The Plant

A plain orientation to growing cannabis: light, medium, water, nutrients and climate, the few variables that decide whether a plant thrives. Educational…

How cannabis makes its compounds: CBGA the mother cannabinoid, the enzymes that split into THCA and CBDA, and why decarboxylation with heat…

Cannabis has travelled with humans for ~10,000 years, from Central Asian origins through global spread, medicine, 20th-century prohibition and the modern reform…

Landrace strains are cannabis populations adapted to one region over centuries. Where they came from, why they underpin every modern hybrid, and…

Hemp and marijuana are the same species, Cannabis sativa, split by a legal THC threshold (0.3%). What the line means, and why…

Genotype vs phenotype in cannabis: why one seed line gives many plants, why clones exist, and why chemotype beats strain names for…

Male, female and hermaphrodite cannabis plants explained: why only females give seedless resin-rich flower, and how feminised seed and clones control sex.

The four stages of the cannabis life cycle, germination, seedling, vegetative and flowering, and how daylight triggers the switch to flower.

Trichomes are the glands that make and store cannabis cannabinoids and terpenes: types, how to read them for harvest, and why they…

A clear map of the cannabis plant: roots, stem, nodes, fan and sugar leaves, colas, bracts, pistils and the trichomes that hold…