Customer Reviews:
 Walkthrough....................... June 27, 2006
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
..................that packs lbs onto your harvest. Gains, gains and more gains. If I have any questions I turn to The Cannabis Grow Bible: the definitive guide to growing marijuana for recreational and medical use, because the answer is always in here and always top stuff. I have gone from respectable harvests to super sized gains. This is a walkthrough from start to finish that shows you all the pros and cons of doing it this way or that way. You get loads of alternatives on each of the growing methods. It even shows you how to build your own hydroponics if you want hydro. It is very cheap to grow an unbelievable bulk of quality skunk if you learn how with this book. I want to say thanks, thanks, thanks for the excellence that I found in here.
The CRUCIAL FOUNDATION on marijuana cultivation June 18, 2006
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
This is the most important book ever written about growing marijuana and Greg makes learning marijuana cultivation so easy. It is the best book to come out on the market to date. I can see why it is a hot item just in the amounts you get in return for what you put in. If it wasn't for this book we would still be experimenting with long branches, overcrowding and airy buds that are not potent. OVER 300 PAGES OF TEXT with illustrations COLOR SECTION and charts. The troubleshooting plant solver is one of the most important pieces of information to appear for the first time in any publication. It is a primary piece of work and an essential base.
Because of his breeding knowledge Greg Green went on to write the leading book on Cannabis Science today called The Cannabis Breeder's Bible. The contents of that book are absolutely unique to Greg Green. It is the source of what people are doing today. Experts in the field have used Greg Green to update and completely revise everything.
The index and table of contents make this book easy to use. The quality of writing is great and reads like a scientific text on the subject. You can understand what you are reading for a change. This was the first time high success rate cloning and bubble hash making was revealed.
It is not just a matter of researching, this book has the experience and the practice of getting it ALL right. After two years the success stories are rock solid enough to warrant that this book should be recommended absolutely across the board as what you need. At least start here first even if you think you know it all. Experts did this and got a surprise with what they learned through it. It completely transformed the whole scene. Any advice on the internet or printed elsewhere that has some quality came from this book. I see it everyday on the web boards and reading elsewhere and still continue to!
Read it and Reap! June 17, 2006
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
You reap what you sow. TCGB is the most comprehensive marijuana book I have read. I own a lot of picture books dedicated to the herb but when it comes to text based information that I need then this book is where I go. That is not to say that it is not complemented with pictures and color sections and illustrations. They are exactly where I hope they would be but I don't want reams of pages showing my internet photographs of bud plants when I want steadfast accurate information instead. Like I said, I have a whole pile of picture books if I want that. Here you come away having learned something new every time. I would recommend that you have this in your collection no matter what. It is just so important to have the kind of information that you won't get elsewhere. It has stuff on flowering that makes it an essential read. The dedication to genetics is absolutely a must. Sow bad genetics and you are wasting your time. Greg Green's extensive knowledge on breeding makes all the difference. If you don't get what is being taught about breeding then you are just wasting time and money. You need to understand that breeds are what make the buds able to go into overdrive with the big harvests, dense buds, ultra potent and tasty. It then tells you how to grow the various breeds so that you can reap the harvest that you see in all the pictures! Believe me when I say that there is a big difference between slobbering over pictures and slobbering over your own garden that looks like what you see in those pictures. This is about achieving goals and getting results. The Cannabis Grow Bible is the way to get there.
Should be read before you grow June 4, 2006
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
I think if you want dense buds you need to read this and apply the information it advocates. I think breeding is of primary importance before you consider growing or you are wasting your time. This book just sets you up with the conditions you need to have some dense nuggets within a few months. I mean little chunks of bud that are heavy in your palm. Potent and heavy buds are what everybody wants and this book can help you pull out the type of baggy that just impresses everybody. If that is your goal then this book will help you realise it. It is very easy to waste your time and money doing it any another way. Don't waste your time. Do it this way.
