Issue #689 - Sunday, July 6, 2025 Hey grower! In today's issue... - Grow your own "Sea of Green"! Learn how to maximize yields and potentially shorten the time to harvest with today's tutorial!
- Want a late summer harvest? There's still time! In the northern hemisphere, you can
still plant certain seeds outdoors and get a harvest by fall!
- Day 49 for these autoflowering plants! It's crazy to see how fast our autoflowering plants are growing. See the beautiful developing buds up close!
- Grower Spotlight: Absolute ripper of an Aussie harvest! It's harvest time for our Australian friends, and cheeky outdoor grower Marky Mark has come through with two absolute legends!
Nebula Haze &
Sirius Fourside
Co-Founders, GrowWeedEasy.com
"Don't work harder. Work smarter." ~ Aphorism Each cannabis plant stays small, reducing total grow time. Yet plants still fill the space with buds, which is why the Sea of Green technique produces the upper limit for yields. Each plant stays small, so it takes much less time to harvest. Yet with so many plants and bud sites, overall yields match that of bigger plants. In fact, on average, the Sea of Green technique produces the best cannabis yields for any particular grow light and environment. These five auto-flowering plants started at the same time in this DWC setup. Without any training or special time schedules, they grew into this at harvest! You often don’t need to do much plant training in an SoG setup, so you spend less time each week that would have gone into training if you wanted to achieve similar results with a bigger plant. Note: To add another confusing term into the
mix, ScrOG (Screen of Green) is something completely different, and involves using a screen to grow a flat canopy of buds. A lot of names for common cannabis growing techniques don’t necessarily seem all that well thought out 😉 Pros of Sea of Green- Great yields - Grow a lot of big, dense buds. Top
buds are the highest quality buds, and Sea of Green ensures almost every bud is a top bud.
- No training needed - You can just let the cannabis plants do their thing as they grow. No need for bending/tying down or other plant training.
- Fast time to harvest - Cut a few weeks off the length of each grow, since plants don't need to get very big before they start making buds.
- Strain Variety - Sea of Green gives you the
option to grow many different strains at once, even in a relatively small grow space.
“Sea of Green” with many cannabis plants. One big bud per plant. Cons of Sea of Green- More time-consuming to care for more plants. Watering and accessing plants in the back can be tough!
- Need lots of plants - Not a good choice for growers with legal plant limits (check out this tutorial for that!)
- Plants are often crammed together, which increases your chance of mold or mildew. For
example if humidity isn’t under control, there’s poor air circulation, or plants get too leafy.
- Some plants grow differently from others (taller, shorter, etc.) even if they’re the
same strain. This can complicate things with a lot of plants, since you’re trying to keep the canopy as even as possible.
An automatic watering system can make it easier to water a lot of cannabis plants. (learn more!) Best Outdoor Cannabis Strains for Late PlantingDo you still have time to grow weed outdoors this summer? (in the northern hemisphere) Yes! But you need to start quickly to ensure your buds are ready to harvest before the fall. Traditional photoperiod strains may not be ready in time if you plant them in the middle of
July. For late outdoor planting, the key is growing an auto-flowering strain. Auto-flowering plants are ready to harvest as soon as 8 weeks from germination, regardless of when you germinate your
seeds. Pictured: Rainbow Kush Auto plants on either end, Four Assed Monkey Auto plants in the middle. Masterfully grown by our student Raymond! Auto-flowering cannabis strains need only 2-3 months to go from seedlings… …to a bountiful outdoor auto-flowering cannabis harvest! What that means to you: If you’ve got at least two more months of decent weather where you live, you’ve still got enough time to complete an outdoor harvest using auto-flowering strains. Note: “Decent weather” for growing cannabis plants means the weather is sunny on many days, and not freezing cold or constantly wet. Fun Fact:
I’ve noticed that many fast auto-flowering strains have “Blueberry” genetics in their recent history. Someone in the past must have made a fast-flowering Blueberry auto cross! Many fast auto-flowering strains contain Blueberry genetics. Grow Journal Update: Auto-Flowering Plants Are Stacking Here our autoflowering plants 49 days old from germination. I thought it might be fun to discuss some of the strains and how they've been developing. Critical Orange Punch Auto (front left) didn't
start making buds until over a month from germination. As a result, it spent extra time in the vegetative stage, and grew into an overall bigger plant. The buds are the least mature. Critical Orange Punch Auto Alaskan Purple Auto (front middle) looks high-yielding! Despite the name, the buds aren't purple, but they are sparkly and smell amazing. The grow light clearly
reaches deep into the plant. The buds are all long and "stacked" with nugs. Adorned in glory! Alaskan Purple Auto Pink Kush CBD (front right) is the beautiful small purple plant. Its buds appear further along than all the other plants. It started making buds at just week 3 from
germination. As a result of flowering earlier, it stopped growing vegetatively before all the others, and is the smallest plant. Pink Kush CBD Auto Next week I'll cover the other 3 plants in the back row. The Zkittlez Auto, White Widow XXL Auto, and OG Kush Auto. Their buds are fattening up nicely! We're at the home stretch now. I can almost taste the harvest already :) Stay tuned! Nebula
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📸 Weekly Plant Spotlight:
Absolute ripper of an outdoor harvest!
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Hello. I live in a cold part of Australia, with temperatures getting as low as 10 degrees over nite. (10°C / 50°F) Grow details: Topping and tying down got plenty light of light in to those bud sites.
Duel Fuel as nutrients.
This is my second grow. Reading and getting a lot of help from the 2 great people at Grow Weed Easy. (Thank you so much! ~Nebula) And the readers feedback is outstanding and really does help.. Thank you. ~Marky mark
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Australian Growers, who is your favorite seed source? Hit "Reply" and let us know! Recommended Cannabis Seed Sources
These sources have gotten great reviews from our readers:
- Seed Supreme – Florida, United States
- ILGM (I Love Growing Marijuana) – California, United States
- North Atlantic Seed Co. – Maine, United States
- Seedsman – Ships from US & Europe
- MSNL – Netherlands bank with shipping centers in the US, Canada, and
UK.
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Nebula Haze: When I first started growing, I struggled. Now, it is my mission to make it easy for new growers to get started while helping advanced growers get bigger, better yields with less time and money. We update/add articles every week. Anyone and everyone can grow if they want to! Current Favorite Strain:
Mandarin Cookies (learn more in my article about relaxing limonene) Learn which seed sources are recommended by Nebula Haze Sirius Fourside: Sirius Fourside is a hobbyist grower who has gained the bulk of his experience growing in water as a medium (deep water culture, bubbleponics). Copyright (c) 2025 GrowWeedEasy.com NOTE: If links aren't working or if pictures are not showing up properly, please view the full newsletter here: http://archive.aweber.com/gwe-updates Disclaimer: Grow Weed Easy only recommends products that we've either personally checked out ourselves, or that come from people we know and trust. For doing so, we may receive a commission. Nothing in this e-mail should be considered personalized Financial, Legal, or Medical Advice. The contributors to this magazine grow legally under their local laws but are not lawyers or medical professionals. Any decision to grow
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