Best Indoor Growing books ?

marijuana horticulture: the indoor/outdoor medical grower's bible by jorge cervantes

Everything is available online, I recommend checking multiple sources and not trusting just one author, mixed with your own trial and error experience

DA BHAGAVAD GITA!!! IS VERY VERY GOOD FOR INDOOR CULTIVATION OF DA SOUL!!!!!!

There are a multitude of YouTube videos for beginners. Seed banks all have tutorials to discover and learn.

You could spend the next 4-12 years in school getting a basic or rudimentary understanding of the chemistry in soil. You could spend 10,000's of pages of texts on other C3 plants or botany. The sad fact is that there is not a single, universal resource for cannabis cultivation. Cannabis is arguably the most complex cocktail, and capacity for said cocktail changing, with respect to secondary metabolites. Everything from cyanide to heroin to cocaine to DMT to capsaicin is a secondary metabolite with respect to flora. Cannabis puts those other ones down on complexity. Cannabis has also been stewarded by humans for thousands of years with documentation. In short, trying to summarize the past for cannabis would take longer than explaining the history of Abrahamic religions... The final nail in the coffin here is that cannabis isn't some thing from the past, it is very much involved in modern plant medicines. So...finding a good resource that knows the history for starters, then also understands the actual math/physics/botany behind the basic things they are doing and why, but certainly who also keeps current and applies the newest drops in tek constantly to their personal library of knowledge? You're talking about maybe 100 people worldwide, of which 98+ who havent and arent going to write a book

For convenience a book may be worth it to you, but most of the information is availble freely. You may even find better information in more general horticulture books than anything specifically for marijuana.. lots of magic sorrounds this hobby as does a lot of horticultural hobbies for that matter. So many products make huge promises that cannot deliver - rampant in gardening as a whole. rosenthal has a book that's been around a long time. What he preaches is often fairly useful. https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1GvDcurah5FpjZaBuJQSKtsyIP3ZFNNS0 two textbooks in that shared drive - "Marchner's ..." and "Soilless culture theory ..." -- that's more specific information rather than a growing guide. cocoforcannabis.com has excellent guides, articles and 'dr. photon's corner' posts. This would be a great source primarily for soilless growing. Whether you choose to do soil or soilless, that'll impact best practices a bit, but there are still lots of parallels or you can see the reason for the difference in behaviour etc and still use the gist of it in either method. Best advice.. start simple. Slowly add sophistication. You'll probably change your mind about preferences several times over the course of the first few years. Once you settle on something, then you can progress along that learning curve quickly. Can't know if some behaviour or product is a benefit if you have no baseline to compare it to. it just takes time and consistency to being the learning process of whatever methods you settle on. This isnt about what is better, but soilless probably has the easiest learning curve. You could mimic someone's formula and climate control and have incredibly similar results. Less variability in products. Watering procedures that eliminate significant sources of problems, otherwise. Where as the least amount of effort needed might be related to super soils.. something that can feed the plant well enough for an entire grow. May not get the same max growth rates, but arguably the less input needed throughout the grow. Some people value that more than others. hydro is simialr to soiless in being able to simply ape someone else and hit the ground running nearly full speed, but a little more learning curve on the maintenance and care of the system. light, fertilizer, climate, sanitation, soil composition, preventative measures - blah blah blah... there are entire books on each....