% soil - 50% lava (or whatever) works best.
Hemp grows best in sandy or loose soil, the roots need lots of air as well
as water. For detailed instructions get a book (see High Times ads), but
hemp is a weed which will pretty much grow anywhere with enough light and
nutrients. Plant 10 to 15 seeds at a time. If you get clones you can start
with 5 since more plants will be light starved in this small a space. Keep
the light on 24 hours a day if possible. The first stage of growth is called
vegetative. Water the plants twice a day during this time. About 12 hours
apart is best but a few hours either way is ok. Feed the plants once a week
with a 15-10-10 plant food or a standard "Miracle-gro" product from any
K-mart. Again, to do better, get a book. When the plants are about 60 cm (2
ft) high you can go into the flowering stage. To do this set a timer for 12
hours of light and 12 of dark. If you've left the door open for ventilation,
close it during the dark period. The darker the plants are the better.
Reduce the amount of water by half, watering near the time the lights come
on. After a few weeks the plants will begin to differentiate. The males
produce "balls" with pollen and the females produce feelers at nodal points
(stems and branches). For the best Sinsemilla you want to cut out the males
before they release pollen. If you want more seeds this is not necessary.
Reduce the number of plants down to the best 5 females. Use the rest in
brownies or cookies. The leaf has too much vegetable matter to smoke but
will work fine for eating. The entire cycle takes about 4 months. Usually 4
to 6 weeks in vegetative stage, 2 weeks to differentiate and another 8 weeks
to flower. Harvest when the large sun leaves begin to yellow and drop off.
To harvest, cut all the leaf off and let dry on a flat surface. Trim the
leaf down near the buds and hang the buds to dry for about a week. This part
can get fairly stinky so you may need ventilation to the outside or a room
deodorizer. For faster results use a microwave oven. Get a corn cob pipe
from your local *drug* store and enjoy your efforts. This method with get
you 2 - 4 lids of pure sinse. In the same space a pro can get four times as
much but who cares? This bud's for you!
Someone wanted me to forward this to the net anonymously... Don't know why
they didn't do it themselves... I agree with the article -- growing
marijuana is not only a great hobby, but a terrific way to avoid the expense
and iffy quality of black-market weed. You don't know what shit they spray
on Mexican dope plantations, and you probably don't WANT to know! Anyway, I
had a few comments to add to the gorilla guide, to make some corrections
and/or expansions on instructions which might not be too clear to the
beginner. To start you need a small space - a closet roughly 60x150x200 cm
(that's >2x5x6 ft for the archaic). Cover the walls, ceiling and doors with
aluminized Mylar (if you can find it) or aluminum foil, shiny side out. This
saves light for the plants, ideally, the only light absorber in the room is
plant. (Mirror tiles are an option for the really rich). Actually, flat
white paint works almost as well as these high-tech methods. Use something
cheap: put your money into things like lights that are really important. The
next step is to put lights in the room. Fluorescents are the cheapest and
most readily available. Not to mention the coolest. This is the real
advantage of fluorescents for the closet grower. For the professional,
expensive metal halide and high-pressure sodium lights give more light for
less electricity. But these lights are overkill, and too damn hot, for the
amateur closet grower. Water the plants twice a day during this time
[vegetative growth]. About 12 hours apart is best but a few hours either way
is ok. Feed the plants once a week with a 15-10-10 plant food or a standard
"Miracle-gro" product from any local discount store. Again, to do better,
get a book. You probably don't need to water quite this often, and you can
probably get away with feeding more often than once a week. I water once a
day or once every other day, feeding with every or every other watering. The
key is to use a high-nitrogen plant food during vegetative growth, and a
low-nitrogen plant food during flowering. When the plants are about 60 cm (2
ft) high you can go into the flowering stage. To do this set a timer for 12
hours of light and 12 of dark. If you've left the door open for ventilation,
close it during the dark period. The darker the plants are the better. After
a few weeks the plants will begin to differentiate. The males produce
"balls" with pollen and the females produce feelers at nodal points (stems
and branches). The plants will stop lengthening almost entirely shortly
after you shorten the light cycle (within a week or two), so my advice is
not to cut the lights until the plants are just about as tall as you want
them to get. It's hard for the beginner to tell male and female pre-flowers
apart at first. The "feelers" discussed above look like two tiny white
hairs. Note that things should be dark through the entire dark cycle.
Turning on the lights even for a moment can prove to be too much of an
interruption. (I don't know this from personal experience, but I've seen in
repeated in enough books/articles on the subject to consider it good
advice). For the best Sinsemilla you want to cut out the males before they
release pollen. If you want more seeds this is not necessary. Most of the
time, marijuana separates into male plants and female plants. Sometimes,
though, you end up with hermaphrodites. Most growers seem to have an
antagonistic relationship with hermaphrodites, but not me. I think they're
wonderful. Here's why. When I have a hermaphrodite female, and it pollinates
itself, all of the seeds from that pollination are guaranteed to be female.
A batch of female seeds is the best thing you can ask for as a grower. The
entire cycle takes about 4 months. Usually 4 to 6 weeks in vegetative stage,
2 weeks to differentiate and another 8 weeks to flower. Harvest when the
large sun leaves begin to yellow and drop off. Vegetative growth will be
longer if you grow your plants larger than two feet tall. The large sun
leaves may start to yellow and drop off even before you start to flower the
plant, so this isn't the best indication. When the hairs on the female
plants are mostly dried up (with wet white or red hairs distinctly in the
minority) it's about time to harvest. You don't want to harvest too early,
or you'll miss out on the most flower growth and most THC production.