Should have been out sooner, happy it is here now May 19, 2006
What I like most about this book is that you only need this one book to have the full scope of general marijuana cultivation at your fingertips. So I am very happy seeing something do it all in one go instead of buying up on each one; indoors, outdoors, hydro and medical. I would still buy specialized books but there was never anything like this before it came out.
Reprinting the front content table is a good idea as I have seen others have done. The book just speaks for itself. Our commentary is minimal babble compared to the buddage results from using it.
Chapter 1: The Cannabis Plant
A Brief History of Cannabis, The High, THC, Resin, Zero Zero, The Plant, Male Plant, Female Plant, Hermaphrodite Plant, Sinsemilla Plant, Strains and Species, A Word About Male Potency, The Life Cycle of the Marijuana Plant, Germination, Seedling, Vegetative Growth, Pre-flowering, Flowering, Seed Production, Cycle Times, The Decision to Grow
Chapter 2: Seeds
Selecting Seeds, How To Get Seeds, Choosing a Seed Bank, Breeder's Packaging, Storing Seeds
Chapter 3: Propagation and Germination
What is Propagation?, Propagation Logistics, Germination Techniques, Seed Soil Propagation, Seed Towel Propagation, Propagation Kits, Scuffing Seeds, Dangers when Germinating Seeds, Transplanting Seedlings, Transplant Shock
Chapter 4: The Great Divide: Indoors or Outdoors?
Gardening Tools, Planning for Indoor Growing, Planning for Outdoor Growing and Guerrilla Farming, Security, The Most Important Advice Ever About Growing Cannabis, Indoor Security, Outdoor Security, Guerrilla Growing Security
Chapter 5: The Indoor Growing Environment
Lighting, Color Bands and Plant Growth, Basics of Photosynthesis, Common Lighting Types, Horticulture Lights, Metal Halide (MH) and Mercury Vapor (MV) Lights, High-Pressure Sodium (HPS) Lights, Lamp Efficiency Tables, Wattage and Lumens, Lumens and Marijuana Growing, The General Illumination Formula, What to Look for when Buying a Lighting Kit, How to Get the Most from Your Lighting System, Adjusting Your Lights, 24/0 and 16/8 - The Vegetative Photoperiod, Electrical Costs, Soil, pH, Nutrients, Composition, Common Soil Types, Clay,
Humus, Sands and Silts, Loam, Perlite and Vermiculite, Moss, Mixing Soils and Soil Ratios, Understanding the NPK ratio, Pots, Double Potting
Chapter 6: Indoor Environmental Control
Nutrient Control, Problematic Nutrients, Macronutrient Disorders: A Rough Guide, Nitrogen (N), Phosphorus (P), Potassium (K), Calcium (Ca), Sulfur (S), Magnesium (Mg), Feeding, Soil Control, pH - Bringing Back to Neutral from Acidic, pH - Bringing Back to Neutral from Alkaline, pH up / pH down, Water Control, Air Control, Odor Control, Ionizing, Ozone Generating, Activated Carbon Air Filtering
Ventilation, Fans, Humidity, Temperature, Timers, CO2 (Carbon Dioxide), Calculating How Much Carbon Dioxide You Need, Climate Controllers, Soil Flushing
Chapter 7: Pre-flowering and Flowering
Cannabis Plant Anatomy Illustrations, Pre-flowering and Early Sexing, Checking for Calyx Development, Early Sexing Methods, When to Flower?, The All-important 12/12!, Problems with 12/12, Pre-flowering for the 24/0 and 18/6 Photoperiods, The Male/Female Thing or How to Sex Your Plants, Male Flowering, Flowering
Chapter 8: Advanced Indoor Soil-based Grow Methods
Preparing the 'Special Clone Mother', SOG, ScrOG
ScrOG Growing by RealHigh, Cabinet Growing, Perpetual Grow Cycles, Customizing Advanced Setups
Chapter 9: Hydroponics
