PT 1 - Grow your own Medical Cannabis

The first part of a beginners guide to growing Medical Cannabis - 1. Know the laws of your state and the federal laws so you can minimize your legal risks 2. Understand that growing cannabis takes a long time from seed to medicine and that you need to plan ahead to make sure you have an uninterrupted supply of medicine once you get going. 3. plant the seeds, grow them out until the 4th set of true leaves appears, then pinch the 4th set off to force the plant to produce side branches. 4. Take cuttings of the side branches, root them, grow the rooted cuttings for about a week, then put them into a forced flowering situation. 5. once you have determined the gender of your plants cull all the males, both cuttings and parent plants. Take more cuttings of your females, and grow out to harvest the females that in flowering for gender determination. 6. test the finished medicine using a consistent method to determine the efficacy of the plants you are growing on your condition. Cull the plants that are not of value to you and clone the ones that are to provide yourself with a continuous supply of medicine. Every individual cannabis plant will be different. different in it's growth pattern, in it's yield, and in it's Cannabinoid profile, or the specific ratio of the many different cannabinoids found in cannabis. THC, Cannabidiol, and other medically active components are found in each plant in varying ratios and quantities. This means that each plant will have a slightly different effect on you. Likewise every person is different and so a single plant will effect different people in different ways, so finding a plant that works well for your condition is pretty much a trial and error process. But once you find one that does what you need it to do for you, clone the heck out of it, as I will demonstrate in a future video, and keep growing that plant as your primary medicine source, and continue to plant new seeds or obtain new cuttings of plants to test. Some times you will need different plants for different situations. For example I had a patient who needed one plant for his daytime pain relief, so he could function during the day and another one that put him to sleep for use at bed time or if he suffered a muscle spasm in his sleep, so he could stop the pain and get back to sleep.