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Trade paperback,
6 x 8.25-inch
(210 x 150 mm) format,
240 pages, 760 color
images, appendix, index.

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Marijuana Grow Basics:
The Easy Guide for
Cannabis Aficionados

by Jorge Cervantes

Jorge's simple easy guide shows American, Canadian and European techniques to grow the maximum yield of the most potent cannabis possible. He explains how to grow fewer plants that give a higher yield, including the "Sea of Green" and the "Screen of Green" techniques - including specific photo-based instructions to grow a 12-week crop from seed and a 10-week crop from clones. Growing with CFL, HID, and LED lights has never been easier. Even first time growers are ensured a successful harvest!

This practical, informative guide is packed with 760 full-color illustrations and photographs that detail more than 150 affordable marijuana growing setups. Become an expert on grow room and internet security, feminized seeds, seedlings, cloning, mother plants, singling out male and female plants early, peak "sinsemilla" harvest, as well as manicuring, drying and curing your crop for highest potency.

Buy only the grow gear you need - hydroponics & soil, lights, CO2, meters, fans & filters - to maximize your harvest. Design and set up your grow room with supplies from your local hardware store and garden center. Plus troubleshoot problems and control common pests & diseases!

Marijuana Grow Basics is now being translated into German and Spanish. It will appear in more languages in the future.



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Cliff Cremer, chief editor, Soft Secrets, Amsterdam, Holland

“Marijuana Grow Basics is a quick, concise, and easy-to-read manual that covers every aspect of cannabis cultivation from seed selection to the final stages of harvest . . . a positively refreshing photo-grow-journal!”

Lazystrain, grow reporter, Soft Secrets, London, UK

“The author has taken the time to explain the subject to his audience in a condensed format, he has ‘cut-down’ the paragraphs without ‘watering-down’ his original concepts of cannabis cultivation. This reflects Jorge's life-long dedication to the observations involved when growing cannabis.”

M. C. McEvoy, publisher, HIGH TIMES, New York, USA

“Jorge Cervantes' newest book, Marijuana Grow Basics: The Easy Guide for Cannabis Aficionados, is outstanding! His expert grow advice in books, DVDs and in his monthly column for HIGH TIMES magazine solidly places him in the “World's Cannabis Horticulture Hall of Fame.”

Phil Kilv, founder/publisher, Weed World, Coventry, UK

“Don't get locked in the closet without it! Yet again Jorge has created a book that every medicinal grower should have at hand as a reference guide. No need to ask on a forum—this book has all the info you’ll need without having to wait for an answer from cyberspace.”

Lorna Clay, director, Cannabis College, Amsterdam, Holland

Marijuana Grow Basics is yet another fantastic book that presents essential step-by-step instructions in an easily understood format, even for an absolute beginner. This comprehensive handbook (packed with full-colour photographs) will be a vital resource for both the volunteers and visitors in the Cannabis College info centre and garden. A simple yet effective tool for the grower; he's done it again! Congratulations on this excellent piece of work.”

Rob Tuinstra, editor in chief, Highlife, Amsterdam, Holland

“Jorge Cervantes has been a force in the cannabis landscape for 25 years, and the Hemingway of the grow scene once again confirms he is on top! In Marijuana Grow Basics the master tells how to grow, but this time with new outstanding photo material he also shows you how to please your plants. If your plants need LOVE, call JORGE!”

Tigrane Hadengue, publisher, Mama Editions, Paris, France

“With Marijuana Grow Basics, Jorge Cervantes brilliantly sets new standards for the easiest—and yet totally complete—grow book. A must!”

Gonzalo Belchi, redactor, Spannabis, Madrid, Spain

Marijuana Grow Basics is simple and congenial full-colour basic cultivation guide for the cannabis aficionado. This primer for novice growers has more than 700 images, information, and useful facts about cultivating our favourite plant. One more time the great “guru” of marihuana surprises with this complete cultivation guide.”

Jensi Skunk, Hanfblatt, Germany

“With this fantastic grow guide, Jorge Cervantes really brings matters to a head! This is marijuana cultivation knowledge put in a (cannabis) nutshell! This book sets the new standard for beginners—thanks to tons of illustrative pics in combination with short, easy-to-understand sentences that cover any basic knowledge needed. Congratulations!”

Maurizio Birocchi – editor in chief, Dolce Vita, Milan, Italy

“After the Bible . . . Simply the most detailed and exhaustive basic guide fully dedicated to the marijuana growing world! The best useful advice for beginners, special clever tricks for experienced growers, full detailed descriptions and examples. A 360-degree grow guide, another incredible good work of the Master of Marijuana. Good job, Jorge!”

Mike J. Hurt, editor, BURST HIGH, Tokyo, Japan

“Jorge leads the frontline of growing marijuana worldwide, and came to Japan to bring real information on the subject. We welcome his new growing book to the Far East country of Japan, which has a long history of marijuana culture. Read it to grow more and more for our future.”

