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The following topics might offer you some more insight to the Cannabis plant.

Medicinal Cannabis

Hemp vs Cannabis

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We advice you to check your local laws in regard to cultivating Hemp before you attempt any home-growing yourself, it might not be allowed.

The pre-vegetative cycle

The period the Cannabis grows between germinating and being strong enough to be placed under stronger light is called the "pre-vegetative cycle of Cannabis".

right now your seedling is very fragile and needs to be carefully treated to survive.

You can easily damage the leaves by having a light source that is too intense, or cause diseases by harmful bacteria through cleanliness or poor air flow.

the first thing you need to do is make sure that the plant does not bend over too far, many seedling tend to grow quite tall and lack the strength to stay up.

Also check that you provide a strict light regime, 18 hours of light followed by 6 hours of darkness, by means of a timer on your lights.

I like to use T5 fluorescent tubes for the pre-vegetative cycle.

These bulbs provide plants with a complete spectrum of light and will promote a healthy growth.

Cannabis plants need a relatively high humidity when "vegging", and could stay inside a propagator untill they do not fit anymore.

Although you do not keep the soil as soaking wet as you did during the germination process.

Try to wait with adding water until the top of the soil start drying out slightly.

You could start adding a very light nutrient solution that stimulate root growth in young Cannabis plants.

During their vegetative cycle you can start seeing major changes to the growth of the leaves.

After germination there were only the cotyledon visible, but the new "true" leaves start developing during the pre-vegetative cycle of your Cannabis plants.

While the plant grows you can notice that the amounts of fingers on each leave grows with two until all leaves grow between 7-11 fingers each.

Although the pre-vegetative cycle has ended a little before that point.

When your plants are ready for the grow cycle is harder to explain, this is not set in time alone.

i usually give my plants around 5-14 days as their pre-vegetative cycle, depending on how I feel they look.

The plant in picture 2 of this page is only a few days old and is just starting its pre-vegetative cycle, as soon as it looks more like the plant in picture 3 would I start thinking about adding stronger lights.

You can see a small cupboard with two layers of grow space in picture 4.

The top layer has a T5 light over a few seedlings and clones, they stay there until they do not fit anymore.

After this they are lowered to the lower level where a 100 watt metal halide takes them through a short grow cycle.

the lower level could also hold a small motherplant who's clones can grow roots in the higher level when required.

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