Opinion: It’s high time to grow your own cannabis – The CT Mirror

The right to cultivate cannabis plants was granted only to licensed medical marijuana patients, and was delayed until October.

Not I, nor have the other impatient MMJ patients who have confided to me that they had already explored their new hobby.

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, I prefer a single source with a single authoritative voice.

Shorter in height and requiring a shorter growing season than the more widely known Sativa and Indica varieties, the new hybridized strain of autoflowers is ideal for growing indoors.

I sprouted seeds indoors, then transplanted them into garden beds I had pioneered and mixed in organic fertilizer weeks ahead of planting.

In the midst of my second plantings, I was ready for a second book to keep me going.

You will barely know where to start reading, so will not likely know how to start growing.

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