Tag: outdoor growing

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July 1, 2015
07/01/2015
Book Review: Kick-Ass Cannabis and Veggies

Book Review: Kick-Ass Cannabis and Veggies

I recently sat down to read a book titled, Kick-Ass Cannabis and Veggies: Organic Gardening Soils, Teas & Tips for Growing Marijuana & Nutrient Rich Vegetables, by...
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April 9, 2015
04/09/2015
Discover Himalaya’s Outlawed Marijuana Fields

Discover Himalaya’s Outlawed Marijuana Fields

Nestled in the Himalayan foothills at an altitude of 10,000 ft. (3,000 m), entire villages and communities subsist on illegal marijuana production. These villages are far from...
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January 21, 2015
01/21/2015
Colorado Cannabis Firm to Grow on California Tribal Lands

Colorado Cannabis Firm to Grow on California Tribal Lands

Their aim is to form agreements with several California Native American tribes to grow and manufacture cannabis products on native land and then sell those products to...
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January 21, 2015
01/21/2015
How to Build a Geothermal Subterranean Greenhouse

How to Build a Geothermal Subterranean Greenhouse

A subterranean greenhouse is a great way to have continuous temperature and relative humidity levels throughout the whole year in your garden space. Native to Bolivia, the...
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January 20, 2015
01/20/2015
For Great Cannabis, It’s All in the Cure

For Great Cannabis, It’s All in the Cure

The curing process is where you either make or break the taste and smell of the flowers. For many cannabis connoisseurs, the appearance, smell and taste of...
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December 1, 2014
12/01/2014
New Zealand Stuck in Prohibition Timewarp

New Zealand Stuck in Prohibition Timewarp

As it is spring time in New Zealand, police constables have issued a warning and a request to locals: be on the look out for cannabis and...
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November 18, 2014
11/18/2014
Book Review: Marijuana Grow Bible, by Robert Bergman

Book Review: Marijuana Grow Bible, by Robert Bergman

Some of the information in this freely downloadable ebook is useful. Other tidbits are demonstrably false. And some of the book’s advice, if followed uncritically, could lead...
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October 30, 2014
10/30/2014
Chile Plants Cannabis for Medicinal Use

Chile Plants Cannabis for Medicinal Use

In most countries in the world, if you asked the local authorities for permission to grow 750 cannabis plants in a residential area of the capital city,...
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October 21, 2014
10/21/2014
Growing for Maximum Flavor

Growing for Maximum Flavor

So you’ve finally decided to grow your own marijuana, but 10 steps into your local grow store, you’re already overwhelmed by what seem like hundreds of choices....
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October 20, 2014
10/20/2014
Retiree Growing Okra Suspected of Running Drug Ring

Retiree Growing Okra Suspected of Running Drug Ring

A Georgia man woke up one morning to the sound of a helicopter hovering over his house. Moments later, his door was approached by deputies and a...
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October 14, 2014
10/14/2014
Legalize Weed for a Healthier Environment

Legalize Weed for a Healthier Environment

I do have one area of concern when dealing with mass production and distribution of cannabis: its effect on the environment.
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October 14, 2014
10/14/2014
Big DEA Raid, Medical Cannabis Cultivators Fight Back in Court

Big DEA Raid, Medical Cannabis Cultivators Fight Back in Court

Two years ago, in October of 2012, DEA agents and local officers in Ramona, California kicked in the door of the Little’s home and arrested both Mr....
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October 7, 2014
10/07/2014
Morocco, Top Hash Provider, Mulls Legislation to Break Marijuana Taboo and Legalize Growing

Morocco, Top Hash Provider, Mulls Legislation to Break Marijuana Taboo and Legalize Growing

Morocco’s marijuana farmers live in a strange limbo in which the brilliant green fields are largely left alone, while the growers face constant police harassment. A new...
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October 3, 2014
10/03/2014
Colorado’s Legal Marijuana Harvest Is Underway

Colorado’s Legal Marijuana Harvest Is Underway

Down a long dirt road snaking deep into the yellow hills of southern Colorado, Ryan Griego and his staff are harvesting green gold: legal marijuana. Here, 1,000 organically...
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October 1, 2014
10/01/2014
Marijuana Farming Threatens Salmon as Water Is Diverted From Streams, Biologists Say

Marijuana Farming Threatens Salmon as Water Is Diverted From Streams, Biologists Say

Water use and other actions by the marijuana industry in the Emerald Triangle of Northern California and Southern Oregon are threatening salmon already in danger of extinction,...
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October 1, 2014
10/01/2014
Paramilitary Eradicating California’s Illegal Marijuana Grows

Paramilitary Eradicating California’s Illegal Marijuana Grows

In the world-renowned California marijuana growing region known as the Emerald Triangle, the telltale “whoop-whoop-whoop” sound from helicopters combing the sparsely populated mountains during pot harvest season...
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September 18, 2014
09/18/2014
Medical Marijuana Update (2014.09.17)

Medical Marijuana Update (2014.09.17)

Our first-ever medical marijuana update with no news from California. But there are things going in places that are not the usual suspects–a sign of changing times,...
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September 9, 2014
09/09/2014
First Medicinal Marijuana Farm Approved in Chilean Capital

First Medicinal Marijuana Farm Approved in Chilean Capital

The governor of Metropolitan Santiago, Claudio Orrego, announced on Monday the approval by Chilean authorities of the first farm in this capital to grow marijuana for medicinal...
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September 4, 2014
09/04/2014
Medical Marijuana Update (2014.09.03)

Medical Marijuana Update (2014.09.03)

Interest in medical marijuana is spreading in the South, New Hampshire inches toward dispensaries, and in California, one farmers’ market gets shut down in LA even as...
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September 4, 2014
09/04/2014
Black Hawk Helicopter Airlifts Marijuana Out of Illegal Boulder County Grow

Black Hawk Helicopter Airlifts Marijuana Out of Illegal Boulder County Grow

A Black Hawk helicopter on loan from the Army National Guard made three trips in and out of the Boulder County foothills Tuesday, hauling dug-up marijuana plants...
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