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What is Sativa?

Sativa marijuana plants vary from about 6ft to over 25ft in height.Most varieties grow in the 8ft to 12ft range. The marijuana leaves are long and thin fingered and are light green , especially equatorial varieties, which have less chlorophyll and more yellow pigments in order to protect the plant from intense light. Temperate varieties [...]

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What is Indica?

Indica is a short plant, usually under 6ft tall, rarely over 8ft tall. Its marijuana leaves have short, wide fingers and are deep green, often tinged with purple.At maturity, the marijuana leaves start to turn even darker purple. It has short branches laden with thick, dense marijuana buds, which mature early, usually about the beginning [...]

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What is “growing medium”?

Growing medium is simply what the roots of the plants are growing in. This can be a vast variety of materials, including Rockwool, perlite, vermiculite, coconut fiber, gravel, sand or any number of other materials, even air can be a growing medium. The growing medium is an inert substance that doesn’t supply any nutrition to [...]

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What is Aeroponics?

Aeroponics is the process of growing plants in an air or mist environment without the use of soil or an aggregate medium. Unlike hydroponics, which uses water as a growing medium and essential minerals to sustain plant growth, aeroponics is conducted without a growing medium.

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What is Hydroponics?

The name “Hydroponic” comes from Latin and means “Working Water”. In reality hydroponics is the growing of plants without soil.

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What Does “420” Mean?

According to Steven Hager, editor of High Times, the term 420 (pronounced four twenty, not four hundred and twenty) originated at San Rafael High School, in 1971, among a group of about a dozen pot-smoking wiseacres who called themselves the Waldos, who are now pushing 50. The term was shorthand for the time of day [...]

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What is Weed?

Cannabis, also known as marijuana, marihuana, or ganja  refers to any number of preparations of the cannabis plant intended for human consumption as a drug, the most common of which being the natural herbal form.
The herbal form of the drug consists of mature female flowers and sub-tending leaves of pistillate (female) plants. The resinous form, known as hashish, consists primarily of glandular trichomes collected from the same plant [...]

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