Grow Hydroponic Marijuana

By: Kali Kola and Unknown Grower

 2009 Deborah Luke. All Rights Reserved. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED No part of this transcript may be reproduced or transmitted in any form whatsoever, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any informational storage or retrieval system without expressed written, dated and signed permission from the author. DISCLAIMER AND/OR LEGAL NOTICES This book should not be used for anything illegal. This book is strictly informational and should not be used to do anything illegal. This book should not be used for Marijuana street sales. This book should not be used to sell or use Marijuana illegally.

Dedication
I would like to dedicate this book, first to my God Yahweh, to love, and to my mother.

EQUIPMENT LIST
Scissors 1- 64 ounce bottle (preferably Ocean Spray) Tape measurer or ruler Seed plug or peat pellets Black trash bag Tape Aquarium air pump (At least 10 gallon pump, for 4-5 containers). If you will be using multiple containers make sure you get a gang valve. Plastic Tubing 2 Cool White 100 watt bulbs 2 Soft White 100 watt bulbs Drop Light Reflector kit Digital Temperature/Humidity Hydrometer
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1 bag of Miracle Grow Soil pH meter Jewelry Loop or magnifying glass (at least 30x) Glass mason jar Box Strong twine, or wire coat hangers Paper clips

INTRODUCTION
Welcome to this wonderful world of Hydroponic Marijuana, and I am here to show you the ropes and tell you how you can grow your own Marijuana for about 80% less of what a typical Hydroponic set up would cost you. Remember, you should never cultivate with money in mind. I suggest that you produce enough for yourself and whoever in your family is mature enough to enjoy the herb. I find that when Marijuana growers, grow Marijuana for the sole purpose of getting rich, they more than likely do not have any respect for nature or creation. Love people, just love, and
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everything will be alright. With that said and hopefully understood,

LETS GROW HYDROPONIC MARIJUANA!!!!!!

EASY HYDRO HYDROPONIC DROPONIC MARIJUANA WITH A KEDRO CONTAINER SEEDS

Good seeds are typically dark, hard brown and have marks; you may find some viable seeds that are lighter in color. One thing, to make sure of is that you have a hard seed, so to test this take a seed and squeeze it firmly. If the seed does not smash its probably a good seed. Seeds can be stored in the fridge, to be preserved for later use.

Germination
1. Seeds need heat and moisture to sprout. The
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best way to germinate a seed is to use fresh water in a cup or container. Good seeds will sprout a tape root in 2-4 days. If the seed takes longer than 3 days, add a little bit of hydrogen peroxide to kill bacteria. This is necessary because, after 3 days bacteria will begin to eat at the seed. 2. Place seed(s) in dark place and check seed(s) daily. Temperature should be 65-80 degrees for good germination.

When to Plant
The best way to transplant your plants is in a 4 inch container. This way you can grow your plant long enough to determine its sex, and in the meantime you save space.

Pots
The bigger the pot, the more space the plant will have for root development.

Soil
Soil should always be a good texture. Dry, rich, good potting soil will usually feel spongy when
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squeezed.

Amount of Soil
gallon of Rich soil grows a plant up to a foot.

Roots

Roots need good penetration to seek food and water.

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Leaves
Leaves are very important, they help the plant make energy for plant growth.

Air, Temperature, and Humidity

Air should always be moving, because plants use a lot of CO2 fast, so keep air at 70 85 degrees. Humidity should be normal at 50% to prevent plant from mold. The lower the humidity the more water the plant uses and when the temperature is higher the plant uses more water.

Drain Holes
Pots and containers should always have drain holes to let off excess water. When water stays stagnant in the container, it will cause nutrient problems, and stress your gorgeous hydroponic marijuana.
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Lets Begin..

1. You will need a 64 oz. plastic bottle. I recommend that you use an Ocean Spray bottle, the shape is perfect. Cut around 6 inches up from the bottom. (See picture above)

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2. Take the top portion of the container that you just cut, and flip it so that the spout opening is inside of the bottom portion of the container.

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3. Next, we are going to need to plug up the spout hole. The best thing to use is a seed plug or peat pellets. If you do not want to purchase these you can bore several holes in the twist cap of the container, using scissors or another sharp instrument.
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 If you are using the twist cap method, make sure you twist cap loosely on spout, and remove cap when roots reach bottom. With twist cap method, make holes a good size for root penetration. Make sure they are not too big, or else soil may fall through, which if it does happen, dont worry about it. The best medium to use when transplanting are root plugs or peat pellets. ***We will take you through this process using the easiest and the best way, which is using seed plugs. Some other names they are known as are rooting cubes, root plugs, cocoa peat plugs, etc.

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5. Then fill container with enough soil to accommodate the transplant. (See picture)

6. Before transplanting, make sure you water soil until fully moist. Make sure water is room temperature and extra water drains off.

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7. Now, place transplant into container. As shown in picture.

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8. Then water until surface is moist.

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9. Seedling and clones will grow roots quickly. The reservoir, the bottom half of the container needs to be partially filled with water so that the roots grow down. Use about 8oz., or 1 cup of water. The plants root environment will be in a humid as long as water is in the bottom to evaporate up toward the roots.

