From the seedling to the plant getting its first leaves, it's about three to 10 days. As for when you want to switch it to flowering, that's completely up to you.

If adding all your stalks, stems and leaves to your compost pile would throw your 4-to-1 browns-to-greens ratio out of whack, you might consider making “compost tea,” instead, which requires ...

Once you grow cannabis plants, you’ll notice that it develops leaves. These leaves get bigger as the plant grows, and are known as fan leaves. Sugar leaves develop slowly along with the buds .

“They kind of look like red hairs. You know it’s time to harvest when about 10 to 15 percent of the trichomes turn that color.” On average, cannabis plants have a five- to seven-day window of peak ...

The author with his first two grown-outdoors-in-L.A. cannabis plants. Both Grow It From Home’s Afternoon Punch cultivar, they were put under the SoCal sun as seedlings on July 1.