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Cannabis Grower's Handbook: The Complete Guide to Marijuana and Hemp Cultivation
Ed Rosenthal has been teaching people how to grow marijuana for decades. Let him help you cultivate bountiful buds, and lots of them.
The techniques and tools for growing cannabis have changed over the past five years. Ed shows you the most productive and easiest methods in his new, most comprehensive book. Cannabis Grower’s Handbook features the latest innovations in marijuana cultivation that will save you time, money, and energy,
How to set up different types of home gardens, indoors and out The newest, most efficient LED lights including adjustable spectrum fixtures How to use sustainable regenerative gardening techniques Fast, reliable drying and curing methods Comprehensive integrated pest management Choosing what to grow—find out more about high THC, autoflowers, and CBD varieties Many more tools, tips, and techniques! Cannabis Grower’s Handbook is the definitive guide for all cultivators. First-time home growers will learn how to get started and enjoy a successful first harvest. Experienced growers will find new information about lighting, flowering, outdoor CO2, stimulating growth, and harvesting. This book is an essential reference for developing standard operating procedures, whether for micro-operations or large-scale commercial cannabis operations.
600 PAGES OF FULL-COLOR PHOTOS, DIAGRAMS, AND CHARTS.
ED ROSENTHAL is a legend—a veteran educator and an outspoken proponent of Full Legalization and The Right to Grow. His books are beloved by growers for their accessible style, accuracy, and innovative content. Ed wrote Cannabis Grower’s Handbook with a team of botanists, industry consultants, and scientists to ensure that you have the most up-to-date, accurate information to help you grow. This is the most extensively researched book about marijuana cultivation available. It will be your handy guide, like having an expert in your garden.
The techniques and tools for growing cannabis have changed over the past five years. Ed shows you the most productive and easiest methods in his new, most comprehensive book. Cannabis Grower’s Handbook features the latest innovations in marijuana cultivation that will save you time, money, and energy,
How to set up different types of home gardens, indoors and out The newest, most efficient LED lights including adjustable spectrum fixtures How to use sustainable regenerative gardening techniques Fast, reliable drying and curing methods Comprehensive integrated pest management Choosing what to grow—find out more about high THC, autoflowers, and CBD varieties Many more tools, tips, and techniques! Cannabis Grower’s Handbook is the definitive guide for all cultivators. First-time home growers will learn how to get started and enjoy a successful first harvest. Experienced growers will find new information about lighting, flowering, outdoor CO2, stimulating growth, and harvesting. This book is an essential reference for developing standard operating procedures, whether for micro-operations or large-scale commercial cannabis operations.
600 PAGES OF FULL-COLOR PHOTOS, DIAGRAMS, AND CHARTS.
ED ROSENTHAL is a legend—a veteran educator and an outspoken proponent of Full Legalization and The Right to Grow. His books are beloved by growers for their accessible style, accuracy, and innovative content. Ed wrote Cannabis Grower’s Handbook with a team of botanists, industry consultants, and scientists to ensure that you have the most up-to-date, accurate information to help you grow. This is the most extensively researched book about marijuana cultivation available. It will be your handy guide, like having an expert in your garden.
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1243 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 12, 2021
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December 5, 2024
Ein gutes Buch für Anfänger. Ob Innen- oder Außenanbau, alle Grundlagen sind in diesem Buch zu finden. Es gab für jedes Thema, das mich beschäftigte, mindestens gute Ansätze, die sich mit einer fortführenden Internetrecherche vertiefen ließen. Was ich auch lernen musste: Praxis kann nicht von Theorie ersetzt werden. Theorie kann zwar an vielen Stellen unterstützen, aber die komplexen biotischen und abiotischen Faktoren des gewählten Raums lassen sich doch erst in der Praxis erleben und verstehen. Sich in das Buch zu vertiefen, mit der Vorstellung, danach alles beim ersten Mal richtig zu machen, ist Unsinn, dafür bräuchte es einen Mentor, der schon reichlich Erfahrung mit sich bringt. Aber eine Stütze für Fragen, die im Prozess auftauchen, war das Buch in guten wie in schlechten Zeiten.
April 19, 2022
This book is an invaluable resource for any hemp or marijuana grower as well as anyone with a natural curiosity for cannabis. I found the chapter on Sustainability especially interesting, as well as the sections about Seeds vs Clones, and was delighted to see my favorite Cannabis Photographer📸Kandid Kush featured as well as my favorite Grow🪴Green Source Gardens💚
““When you smoke the herb, it reveals you to yourself.” … when humanity studies the herb, it reveals humans to themselves.”
““When you smoke the herb, it reveals you to yourself.” … when humanity studies the herb, it reveals humans to themselves.”
December 20, 2022
awesome !
All information for successful cultivation. Any questions are answered in this book. Highly recommend this book because it covers every aspect of growing.
All information for successful cultivation. Any questions are answered in this book. Highly recommend this book because it covers every aspect of growing.
May 26, 2025
Call this the magnum opus of the widely acclaimed guru of cannabis cultivation. An encyclopedic tome, it is not one to be read leisurely from cover to cover, no more than you might read an entire volume of 20-volume encyclopedia. Rather, depending upon your immediate needs for information, you first consult the Table of Contents or the Index, and then read a passage here and another page there. This is the book’s strength for the experienced home gardener or commercial large-scale cannabis cultivator, but it is also its weakness for the novice or the hobbyist.
