Glossary
823 living-soil and cannabis cultivation terms extracted from BuildASoil 10x10 Season 1. Every term is attributed to the episode where Jeremy discussed it.
🌱 Soil & Medium (149)
10 gallon container · 100 gallon mixing container · 10x10 · 12 seed cover crop mix · 3.0 recycled soil · 3.0 soil · 30-gallon container · 3D seed blueprint analogy · 5% by volume watering · Aeration (in potting soil) · Anaerobic soil · anaerobic soil conditions · Back-to-back cycles · Base ratio (50/25/30) · Biochar · biological interface · black sedge reed peat · BuildASoil 3.0 · BuildASoil Light Mix · BuildASoil Light Soil · BuildASoil Take-and-Bake · Canadian sphagnum peat moss · cannabis leaf meal · carbon to nitrogen ratio · Carbon to nitrogen ratio (C:N) · cation exchange · Chip on board (COB) LED · chop and drop · coconut coir (coco core) · Container size limiting factor · Cook-and-check method (heat test) · Cooking soil · Cover crop · Cover crop chop and drop · Cover crop chop-and-drop regeneration · cover crop emergence · Cover crop living mulch · Crumb texture · Cubic yard threshold · Cypress 8 · Deep mulch gardening · Earth Box · Earth Box (no-till) · Earth Box (sub-irrigated planter) · Earth Box hybrid system · Earth box reservoir · Earth Box wick break · EarthBox · EarthBox moisture connection · Earthy Mountain fish compost · Feeder roots vs. water roots · fill tube · Food jungle · Food web (soil) · Four-quadrant layout · Going hot (soil) · Grassroots 3x3 fabric planter bed · Humic acid · hydro vs living soil paradigm · hydroton · Intelligent power strip · Lasagna / seven-layer-dip method · lasagna stacking · leaf mold · Less-is-more moisture rule · light recipe · Living mulch · Living reservoir · Living soil · Lo Ali recipe · Los Olly Malibu recipe · low till · Method Seven LED full-spectrum grow glasses · Mulch layer · mulch strip · mushroom log re-flush · Mushroom tent · Mycelial network · Mycelium / beneficial fungi · Mycorrhizal colonies · No bare soil principle · No-till · No-till bed · no-till energy budget · no-till living soil · No-till re-amend · pasteurized straw · Peat moss · Pelleted seed · perlite · permaculture principle · pH of soil · Pittmoss · Plastic mulch cover (shower cap) · pot worms · potassium skew from excessive compost · Pre-inoculated biochar · Pumice · Pyrolysis · Quadrant · quadrant (10x10 bed layout) · quadrant comparison · quadrant system · Quadrant system (10x10 layout) · Re-amend · recycled Earth Box · Recycled EarthBox · recycled soil · Red wiggler worms · reservoir · reservoir drain (Earth Box) · Rice hulls · rockwool · Second-cycle no-till · Self-watering container · Silica (in rice hulls) · soil temperature above 50 F · Soil test · sourdough as soil metaphor · spent mushroom block straw · Squeeze test · steward model · Storing living soil · Straw mulch · straw mulch layer · take and bake · Take and Bake recipe · Take-and-Bake (living soil mix) · Take-and-bake kit · Take-and-Bake mix · Thermal compost · Thermal composting · Three by three bed (3x3) · three by three quadrant · Top and drop · Transplant at 5% water by volume · Vero COB · Volcano-style mixing · Volume of soil per canopy · Water tubes (EarthBox fill tube) · Water-only no-till · water-only soil · weed-free straw · wetability · White dutch clover · Wick zone (Earth Box) · Worm bin · worm population · Worm self-regulation
🌰 Propagation (106)
aeroponic cloner · air pruning · aloe soak for cuttings · aloe vera · Ambient rack lighting · ambient tent lighting · Autoflower · back cross · Backfill-and-tap · backup clone · bonsai mom · build a soil cut · BuildASoil Light · Chapin sprayer · clone · clone labelling per plant · clone of a clone · cloning · cloning dome · cloning gel · cmos · confirmed female · Cotyledons · crotch (node crotch) · cutting / clone · damping off · dome off (propagation) · F1 genetics · F2 genetics · F2/F3 seed making · Feminized seed · genetic drift mitigation · Geno run · genotype · harden off · holding plants back · humidity dome · incubator plug puck · indole butyric acid · keeper · Keeper / keeper phenotype · keeper cut · keeper hunt · kelp extract · light soil · Lower defoliation at transplant · Maybe plant (sex ID) · mom / mother plant · mom plant / mother plant · Mom tent · mother plant · Mulch cover for germination · node · old seed germination failure · One-gallon container transplant · overbite (male pre-flower) · paper pot system · paper pot transplanter · pheno run / pheno hunt · phenohunt · Phenotype selection · Phenotype vs genotype · Photoperiod plant · Plant labeling · Plant-to-container-size ratio · pre-flower · pre-flower sex identification · pre-flower sexing · Root bound · root callus · root-bound sex acceleration · Rooted clone workflow · rooting from hormone distribution · rooting hormone · rooting puck · rotating seedling trays · running rooted cuts · salicylic acid · seaweed extract for cloning · Seed depth rule of thumb · Seed fermenting (tomato) · Seed germination and sprouting · Seed run · Seed tamping · sex ID (sexing) · Sex identification (cannabis seedlings) · Sexing (under 18 hours of light) · Sexing plants · Sprout cup · stacking branches · Stalk-support flip · Stem rub · stem scraping / wounding · tap root · Thinning · tissue culture · Transplant drench · transplant solution (initial) · up pot / transplanting stages · Up-potting · vacuum-sealed fridge seed storage · vapor pressure / humidity for cloning · vpd / environmental pressure · white hair (pistil) · willow water · X-cut transplant hole
🌿 Veg & Training (140)
10% watering · 4-way corner (PVC fitting) · 5% watering · 50 watt Cobb chip · 60 percent yield step-up rule · apical meristem · apical meristem dominance loss · auxin hormone · back off strategy · bamboo pole support · bare legs (shaving the legs) · between-grow fan maintenance · Bolting (lettuce) · bonsai mother · Bottom watering · burnt leaf tips · candelabra plant shape · cannibalized (bed dominance) · canopy evenness · Canopy height management · canopy management · cleaning the legs up · container-to-canopy rule · container-to-plant-size relationship · Cut-and-come-again lettuce · defoliate · defoliation · defoliation (late flower) · defoliation for flat-light canopies · DIY bamboo trellis screen · DLI · DLI (daily light integral) · DLI (daily lighting integral) · droopy plant diagnosis · dry pockets · dry-down period · Earth Box reservoir dry-down rule (BuildASoil) · fan front-plate removal · Fan wind burn · farmer's shadow (best fertilizer) · feeder roots · fresh air CO2 delivery · fully running vs limping · grow room controller · grow room monitor · halitosis · Halitosis (cultivar) · Hand pollination (tomato) · hang time · high stress training (HST) / super cropping · humidifier-fan cycle · humidity dropout stress · keeper selection · Kelvin / color temperature · laser thermometer · leaf surface temperature · Leaflet count · leaves as solar panels · LED strip fixture (horticultural) · lollipopping · low stress training (LST) · lower lateral clean-up · lung room · main stock · Metal halide (MH) · minimal training approach · moisture scale 1 to 10 · monkey fan · Mono-cropping · Mono-cropping (container) · natural plant shape · negative pressure · nine to eleven leaflets rule of thumb · Number 2 (cultivar) · orange vining clips · over-watering · PAR · PAR (photosynthetic active radiation) · PAR (photosynthetically active radiation) · PAR reading at canopy · passive intake · passive ventilation (tent) · pepper dimpling (indoor) · pinch · pinch topping · pinching · Plant count · positive pressure · Prayer leaves · praying leaves · pre-launch checklist · Pruning discipline · PVC corner trellis kit · quadrant walk-through · quantum flux meter · Radish interplanting · Reveg · rootbound · runoff · Sakura cherry tomato · screen of green / trellis layer · SCROG / screen of green · Scrog screen · second scrog layer · second trellis layer · Square foot gardening method · staking out · stomata · structural integrity via airflow · suckers (tomato) · super crop · thinning radishes · three-way vs four-way PVC corner · top water vs bottom water · topping · Topping / bending the top · transpiration · transpiring · Trellis kit (Grassroots) · Trellis roller · Trellis screen · triple-node phenotype · tucking and weaving · tulsi · Tulsi / Holy Basil · Turgor · turgor (plant) · Turgor and vigor · turgor pressure · under-watering · vine clips (BuildASoil) · VPD · VPD (vapor pressure deficit) · VPD chart · weakest link · weakest link (environment) · weakest link principle · weave and tuck · weight check · weight test (feeling the pot)
