When to plant:
More or less with the first increasing moon of March or April. If you still plant in May you will be in time. You can directly plant in the ground or flowerpot, but almost better to do it in a glass of paper that allows the root to grow about 2.5 cm. at least. in depth, since you will assure that you plant definitively of seeds in good state and later it will be very easy to cut the glass and to extract the Earth as a compact block for the transplant.
There is one who puts the first seed to germinate in cotton to soon pass it to the glass or directly to the flowerpot or the ground.
Water:
The hemp needs enough water, but without getting to have the Earth permanently soaked; as reference you observe that with the lack of water the leaves fall. From you do not go either here with the water.
Temperature
Usually one thinks that whatever more better heat, but is not certain either, since an excess of heat - to start off of 30 degrees it oppresses more or less to the plant and it leaves it aplatanada. In fact it does not require temperatures superior to 18 degrees.
Male and female
In the first place it is necessary to consider that is the female and not the male the apt one for the consumption. After three weeks of normal growth, the masculine plants have less color, more height and are thinner, have less leaves and the branches are born to each other of the stem to a greater distance, to the time that produce a small ball species which it will leave polen that it will fertilize the leaves of the females. Towards the sixth week a plume luck grows to them of leaves in the end. The feminine plants on the contrary are stockier and cleared, of green the dark, they have many leaves and the much more next branches leave the stem to each other
The density of the plantation favors the development of the masculine ones, whereas the free space facilitates the development of the feminine ones. All the plants produce so much above the masculine one as the feminine one, and are the environmental conditions the one another sex or determinant. If you have planted in April towards first of June already them you can distinguish.
If the females are fertilized will produce seeds but they lose psychoactive power, so if you do not have problems to obtain seeds for the next year, it tries to cut the males before the females bloom. Also it can happen that the plant is hermafrodita
Installment
If you cultivate in flowerpot and you have bought rich earth in nutrients it is not necessary to pay, or to do it very moderately since the inexperienced cultivator usually burns the plant by excess of installment, but you will have to change to the Earth every year.
If you cultivate in the field, the best thing, if it can, it is to find a land that is also used for another type of cultures since the hemp grows better in rotation with other cultures like the grain, the beans or the peas, that suppose an important reenergetización of the land. If the land seriously is not exhausted, the following method works enough good: At the beginning of the autumn the chosen piece of earth is worked and it covers itself to him with one slight dung layer, and the beans or other leguminosas stand next; after two or three weeks the return to the Earth occurs leaving buried the stems and the surface with heavy boots becomes to flatten the Earth being above or passing a roller; soon it is let rest the Earth the winter throughout. At the beginning of the spring the land is weeded, it is covered with an organic fertilizer as the dung and already is ready to plant.
Seeds and sementera
The main enemy of the seeds is the humidity. In a perfectly dry atmosphere they even maintain its vitality during three years and they are not affected by the heat if it does not surpass the 37 degrees. If laatmósfera in which they are she is humid this temperature descends to the 30 degrees. Most of the cultivators they hermetically use a closed container, like which the photographers use to keep their films, and they approximately maintain it to a constant temperature of 25 degrees. He is not either advisable to keep great amounts from together seeds because they could be warmed up.
The outer aspect provides a good number of indications on the health state of the seed. The vital seed is well smooth by outside and anything rough; it has greenish gray a gray color sure or gray brown, and it is put bright if rubs it with the hands. If once opened they expelen a scent like of rancid oil, surely are too old; if on the inside they present/display a black color he is safe that they have fermented and will never germinate; on the contrary if the interior is whitish and dusty they are not very old and still they can germinate, but the plants that appear will be weak
Transplant
In general, already we have said in the first point that usually stand in a provisional place for the germination, like for example and for it nothing better than a paper glass that allows the root to grow about 2.5 cm. at least. in depth, since it will be very easy to cut the glass and to extract the Earth like a compact block.
During the transplant the plants are exposed remarkably to a series of risks, so there will be to take some precautions:
First to do it in a cloudy day at dusk or so that the roots are not seen exposed the light very. it will be procured that the new land is most similar to the previous one; the plant with the Earth removes delicately as a compact block and is placed in a hole previously practiced in the new receiving land, is the ground or the flowerpot. it will also be tried not to touch the stem, maintaining it more close possible of the level of earth, and without never touching raicillas nor the leaves. when depositing the earth block in the hole will be tried to focus the plant towards the light not to force it to an abrupt fototrópico movement - of light search that could harm the arraigamiento. the hole must be the quite deep thing like allowing the young root to extend in all its length, because surely it will have been left something compressed in his provisional place. the land will be rearranged so that the stem the same height of the ground has left that tapeworm previously; to accumulate too much earth around the stem can be dangerous. to water when finalizing the operation, in order to facilitate the adaptation to the new land.
When to harvest
The belief that exists when more time is the plants in the best ground, before the first frosts even arrive, which would load the plant. Nothing else far from the reality; the marijuana plant has its cycle just as all the plants, are cherry trees, pear trees, or any other. It arrives a little while in which the cogollos are mature and if they are not cut and more weeks are left outdoors become rancid and lose the good smoked taste to the being.
In general, when the filaments of the plumeros of the females happen of targets to brown, more or less after about 6 or 7 months since they stood, it is the adapted moment for cutting. If you have planted in flowerpot the cycle of the plant will be smaller, like its production, and will be enough with about 5 months.
The flowerpot
The flowerpots must have, like minimum, at heart, a hole to avoid the stagnation of the water. the flowerpot must be of porous material, without external nor horneadas paintings. before using the flowerpot one will get wet completely during half an hour at least. to avoid the water pool in posamacetas. It is obtained depositing the flowerpot on a layer of 1 cm. of gravilla in posamacetas. the plant must always have natural or artificial light. not to change it of site constantly while it is growing. to the parrot with the parasites. when it is paid, to respect the proportions of fertilizer; in any case, to consider the previous advice on installments in flowerpot. if during the growth the plant stretches too much in search of light, ayudala with a small stick as a muleta. when the plant is 2 or 3 days old, if him lack space - it will always need in flowerpot and therefore its growth will not be as much as in the field trasplantala to a greater flowerpot; the more it can lower the root the more it will grow the plant. each plant must be put more far possible of the edges and to a distance of about 40 cm. respect to the others. the lombrices constitute a inestimable aid; the Earth boxed and submissive continuous irrigations is compressed immediately; the lombrices remove it, favor the circulation of the air and the development by the roots. the affection which you profess to your plants proportionally will be corresponded.
