This is a great reference for me. I learned a lot of information that was helpful. This is really a great book.

This book contains exactly one chapter on hydroponics and it's not a very good chapter. As a general book on growing, it's not bad, but anything that purports itself as being a "grow bible" should include extensive information on evaluating hydroponics systems and mediums and how to use and maintain them throughout a grow. This book contains some information on this, but not nearly enough. For whatever reasons, it includes far more information on genetics and breeding, but most growers I know buy clones or seeds. Those pages would have been better devoted to all things hydroponics.

Is there a good book focused primarily on indoor hydroponic growing? Not sure I need it now, but it would have been great to have a few months back.

I have read many books on the subject and this is by far the worst one. The author thinks he knows everything and that his book is the definitive work on the subject. That is a bad combo. When you have that attitude, then you are no longer open to new methods or opinions. Any book, in this day and age, that has 4 chapters on soil and only one on hydro is better used as kindling. Setups are poorly explained, there are few pictures, and it yields more frustration than crops.

Out of all of my gardening library, this is my GO TO book. It is as technical as they come, yet easy to follow. A MUST have for any medical gardener.

I ordered this book in July, and was told that I would recieve it by 7/31. Recieved the book 9/15. Good book but terrible wait for it.

This book never shipped. ordered over 6 weeks ago. Smazon still says ships within 1-3 weeks. it has been 4 weeks past their estimated ship date. So don't bother ordering this book.

Been over a month ,still no book, it's a simple order, it's just a book. Will never buy anything from Amazon again.

Don't bother ordering this. I made the purchase months ago, and they keep extending the shipping date. Given that used copies are selling for $50 and up, it's unlikely that Amazon can actually get this book.

I'm finding that this is becoming typical of Amazon.com. The last 3 orders I've placed have had problems.

Months go by... no book. I bought other books instead: Jorge's Marijuana Horticulture, Grow Great Marijuana and the plant saver guide. I cancelled this one, don't think I need it.

If you're looking to order this book I'd recommend looking elsewhere. I ordered this book over 2 months ago and Amazon has never shipped it. It is not out-of-print so I don't know why this has occurred. Amazon claims they are out-of-stock. But how long does it take to order a book that is currently in-print??? Amazon really dropped the ball on this one.

I ordered this book six weeks ago and it still has not been shipped from Amazon. I remember when I ordered this that Amazon stated it would take 1-3 weeks, but I'm still waiting and I look at the page and it still says 1-3 weeks. I think its just out of stock... I'm disappointed that I've had to wait this long. What's the problem Amazon?

If you are interested about how cannabis grows, then this is a very good read. To fully understand, you cant limit yourself to only one book. There are many out there, this one being in my top 5. Look what everyone else has to say...

i only opened it a couple times. i prefer jorge cervantes over this. easier to access the chapter you need since it's color coded. but i'm not saying it's a bad book. i personally think that 80-90% of the information in the book could easily by found searching the net.

Plain and simple this is HANDS DOWN THE BEST BOOK FOR LEARNING ABOUT GROWING CANNABIS! This book covers every and anything you would need to know. Even if you know alot about cannabis you are sure to learn a thing or 2 from this book!

This book is poorly written. It does not tell you how to determine sex well at all. NO pics to guide you. Everything seems like it was written half-A##ed by someone that was too stoned to care.

I found this book a slight technical but also informative. The section on germinating was a little lacking as I has found a website that offers a guaranteed method. Good read...

As a legal Medicinal User and activist I have found this book a great reference not only for myself but also for the masses. This book can help an 80yr old Grandma make & produce her life giving medicine! It isn't just retread basics either, they go into more advanced techniques for higher production & safety. I use it often as a reference as you would an dictionary or recipe. When I teach growing classes at the local Co-op this book is our text book.

The only con is that it doesn't go to deep into the cutting edge technologies. Hydroponics has just enough info but could be better, Aeroponics and Ultrasonic misting are not covered in any depth to help you grow. (hence only 4 stars)

The author is intelligent and can write sentences with a subject, predicate, and correct punctuation. He also finishes his thoughts and covers issues in the proper order unlike most popular grow books.

(stay away from Ed Rosenthal books, he is lost most of the time.

To sum up: a must have!!!

the 3GCrew's ladies would not be the same without this book.. and never will be again, because there are things to learn reading this.. you find yourself taking notes of process and kick yourself for having done things any simpler than you can.. growing is not hard, its just about initiative and understanding!!! the 3GCrew gives this book "three hits" and a Cypher.. flo flo shnan.. its hot.

Decent information. Not as detailed as I expected a grow bible to be, but definately has alot of information and ideas.

