The right to cultivate six cannabis plants was granted only to licensed medical marijuana, or MMJ, patients, and was delayed until October, causing patients to lose out on the summer growing season.
Along with the other impatient MMJ patients who have confided to me that they have already explored a new hobby, not I.
Patients in Connecticut are now allowed to grow six plants, the same as have MMJ patients next door in Rhode Island since 2006 and next door in Massachusetts since 2012.
While it’s easy and cheap to trawl the hinterland of the internet for conflicting instructions on how to grow pot, I prefer a single source with a single voice.
Shorter in height and requiring a shorter growing season than the more widely cultivated Sativa and Indica varieties, the new hybridized strain of autoflowers is ideal for indoor gardening.
Beginning in 1987, I tried to grow marijuana in the woodlands of the Connecticut College Arboretum in which I lived.
I mixed in organic fertilizer, weeks ahead of planting to allow time for the raccoons and possums and skunks to dig up the soil when they followed their noses to something that smelled appetizing.
Published just in time in late October, that book is Ed Rosenthal’s “Cannabis Grower’s Handbook.” Ed’s earlier “Marijuana Grower’s Handbook,” first published in 1974, has been revised and rerevised in several editions.
Ed’s encyclopedic tome is not to be read from cover to cover, no more than you might read any single volume of a 20-volume encyclopedia.