So Bruce Bugbee at Utah State is doing an online cannabis course.
Good stuff thanks for sharing. I’m looking at that for sure.
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Finally, some extra credit courses that you can use for life! Right on.
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It’s pretty cheap too. $995 if you pay for all the sections together instead of separate. Looks to be like $1400 separate
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I lived in Ogden for a year or so in 81’. I really liked it pretty good. Are they doing anything with legalization in Utah? I haven’t been back in a long time. I have an old school buddy who lives in SLC and hope to look him up one of these days.
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Yeah, his course is an exciting opportunity. Still hoping he or someone releases the course data for free, since it is a public university. 
We talked about it in this and the next few posts:
I suspect you can glean most of the course content from his 30 or 40 videos made in the last 10 years, but still good to have it consolidated and updated. It’ll get people to stop believing weed industry sales pitches. 
I had a friend from Ogden. Really good guy, a super genius who got derailed by heroin. 
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Agreed; I don’t generally approve of piracy, but I’m not able to pay that kind of money for non-credit courses.
But someday soon the country will acknowledge cannabis as not only medicine, but just another medicinal plant. No more dangerous or taboo (in my eyes) than herbs.
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I can post the transcripts. They don’t let you download the videos. Its a credit course. For an extra $135 they’ll put it on your transcript to work towards a degree in botany
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I’m sure his new courses will be rife will all the data they have from the ongoing research, but he’s also got some good videos out to get started on if you haven’t yet. This one is pretty comprehensive.
But I’m definitely excited to see what’s coming out of their labs. Love to take the course, but in this economy? lol sorry Bruce.
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Definitely hoping they will expand upon Dr Bugbee’s current growing video. His use of only 20-10-20 and a 50/50 mix of peat and vermiculite are interesting, but his feeding seems to be quite dependant on the fact that they have quite hard water in Utah, I don’t think it would work for everyone without supplementing some Ca and Mg.
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I believe they’re using 50/50 peat and vermiculite, not perlite.
this guy is a professor at UConn who is doing a cannabis course as well and he’s posted most of his material in a series of youtube videos…he’s also split them into shorter videos which makes it a little easier to find what you’re looking for:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfDn7HuC58X9BPWUtjpkqQg/videos
DeBacco University
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Whoops yeah it was a little late when I posted, currently have a 4cuft bag in the car 
I will check out the DeBacco content, seems to be quite a bit of it!
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They use 75% peat 25% vermiculite with Jack’s 20-10-20 with added Phos, copper, silica
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he seems to have gone berserk since CT legalized, wow, it’s like a whole degree program is online for free. I’ve been using more vermiculite, now my aeration is about 50/50 vermiculite/perlite. If you use super coarse vermiculite it works well, the containers still feel light and it drains well.
I’m thinking when the plants are rootbound they’ll get a little more cation exchange with the extra vermiculite
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Wow quite a difference from the video from a year ago, I think they were mentioning that the silica was covered by the vermiculite but I guess they have changed to add some. Curious about what they use for phos as their phos didn’t seem that low compared to their K, but maybe its MKP.
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Hi DavesNotHere are you signed up for the course? If so please share a few more gems of wisdom.
I have to wonder why he switched his ratio to 75/25 from 50/50 after just 1 year of his Youtube video being online which got 1.8 million views!
Now all of us who adopted his (seem to be very good) methods are scratching our heads!
With other questions like:
Does he still add the gypsum and lime?
Why did he add those other 3 amendments?
Given this rate of change, perhaps his method will be completely different in another year from now!
Personally, I don’t even have access to Jacks where I live, so have been using other (more complete and full spectrum) hydro nutrients (along with the gypsum and lime) which has served me well… but always interested to learn, alanyse and experiment more based on Bruce’s fantastic research…
I agree course is a little bit expensive for some people (cheap charlies like me) since most of the topics were already covered in depth online and these techniques seem to be re-made after just 1 year. However I would love to be proven wrong.
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The mix they use is for all their studies is:
75% peat
13% vermiculite
12% rice hulls
0.7kg/m3 wetting agent
1kg/m3 wollastonite
1.3kg/m3 hydrated lime
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Optimal nutrients for veg: (these are all mg/L). For flower they increase the P up to 50mg/L. But they are still running tests on how much P in flower reaches optimal yield.
N- 120
P- 30
K- 129
Ca- 50
Mg- 17
S- 21
Si- 8
Fe- 1
B- 0.40
Mn- 0.32
Zn- 0.32
Cu- 1
Cl- 1
Mo- 0.06
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thanks for the updated info on Bugbee’s grow! It’s interesting to me but mostly irrelevant as I’m using living soil & organic nutes - Bugbee runs what I would call a chemie grow. Organic media and nutrients have more minerals naturally.
It was interesting to see someone using vermiculite over perlite which is unusual for cannabis. I think it would be a mistake to try to replicate his grow exactly in a small home grow operation.
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Yep I’m in the same place. But if you get your soil tested at least there’s some number to Guage how far off from optimum it is.
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