🧪 Inputs & Teas (171)
10 percent deep watering · 5 percent watering rule · Actinobacteria · Activated biochar · airlift brewer · akashi tea · Alfalfa ferment · Alkalinity · alkalinity (bicarbonate) · Amino acid nitrogen · Anaerobic fermentation · Anti-germination seed coating · approved for organic use · Bicarbonate · blossom end rot · Bokashi · Bottom-end rot · brew time · build-a-flower · BuildAFlower · camelina seed meal · Centrifugal rinse · Chapin (sprayer jargon) · Chapin pump sprayer · chlorine and chloramine · chop and drop / plant feeds itself · Clackamas Coot SST lineage · Clean filtered water · CO2 from mushroom cultivation · Cocktail feeding · Coco worm castings · Compost accelerator · Compost tea · compost tea (basic recipe) · Coots nutrient kit · cover crop pinch and drop · crackling · Craft blend · craft blend top dress · dissolved oxygen · Drip head · Drip system · earth box as stomach · Easy Sprout · Easy Sprout vessel · effective microorganisms (EM-1) · EM-1 · EM1 · engine analogy (soil oxygenation) · Exhale CO2 bag · Extra tea dose · Fake organic inputs (bone meal / blood meal) · finger check · fish emulsion · fish hydrolysate · five percent rule (watering) · five to ten percent rule · Foliar application · fresh castings vs bagged castings · fungal dominance · gnarly barley · Grow Cow · gypsum · Horticultural aloe · Humic acid carrier chunks · Independence philosophy · Insect frass · Insect frass ferment · Jadam · karanja seed meal · kashi · kashi (kashi blend) · kashi / bokashi · Kashi blend · Kashi mycelium activation · Kelp meal (dry) · Koboko / Cowoco · Kombucha · Korean Natural Farming (KNF) · Lactic acid bacteria (LAB) · lacto-fermented fish · lactobacillus · lasagna layering · liquid carbon · Liquid fermentation · Liquid fish feed · manual watering · microbial enzymes · micronized organic minerals · Micronized soft rock phosphate · Mineral kit · molasses · Montmorillonite clay · Morning watering rule · mushroom CO2 synergy · Mycelium mat · mycorrhizae · mycorrhizal association · mycorrhizal inoculant · Mycorrhizal inoculation · National Organic Program (NOP) · nitrogen fixation · no-runoff watering · Nutrient kit · nutrient tea · Oil to the Soil · OMRI listing · one log at a time · organically produced · Osmotic pressure (KNF) · over-watering recovery · overseeding (cover crop and salad) · Peak enzyme window · phosphoric acid stabilization · phosphorus mobility · phosphorus mobilizing bacteria · plant available nutrients · pot lift test · preloading top dress · quarter inch runoff · reservoir overflow · reservoir-dry window · Reverse osmosis water · Rock dust · root exudates · Roots Wise Microbe Complete · Rootwise Elixir (enzymes) · RootWise Microbe Complete · Saponaria (powder) · Saponaria extract · Saponin · saponins · Saturated paste soil test · saturated paste test · Scoby · Seaweed extract · seaweed extract drench · seed meal fertilizer · shiitake mushroom log · side dressing · Small-seed insert · soil balance · soil pH vs water pH · sprouted seed tea · Sprouted seed tea (SST) · Sundown watering · supercar · T-grade casting · tape-and-sprayer (pump sprayer) · tea bag · Therm X70 · Therm-X 70 · Thermophilic compost pile · Top dress · Top dressing · vegas buffet analogy · vermicompost · vermiculite carrier · Water softening · water soluble organic fertilizer · water-soluble organics · Water-to-runoff · watering is everything in organics · Wetting agent · wetting agent (saponin) · wild harvested · Worm castings · worm castings cover · Worm seeding · Yucca extract · zeatin
🌸 Flower (103)
60-day variety · alien cush look · Anthocyanin · Banana (nanner) · bloom booster · Branson's Royal · broad leaf cannabis · Bud set · Calyx · Cannibalization in a no-till bed · chem d · Chem D lineage · Chem D x I-95 cross · CO2 enrichment · COB (Chip on Board) light · cobb lighting setup · cola · Complex odor profile · cookie-shaped leaves · Corn silk analogy for pollination · crowning · cruise control · Data logger · day 21 flower cutoff · day 52 of flower · day 6 of flower · educational run · Entourage effect · Fan vortex · final canopy height · firing hairs · flip to flower · flower stretch · fox tail · Foxtailing · Frost (trichome