The Zootly Growing Tips Blog section is where curiosity turns into confidence. This section is built for people who want to understand how cannabis grows, why it behaves the way it does, and how small choices make a big difference over time.
From first-time growers to seasoned hands refining their craft, Zootly’s growing content focuses on clear guidance, realistic expectations, and practical outcomes.
No gatekeeping or mystery jargon, just solid knowledge you can actually apply.
You’ll find tips covering the full grow cycle, from seed selection and germination to lighting, feeding, airflow, and harvest timing. We also explore common mistakes, how to read plant signals, and how to create healthier grow environments with less stress and waste.
What you’ll learn in the Growing Tips Blogs:
Every article recognizes that growth is part science, part patience. We don’t promise perfection. We help you grow better plants, one improvement at a time.
Our Growing Tips Blogs are here to support smarter, more mindful cultivation.
Strong roots. Healthy plants. Better results
[Updated 2021] Most of you are well aware you can own cannabis plant for your own consumption at home. But, this being said, you may not purchase or sell cannabis. So, the next port of call is learning to grow…
We can hear the collective, “Oh Yes”, being muttered by the local cannabis growing community. Yep, we’re rolling into the outdoor cannabis flowering season in South Africa! After all, it takes a lot of effort to get your beauty to…
We’re mostly a bunch of “Positive Pollys”, but let’s tune into our “Negative Nancy” persona - climate change is here and it’s gonna get worse. With temperatures fluctuating wildly, and the recent debate about the hottest day in SA still…
“Let there be light! And there was light.” Yeah, we know you’ve developed a complex about becoming an all-knowing cannabis grower, but there’s always something new to learn. After all, not even the veteran growers know all the facts. Growing…
What The pH? Before we go anywhere, let’s just make sure you know what pH is. Discovered by Danish chemist S. P. L. Sørensen… oh right, no need to discuss this so in-depth! Right, so pH is the scale, between…
Cannabis Companion Plants...So, let’s just clear up the obvious, these companions aren’t your actual friends. No, we’re talking about the best companion plants for cannabis. Teaming up plants in planting beds can help with numerous factors involved in the domestic…
We’re not going to deny it, financial times are tough in South Africa. It affects everything we do from the price of milk to the price of petrol. It really is an economic nightmare! A cannabis growing setup might not…
Transplanting Your Cannabis Plants? For some lazy growers, scattering their seeds into the final growing container is enough. After all, letting nature do its thing is always best. But if this were really the case we’d all still be living…
Turn On The Cannabis Bright Lights! What You Need To Know! Ever wondered what you need to know for lighting up your grow? Plants need UV light to grow. You should know this if you’ve passed Grade 4 science. If…
As with any new endeavour, you’re bound to make mistakes. After all, we supposedly learn from our mistakes. But what if you don’t have the budget or time to balls it up? Well, we’ve compiled a list of ten mistakes…
It’s a question that’s bound to split a room full of gardeners right down the middle: “What’s better, organic or non-organic fertilizers?” Before we get buried in angry letters from both sides of the aisle, let’s talk about the definition…
Since the Constitutional Court ruled that it was legal to grow and consume cannabis in September 2018, there’s no reason not to enjoy the local outdoor growing season. But before you think cannabis is easy to grow because, you know,…
We can all smell that the seasons have changed. While many will be shouting about Spring, we’re more excited that it is the beginning of the outdoors growing season! It would be unpatriotic not to encourage every "Saffer" to grow…
SA's Biggest Bush: first cannabis growing competition winners The winners of South Africa's first cannabis growing competition have been crowned, and they are our new heroes. Plant nutrition and fertiliser company EnOrmous Bud held a countrywide competition to find the growers…
When most of us think of soil, we think dirt. But the truth is nothing is as essential for plants than the substrate it is growing in - the same is true for cannabis. There are three critical elements for…
If you have been using cannabis for a while now, or you’re new to the world, you have most likely heard the terms “Indica” and “Sativa”. Simply put, these are the names of two different types of cannabis. While there…
