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Cannabis is one of the most thrilling plants to cultivate at home. Each day, as you inspect your grow space, you’ll witness your plant reaching new heights, sprouting fresh leaves, and blossoming with buds. We’ve compiled the top cannabis grow observation tips to guide you on this journey to ensure your cannabis seeds stay on the path to healthy cultivation!

Why Monitoring Your Cannabis Growth is Important

Whether using information and data or relying on your own cannabis cultivation observation skills, knowing what signs to look for in your plant helps understand its growth patterns and health.

1. Knowing when it’s ready for the next grow stage

Managing your grow environment to suit each stage of the plant life cycle is essential to yielding the best results. Cannabis plant seeds have a general grow time, but actual results vary based on your grow. Knowing what to look for in your plant at each stage will signal when it’s time to transition to the next phase.

Look for a small taproot emerging from your cannabis seed during the germination stage to know when it’s time to relocate it into a flowering pot to continue into the seedling stage. Cultivators growing regular seeds can begin examining the nodes of their plant to determine the sex of the plant during the pre-flowering stage. Observe the size of your plant to decide when you’re ready to flip your cannabis plant from the vegetative stage to the flowering stage (it will double in size so leave room!). Once you notice the milky white trichomes on the buds start turning a golden amber colour, you’ll know your plant is ready for harvest.

If you’re having trouble spotting male or female plants, consider growing feminized cannabis seeds, which only produce bud-sprouting female plants. Autoflower cannabis seeds automatically start the flowering stage without flipping the light period, making the cultivation process more straightforward and less time-consuming.

2. Knowing if you have a suitable climate

Warm climates grow happy plants. Cannabis plants are resilient for growing in various climates, but the optimal environment always gives the best results. Even with the perfect temperature, light, and humidity settings, observing your plant’s reaction to the environment provides the best information if it’s optimal.

Climate control tools help monitor the exact levels inside your grow space. Your plant will also confirm an optimal environment with healthy, consistent growth. Adjust the climate when you spot symptoms like heat or wind burnt leaves, dry soil, too much moisture gathering on the leaves, a leaning plant, etc.

3. Knowing if your plant is healthy

All eyes on your cannabis plant! While observing your plant’s different growth stages, you should also watch for its health. Cannabis plants are prone to pests and diseases if kept in unhealthy conditions, such as unfavourable climate or planting infected clones.

Signs of a healthy crop include rich green leaves, a strong stem, large buds, and continuous growth. Growers will know if their plant is infected with the disease by discolouration of the leaves, wilting stems, and mould or mildew on the buds. Pests often leave traces of their presence with bites on the leaves, leaf spots, or droppings.

Best Cannabis Plant Observation Techniques

Growing cannabis based on observation is a full-time gig and takes patience! Planting your cannabis seed means you’re in it for the long haul to see your plant progress until it’s time to harvest. Frequent observation is recommended. Take time to examine your plant during your daily watering routine, while maintaining your grow space, adjusting climate settings, and just random checks while admiring your current progress.

Your senses are your most powerful tools in cannabis cultivation. By honing your observation skills, you can make your senses even more effective. Train your eyes to recognize the visual symptoms of a healthy plant. Use your sense of touch to examine the soil for dryness. Let the pungent smell of cannabis overwhelm your sense of smell, and let it raise red flags when you detect something abnormal. Your sense of hearing can be useful for observing the subtle rustle of the leaves, signalling good airflow and ventilation. And your sense of taste? Save that for the very end, when you’re ready to consume your harvest and see if it was a success.

Use these techniques to examine critical areas of your plant—the leaves, nodes (where the brand meets the stem), buds, soil, and overall growing environment.

Helpful tools for monitoring your cultivation

Growers can add tools to their growing setup to help monitor key aspects of the cultivation. Using your senses to observe your cannabis plant provides general information. Combine this general overview with data, and you’re well on your way to creating the ideal environment for growing cannabis at home.

A few popular tools that enhance your natural cannabis cultivation observation skills include:

Put these cannabis grow observation tips into practice during your next cultivation! Browse our collection of popular cannabis seeds to grow at home.