Knowledge Base

Instant answer

• Start with what you can observe: smell, jar RH, dryness, flowering behavior.
• Run one quick check: jar RH, room temp and RH, or your actual light schedule.
• Apply one fix only: wait long enough to see the outcome before changing anything else.
• Use trunks for depth: Drying, Curing, Light Cycles, Haze, Troubleshooting, Tools.

On this page

1. What are you dealing with? Dry/Cure, Flowering schedule, Tools/Gear, or a mystery symptom.
2. Run the fastest check: jar RH, room temp, drying feel, or the light schedule you are actually running.
3. Apply one fix only: then wait long enough to see the outcome.
4. Go deeper only if needed: use the linked guide pages (no rabbit holes).

• Sequence beats hacks: schedule discipline, then drying, then curing, then optimization.
• Measure the air: most quality problems are humidity and temperature problems wearing a different costume.
• Stop changing five variables: run one hypothesis at a time or you never learn.

What is the best way to learn cannabis growing?

Pick one complete workflow and execute it end-to-end (grow → flower → dry → cure → storage). Most people fail because they only learn the grow phase and then freestyle the finish.

Where can I find cannabis grow troubleshooting?

Use the Cannabis ER for fast triage, then follow the linked deep page. If you need a category view, start at Troubleshooting.

What are the main steps from seed to harvest?

Germination and early rooting, controlled flowering with a deliberate light schedule, harvest timing, then post-harvest discipline (drying checkpoints and stable curing). If you grow haze genetics, use the Haze protocol.

How to use this KB

• Start with the symptom (what you see/smell/feel).
• Confirm with a quick check (humidity, temperature, time).
• Then apply the fix — and only then buy gear.

• Instant answer: the fastest correct explanation.
• Decision path: what to check first, second, third.
• Root cause: the mechanism behind the symptom.
• Next links: go deeper only when you need it.

• Drying: temperature, humidity, airflow, and checkpoints that prevent hay smell and terp loss.
• Curing: stabilizing jar moisture, avoiding RH spikes, and using 62% vs 58% correctly.
• Light cycles: why 12/12 is the default, when 11/13 helps, and when 14/10 is a deliberate lever.
• Troubleshooting: diagnose from symptoms and fix root causes instead of throwing products at problems.
• Tools & gear: the small set of tools that prevent expensive mistakes, plus kit-style gear lists.
• Industry & policy: cannabis reclassification explained and what it changes for growers and the market.

• RH: relative humidity. The number that decides whether your jars stay stable or turn into a mold risk.
• DLI: daily light integral. Total daily photons; a clean way to think about schedule tradeoffs.
• PPFD: light intensity at the canopy. Useful for dialing in lights without guessing.
• Stall: late-flower slowdown where bulking stops and trichomes feel stuck. Often schedule + environment, not nutrients.