If you are a first- or second-time grower, do not buy this book. Not yet, anyway. Because you will not know where to start reading, and then you will not know how to start growing. If your interest is in growing indoors the more conventional larger strains, then Ed Rosenthal’s unfortunately out-of-print slim 1999 book, The Closet Cultivator, is perfect for beginners. Surely Ed has other startup books in print suitable for the neophyte, but I just do not know them well enough to be able to cite them.
A half a year ago, I was about to order Ed’s Marijuana Grower’s Handbook until I noticed that publication was imminent for its updated and expanded and retitled edition, Cannabis Grower’s Handbook. So for several months, I waited, eagerly. Judging from Ed’s Instagram photos showing him personally readying for shipment advance book orders, many of Ed’s acolytes eagerly awaited it, too. When my copy arrived the week of its publication, I sat down with it, perusing here, browsing there, skimming elsewhere. Just during the span of one hour, I came upon one mangled sentence structure and one typo, both on the same page. (Publisher, take note on page 551: “loses” for “looses,” and the twisted syntax is found in the paragraph above that.) Apparently, with so many readers eagerly awaiting this tome, the publisher rushed its editing and copyediting.
There is much here to like, maybe too much. And there are a few features here to dislike. Most egregious are the many glossy photos throughout the text of heavy equipment that would interest only cannabis corporations, not you and me. Other photos push specific products, making the book more akin to an infomercial. Worst of all are the 50 pages of glossy full-page advertisements relegated to the back of the book. (What!?! At the time of this writing during its first week of publication, all those ads are even included in the First Look on Amazon, though I suspect that will soon change.) Two or three pages of ads for the publisher’s other related books are more traditionally found on the back pages, but these shameful ads mark a new low in book publishing.
Ads in magazines subsidize the cost of the magazine, thereby reducing the price for the subscription or single copy. However, at a $45 list price, no such subsidy for the reader was granted here. Those 50 pages of ads add much weight to an already heavy tome. Instead of those pages, the publisher should have enlarged the font size of the micro-type of the index, which would have been more reader-friendly. Of those 50 pages, seven pages are for seeds, and so are relevant to you and me. The other 43 pages are for industry insiders, but then, so is nearly half of the text of the book.
I harvested my first two autoflower crops this past summer and this fall, moving the plants under the sun outdoors during the day, and indoors at night. In preparation of my third crop that I plan to begin this spring, I will spend this winter reading some, surely not all, of this exhaustive book. This book is a sound investment only after you’ve read two or three other how-to books, of which several are by Ed, and only after you’ve grown two or three crops. But this book is simply too overwhelming and mostly irrelevant for the total beginner.
If you are a first- or second-time grower, do not buy this book. Not yet, anyway. Because you will not know where to start reading, and then you will not know how to start growing. If your interest is in growing indoors the more conventional larger strains, then Ed Rosenthal’s unfortunately out-of-print slim 1999 book, The Closet Cultivator, is perfect for beginners. Surely Ed has other startup books in print suitable for the neophyte, but I just do not know them well enough to be able to cite them.
A half a year ago, I was about to order Ed’s Marijuana Grower’s Handbook until I noticed that publication was imminent for its updated and expanded and retitled edition, Cannabis Grower’s Handbook. So for several months, I waited, eagerly. Judging from Ed’s Instagram photos showing him personally readying for shipment advance book orders, many of Ed’s acolytes eagerly awaited it, too. When my copy arrived the week of its publication, I sat down with it, perusing here, browsing there, skimming elsewhere. Just during the span of one hour, I came upon one mangled sentence structure and one typo, both on the same page. (Publisher, take note on page 551: “loses” for “looses,” and the twisted syntax is found in the paragraph above that.) Apparently, with so many readers eagerly awaiting this tome, the publisher rushed its editing and copyediting.
There is much here to like, maybe too much. And there are a few features here to dislike. Most egregious are the many glossy photos throughout the text of heavy equipment that would interest only cannabis corporations, not you and me. Other photos push specific products, making the book more akin to an infomercial. Worst of all are the 50 pages of glossy full-page advertisements relegated to the back of the book. (What!?! At the time of this writing during its first week of publication, all those ads are even included in the First Look on Amazon, though I suspect that will soon change.) Two or three pages of ads for the publisher’s other related books are more traditionally found on the back pages, but these shameful ads mark a new low in book publishing.
Ads in magazines subsidize the cost of the magazine, thereby reducing the price for the subscription or single copy. However, at a $45 list price, no such subsidy for the reader was granted here. Those 50 pages of ads add much weight to an already heavy tome. Instead of those pages, the publisher should have enlarged the font size of the micro-type of the index, which would have been more reader-friendly. Of those 50 pages, seven pages are for seeds, and so are relevant to you and me. The other 43 pages are for industry insiders, but then, so is nearly half of the text of the book.
I harvested my first two autoflower crops this past summer and this fall, moving the plants under the sun outdoors during the day, and indoors at night. In preparation of my third crop that I plan to begin this spring, I will spend this winter reading some, surely not all, of this exhaustive book. This book is a sound investment only after you’ve read two or three other how-to books, of which several are by Ed, and only after you’ve grown two or three crops. But this book is simply too overwhelming and mostly irrelevant for the total beginner.
March 10, 2022
This book is an amazing resource.
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