Jan Sennema, cannabis journalist, Amsterdam, Holland

“At 240 pages, Marijuana Grow Basics could be considered the light version of Cervantes’ monumental growing Bible. Extra attention is given to setting up different types of grow rooms and grow closets, a welcome addition for absolute beginners with modest ambitions. There are tons of brilliant new pictures and drawings, which makes it a perfect coffee-table book too. Thanks to the practical structure and clean-cut lay out Marijuana Grow Basics is a joy to use. For those who want to know it all, but need a quick reference guide rather than an exhausting treatment of the ever-expanding knowledge on marihuana culture, this is the book. Growing made easy for the zap generation!”

Gábor Lukács, editor in chief, Cannabis Kultusz, Budapest, Hungary

“Our favourite author has summed up his grow experiences acquired over decades in Marijuana Grow Basics for indoor growers. Starting from the basics, the art of growing is introduced to readers—from stages of growth, bloom, and uses of nutrients all the way to harvesting an excellent crop, storing your goods, and the security factors one needs to be aware of. The book contains all necessary, comprehensive information and data on the process of growing for every single stage. The enormous amount of photos and illustrations taken during his visits to 150 different grow rooms fully complete the wording, which is done in the usual energetic, entertaining, and funny style. A must for indoor growers!”

Johnny Vee, editor in chief, SKUNK Magazine, Montreal, Canada

“Jorge has done it again! Many growers are intimidated by what they perceive as the daunting task of growing their own. They need not fret anymore. Jorge Cervantes has taken every facet of producing good cannabis and simplified it without losing any of the necessary detail in his new book Marijuana Grow Basics: The Easy Guide for Cannabis Aficionados. Filled with great step-by-step photos and illustrations documenting every subject from seed to final product, the book is a must have for anybody interested in marijuana. Congratulations once again, Jorge, for creating an indispensable tool for the growers of the world—the true rebels who are changing the world one plant at a time.”

Marco Renda, federal (medicinal cannabis) exemptee and publisher, Treating Yourself, Toronto, Canada

“Now I can recommend Marijuana Grow Basics—with just the right amount of text and hundreds of colour images—to novice growers instead of Jorge’s Bible when they ask!"

Allen St. Pierre, executive director, NORML, Washington, DC

“There has been no greater time or need for a publication like Marijuana Grow Basics than right now, notably in North America. Why? Because sick, dying, and sense-threatened medical patients in Canada and in 13 American states (totalling over 65 million in state population) have fought and won the legal right to cultivate and consume medicinal marijuana. Marijuana Grow Basics will provide patients and their caregiver cultivators all the up-to-date and necessary information to engage in self-preservation and autonomy from the vagaries and dangers of the so-called black market.”

M. López, redacción, Canamo, Barcelona, Spain

“Jorge Cervantes again shows his prolific style in all aspects that surround our beloved plant. He presents and strengthens basic indoor cultivation with this new all colour manual. This work without a doubt will be another success from the author that has done much to advance marihuana cultivation.”

KIMO, Hanf Journal and THCene

Marijuana Grow Basics gives a unique and complete picture of indoor cannabis cultivation. More complex than ever Jorge Cervantes gives a chronological and extensive overview of all important steps a successful indoor garden requires. Marijuana Grow Basics is the first ‘Plug 'n Play’ guide about cannabis cultivation.”

Zbynìk, Konoptikum, Brno, Czech Republic

“This book is an exhaustive presentation of marijuana cultivation basics from seeds to final harvest. All you need to know is here, wonderfully illustrated by hundreds of coloured pictures. Marijuana Grow Basics is for anybody who wants to be a perfect gardener. Do not waste time! Learn from experts!”

Sebastián Binfa. Director Cánamo Chile, Santiago

“Without a doubt this new book by the prolific Jorge Cervantes is the missing link for all the growers that have not dedicated themselves to cultivating. The simple clarity in the contents, that are always clear, gives anybody the desire to cultivate cannabis. We cannot find a collection that is packed with art (photos and drawings) of indoor growing. Marijuana Grow Basics is the book that all Latin Americans dream of having!”

Toudy, Editor in Chief, Spliff, Poland

"Marijuana Grow Basics is practical guide containing best compendium information about cultivation. Every grower has obligation to read this book. Without hesitation I want publish in Polish language!”

Sebastián Basalo, Director, Revista THC, Buenos Aires, Argentina

“Jorge Cervantes, the world cannabis cultivation guru, starts fresh on the playing field. Marijuana Grow Basics is a brief and compact book that embraces all the aspects of indoor cannabis cultivation, from seed selection through curing harvested flowers, with precision and detail that only the Bible could attain. An indispensable work for the library of all who love cannabis gardening.”




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Jorge Cervantes is the author of more than 25 marijuana grow books in 7 languages. He writes for more than 20 cannabis magazines in 7 languages. Jorge attends/speaks at more than 6 cannabis fairs every year. For more information, click here!

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