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DIY Autoflowering Cannabis: An Easy Way to Grow Your Own
A totally new category of plants -- as easy to grow as tomatoes, perfect for gardeners
Cannabis prohibition is ending around the world, and there's a new bud in town -- auto-flowering cannabis. As easy to grow as tomatoes, auto-flowering cannabis is the perfect new plant for the home gardener who has limited time and space.
Unlike commercially grown cannabis, auto-flowering cannabis plants are small, container-grown, day-neutral, require no special lights or equipment, and grow incredibly fast - from seed to harvest in as little as seven weeks.
Written by gardening authority Jeff Lowenfels, DIY Auto-flowering Cannabis is a full-color, illustrated guide for everyone wanting to grow their own. It
The history and benefits of auto-flowering cannabis Its origins, chemistry, and growing habits Step-by-step growing methods, including tips, tricks, supplies, and seed sourcing How to harvest, process, and breed your new plants.
If you are a home gardener or already grow cannabis, you too can learn how to grow this new plant with ease, all while reaping its many benefits, such as harvesting it for medical use, recreational use, or simply as a decorative, sweet-smelling flower to enjoy. If you like to grow tomatoes, you will love growing auto-flowering cannabis.
Cannabis prohibition is ending around the world, and there's a new bud in town -- auto-flowering cannabis. As easy to grow as tomatoes, auto-flowering cannabis is the perfect new plant for the home gardener who has limited time and space.
Unlike commercially grown cannabis, auto-flowering cannabis plants are small, container-grown, day-neutral, require no special lights or equipment, and grow incredibly fast - from seed to harvest in as little as seven weeks.
Written by gardening authority Jeff Lowenfels, DIY Auto-flowering Cannabis is a full-color, illustrated guide for everyone wanting to grow their own. It
The history and benefits of auto-flowering cannabis Its origins, chemistry, and growing habits Step-by-step growing methods, including tips, tricks, supplies, and seed sourcing How to harvest, process, and breed your new plants.
If you are a home gardener or already grow cannabis, you too can learn how to grow this new plant with ease, all while reaping its many benefits, such as harvesting it for medical use, recreational use, or simply as a decorative, sweet-smelling flower to enjoy. If you like to grow tomatoes, you will love growing auto-flowering cannabis.
- GenresGardening
180 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 22, 2019
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About the author
Jeff Lowenfels
10 books56 followersJeff Lowenfels (Lord of the Roots), is one of the most humorous and entertaining lecturers and writers on the organic gardening circuit. He is a reformed lawyer who went back to his childhood roots to become a leader in the organic gardening movement. He is the author of a series of award-winning and bestselling books, three of which have become bibles for organic growers worldwide, including Teaming with Microbes, Teaming with Nutrients, and Teaming with Fungi. Lowenfels has also penned the longest running garden column in North America and was inducted into the Garden Writers of America hall of fame after serving as President. He is the founder of “Plant A Row for The Hungry,” a program which has resulted in millions of pounds of garden produce being donated to feed the hungry every year. He lives in Anchorage Alaska, where cannabis has been legal since 1975.
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October 14, 2019
Extremely helpful book for those wanting to grow their own cannabis. Cannot recommend this book enough. Clear and concise writing. Informative and timely.
January 16, 2020
Another excellent book by Lord of the Roots Jeff Lowenfels (Teaming with Microbes; Nutrients; Fungi). He's the best living garden writer, in my opinion, and to listen to him speak explicitly about cannabis is a joy. Totally accessible for new growers, and Jeff's enthusiasm and slightly goofy personality exude from the page, making it a delight to read. He is a wonderful writer and probably the most knowledgeable and keen on science, and the book contains a great rundown of the endocannabinoid system, what the different cannabanoids do in the body, and where he believes research is headed. Not to mention culture - Jeff's optimism and biotech-futurist orientation are infectious.
May 26, 2025
Jeff Lowenfels knows his subject. His text is informative and well written, perfect for the beginner indoor cannabis grower, which I am. The chapters are well organized consecutively to parallel the steps you would take. I have read two other books, admittedly old ones from the 1980s, on cultivation of cannabis published years before the widespread cultivation of autoflowers, but this book better informed me about cannabis generally, and of course about autoflowers specifically.
One thing for which I do not blame the author but the editor is the constant comparison to growing tomatoes that the author erroneously assumes all his readers have done. I am an experienced vegetable gardener both outdoors and indoors, but I have never grown tomatoes in my life. That is a foolish assumption on the author’s part, and a stupid omission on the editor’s part for letting stand that repeated reference. And I do mean repeated. Toward the end of the book, the chapters become irrelevant to the cannabis connoisseur, and especially the chapter of recipes that includes junk ingredients almost all of which I would never eat. Those chapters are easy to skip. It would have been easy, too, for the editor to delete them. Still, 6-stars for the text!
But this book hurts my eyes. My eyesight is fine, so I do not think I need to get my eyes examined. Perhaps the publisher and the book designer need to have their heads examined. The font is too small and the inking is too lightly applied, akin to “draft quality” as a printing option to save on the cost of toner ink for your home printer. After half an hour, I repeatedly had to stop reading out of frustration, not with the author, but with the book designer.
While its tiny type reduces the page count and potentially therefore the price, the text occupies only half the width of the page, which bumps up the page count and thereby negates any benefit of tiny type. Worse, the wide margins are on the outer edges, but better belong along the inner edges, which in book design is unfortunately called the gutter. I got out my ruler and measured. The text is 3.75 inches wide, while the left and right blank margins total 3.5 inches. What a waste of space. Sure, a few photos and illustrations do fill that wasteful space, but only on a few pages, maybe one out of every ten. And there are way too many inexplicably totally blank pages. The illustrations are superb, but the photos often are too small and blurry, so ultimately useless. Just look at the photo on the book cover, big and blurry. 2-stars for the book design, 6-stars for the text, so 4-stars in total.
