Customer Reviews:
 Old to New May 18, 2006
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
For those who remember the old style.
- Find seeds in bud you bought
- Grow it in a field or in your garage under fluorescents
- Dry it in the sun
Old Brands:
- Panama Red
- Skunk#1
- Panama Gold
- Haze
I don't think I ever read about growing that way just heard it from buddys. Since then there has been a lot of experimental development. Everybody who experimented went with the important new stuff - HID lighting, new nutrients, eighties seed catalogues, and whatever made growing it more possible. Like anything else it is always goods to see what the leading developments today are.
The only drawback to this book is depth. It was not a small read. I needed spend time on it, and study it. You will learn to navigate it after this but you can't just scan read it and grow. I dont think this book will gather dust on the shelf too quickly as it is an integrel part of solving problems.
The Cannabis Bible has pushed me on more and I have improved my gardening and that is apparently the result I wanted so I am very happy with it.
Good amount of info most are not familiar with. May 17, 2006
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Advanced growers will find info in here that they are not familiar with. Here are a few things I enjoyed about it. C2 Seeds. This chapter covered seed germination, seed banks and marijuana plant species. C5 The Indoor Growing Environment. It has info on the 24/0 and 16/8 photoperiods and the right formulas for nutrient calculations. These calculations are very important info. C6 Indoor Environmental Control. Odor control and C02 control with calculations. C7 Pre-flowering and Flowering. The info here could be the value of the book. You can get far and get this wrong but you will win on your first round if you do it this way. C8: Advanced Indoor Soil-based grow methods. Mother plant selections, SOG, ScrOG and closet growing. C9: Hydroponics. You can build your own simple units with the design here or use one of the many illustrated ones. C11 Caring for mature marijuana plants. Thinning, topping, FIM, Super cropping, Pruning for yield, Plant Training, Cloning, Reverting to Vegetative Growth and Increasing females. C12: Predators, Pest and Plant Fungi: This has information on good pests that eat bad pests. Fungi erradication scheme. C14: Harvesting and curing your bud. Trichome checks, manicuring and how to get them fresh if they spoil in storage. C15: How to Breed Marijuana. This is info nobody was familiar with before it appeared here. C17: How to make Hash. The first time I saw water extraction. It has color photographs showing how it's done. A good list of Marijuana agencies that the grower will probably use is at the back.
Well referenced Marijuana research that makes me happy. May 16, 2006
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
The first time I came across this book was when it appeared on a banner on Marc Emery's Cannabis Culture web site. It was pretty much the first brand new Marijuana book to come out in a decade, maybe even more. What made it so inviting was its full table of contents that was all inclusive indoor, outdoor, soil, hydroponics and breeding in one single volume instead of needing four or five books about each area.
In the pages are a well kept promise of new material and has very good word of mouth within the Internet community who recommend this Bible on all the web sites I have seen. The medical user community who went largely ignored get a full chapter about vaporizing and the medicinal quality of different high types. Props for that.
This book references those web sites and I have seen many newbie growers come to those web sites because they found it covered in this book.
I have also found this book and the other book referenced on Wikipedia and other sources. It is used as source material. I think it has very good word of mouth in the community and is very easy to recommend it to people because they get a very broad coverage of all the major Marijuana questions and topics. It is a massive head start for them... a massive head :) It makes me happy to have it.
Oppss.. Jorge maybe you didn't know that the previous edition was FREE on the internet. May 16, 2006
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
Thanks to Greg Green since 2001 the internet was flooded with a PDF of the Cannabis Grow Bible. It was 400 pages of free information. It was downloaded millions of times. It is on every major fserve, IRC channel and bit torrent out there. I can find it for free with a google search. For FREE. Doesn't cost a penny. So naturally some of us wanted it in print. So we get a whole new book in print. A revised Cannabis Grow Bible in print. On the front of the PDF file it says to buy a copy of the new version if you like the 400 paged free PDF document. And it has been FREE for 5 years!
The Encyclopaedia of Modern Marijuana Growing May 12, 2006
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
The Greg Green Collection (two books) like Marijuana Growing is a worthy hobby and next to a collection of High Times magazines is certainly one of largest written texts on a plant, running more than an extra couple of thousand words than the other items out there. Although Greg Green is not the longest running marijuana writer, you get around 600 pages of solid growing information. Each page is crammed with no nonsense information without extra filler internet photographs where you want words. In terms of text nothing comes even remotely close to that. And this is no nonsense information without babbling. By the end of the collection you should have a garden that defines the word awe. This is the kind of item that requires a few minutes of you hobby time a day over the course of two or three crops. The Cannabis Bible series creator Greg Green nails a powerful premise, realizing the contradictions and errors of pot journalism (that everyone talks about) versus real world growing and sets up a book at odds with what was done before and includes medical use. Most pages play along with the theme of teaching the grower everything from the ground up, focusing on new discoveries while eliminating confusion and erroneous information picked up elsewhere. There are no guest star writers appearing midway who start talking about the same thing another way or cancel out of confuse you even more. It is pretty much less about theory and more about showing the reader how it is done. It is a complete work from start to end. The scope or coverage is beyond that of what you might expect from a pot book. Just look.
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
Resources
Cannabis Websites
Hash and Processing
Hydroponics and Lighting
Medical Cannabis Information
Seed Banks
Vaporizers
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