The Grower and the Growing Medium, Hydroponic Systems, Nutrient Film Technique (NFT), Flood & Drain/Ebb & Flow, Drip Irrigation, Aeroponics, Wick,
Gravity, Automatic and Manual Hydroponic Pots, Setting up the Hydroponic Environment, Hydroponic Nutrients, The Hydroponic Growing Medium, Rockwool, Expanded Clay Pellets, Oasis Cubes, Coconut Fiber, Soil-less Mixes, Perlite, Vermiculite, Preparing Nutrient Solutions, Hydroponic pH, Algae, Grow and Bloom, A Word about Nutrients Strengths, Controlling the Hydroponic Environment, Monitoring Recycle Systems, Hard Water Problems, When to Add More Nutrients, Affordable Hydroponics, The Bubbler
Chapter 10: Outdoor Growing
Outdoor Soil, Caring for Outdoor Plants, Weeding, Watering, Air Pruning, Outdoor Flowering and the Photoperiod
Chapter 11: Caring for Mature Marijuana Plants
Thinning, Light Bending, Pruning for Yield, Topping, FIM Technique, Super Cropping Technique, How to Make Cannabis Bushes, Training, Cloning, How to Air Layer a Clone, Bonsai Clones, Sinsemilla Hermaphrodites, Increasing Yield, Reverting to Vegetative Growth, Increasing Your Chances of Females, End of the Grow
Chapter 12: Predators, Pests and Plant Fungi
Domestic Pets, Pesticides, Herbicides and Fungicides,
Pest Index, Pest Predators, Recovering from a Pest Invasion, Fungi
Chapter 13: Problem Solver
Chemical Burns, Nutrient Deficiencies, 10 Steps to Saving Your Grow, No Cure for Bad Genetics
Chapter 14: Harvesting and Curing Your Bud
The Harvest, Quick Bud Samples, Expert Harvest Indication, Indica Harvest, Sativa Harvest, Fan Leaves, Leaves and Trim, Manicuring, Curing
Chapter 15: How to Breed Marijuana
Making Seeds, Collecting and Storing Pollen, Collecting and Storing Seeds, Simple Breeding, Continuing a Strain through Seeds, Making a Simple Hybrid, Introduction to Plant Genetics, The Hardy-Weinberg Model of Genetic Equilibrium, Genetic Equilibrium Theory and Practice, The Test Cross, Hardy-Weinberg Law, Part 2, Mendel and the Pea Experiments, The First Hybrid Cross (the F1 Generation), More on Genetic Frequencies, How to True Breed a Strain, Advanced Breeding Techniques, Simple Backcrossing, How to Generate a Clone Mother, Selfing, Notes on Selfing by Vic High, Concluding Thoughts on Breeding
Chapter 16: Strain Index
(Listings and Ratings for 50 Cannabis Strains plus extras)
Chapter 17: How to Make Hash
Gathering the Stalked Capitate Trichomes, Skuff, Screening, Advanced Screening, Drum Machines, Basic Water Extraction, Advanced Water Extraction, Supercritical Fluid Extraction (Hash Oil), Pressing Resin into Hash
Chapter 18: Important Cannabis Issues
Is Cannabis Getting Stronger?, The Truth about Hyper-Potent Cannabis, How to Avoid Taking Cancer Causing Agents, Vaporization, Build Your Own Light Bulb Vaporizer, Cannabis Legalization and Social Issues, Cannabis and Young Adults, Cannabis is a Reality, The Alcohol Vs Cannabis Debate, Cannabis and Violence, Cannabis and Brain Damage, Medical Cannabis Should Not Be A Legal Issue, So Why is Cannabis Illegal Then?, Cannabis and the Institute of Medicine (IOM), Cannabis and Harder Drugs (The Gateway Theory), Cannabis and Memory, Cannabis and Paper Production, Cannabis and Illegal Drug Classification, Cannabis and Mind Control, Cannabis Prohibition has Failed, Cannabis Prohibition and Lawsuits, Cannabis and the Author
Chapter 19: The Cannabis Grow Bible Checklist
Good Genetics, Proper Lighting, An Ounce of Prevention, Air Circulation and Ventilation, The Right Medium, Optimal Pot/Container Size, Safe Fertilizers, 12/12, Avoiding Plant Stress, Carbon Dioxide (CO2), Labelling
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