This book was a great find! It has more information than pictures which is okay, it is very descript in its information and easy to read. I'd recommend this book to anyone looking to further their knowlegde in this art.

A truely excellent product. Don't let the title decieve you, the cannabis grow bible has plenty of information about other topics regarding cannabis such as the legalization debate. In the middle of the book are some vivid color photos on photo quality paper, another plus. This is the only book about cannabis you will ever need!

Whaazup!? Is it 4:20 already? Time to wake and bake!

Being a young man with an abusive atheist father and a mom that ran out on me when I was 3, I have always had this huge void in my life. When I was a pup I would fill this void by stealing things and engaging in the destruction of other people's property!

In middle school I got violent. I would pick on the kids that were smaller then me and I was always getting into fights with the big-wigs of the school. I even hit a teacher once, dat bxxitch just wouldn't leave me alone about that homework!

That's all in the past though. Some of the other poverty-stricken kids that went to my school turned me onto this holy sacrament. It's been all good since then. Whenever I get sad about how horrible my life is, all I gotta do is sit back and puff.

Yeah, so that's where this book comes in. The more you toke, the more you're broke, hehe, yeah. So I got this book so I could grow my own private stash. The book told me everything I needed to know about growing wacky weed.

Unfortunately what it didn't tell me was that growing it was a crime! I am doin some time right now, but I'll make parole soon. I can't wait to get out and partake of sweet Mary Jane again though. Hey, puff puff give! Can I come over to you guys's place when I get out? Please?

The book has easy to understand, in-depth information. Chapter 18, "Important Cannabis Issues", is a must read for the Entire world!

I've been writing about cannabis for years now and thought I should find out what's going on with cultivation. I do not have a green thumb and I've never really grown anything more complicated than a tomato. What I like about this book is the realistic appraisal of all the challenges related to cultivation. The details about coaxing the plant into existence are splendid. So many growing guides, websites, and magazine articles imply that the process is relatively effortless. It is not. Even when cannabis is re-legalized, I can see that this task is beyond me.



I was particularly struck by all the outrageous hassles that have nothing to do with the plant and everything to do with prohibition. Big sections on security, sea of green growing to keep the number of plants to a minimum, carbon filters for preventing the detection of odors...It's insane. I love that growers have shown such ingenuity and skill, but can't help wondering what they could have done to improve the plant itself if they hadn't spent all this time and energy on secrecy.



Users should read this book simply to further their appreciation of the plant and the cultivators. The book should also get them motivated to work for the repeal of prohibition because each section makes it obvious that cannabis could be better and cheaper if these horticulturists could devote their time to more important matters than avoiding detection.



Non-users should at least thumb through this book. If they can understand that cultivators are willing to endure the ridiculous irritations that prohibition creates, they will know that any attempt to legislate this plant out of existence is doomed to failure.

I've been writing about cannabis for years now and thought I should find out what's going on with cultivation. I do not have a green thumb and I've never really grown anything more complicated than a tomato. What I like about this book is the realistic appraisal of all the challenges related to cultivation. The details about coaxing the plant into existence are splendid. So many growing guides, websites, and magazine articles imply that the process is relatively effortless. It is not. Even when cannabis is re-legalized, I can see that this task is beyond me.

I was particularly struck by all the outrageous hassles that have nothing to do with the plant and everything to do with prohibition. Big sections on security, sea of green growing to keep the number of plants to a minimum, carbon filters for preventing the detection of odors...It's insane. I love that growers have shown such ingenuity and skill, but can't help wondering what they could have done to improve the plant itself if they hadn't spent all this time and energy on secrecy.

Users should read this book simply to further their appreciation of the plant and the cultivators. The book should also get them motivated to work for the repeal of prohibition because each section makes it obvious that cannabis could be better and cheaper if these horticulturists could devote their time to more important matters than avoiding detection.

Non-users should at least thumb through this book. If they can understand that cultivators are willing to endure the ridiculous irritations that prohibition creates, they will know that any attempt to legislate this plant out of existence is doomed to failure.

I have yet to 'feild' test this books info yet, but I couldn't put it down. I read it front to back right away and have been designing/planing while reading. I never thought I'd get so into horticulture. This book has me really excited about growing canibus becaused it's so much more than putting some seeds in some soil and watering it. There is a real science/art to growing WELL and this book seems to cover it all from start to finish and after. There is practical help for those who wish to grow in countries where it's illegal, (sound advice from experianced people who grow and have done so for years). I haven't read any other books on this subject to compare it too but I am very pleased with this book and feel I don't need another with more info. To say there are a few gramarical errors in this book is an understatment, but I see this as a testiment to the quality of what they have grown, (or at least what the editor was smoking).

