🌿 Foliar Feeding Is Dumb: Professor Potgrower calls it how he sees it  Let’s get this straight. Foliar feeding—spraying nutrients on your plant’s leaves—is one of those things that sounds smart until you actually understand how plants work. I’m Professor Potgrower, I live in Hawaii,…

Organic, Proven, and Straight from the Big Island Let’s be real — if you’re seeing damage, it’s already been happening. Whiteflies, mites, aphids, thrips, powdery mildew, black leaf spot, rust… by the time you notice stippling or curling, those freeloaders have been partying on your…

Let’s get this straight: if you’re still running an 18/6 or—heaven forbid—a 24/0 light schedule in veg, you’re not a cutting-edge grower. You’re a zombie grower. Marching in lockstep to outdated advice, burning watts, and burning money. Meanwhile, your plants are screaming, “Professor Potgrower would…

Puna Diesel the story. On May 2016 Cannabis Care Hawaii, organizers of the Hawaii Cannabis Expo held the 2nd annual Free the Plant event in Oahu. The winner for the island of Hawaii a.k.a. the Big Island, was Puna Diesel, entered by Professor Potgrower of…

Do you like apples? Well listen to this… The people of the Big Island need to learn what Home Rule is and why they should use it. Politicians, some of them already know and are either afraid to use it or more likely, afraid it…

Humidity Is Your Friend: The Hawaiian Grower’s Guide to VPD, Rainforest Air, and Perfect Plant Health     Most mainland growers hear the word “humidity” and immediately clutch their pearls like someone just said ‘powdery mildew’ in a crowded room. They’ve been conditioned by desert grow charts,…

“All good things must come to an end” is the saying. All that lives must die, nobody gets out of here alive! Well… absolutely true of course with one possible exception. Its an easy trick to pull off if your Dad is God. It only…

Often unknown or overlooked, these helpful hints will surely help your cannabis transplant grow better! A “Successful” Plant Transplant? what’s wrong with this pic? It is a practice as important as any other when growing cannabis or any other plant for that matter. One of…

By Aaron Zeeman CHAPTER 1 — THE BEGINNING OF THE LONG AND WINDING ROAD The real beginning of this story—the true long and winding road—didn’t start with THC metabolites, probation conflicts, Quantico reports, or federal intimidation. It began years earlier with the THC Ministry, the…

This is the interview of Aaron from July, 2022… https://cannabisradio.com/audio/7998/979462 Vivian is also the editor of Skunk Magazine, look for an extended interview and story on Big Island Genetics this fall!

Why Mainland Soil Advice Fails in Hawaii (And Why “Dirt Is Not Just Dirt,” No Matter What YouTube Says) By Professor Potgrower — Big Island Genetics The First Wrong Assumption: “Soil Is Soil”   If I had a dollar for every mainland grower who’s said to…

🌧️ The Art of Watering Cannabis in the Tropics Avoiding Root Rot, Over-Watering, and Nutrient Lockout in Hawaii’s Climate 🌱 Introduction   Growing cannabis in Hawaii is nothing like growing cannabis on the mainland. Not even in the same universe, braddah. Here the humidity comes at…

So the story goes, herb today is far stronger (better) than the weed of the 60’s and 70’s. It may be true that the common market ha s generally more potent and fresher ganja but that can be explained by the loss of Mexican cannabis…

Is weed legal in Hawaii? Are there any Hawaii marijuana laws? We answer all of your questions in this blog post covering Hawaii’s medical regulations and adult-use status. The Hawaiian Islands, known as the most remote populated archipelago, is home to lush rainforests, active volcanoes,…

When asked how much light do you give your plants for vegative cycles you may get many different answers. When asked why or how they learned of their choice answers get a little fuzzy. The most common answer is hours on and 6 hours off…

This appears to be something worth sharing. After 21 years, the Hawaii medical cannabis situation has some good points and cannabis has helped so many people/patients to live, have better health and avoid medications that are less helpful. However, the system is worse than broken….

Everything You’ve Been Told About “Indica vs. Sativa” Is Outdated Indian hemp’s world tour, Afghanica’s resin engines, Ruderalis as a high-latitude sativa adaptation — and why Hawaiʻi made magic Opening note to readers What follows isn’t “my discovery.” I’m passing along what careful botanists, chemists,…

When breeding cannabis the idea is to make seed. Different expressions from the genetics of the seed (genotype) will be observed in the different expressions of the plant(s) characteristics (phenotype). Different characteristics from both parent plants will be expressed. There is an old saying with…