Level 4

Master Grower

Mastery — breeding, scale and the finished craft.

8 lessons

Plant biology 6 min

Cannabinoid Biosynthesis: The Short Version

You've been told a hundred times that a strain "is" 22% THC. That number is the end of a long assembly line. Level 4 is about the line itself — because once you…

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Plant biology 6 min

Terpenes: The Other Half of Quality

Two growers, same THC number on the lab report. One jar smells like cut grass and the other like lemon peel and diesel. People will pay double for the second one…

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Light 6 min

Spectrum Engineering

Somewhere out there is a grower who spent four hundred euro on a UV bar because a forum told him it would push his THC up. He ran it for a full flower cycle. His…

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Plant biology 6 min

Stress as a Tool (and as a Cult)

There's a corner of growing that has gone slightly religious. Stress the plant, the gospel says, and she'll reward you. Starve her, drought her, strip every fan…

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Training 7 min

Density, Training, and Canopy Economics

Ask ten growers how many plants to run in a square metre and you'll get ten answers and at least one argument. The honest answer is that there's no single right…

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Genetics 7 min

Breeding I: How Strains Happen

A grower crosses the two plants he loves with a paintbrush, gets four seeds, grows them out, and ends up with four plants that have nothing in common with each…

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Harvest & cure 6 min

Concentrates and What They Demand of the Flower

A grower spends an afternoon making bubble hash from a bucket of trim and pulls out a smear of green sludge that tastes like burnt lawn. The week before, he'd…

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Plant biology 7 min

Mythbusting as a Discipline

The most expensive thing in growing isn't a light or a tent. It's a confident claim with no control behind it. "Crank the PK." "UV boosts THC." "Schwazz for monster…

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