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10. Cut a black trash bag in pieces. Make sure you make the pieces big enough to fit around the reservoir. We need to do this to keep light out of the reservoir. Use tape to keep the cut piece of trash bag around the bottle. (See picture.) Light will damage the roots if exposed.

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11. When the roots grow closer to the water, within 1-2 weeks, add 1/4 strength plant food to the water. strength means amount of recommendation from label for a small plant. Gradually increase plant food as plant increase in size. 12. When the roots grow longer, make sure you have an air space between the bottom of the roots, and the spout of the container.

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SETTING UP YOUR YOUR AIR PUMP

1. To suffice your set up, use an aquarium air pump with tubing and, an air stone to supply air to the water, or solution. You can use a gang valve to aerate multiple containers. Water should show a fair amount of bubbles.
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This indicates that the water will stay oxygenated, preventing suffocation of the plant. The bigger the pump, the more containers that you can use.

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2. Use an air stone to diffuse bubbles evenly in the water.

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3. You can insert tubing with air stone through the top of the reservoir, and place top half on top of tubing to hold it in place. 4. Remember that keeping the soil moist is very important. You should have a moist medium at all times.

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LIGHT

1. If you dont want to spend a lot, compact fluorescents bulbs is definitely the way to go. At most home supply stores you can find florescent tube lighting. 2. To grow a good size plant, you will need 40 watts for every square foot. 3. 2,000 3,000 lumens per square foot are good for flowering plants.
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Cool white bulbs for vegetative, at 16-24 hours. 6-8 weeks of normal growth is the minimal time to flower a plant from seed. 5. Soft white for flowering at 12 hours a day to see buds in 1 to 2 weeks after forced flowering. 12 hours a day of darkness, uninterrupted for 6-8 weeks for buds. ** Force flowering is a technique to trigger plants to flower out of natural conditions, by lowering light hours from vegetative hours (16-24 hours) to flowering hours (12 hours).
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5. Metal halide, high pressure sodium lights are more intense lights and are best for bigger gardens. Ultimately, the decision is yours and you can do what you want. 6. Metal halide and high pressure lights make a lot of heat so be sure to have good ventilation, if you decide to go this route. 7. Keep florescent lights at least 2-3 inches away from plant tops. The farthest away you can position your light is 1 foot. 8. HID light or high intensity discharge lights, make sure to keep 18-24 inches away. 9. A 400 watt HID will illuminate an area of about 3 to 4 square feet well. It will cost about 25 dollars per month. A 600 watt HID will illuminate 6 square feet, and has the highest ratio of lumens per watt out of all high intensity discharge lights. 10. Fluorescent lights should at least be a 100 watts and with a compact fluorescent incandescent bulb shape.
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Hanging Hanging Your Lights

1. This step is pretty self explanatory. Take your drop light reflector kit and hang light over top of plant or plants. (See picture.) 2. You will use the cool white compact florescent light to begin with.

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Light Tips
Vegetative is a foliage only stage. This is the stage when the plant does most of its horizontal and lateral growth. Flowering is the final stage and reproductive stage. This is the stage when you will begin to see the flowers or buds form. Do not use incandescent or regular light bulbs. Please!!! If you convert all the regular light bulbs in your house with compact florescent light bulbs, you can save 70% on your light usage, thus lowering your electric bill. Example: The 100 watt compact florescent uses only 27 watts!!!!!! The florescent bulb color is measured in Kelvin temperature. Cannabis is a short day plant, producing flowers when days get shorter.
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TEMPERATURE

1. 76 degrees is the ideal temperature. Humidity should be 50-70 for vegetative. 2. Growth stops at 85 and slows at 69 degrees. Flowering plants do best at 70 - 80 degrees.

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3. 50 degrees is the lowest temperature before plant cells are damaged and 120 degrees is the highest temperature before plant cells are damaged. Anything in between those two temperatures will sustain homeostasis. Optimal temperatures are 70-80 degrees for both vegetative and flowering. 4. Some strains do very well in extremes but if you are dealing with the unknown, keep to the limits known. 5. At night, the temperature should drop between 5-10 degrees. This wont affect the plant unless; its a drop above 20 degrees. 6. Remember, flowering plants should always be in a warm/cool temperature. The temperature should be 72-78 for best results. Never interrupt the dark cycle, once lights are turned out. For example, if you turn your grow light on at 12am they should go off at 12 pm. 12 hours, a half day is needed to trigger and maintain flowering, which is the last cycle of the plant before it dies.
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 You can interrupt light cycle if you are using a green spectrum light bulb. 7. Your thermometer should be mounted at canopy level, right above garden, but below the lights. (See picture.)

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SOIL
To be safe use potting soil of good quality. Miracle grow is good for a 2-3 foot plant. 1-2 gallons bucket or pots will work fine. Soil should be fertile and coarse, so roots and water can penetrate well. Drain holes are very important, so that the soil does not become water logged and eventually drown the roots. Soil should always hold enough oxygen to supply the roots with the proper environment to grow. Dont use dirt or sand, they clump together when wet. Soil temperature should about room temperature which is about 72 degrees. Dont use outside dirt unless you know how to amend it and stabilize the pH.