But wait! A solution is at hand. Skip the printed book and instead purchase the eBook, for which you can enlarge the font size at will. And you can increase the contrast on your monitor to compensate for typeface’s faintness. Hence 5-stars.
Please be aware that I am not faulting the author, because the author has little control over the look of the book. (Mine is the voice of experience.) But potential future authors signing on to this DIY series with this publisher, take heed!
One thing for which I do not blame the author but the editor is the constant comparison to growing tomatoes that the author erroneously assumes all his readers have done. I am an experienced vegetable gardener both outdoors and indoors, but I have never grown tomatoes in my life. That is a foolish assumption on the author’s part, and a stupid omission on the editor’s part for letting stand that repeated reference. And I do mean repeated. Toward the end of the book, the chapters become irrelevant to the cannabis connoisseur, and especially the chapter of recipes that includes junk ingredients almost all of which I would never eat. Those chapters are easy to skip. It would have been easy, too, for the editor to delete them. Still, 6-stars for the text!
But this book hurts my eyes. My eyesight is fine, so I do not think I need to get my eyes examined. Perhaps the publisher and the book designer need to have their heads examined. The font is too small and the inking is too lightly applied, akin to “draft quality” as a printing option to save on the cost of toner ink for your home printer. After half an hour, I repeatedly had to stop reading out of frustration, not with the author, but with the book designer.
While its tiny type reduces the page count and potentially therefore the price, the text occupies only half the width of the page, which bumps up the page count and thereby negates any benefit of tiny type. Worse, the wide margins are on the outer edges, but better belong along the inner edges, which in book design is unfortunately called the gutter. I got out my ruler and measured. The text is 3.75 inches wide, while the left and right blank margins total 3.5 inches. What a waste of space. Sure, a few photos and illustrations do fill that wasteful space, but only on a few pages, maybe one out of every ten. And there are way too many inexplicably totally blank pages. The illustrations are superb, but the photos often are too small and blurry, so ultimately useless. Just look at the photo on the book cover, big and blurry. 2-stars for the book design, 6-stars for the text, so 4-stars in total.
But wait! A solution is at hand. Skip the printed book and instead purchase the eBook, for which you can enlarge the font size at will. And you can increase the contrast on your monitor to compensate for typeface’s faintness. Hence 5-stars.
Please be aware that I am not faulting the author, because the author has little control over the look of the book. (Mine is the voice of experience.) But potential future authors signing on to this DIY series with this publisher, take heed!
May 2, 2025
Since Cannabis has been legalized in my country, I thought about trying it out for medical reasons (joint pain, sleeping issues, muscle relaxation).
I admit I had not had a single clue about cannabis. During my studies in wild birds, I ran into some guerilla plots in the forest and some old hippie professors at university had cannabis secreted in the garden, but that were the only times I came into contact. I never tried it, I never was tempted, I always was a "good" girl and kept away.
I got some medical autoflower seed to grow on my balcony (purely by accident, since I had no clue, I even got a pretty famous medical strain "Med Gom").
This book really helped me.
I do not have a green thumb, so having some basics explained to me was great.
I also learned that cannabis is pretty much like tomatoes and treating the plants like tomato plants is the way to success.
And I was successful with my grow- I even had to throw some produce away, since only a certain amount is legal in my Country, and since I am a "good" girl and sticking to the law, I destroyed the rest.
My produce now helps me with my joint pain, sleep, anxiety and it even helps with aches and pain when having a cold or when I suffer from a violent stomach bug (I also got some medical books to help me with dosage).
I admit I had not had a single clue about cannabis. During my studies in wild birds, I ran into some guerilla plots in the forest and some old hippie professors at university had cannabis secreted in the garden, but that were the only times I came into contact. I never tried it, I never was tempted, I always was a "good" girl and kept away.
I got some medical autoflower seed to grow on my balcony (purely by accident, since I had no clue, I even got a pretty famous medical strain "Med Gom").
This book really helped me.
I do not have a green thumb, so having some basics explained to me was great.
I also learned that cannabis is pretty much like tomatoes and treating the plants like tomato plants is the way to success.
And I was successful with my grow- I even had to throw some produce away, since only a certain amount is legal in my Country, and since I am a "good" girl and sticking to the law, I destroyed the rest.
My produce now helps me with my joint pain, sleep, anxiety and it even helps with aches and pain when having a cold or when I suffer from a violent stomach bug (I also got some medical books to help me with dosage).
January 5, 2023
A Delas an entertaining and well-written book on Autoflower Cannabis. Read!
This was an entertaining and well-written book on Autoflower Cannabis. I am an avid gardener and am always on the hunt for some new garden plants to try. I am a fair newcomer to the medical cannabis scene and an RN to boot. I am now retired and have taken an interest in the many uses of Cannabis for medical and recreational use. It's only been recent that one could find accurate, non-biased and
This was an entertaining and well-written book on Autoflower Cannabis. I am an avid gardener and am always on the hunt for some new garden plants to try. I am a fair newcomer to the medical cannabis scene and an RN to boot. I am now retired and have taken an interest in the many uses of Cannabis for medical and recreational use. It's only been recent that one could find accurate, non-biased and
June 17, 2020
Makes me want to grow herb at home and take it to the next level. Excellent information within...
August 5, 2023
Excellent book - read it in one sitting. Informative while motivating!
October 25, 2025
I did it! a few seeds in a pot and extreme neglect.....so fun and educational
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