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ATTENTION: READ THIS BEFORE YOU BEGIN! A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE INTERNET LEAKED PDF DOCUMENT AND NEW DEVELOPMENTS! Okay, well done. You probably have your hands on a leaked version of my book. Thanks to you guys you have probably just killed my chances of ever reclaiming the last 15 years of my life financially. Just kidding, I am not such a stuck in the mud about it. In fact it was probably inevitable that this would happen - after all I created the PDF so that it could be used on-line so I might as well hijack it before it gets totally out of control! Okay, listen up, if you have this document then there is something I want you to do. If you find anyone else with a leaked version of this document without this initial introduction about the leaked document then please kindly ask them to replace it with this new introduction. You will help all those h4x0rs to have a really l33t version of their own leaked document. So l33t that the version they have has the author’s own statement about the leak at the start of it. I also ask that you remember that this is a document that has only had one person go over it. Namely, me. Now I have gone over it again a few times since and there are spelling mistakes, grammar mistakes and just plain old mistakes. For this reason I assume full responsibility, but I can guarantee you that the mistakes do not even come halfway as close to some that you will find in books that you pay ca$h for. On top of this the book has been fully revised and all the mistakes corrected in a brand NEW edition that is COMPLETELY OVERHAULED from start to finish. It is 99% a whole NEW BOOK. Read more about this at the end of this introduction. Okay so a little bit about me and why I wrote The Cannabis Grow Bible and other things you should probably know about in the marijuana grow scene. Listen up - words from the wise.... been there, done that... bought the T-shirt. Time warp back to the early 70’s. After the hippy movement a few things took shape on the cannabis scene. Hippies had come back from their treks around the world with foreign women and lots of dope seeds. The seeds went round and round and people started growing them. Somewhere along the line a movement started in the US to legalize cannabis but got caught up in the money making game and had so much in- house fighting that it became a bit of a joke. Somewhere in all these games a few writers published some basic 40-page manuals on how to grow leaf. Not bud, but leaf. Yes sir, smoking leaf was all the rage back them. How great. Something happened and these books took off at a flying rate. Then things got muddy. How do we put this into perspective..... Okay let’s just come out and say it.. the pot grow books where money spinning bunk... so bunk that they spread enough disinformation that still lasts to this day. Yeah, that’s right, 30 + years worth of half- grown ideas and misconceptions that are still doing the rounds today. I’ll talk about this in a moment but first I want to talk about something else... seeds. Ever heard of the ‘seed wars’? Well the seed wars are probably the most greatest and damning thing to ever happen on the cannabis scene. See all those men and women who brought back strains from around the globe? Well a lot of them ended up with dollar signs attached that read - 10 seeds $200. Now in my opinion there are strains worth this. No doubt about that, but the problem is how some people turned this into one of the biggest crimes against the great herb ever conceived. First of all I just want to say that there are many breeders and seed banks who have my greatest respect. They know who they are. Their actions speak for themselves, but there are a lot out there that simply con the living life out of growers. Now take it from me - if you couple these seed conmen with quick money grabbing books with misleading cannabis growing information - what do you get? The answer..... DISAPPOINTED GROWERS ...The Cannabis Grow Bible avoids all that. It gives you the reader the opportunity to actually bypass the horseplay and get to down to growing some highly potent herb almost right away. In the mid 80’s I had done a couple of things out of sheer dedication to getting my own grow room right. I had taken my own growing information and cross-referenced it with data from the books that where out there. Slowly, year by year, I kept my files together and kept collecting data. Somewhere along the line I actually started to improve the files with photographs and added notes to keep track on current developments. Let me just say one thing... when you start actually putting into practice what you read, a lot of it does not come together at all. When you start experimenting, a whole new world opens up for you. Two things where evident from the outset. There is NO one way to grow the great herb and there is NO king of the cannabis strains. However if you do have some great strains and a well maintained grow room, things start to transform in ways that you would have never thought possible before. Take it from me - the moment I did this the marijuana books went in the bin and a quick trip to the biology and gardening sections of my local library made all the difference. My notes began to grow and grow and after awhile I found myself pruning back on some of the information and ruling out misinformation and cross-referencing the data with actual results. Now this is really where things start to make sense. You see when you read something and it works... right there in front of you... well that is a whole different ball game to reading concepts and ideas that seemed to be great at the time but turned out different. I became increasing aware of the implications of misinformation and decided to do something about it but before I did I wanted to see how growers themselves where taking to the whole growing information literature scene. So I started to visit a few growers around the world at different competitions, cafes and venues. Soon enough a few of us had got together to spend a little time talking about the various problems associated with the great herb and how they could be solved. I got to see many does and don'ts and the in-betweens. Everything from full scale breeding houses, outdoor guerrilla grows to grow rooms sparse in bud amounts. In early 1991 I bought a very flimsy personal computer by today’s standard and sat down to bash out a manuscript from my notes over the coming months in the old school Courier type font. This is a copy of the original cover of the 1st Edition manuscript (1991). I still have it in my desk. It about a half-inch thick. I was dishing out the 1st edition notes on the BBS service (Bulletin Board System) as quickly as I could but became increasing in brawled by what I would call hardcore misinformation fanatics. These are growers who just repeat what other grow books are saying without even checking it out first for themselves. I was determined to solve this problem once and for all. In the late 1993 I decided to release my work on the net instead of publishing a book. I wanted to do this for two reasons. The first was to see how the response would be and the second was to generate some NEW information onto the scene. I created the 2nd edition over a few months and it worked. The response was fantastic. I was getting feedback at a rate of several letters day, each asking further questions about cannabis cultivation and helping me to understand more about what a good grow book should be about. I took many of these questions and directly applied them to my gardens to see what kind of data I could glean from it. Trial and error helped me to segregate fact from fiction. Thus, my notes where becoming purer, less talky and more informative. This is the digital cover of what I call the 2nd Edition (1993). It was basically a clutter of most of my extended notes from the first Edition which only existed in print in my desk drawer and as snippets of text on the BBS system. Just streams of text on a green screen! This edition was an all in one text file. It was about 230 pages long. In 1995 I set out to create a complete new guide that would run into the 400 page mark. All my notes would go into one single source file. Something that would be easy to read and help improve on knowledge that was out there while at the same time trying to dissolve misconceptions and errors about the plant and cultivation techniques spawned over the past 30 years of seed bank wars and bogus growing information. In 1997 I finished what I called the 3rd edition. Now the 3rd edition was something unique. It was the first grow book to actually cover strains and seed banks.

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