frost) · fuel plus fruit cross · Full-spectrum PAR meter · GMO funk · golf bally nug shape · grape funk · Greasiness · Headband-like hidden citrus · headbandy sweet · Hermaphrodite · hermaphrodite (herm) · hermaphrodite / hermie · hermaphrodite trait · Hermaphrodite traits · High pressure sodium (HPS) · intersex traits · Larf · leafy variety · let the plant tell you · Light leak · light stealing · loafy lowers · Long Valley wine purple · Lower defoliation · Male pollen sac · Max Stomper · mono crop · nanner · nanner / mannering · narrow leaf cannabis · Niwa · node spacing · node stacking · Par meter · Par reading · Photoperiod disruption · pistils / white hairs · PPFD (Photosynthetic Photon Flux Density) · preemptive defoliation · preemptive flush · proper terpene expression · Pulse Pro · quadrant (as a grow layout unit) · Quick flip to flower · rainbow fade · Receded hair · Resin rail · Resin rails · rounding out the end of stretch · scoping trichomes · Senescence · side lighting · Spear vs round flower structure · Spectral power distribution · stacking · stacking weight · stretch · stretch (flower stretch) · stretch period · stretch phase · Stretcher vs non-stretcher · swollen calyx · target PAR range · tent extension kit · tip burn · trichome heads · VPD / environment control implication · Waxy vs greasy trichomes
🐛 IPM (70)
aphid · azadirachtin · beneficial insects · beneficial nematodes · bottom-end rot (blossom-end rot) · bud rot · BuildASoil IPM report · castile soap · Clone dip · clone quarantine · cold-pressed neem oil · dew and condensation vectors · dim the lights · early flower spray window · ecosystem balance · ecosystem building · EM-5 · emulsification · enzyme spray · eradication program · foliar spray · foliar spray (preventative IPM) · Fungus gnat · fungus gnat conditions · fungus gnat larva · fungus gnat larvae · fungus gnats · Fuzzy white mycelium bloom · good coverage · hypoaspis miles · integrated pest management · Integrated pest management (IPM) · IPM inspection · Lactosopus probiotic castile soap · manufactured neem oil · nature abhors a void · Neem oil emulsification · Orb mite · orb mites · parasitic wasps (predatory wasps) · pest pressure scouting · phytotoxic · Pollen sac · potassium silicate · powdery mildew · powdery mildew (PM) · predator bugs · Predator mite · Predator mite shelter · Predator mites · Predatory beneficial insects · Preventative foliar spray · preventative program · Prevention-first IPM · Rove beetle · Rove beetles · Russet mite · rust mite · scouting · soil mites · spider mite · Spinosad · spray at lights-out · springtails · stratiolaelaps scimitus · Sulfur spray · three-product rotation · thrip · underside-first spraying · wettable sulfur
✂️ Harvest & Cure (70)
16-day dry · A buds · amber trichome · annual flowering plant · Bolting · bract · branch hang · Bucking · burping · Cannabrush (trim brush) · chlorophyll breakdown · clear trichome · cloudy trichome · couch lock · Crow's feet · cure · Cut-and-come-again harvesting · D-leafing · defoliation (harvest day) · DJ Short drying method · dry room · dry trim · Fade · fan leaf · finish window · Flushing · freeze dryer · fresh frozen · Grease factor / gluey texture · Greens harvester · hash · hay smell / hay odor · Head stash · indirect airflow · jar RH window 58-63% · Lettuce thinning after harvest · long-cure myth · Mobile nutrients · New white pistils rule · Pheno hunt · potato chip crunch · Quality first trim workflow · ripen top-down / bottom-up · rosin · Scissor hash · slow dry · smoke test · stasis storage · stem snap test · sugar leaf · target RH 60% · target temperature 60°F · terpene percentage · terpenes · Throat coat / flavor translation · trichome · Trichome check · trim bin · trim nug · Trim party · Trim run vs flower run (for hash) · tub method · USB microscope · wash well · washing rosin · wet trim · White ash · whole plant hang · whole plant hang drying · yield per quadrant
📋 Reviews & FAQ (14)
10x10 series · bro science · coco drip · ebb and flow · Finicky winner principle · flower site development on peppers · hydrofarm drip bucket · independence not dependence · IPM Bundle #3 · Leaf deficiency chart · Quadrant comparison (4-up grow) · salt-based hydro · Season 2 (10x10) · tapping tomato flowers