21 December 2018 | News, Seeds and varieties
The Haze variety of marijuana was born in the early 70s in Santa Cruz, California, and got its name from the Haze brothers, who grew it and crossed it with different marijuana varieties from Colombia (Colombian Gold), Mexico (Acapulco Gold), India and Thailand. In...
11 July 2018 | News, Seeds and varieties
It has already been 40 years since the birth of the marijuana variety Skunk, one of the most stable lineages, considered among the purest and most popular in terms of making all types of crosses and hybrids. Its name, “Skunk”, was given for its potent aroma, a very...
11 July 2018 | News, Seeds and varieties
The Kush variety of cannabis is native to the Hindu Kush mountain range in Pakistan, India and Afganistan. It is one of the excellent Indica marijuana varieties, from which many popular hybrids are born and in looking for new genetic crosses. In its native land, it...
27 June 2018 | Cultivation, News
There are different pruning methods for your marijuana crop: apical pruning, bottom pruning, FIM pruning, RIB pruning and other techniques like Super Cropping and Low Stress Training. According to the type of plant and characteristics of our space, we can choose the...
20 June 2018 | News, Pests and Diseases
There are hundreds of insect species that can create a plague and a threat for your marijuana plants. Above all during hot seasons like now, where they reproduce rapidly and can invade easily. Luckily, the majority that we find can be inoffensive. However, there are...
6 June 2018 | News, Pests and Diseases
In a previous article we saw how the red spider mite and other mites can affect our marijuana plant. In this week’s post, we would like to take a closer look at microscopic mites (Phytonemus Pallidus or Steneotarsonemus Pallidus) or the Grape leaf rust mite...
30 May 2018 | News, Pests and Diseases
Mites are probably one of the most invasive and harmful pests that we see in indoor and outdoor marijuana plants. The red spider mite and the whole mite and microscopic mite family seriously harm plants. They bite and perforate the leaves with their tiny teeth in...
16 May 2018 | Cultivation, News
Approaching this time of year, you will certainly be thinking about how to care for your marijuana plant in order to continue growing it in the best of conditions. Now is the time to think about good substratum—the material that holds your plant in the pot so that it...
2 May 2018 | Cultivation, News
Obtaining licenses to grow marijuana plants is a challenge even today in the 21st century when laws about growing medicinal plants are tied up with drugs from the 60s. Its clear that advances in medicine are being sought and permission is increasingly pursued when it...
4 April 2018 | Cannabinoids and Terpenoids, News
As you all know, cannabis has a multitude of uses, from recreational to medicinal to culinary. Yep, you don’t just smoke it…in fact it can be used to make, for example, marijuana oil, as we will see today. If you’d like to try it you can find whichever variety...
28 March 2018 | Cultivation, News
Choosing your plant: Sativa, Indica and Ruderalis On a scientific level, all cannabis plans are called sativa which is latin means “cultivated” and from that 3 types are distinguished, whose full names are: cannabis sativa sativa, cannabis sativa indica, and...
21 February 2018 | Cups and Events, News, Seeds and varieties
Last weekend the Canapa Mundi, Feria Internacional del Cáñamo was celebrated in Italy, from the 16th to the 18th of February, and without a doubt, the new star product this years in the Canapa Mundi was light marijuana. At Ripper Seeds we always try to...
24 January 2018 | News, Seeds and varieties
As far as it’s evolution as a species, cannabis has been very successful. It has spread over the whole planet and has bloomed since the earliest of times. Cannabis is a plant with great adaptability to diverse surroundings and for that reason, along with the...
25 October 2015 | Cannabinoids and Terpenoids, Cultivation, News
This time we will see some of the most important features of drying marijuana as well as curing it. We should pay attention to these two points since if we don’t we can lose the entire harvest or at least reduce the quality of the flowers in a drastic way. We can also...
21 April 2014 | News, Seeds and varieties
The Guia Cannabis Indica Volume 3: The Essential Guide to the World’s Finest Marijuana Strains is now available. It is a compilation of some of the most recommended indica cannabis seed varieties. Ripper Seeds has had the pleasure of being in the book with some of our...
