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| Author: Greg Green
Publisher: Green Candy Press
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  89 reviews
Sales Rank: 610244
Media: Paperback
Edition: 2nd
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 416
ISBN: 1931160589
Dewey Decimal Number: 635
EAN: 9781931160582
ASIN: 1931160589
Publication Date: September 23, 2008
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 There was never any old school, but if there will be then this will be it August 14, 2006
14 out of 18 found this review helpful
A great book based around debunking everything preached before about growing grass and then shows the results of some good growing. It is no longer just about producing a one in a hundred photograph magazine quality plant, but having lots of them and with the potency to back it up.
Greg has a strong incline towards enforcing the right genetics and then covering all the nuts and bolts about growing those genetics. In other words, most growers are just starting with rubbish and ending up with rubbish. He is also into optimizing yields every time for the long term. Greg has his science nailed down flat, and urges a complete revision of how you might have tried growing before. In other words, do it this way and you will not be disappointed.
Ok, so stoners might think the breeding section at the end of the book a little too much for them. Greg, we understand that you have done your homework. You laboured hard to get us this information. But do we really need to know this advanced stuff? Maybe for breeding, if we want to produce our own stock. While that stuff is maybe too hard, it is still very welcome to have it there so that we know he knows he is legitimate.
I love that Greg just presses home how to do it right and just arm-twists all the junk you have heard and read into surrender. He just shows some things that make you think, Duh? Why where growers not taught sometime so simple to understand before?
The organization and presentation of the book does not suck and that counts a lot. It isn't like a pipe beaten old-timer has tried to churn out what they think is best. Greg is an author. His knowledge of cultivation is down on paper. He succeeds with hardly any failings. You don't need to sort through the pages to find the information. It is there, word for word of it.
If you like the "start with good genetics and optimize them" ideology of this book, I strongly recommend that you try and eventually grow some mean Jack Herer from Sensi Seeds.
 Well worth getting if you are thinking about growing August 9, 2006
11 out of 14 found this review helpful
This book does not remind me of anything I have read before. It looks a way more professional than most for these types of books. It has a very workable plan to produce the best results in the smallest of spaces to big basement grows if you want. The strategies are clearly laid out and explained in sufficient detail. Readers can find plenty of pictures, diagrams and illustrations with instructions. It is very motivational. The clear and easy writing style should appeal to anybody. Good luck.
A great reference. July 30, 2006
9 out of 13 found this review helpful
Bravo! Finally a book that not only tells gardeners how to avoid wasting your time chasing bugs but also how to end up with a fine canopy of thick buds.
Many books addressing insect and disease control problems with cannabis (and it is a big problem) would have you thinking that gardening is chemical warfare! With other books I had an arsenal of chems on my shelf to kill specific creatures. I didn't know that some of this stuff should not be used on edible plants. Cannabis is an edible!
What these books failed to say is that once you chem control your garden you need to chem control it for good. My gardening was obsessed with it. This book taught me how to maintain a bug-free garden and free of fungi. It just changed my garden and solved a problem pathogen that I could never get rid off before. Every gardener wants his or her garden to be perfect. However, at times we get carried away, overdoing it and forgetting that chem sanitized buds are not the kind of buds you want to use. I really like the way this book even uses friendly insects to control bad pests. It brings us back to reality and reminds us to enjoy nature, not fight it with chems all the time. That control section meant a lot to me.
This is definitely one of the best gardening books I have read in a long time. You need to have the information at your disposal and this book has it.
PROVEN July 27, 2006
9 out of 12 found this review helpful
This new book came out over 2 years ago. It has the best flowering methods to date including 24/0, 16/8, 12/12 and includes plant maturity coverage that will produce the best yields. If you want the biggest buds you can get then read this and put it into practice. Genetics are very important. Never let anyone try to teach you otherwise. Woody Allen can not become Hercules. Starting with the offspring of Hercules and not Woody Allen, combined with optimal growing conditions produces big potent bags of high grade sticky resinous dried flowers. This book will show you how to get Hercules genetics the easy way. There is simply nothing else out there that combines all types of growing, indoors and out, with genetics, soil or hydroponics, and feeding schedules like the Grow Bible. You can repeat the book cover images as others are doing today (see Cannabis Breeder's Bible for new results). This book has a proven history with many growers. The results work and they works very well. Get it right the first time or don't do it at all.
 No longer the best for beginners July 25, 2006
6 out of 10 found this review helpful
Four years ago this was THE book for the average guy to learn how to grow, but there are now two books the rival this for different reasons.
Grow Great Marijuana is now accepted as the best beginner book. If you've ever read a Dummies book, this one looks exactly the same on the inside. It holds your hand from picking a space, buying equipment, growing and harvesting.
Indoor/Outdoor Marijuana Horticulture is and always was the "bible" for cannabis growers. It has everything you need to know, but isn't written specifically for newbies, so it's not the best book if don't already know what you're doing.
That said, this isn't a bad book and it's still very easy to read and understand, but for whatever reason they devoted 1/3 of the book to breeding and genetics even though the author wrote a entire other book on the subject. Between the other two new books, I'm not sure what edge this one can give you.
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