Growing Problems in Cannabis

Common problems in cannabis cultivation: hermaphroditism, stress reactions, light burn, nutrient deficiencies and other deviations from healthy growth. Explained in practical terms for home growers.

• Plant Stress

  Stress in flower gives cannabis no reliable gain in THC, can cost yield and, as cold around the switch to flowering, can trigger hermaphrodites.

• Hermaphrodites

  Hermaphrodites in cannabis arise from cold at the switch to flowering among other triggers, show first on the lower flowers and pass the tendency on.

• Contaminants from Soil

  What hemp takes up from soil loaded with PFAS or heavy metals, which plant parts it ends up in, and why the harvest keeps the substance instead of destroying it.