Are You are Master Marijuana Grower?

How do you know you’ve got enough skills, knowledge, experience to be a professional marijuana grower?

Legal, licensed marijuana growing facilities hire professional cultivators to operate their grow ops, with salaries as high as $110K per year with full benefits.

It took me about 25 years as a black market marijuana grower to learn all the skills and information necessary to be a true professional.

With legalization in many parts of America, a few colleges offer training programs beneficial to cannabis cultivators, and there are private cannabis schools solely dedicated to teaching marijuana growing.

And even if a person earns a college degree in cannabis, there’s no substitute for daily cultivation experience. Some of this just can’t be taught in a classroom—it has to be learned during years of growing marijuana.

Here’s the most concise list of what you need to know and do if you want to be a professional marijuana grower or even just a successful home grower who gets the heaviest harvests of the most potent buds.

• Understand all aspects of basic cannabis plant biology including photosynthesis, genetics/genotypes, phenotypes, life cycle, Indica vs. Sativa, etc.
• Possess encyclopedic knowledge of cannabis strains and genetics so you know how to select the ideal plants for your marijuana growing situation.
• Know how to propagate marijuana from seeds or clones, how to make clones, and how to procure the highest value marijuana seeds and clones.
• Know how to do trimming, training, staking, and other physical manipulation of plants to create sturdier, heavier-yielding plant structure.
• Understand photosynthetic photon flux density (PPFD), how to measure it, and how to dose plants with light appropriate to plant age and needs. Understand the differences between various types of grow lights, and how to hang and use grow lights.
• Know the essential nutrients marijuana requires, understand the differences between fertilizers, know how to use hydroponic and organic fertilizers.
• Know how to operate pH meters, PPFD meters, parts per million/EC meters, and reverse osmosis systems.
• Know how to monitor and adjust grow room C02 levels.
• Understand the ideal range of temperature, humidity for growing marijuana.
• Know what vapor pressure deficit (VPD) is and how to use dehumidifiers, humidifiers, and ventilation to keep VPD within range.
• Be familiar with all types of root zone media and growing systems including soil, soilless mix, rockwool, coco coir, deep water culture, drip irrigation, sea of green, SCROG, etc.
• Know when and how to transplant plants as they grow.
• Know how to monitor resin gland quality, clarity, color, development to ensure optimal harvest timing.
• Know how to harvest at the right time, as well as to cut, manicure, dry, cure, and store buds to assure perfect preservation of visuals, scent, potency.
• Know how to make cannabis concentrates such as kief, dry sift, live resins, icewater hash, etc.
• Understand the causes, appearance, prevention, and interdiction of gray mold, powdery mildew, spider mites, broad mites, thrips, whiteflies, aphids, and other marijuana pathogens and pests.
• Be familiar with the medical and recreational effects of premium marijuana strains.
• Know how to set up grow rooms, grow houses, grow tents, outdoor marijuana gardens.
• Know how to breed your own marijuana strains, and how to pull males and detect/eradicate hermie plants.

As you see, you need a lot of information and skill to be a truly successful master marijuana grower who can handle anything that happens during cultivation.

Although you can get decent results not knowing all this information and having all these skills, if you grow marijuana long enough, you’ll be forced to learn, because problems will arise in your grow op. Either you will learn to master cannabis growing and how to defeat inevitable problems, or you will lose all or a percentage of maximal harvest weight and potency every time you grow.

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The good news is you get an incredible feeling of satisfaction, confidence, and achievement as you develop into a master marijuana grower!