I am a new grower and would like to know what mulch is best.
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Indoor, or outdoor?
Lot of people I see use Barley straw.
Couple people using Rice hulls.
Lot of living mulches, like Clovers and Legumes.
Hardwood mulch is a good option, but youâd probably need a wood chipper to make it yourself, as most stores sell softwood mulch which isnât great.
Personally, I grow living mulches and then pull em up as they get too tall and lay em where they stand. All my Cannabis leaves get laid ontop of the soil too.
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i saw bags of cherry/etc. on craigslist for 5$ from a cabinet/furtinture shop, fwiw.
diggyâs rightâŚa lot of options & your setup, budget, & goals are to be considered.
i.e. you may not want manure & compost & whatnot inside, etc.
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Thank you for the quick response. This is my first grow so the learning curve is steep. I am a medical grower and started with 3 Candy Crush seeds from Growers Choice and 3 Blueberry seeds ,only one Candy Sprouted and all three Blueberry. I started them inside in a sun filled window after sprouting them the wet or damp paper towel, two paper plates method setting on a reptile heater,very little heat but it worked other than two Candies refused to sprout, even after five days, I started the sprouts of Blueberry plus the one Candy in small peat pots with full morning sun as I always intended to grow them in my garden in 7gal. Bags. I have gardened seriously for over fifty years so am not entirely a newbie at growing but cannabis is more of a science from all of my research. All of my seeds are and were Autos. I say were because out of the four babied two week old plants that went into Roots soil last night in the 7 Gal. Bags âŚmy only healthy promising Candy was Eaten by a cat or raccoon last night. I planted mint and Marigolds in the empty bag which sits beside the three remaining Plants in a now covered small green house, so the Saga continues and I continue to learn more everyday, I would like to use the proper mulch for weed as the New Mexico sun can be brutal and that is my next step.
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I have an abundance of dried pine needles as my property is covered in Ponderoso Pines but am concerned about the acidity and do not want to risk losing anymore plants. I am allowed five plants total and it is now too late to start more as my winter is planned for other things and it gets frigid here.
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You should be fine with the pine needles.
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Oh, if youâve been gardening for fifty years youâve got this in the bag. Especially if you took the time to research Cannabis before planting it, youâre ahead of the curve. 
Like Stillsmokin said, pine needles will do the job perfectly. Hope the best for your first harvest. Are the blueberry feminized?
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They should be great! Allows for airflow & the acid they produce should help if anything.
@Desertdiva Then you found the right place to shorten the learning time & youâre welcome. 
Have you had any experience around The plant in othersâ gardens or is it all new to you?
A great book to supplement your start is âTeaming With Microbesâ by Jeff Lowenfels. It explains a lot about soil & organic relationships.
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Yes they are feminized, I decided to start with an easy grow and do not understand why only one Candy seed was viable as I did a lot of research on every step and followed what was given as THE way to germinate,they refused to sprout.
It is a brand new ballgame.
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Make friends with a tree service business and say youâll take all they can offer ,they have to pay dump sites to off load the chips they gather 1.5 years ago or so I had over 8 yards dumped for free on my front drive way 90% of my back yard is covered about 4 inches deep!
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Dude I know a tree-cutter too! @Tinytuttle For the win!
@Desertdiva Sad to say but it might have been old seed stock.
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Was talking with the owner about their chippers they state that they can send 12â diameter limbs through those things with ease! Thatâs f$&@king crazy!
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The âbigguns take 3â with ease 
sorry, i had to 
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Damn thatâs crazy! Plus 20
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I use barley straw and living mulch
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Pleased to say Growers Choice Seeds is replacing the Candy Kush that refused to germinate,they gave me three options to make things right, will order from them again.
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12 inches isnât really that big mate 
The chippers south of wyrallah are chewing up 3 foot hardwood trunks at a phenomenal rate. I stopped and watched one for 10 minutes Thursday, I reckon it spat out 50 m3 in that time. Bloody scary.
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Keeping a happy customers means a lot in maintaining good reputation. They did the right thing.
Cannabis seeds are high viability, particularly when they are fresh. That goes down as the seeds age.
Germinating them pretty simple, water, not freezing⌠you got it. The ones that donât germinate, were not viable in the first place.
There will be small percentage that are malformed, many will outgrow the condition, some wont.
Good luck on your garden. Well behaved Cannabis is a treat to grow.
Being my first grow,if anything they are over tendended.
I mulched them yesterday with dry pine needles and put some root stimulus on them after what I determined was a Rat ate my only viable Candy Kush and-on pulling out the remaining little stem noted that the root did not look over healthy even though they are all planted in Roots Soil Mix. I grow at least six different Mints so laid some around all the babies, I know mice will not come around Peppermint,RatsâŚmay be another matter.
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