Cannabis Nutrient Deficiencies? Pests? Diseases?
An easier and faster way to diagnose your cannabis plants when symptoms first appear!
An easier and faster way to diagnose your cannabis plants when symptoms first appear!
by Kenny | Jun 22, 2023
Learning new things is an enriching experience on multiple levels. When you know more, you become more aware of all the complexities and variations of your cannabis plants.
Having an understanding of these simple terms will help you to be able to learn how to properly maintain an area if problems arise as well as why cannabis has the plethora of nicknames that it does and what names are best left in yesteryear.
Branches grow from the main stem and support fan leaves and bud sites as they develop. You can train your plant to branch out more by cutting them and separating branches from each other. This increase of light & air helps promote the growth of bud sites.
Naturally occurring compounds, such as THC and CBD, found in Cannabis plants.
Cannabidiol. Non- psychoactive compound that is used in numerous products ranging from health, beauty and home items such as candles to chronic pain and diseases like multiple sclerosis, arthritis and anxiety.
A group of tight-grown buds, forming a bud site. Smaller colas can grow on bottom branches but are normally trimmed to bring more nutrients to the main cola forming at the top of your cannabis plant.
Typically sprouting in pairs, these leaves are the first sign that your germination was a success.
The most iconic and familiar part of the plant. These leaves help capture light and are often discarded during trimming. Fan leaves can be used in various ways from organic compounds, tinctures and teas.
Also known as bud. This is the part of the plant that contains the cannabinoids and terpenes and is only found on female plants.
The space between the nodes. The size of the gap between nodes helps determine if your cannabis plant will be big or small.
The part of the branch that grows from the main stem as well as the branches themselves. This is where cannabis plants sex organs begin to develop during the pre-flowering stage. This is when and where you will be able to determine the sex of your cannabis plant.
Connected to the stem, roots are the lifeline of your cannabis plant. Healthy roots grow downward and expand out in your growing medium.
Growing upward from roots, the stalk of your cannabis plants provides structure and stability. You can strengthen stems by adding resistance training with oscillating fans.
Small resin-coated leaves that buds form around. Is often used as trim during harvest and is most commonly used for pre-rolls and extracts.
This is the large,ball-like central root that sprouts other roots.
Tetrahydrocannabinol is the main psychoactive compound found in cannabis. This is where that high feeling comes from.
These are the tiny but mighty, crystalized blanket of resin that coats cannabis buds. Trichomes are secreted through translucent, mushroom-shaped glands along the leaves, stems and calyxes.
The aromatic compounds that give cannabis strains their distinct smell and taste.
Bract
Area that houses the reproductive parts of the female. This is the part of the plant that produces the highest concentration of cannabinoids. Can be identified by its green, tear-shaped leaves.
Calyx
Not visible with your naked eye alone, the calyx is the translucent layer that coats the ovule at the base of your bud.
Pistil
The reproductive parts of the plant. Is usually covered by the bract.
Seeds
Produced only in females, but carry genes from both female and male cannabis plants. In order to form their taproot, seeds need to germinate.
Stigma
These hair-like strands on the pistil catch pollen from male plants. Beneficial for reproduction, but not so much with the taste and potency of your flower.
Changes coloration throughout plant life maturation.
Pollen Sacs
These sacs house pollen and release it once your cannabis plant has reached maturation.
To grow; develop; swell. This helps your seed to sprout its root.
What you use to grow your cannabis plant in. Can be used with or without soil.
A growing technique that grows cannabis plants without soil. There are various systems to grow hydroponically such as
Aeroponics
Deep Water Culture
Drip Irrigation
Ebb & Flow
Fog Ponics
Kratky Method
Nutrient Film Technique
Living Soil
Growing method that develops microbial life in the soil.
Just like how the prohibition era in the United States forced alcohol to develop nicknames like moonshine and white lightning so that people could find and consume alcohol under the radar, so did cannabis.
Cannabis nicknames were created to avoid attention from law enforcement. When one nickname became more public and mainstream, new names were developed.
If you grew up consuming cannabis in an area where it was frowned upon or illegal, you and your friends most likely had nicknames for cannabis yourself.
How many nicknames do you recognize on our list?
Cheeba
Chronic
Dank
Fire
Flower
Gas
Good Good
Green
Hash
Jerry
Keef
Kush
Medicine
Reggs/Reggie
Resin
Smoke
Sticky Icky
Trees
With every generation, new nicknames for cannabis sprout. While some nicknames are just outdated, other names are better left in the past due to their problematic history.
Devils Lettuce
Doobie
Dope
Grass
Herb
Jazz Cabbage
Left-handed Cigarettes
Mary Jane
Marijuana
Pot
Thai Sticks (this wasn’t even Cannabis)
Wacky Tabacky
Snoop Dogg coined the term “Chronic”. While at a party, he misheard someone talking about hydroponically grown cannabis as hydrochronically grown and called it chronic.
Pot is the shortened version of the Spanish word Potacion de Guaya, which means “the drink of grief”. This name was inspired by the cannabis infused brandy and wine.
Dope may come from the Dutch word, Doop, which was a thick sauce. It was implied that to be thick, one was not too bright and dopey.
Despite cannabis being the scientific name for our beloved plant, cannabis was most commonly referred to as marijuana. With recent awareness of the name's history and desire to transform the stigma surrounding the plant, more and more people are choosing to refer to it as it’s scientific name - Cannabis.
Before Mexicans immigrated to the U.S. during the early 1900s, recreational use of cannabis was not common. This was a practice that caught on quickly across the United States, as well as calling it by the Mexican name, marihuana.
Once prohibition ended in 1933 and the newly appointed Commissioner of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, Henry Anslinger, needed a new target to keep funds for his department. Feeding off of the racial panic from the recent increase of Mexican immigrants, Anslinger vilified both Mexicans and Cannabis as well as Black people and Jazz Music.
He began referring to cannabis as marijuana, the anglicized version of marihuana and went to great lengths to find any stories, such as the one of Victor Licata, throughout the country that he could tie together with minorities and cannabis.
Anslinger refuted credible scientific evidence about Cannabis and continued pushing his own fear mongering narrative that pushed his own racist agenda.
Because of the strong ties to racism and hypocrisy, the term marijuana is as ignorant as thinking that you will chop up your family if you consume cannabis.
Henry Anslinger ushered in the dark days of Cannabis.
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