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pH
1. Ph should be 6-7. Most potting soil will have a pH of 7. I recommend 6.5 - 7 to be safe.

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PrePre-Flowers
Pre-flowering shows the sex of cannabis. Marijuana is a diocese. This means that each plant can be either male of female. They are diploid, which means they breed like humans, or humans breed like Cannabis. You should only flower plants that are old enough to show sexual traits. 6-8 weeks from the germination of the seed(s) should be enough to distinguish male or female. To be sure of the sex of the plant, be sure to check with magnifying glass or jewelry loop 30x magnification. Females have a calyx with two hairs sticking out, sitting behind the stupple. The male, which looks similar, has no hairs or pistils coming out. Male sex parts looks more like a little claw. Plants can be forced to flower once sex is determined.

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Female
Female plants are the ones responsible for colas or flowering tops. Calyx pods are bundled together with pistils protruding in search of male pollen. This happens naturally in nature when the equinox approaches.

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Male
A male plant is good for only breeding. Male plants grow pods not flowers at sexual maturity; they look like little claws as pre-flower and little grapes at its peak maturity. Males release pollen over tops of shorter female plants. Males usually show pre-flowers before female.

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All the Little Stuff.. But, But, Big Stuff

Watering
Maintain plant by watering it, when the surface is dry a inch on top of soil. Picking up the pots, to hand check is another good way to tell when water is needed. Remember the bigger your plants get the more water they need.

OverOver-watering
Water as needed. Never keep plants in soggy soil, it will suffocate the plants.

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Nutrients
Plants wont grow without nutrients. Good soil has all the food necessary for your plants as long as there is enough space for the roots to access it. When plants take in nutrients they give off ions as waste. The more the plant eats, the more often you should leach the soil. You can leach the soil by watering with 2 times the amount of water that the container can contains. For example, 1 gallon container will need 2 to 3 gallons of water, only do this once a month. The more dirt you use the less you have to worry about. When the growing environment is hot, plants use less nutrients and more water. Plants tend to get light green in the heat and a darker green when in cooler weather. Use any all purpose plant food, preferably organic.

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 Vegetative plants should use plant nutrients that yield a number that is high in nitrogen. For example, 5-2-2. Flowering plants should use nutrients that yield a number that is high in phosphorus. For example, 2-5-2. NPK is an acronym which stands for Nitrogen, Phosphorus, and Potassium.

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Now, Lets Get You Some Bud Flushing

Flushing is a necessary step, if you are growing hydroponic Marijuana. Flushing is when you replace your nutrient solution, with plain water during the last 48 hours prior to harvest. Flushing is necessary, because during the final week of flowering, your Cannabis plants will stop taking up nutrients, and will actually start to return nutrients to the solution. So, to encourage healthy growth, replacing the nutrient solution with plain water will assist with nutrient removal and will allow you to experience the true taste of the Cannabis. If you have hard water, flush for at least a week, and replace your water solution with fresh water at least twice.

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Harvesting

When you harvest your plants is completely up to you, but it is recommended that you wait until approximately 70 percent of the pistils turn from white to amber. You can harvest either the whole plant or individual buds.

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Drying

Slower and longer drying times will increase the quality, taste and flavor of your bud. Drying usually takes between 5-7 days. The ideal drying environment is cool and dark. Humidity levels should be 50% or lower with a temperature of 60 75 degrees. 1. Remove all the large fan leaves or to make this a little simpler, remove anything from the plant that you dont want to smoke.
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2. Make a drying chamber, as show in the picture above. Use a cardboard box, paper clips, and twine or anything strong enough to hold the weight of the buds to make this box.
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3. Then hang buds or plants upside down. Keep plants from touching each other as well as sides of box, because this can encourage bud rot. ***Make sure you put holes you drying chamber. Air needs to be able to move in and out of the box.

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Manicuring

After, a week or so, when your bud is pretty drying, we can go in and manicure it. With this step we will examine the bud a little closer, and simply cut the small leaves around the dried bud. TIP You can save these clippings in the freezer and use them for cooking, tinctures,
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and making hash. Drying times differ from season to season, environment to environment, so dont panic, use some reasoning and judge your bud.

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Curing

Very few people cure, but you must follow this step if you want to experience the best quality Marijuana you can grow. The curing process assists in providing better taste and quality.

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1. Place buds in a glass jar. Place buds in jar loosely, about 80% full and seal tightly.

2. For the first weeks of curing, open the top of the jar for 5-10 minutes to replace the air in the jar with fresh air. This is called burping.

***Cannabis can be cured much like wine. The longer you cure your Marijuana, the better it will become.
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**This book is for the cultivation of medical plants and not for commercial or street sales.

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I hope you enjoyed the book. If you have any questions or would like more information about Hydroponic Marijuana visit me at www.hydroponic-marijuana.net.

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