We make a magazine dedicated to growing marijuana perfectly, but if popular website Reddit had a marijuana magazine, it would be called “Growing Marijuana Horribly.”

It’s crazy the number of posts every day on Reddit about growing marijuana. Our team spent a year studying the posts, and Reddit’s many forums devoted to marijuana, and here’s what we found:

The first thing to know about Reddit is that most of its marijuana posts appear to be clickbait trolling and spamming to promote the worst marijuana seeds companies, strains, grow lights, grow tents, autoflower marijuana, and marijuana growing techniques.

You can be almost 100% sure that if you see marijuana growing advice on Reddit, it’s wrong. Here are some examples:

  • You don’t need to use nutrients or fertilizer if your “dirt is good.”
  • Autoflower is better than photoperiod. Read this article to get the truth.
  • You can get great seeds from bulk seed and white label seed sellers.
  • Use hermie pollen to make new seeds.
  • Use random seeds found in a bags of weed you buy.
  • Spray deadly poison on your plants to get rid of pests and diseases.
  • Do low stress training (LST) even if you have no idea how to do it.
  • Take all leaves off your plant when it goes into bloom.
  • Pour ice water onto your roots to “beneficially” shock them.
  • Play heavy-metal music in grow room to increase potency.
  • Stop giving plants nutrients and/or water last two weeks of bloom phase.
  • Put your plants in total darkness, or only give them far-red or UV light, in the last days of bloom phase.
  • Put your plants in freezing-cold conditions the last days before harvest.
  • Buy the cheapest grow tent, grow lights, root zone media, and nutrients you can find.
  • If you see even the slightest hint of off-color in leaves, immediately start dumping solo nutrients like Epsom salts or earthworm castings into the root zone.
  • Don’t worry about pH.
  • Grow your plants upside down.
  • Fertilize plants with dog and cat shit.
  • Use Miracle-Gro & other low-value generic fertilizers.
  • Use Advanced Nutrients and other brands that require you to buy a dozen bottles of mostly water and mix them every time you feed.
  • Use Fox Farm and other generic, sub-par so-called organic or natural soil mixes and fertilizers.
  • Let pets go into grow room.
  • Grow outdoors even in states where it’s illegal to do so, or where strangers can easily see your plants.
  • If buds get gray mold, just dry them out and smoke them anyway.
  • Use tap water, not reverse osmosis water.
  • It’s easy to breed your own marijuana strains.
  • Throw several seeds in one pot.
  • Germinate using paper towels.
  • Don’t invest in professional pH, EC, and PPFD meters.
  • Harvest whenever buds look and smell good, or when you’re desperate to get high.
  • Dry your buds in microwave or oven.
  • No need to invest in books on growing marijuana, just trust redditors, YouTube, other amateur advice.

Yes, these gross gems of bad advice are what you get on Reddit. And just so you know, every one of those stupid ideas is totally wrong.

Who creates all this braindead content? Sock puppets, probably. We see the same photos and videos of ugly runt plants and bad grow ops used over and over by dozens of redditors with different screen names. The photos and videos are accompanied by questions nobody can answer on Reddit, because the redditor didn’t provide enough information.

Most of the time, the redditor can’t be bothered to even spell correctly, but they all use similar clickbait language and weird slang, such as calling growers “ggrowmies” and other childish stupidity.

We repeatedly see small buds lacking resin glands, but the only thing the redditor has posted is “should I harvest?” If the redditor was really serious about getting advice from strangers, they’d tell the strain name, what the breeder says is the bloom phase duration, how many days in bloom, color and condition of resin glands, etc.

Another Reddit scam is the constant posting of photos of multiple seed packs from generic big-name sellers like Barney’s, Sensi, Mephisto, Ethos, Humboldt CSI, Exotic Genetix, Rare Dankness, Cali Connection, DNA, Fast Buds, TH Seeds, Humboldt Seed Organization, G13, Mr. Nice, In House, Humboldt Seed Company, Sin City, Green House, and on and on.

The redditor accompanies the pic with a claim they’re starting a new season and want advice on which seeds to grow. The parrot replies are mostly from marketers promoting their own seed brand–we suspect the original post was created for profit motives too.

And just so you know, read this article and find out those seed companies are thieves and liars selling hermie strains and bulk-bred schwag, so you avoid wasting your money on inferior genetics Reddit loves.

One of the saddest things on Reddit marijuana posts is the few sincere, at least semi-skilled growers who fall for the con and engage in lengthy, well-meaning discussions with the redditor, asking questions, trying unsuccessfully to do remote troubleshooting to fix the redditor’s fake marijuana growing issues.

It really is a clown car at a circus. What you see in these bogus dialogues is the original commenter was a scammer who only had a photo and an intention of clickbait, or a braindead amateur who’s expecting Reddit users to provide personal cultivation education for free.

The astounding range of absolutely off the wall questions (should i bury my plant underground like a mushroom?) is almost as good as a comedy show.

As we note in this article, premium marijuana without hempy genetics is the opposite of a weed, and it takes many growing seasons, as well as study and learning, to become a competent grower. Expecting strangers on Reddit to get you from seed to harvest is selfish & dumb.

One of the biggest problems on Reddit is Reddit itself. Their rules and moderators are set up to block honest transparency. Their mods are power-tripping whiny little biatches. Posters are rewarded with Reddit “karma points” for spreading rancid lies promoting bad marijuana growing techniques, seed companies and grow gear, but if you tell the truth about the lies, you get banned.

This is especially true in the many Reddit posts about grow lights and grow tents, which are clearly designed to promote inferior products like Fluence, Spider Farmer, HLG, Mars Hydro, Vipar Spectra, AC Infinity, and other poorly-made junk from companies who’ve never heard of “customer service.”

Read here for accurate information about marijuana grow lights.

The bottom line is if you want the worst advice about growing marijuana, go to Reddit.

If you want accurate advice, read Growing Marijuana Perfectly, and invest in the latest edition of “The Cannabis Grow Bible: The Definitive Guide to Growing Marijuana for Recreational and Medical Use,” by Greg Green. That is the only accurate, comprehensive, up-to-date marijuana growing how-to book available.

Reddit is a weird website full of snark, time-wasters, losers, incels, traitors, mutants, religious nuts, fools, wankers, egomaniacs, girls who post photos of themselves in cameltoe clothing, prostitutes, Only Fans models, and others who aren’t worth your time.

If you’re stoned and want free comedy, Reddit has a few funny videos, and you can laugh at clueless marijuana redittors. One of our favorites was a photo of a ten-foot tall marijuana plant growing in the ground outdoors, ready for harvest. The redditor said he was moving to a different house, and wondered if he could take the plant and transplant it somewhere else, lol.

To be fair, other parts of Reddit, especially their true crime, politics, and MMA forums, are valuable communities with intelligent redditors. Also, there is ONE reliable Reddit marijuana forum, and you can see it here.

So while Reddit marijuana posts are a source of mild chuckles or outraged disgust, it’s definitely NOT the place to get high-yield marijuana growing advice.