Marijuana Grower’s Handbook: Your Complete Guide for Medical and Personal Marijuana Cultivation
2010 July 6
- ISBN13: 9780932551467
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
The all new Marijuana Grower’s Handbook shows both beginners and advanced growers how to grow the biggest most resinous, potent buds! This book contains the latest knowledge, tools, and methods to grow great marijuana indoors and out. Use the most efficient technology and save time, labor, and energy. Ed Rosenthal has been teaching people how to grow marijuana for more than 30 years. Let him help you cultivate bountiful buds and lots of them. With 500 pages of … More >>
Marijuana Grower’s Handbook: Your Complete Guide for Medical and Personal Marijuana Cultivation
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I was going to review this book myself, but I came across the famous breeder Subcool’s review, couldn’t have put it better myself:
I received Ed’s new revised book today and I was so impressed with the vast amount of information it contains and I wanted to give you guys a brief overview of The Book. I am very happy to be a contributor of course but seriously Ed has outdone himself this time and this is nice body of work.
I asked Ed last year what his goal was. He explained that the original was written so long ago that technology was out of date and he wanted to update the book to incorporate all the latest technology both products and methods. Let’s face it, Ed has inspired a huge number of people to grow their own and in doing so he advanced what we know about Cannabis gardening by experimentation alone. Now Ed has absorbed all this info and laid it out in a usable form with more pictures than I expected. I am working on my own grow book and I have some idea what it takes and let me tell you Ed left nothing un-discussed in this book and as a reference book I will recommend no other from this point forward!
Highlights for me include the dedication which is to the Late Great Jack Herer, the Forword by Tommy Chong, and finally a preface by Keith Stroup. You know you have a serious grow book in your hands from the get go.
In Ed’s Introduction Ed warns us “WARNING: Although using marijuana may not be addictive, growing it is.” DAMN RIGHT ED! I agree completely.
I am blown away that to introduce Part one “Marijuana the Plant” Ed choose one of my favorite creations to illustrate the first page. My Space Bomb adorns a full page. As I read through the book I totally get the impression this is a text book just like you would learn from in school with stunning pictures and easy to read sections.
The book goes into detail about cannabis terpenes and their interactions with the human brain. I am very impressed with the detail of this new information. He covers the three types of cannabis in such detail that I can’t wait to finish this review and actually read this book from cover to cover. I am not saying this because Ed’s my editor you guys know I say what I mean and I have held Ed to task before but he really did a good job and I hope everyone doesn’t take this for granted and actually grabs a copy and uses it like we all did in the old days when it was the only information we had. THIS IS NOT THE SAME BOOK.
There is a section on landraces, then a section on current varieties, the life cycle is covered, sexing plants, light spectrums, nutrient deficiencies, equipment, LED lights, trimming machines on and on it goes every page packed with information and pictures.
It goes on to cover harvest, curing, hash making, indoor, outdoor, and everything in between– especially new equipment and the latest current info appear to have been gathered and used to complete this guide.
I whole heartily endorse this book as a reference book and I may take heat for not reading the complete book before writing this review but anyone that picks it up is going to be impressed and I know Ed is very proud of this work as he should be.
Sub
Rating: 5 / 5
If you only own one book about cannabis, this is the one to have. That’s because it is so extraordinarily comprehensive. No wonder it is used as an official course book at Oaksterdam University, Seriously, this work is encyclopedic in scope, covering every conceivable aspect of cannabis botany, cultivation and use. On behalf of the patients, physicians, nurses, attorneys, and dedicated activists of the American Medical Marijuana Association, it is my pleasure to recommend this outstanding and historic book by Ed Rosenthal. The American Medical Marijuana Association has been fighting for the rights of patients since 1999.
Rating: 5 / 5
Product placement abounds in this latest edition of the “grow your own MJ” genre. The book is like a catalog of the latest gear available at your local hydro shop. That aside, the problem with this and every other grow book is that they are nothing more than retreads of outdated science. Yes, you can get good results following the instructions here but you can’t gain an understanding of the current state of scientific knowledge of plant physiology. For example, Rosenthal refers to phytochrome as a “flowering hormone” then goes on to explain–erroneously–that Pr and Pfr are responsible for the control of flowering. Sadly, this just isn’t the complete picture. Phytochrome is a pigment and structurally a protein, not a hormone, and while it sets clock genes in action it’s the protein, florigen that initiates flowering. Furthermore, the hypothesis that Pr and Pfr initiate flowering (called the Hourglass Model) was disproved by Russian scientist Mikhail Chailakhyan in (wait for it)… 1937! Why skip this stuff? In all, I like the book and it’s a good choice if you intend to buy just one guide, but I expected more from Rosenthal. Read it knowing that you’re getting shorthand not science, and if you really want to understand something about plants you need to get a copy of Lincoln Taiz’ Plant Physiology.Plant Physiology
Rating: 4 / 5
This book is decent, but for a small closet grower like myself, I found it lacking. The scope of the book is meant to cover every type of grower, which isn’t ideal. It also has a lot of information that’s interesting, but not focused on the little guy. That doesn’t make it a bad book, but not exactly what I was needing. Not everyone needs to work through a college course to grow good bud and at some point its just information overload.
I also have to comment on some of these reviews where they trash Jorge Cervantes (giving his great reference book 1 star) and then giving this book five stars and those are the only two reviews from this guy. It’s pretty obvious where this is coming from and only adds to Ed’s poor reputation in all things business related. Let your book stand on its own without the trash talk!
Rating: 3 / 5