Medical Marijuana 101

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When to Use Forums

As mentioned, we will use forums for two primary purposes: to start lessons with discussion and to post assignments for peer-review.

Forums for sections will have the title of the section and date range of participation. The first post will be from me with a quick summary and the section outline of topics. Each topic will be posted by me as the section proceeds. You will know I've posted a new topic because the title will be bold, as the top of this post shows.

When you want to join the discussion about a topic, be sure to click the 'reply' link in the same box as the posted topic or specific post.

I will post assignments and teams in the initial section post.

To submit assignments, we'll go to the forum aptly labeled 'Assignments.' This is also where we will peer-review each other's work, keeping in mind the same rules about where to reply to keep us organized.

Make sense?

The 5 Stages of Growing Great Medicine

1. Sprouting Seeds or Rooting Clones

The first step to grow anything. Sprouting seeds is easy and there are various techniques that we'll get into in the next section. Same goes for rooting clones cut from a mother plant.

2. Vegetative Stage

In this stage, Cannabis focuses on growing tall, branching, root and leaf development. The time of the vegetative stage can be indefinite, so long as disease and pests are controlled.

3. Flowering Stage

Seedlings become mature (able to flower)after about 6 weeks. Cannabis is photosensitive. It knows when to flower based on how many hours of light it gets. When the hours of light are about equal to the hours of darkness (12-hour cycles), flowers begin to develop.

4. Harvesting Stage

There are ways to know when the plant is ripe to harvest. We will learn that we have a few options of control at this stage. If we harvest earlier, the plant will yield a more cerebral high; later it will give a heavier body high. This is important to know when we're growing for a specific condition.

5. Drying and Curing Stage

Even after harvest, the active medicine of Cannabis (cannabinoids) continues to mature. During this stage, we regulate the moisture content of the harvested buds in order to prevent mold and enhance quality of smoke or vapor (smoothness, taste, smell).