Only a few states in the US have medical marijuana dispensaries. In the others, patients with arizona medical marijuana cards need to either get their medicine from a caregiver or grow their own. Here’s an overview on preparing soil for growing medical marijuana.

When growing medical marijuana az the cannabis plant needs very good drainage. In the beginning the digging area should encompass a minimum of 4 square feet. One should dig down through hard pan and every year the hole should be dug a little bigger and deeper than the year before creating improved drainage.   

Prior to filling back up the hole created, each year the drainage should be tested. Even if drip irrigation will be used, this drainage exercise should still be accomplished. A person should put water into the hole and then watched to make sure the drainage occurs rapidly. If proper drainage doesn’t occur, one should push a metal pole through hole’s bottom in multiple areas to improve the drainage. This should be done multiple times if necessary to ensure proper drainage.   

As soon as proper drainage occurs you can replace the soil and replenish it. Instead of just putting the soil back in the hole that was taken out, one should layer it with either homemade or organic compost while ensuring the hole begins and ends with compost. The hole will not contain all of the soil that was taken out initially in addition to the new compost, so one should use the left over amount to build up a raised hole around the hole. This may help a lot if the plan is to water the phoenix medical marijuana plants with a hose so a dam is created around the plant or if the summers are very dry and hot in the area.  

If the plan is to use something different than organic compost, then people should pick up some organic compost. The primary products of the organic compost should not be simply bark or other wood products. The reason being is that bark or other wood products have very little nutrition and can actually deplete nitrogen from the soil. Compost that contains horse or steer manures should be avoided because of the high levels of pesticides or salt. Organic granular fertilizer should be positioned into the top foot to foot and a half of soil.