When a patient is approved for medical marijuana, he or she gets a patient ID card that typically allows the patient to grow his or her own marijuana. In the case of being an Arizona medical marijuana patient, one receives an AZ medical marijuana card and is eligible to grow up to 12 plants until at which time a medical marijuana AZ dispensary exists within 25 miles of his or her home.

This article presents the basics of growing selecting and preparing a site to grow medical marijuana outdoors. The site should be selected needs direct sunlight, no less than 6 to 8 hours per day. More is actually better if possible. One may situate medicinal marijuana plants right in the middle of growing everything else in the garden, such as flowers herbs and berries.

Or a patient may desire to grow the cannabis in an inconspicuous location. In Arizona, for instance, a person may grow medical cannabis outdoors so long as the area is enclosed. This may be a large fenced in backyard area but it still needs to receive considerable direct sunlight. The marijuana plants should have 3 feet between them, and even though that sounds like a lot of room they will be crowded by the season’s end.

Planting the marijuana farther apart creates healthier, happier plants and also makes it simpler for a person to walk amongst the plants to work. Even eight feet apart is common and the area needs to be protected from wind if possible to protect from damage.

For growing success optimally the site would be rotated annually, however, that is not possible in most growing situations. The soil tends to become depleted after each growing season therefore it needs replenishing between growing seasons. To prepare for the winter which in most areas is a non-growing situation, one should put mulch over the area consisting of straw, herbicides, leaves, pine needles, and the mulch should be minimum six inches deep. Mulching the site also keeps the weeds down and also protects the area soil from certain microorganisms.