List Books » Marijuana Grower's Handbook: Your Complete Guide for Medical and Personal Marijuana Cultivation
Authors: Ed Rosenthal, Tommy Chong
ISBN-13: 9780932551467, ISBN-10: 0932551467
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Quick Trading Company
Date Published: June 2010
Edition: Special Edition
The all new Marijuana Grower’s Handbook shows both beginners and advanced growers how to grow the biggest most resinous, potent buds! This book contains the latest knowledge, tools, and methods to grow great marijuana indoors and out. Use the most efficient technology and save time, labor, and energy. Ed Rosenthal has been teaching people how to grow marijuana for more than 30 years. Let him help you cultivate bountiful buds and lots of them. With 500 pages of full color photos and illustrations, the book delivers all the basics that a novice grower needs, as well as scientific research for the experienced gardener. All aspects of cultivation are covered, from the selection of varieties, setting up of the garden, and through each stage of plant growth all the way to harvesting. Readers can link to Ed's research for additional information,photos,and equipment updates. Full color photographs throughout clarify instructions and show the stunning results possible with Ed's growing tips.
"Marijuana may not be addictive, but growing it is." -- Ed Rosenthal
Foreword Tommy Chong xi
Preface: Keith Stroup xiii
Free Legal Backyard Marijuana Michael Aldrich xvii
Ed's Instroduction xxxi
Part I Marijuana The Plant 1
How Marijuana Gets You High 3
Marijuana the Plant 13
Indica & Sativa, Ruderalis & Kush 35
Choosing Varieties 51
Quick Points: Marijuana the Plant 78
Part II What are Plants & What do they Want? 81
Marijuana Plant Life Cycle 83
Photosynthesis 90
The Limiting Factors 95
Light 99
Carbon Dioxide 131
Water 147
Nutrients & Fertilizers 157
Temperature, Humidity & Air Quality 181
Quick Points: What Are Plants? 190
Part III Setting Up Your Garden 197
Your Goals 199
Light, Space and Yield 203
Plant Size & Number: Growing in the Limits 207
Designing the Space 211
Soil 237
Hydroponics 267
Security 295
Quick Points: Setting Up Your Garden 308
Part IV Let's Get Growing! 313
Getting Started 315
Vegetative Growth 333
Flowering 355
Quick Points: Let's Get Growing! 386
Part V Harvest & Beyond 389
Harvesting 391
Restarting The Garden 411
Post Harvest 425
Quick Points: Harvest & Beyond 444
Glossary 447
Pest & Disease Appendix 451
Sponsors 475
Bibliography - Partial 496
Index 501