The book is quite nice and easy to read. Most of the steps of the growing process are well explained and detailed. However, in some cases some begginers could find difficult to follow the book. Nice pics that help to understand some stuff, but no pics to help with solve the prolems, like nutrients or diseaseas problems...

It is a very nice book for begginers and a little advanced growers.... I Really recommend it!!!

The book is quite nice and easy to read. Most of the steps of the growing process are well explained and detailed. However, in some cases some begginers could find difficult to follow the book. Nice pics that help to understand some stuff, but no pics to help with solve the prolems, like nutrients or diseaseas problems...

It is a very nice book for begginers and a little advanced growers.... I Really recommend it!!!

Valuable resourse. Very easy reading. Lots of pictures and news clippings. A bit opinionated, but I liked it.

Valuable resourse. Very easy reading. Lots of pictures and news clippings. A bit opinionated, but I liked it.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

..................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.

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!

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

15 May, 2006


Dear amazon.com, amazon.ca, amazon.co.uk,

We believe a competitor, Green Candy Press, is posting positive false reviews about The Cannabis Grow Bible (CGB) and bogus negative reviews about Indoor Marijuana Horticulture (IMH) our book, on the amazon.com, amazon.ca, and amazon.co.uk sites.

Here is a brief profile of reviews posted on amazon.com to support this belief.

1. In 3 years CGB has 60, 5-star reviews, all of which appear to have been written by the same person. There are no 4-star, 2, 3-star, 1, 2-star and 3, 1-star reviews.
2. IMH has 40 reviews on amazon.com in 7 years. There are 24, 5-star, 9, 4-star, 2, 3-star 2, 2-star and 3-1-star reviews. No 1-star reviews were received until after the CGB was published.

3. The author of the CGB does not write articles in cannabis magazines or internet sites.
4. The author of IMH writes regularly for 12 magazines in 6 languages and many internet sites. He has written for more than 20 cannabis magazines in the last 23 years.

5. The CGB is advertised in 3 cannabis publications with a single line of text.
6. IMH is advertised in at least 12 cannabis publications including full page ads in High Times and Soft Secrets, the biggest in North America and Europe respectively.

7. CGB is not featured on any popular Internet sites or banners.
8. For 18 months IMH was featured in a banner on overgrow.com (the biggest cannabis site in the world until it was shut down in March 2006) and the author had his own forum on the site too.

9. The author of CGB appeared at a hydroponic booth at a single cannabis trade show in the UK last year.
10. The author of IMH conducted well publicized cultivation seminars at most of the 6-10 major cannabis trade fairs in Europe the last three years.

We request amazon.com, amazon.ca, and amazon.co.uk to demonstrate their integrity and remove reviews we believe are bogus.

Sincerely yours,


Jorge Cervantes
Author

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 teamwork of a gardening expert, a high times photographer and a publisher means this book just looks different and holds together. My color pages are still inside the book. That is reason enough to recommend it. You want a book you can take outside or even leave sitting around in the shed. This book survived. The BIBLE [as it is known] is the most detailed of the pot books with well recorded stuff like detailed diagrams complete with full-color photography plus illustrations make the Bible a highly accessible introduction to Marijuana growing.
There are many design concepts, chapters cover how to set up home grows inside, to how to use the elements outdoors, ScrOG grows with pleasing aesthetics and big results. Even though it is also a handyman's how-to book and delves extensively into the mechanics of how to construct and install an indoor garden, the best stuff is in teaching how to sprout seeds, water, feed, flower, and protect your crop; it focuses on learning. An excellent inspirational foundation and much more.

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

I buy book it very bad. Drawing make on 20 years old Epson pinter . pictures dark I try book grow then plants sick. Book advise bad. I buy Marijuana Horticulture Cervante. Now happy it have many picture many good word drawing good advise good plants happy.

I could go into my back issues of every cultivation mag or select from a variety of grow books I got cheap on ebay or I can turn to this. I have a nice selection of information. This is what I recommend. Get this, then start your collection if you wish, but get this. Andre Grossman from High Times does a great job of photographs (see cover image). If you want those kind of results this book is written by a dude who has the experience to do just that. This is an invaluable work for those who know.

Edit - The author is responsible for a very good breeding book that has a similar name. Breeding might sound something over your head but understanding it is important if you want to really see bushes bend over with the weight. This book covers a good bit about breeding also. The first book that actually did it right and is well written and edited. You can understand this one. See cannabisbook . com for more details.