If you are learning to grow cannabis at home, you will be reading a lot about the best soil for marijuana, compost, worm casting, fertilizer, seedling, soil mix, water retention, drainage, organic matter, hydroponics, pesticides, and more. There is a lot to learn to become a grower and be happy with your marijuana plant harvest. Once you start growing hydroponically or using another system, the needs of your marijuana plants will become second nature. Still, there is a lot to learn when first starting. The marijuana plants need many nutrients and micronutrients, a hot climate, a good soil mixture, and direct sunlight. If you are growing indoors, you’ll need to provide artificial direct sunlight and heat.

Before growing, you might not consider what you will do with all of the marijuana plants if you are successful. Depending on your location, there are limits to how much marijuana you can legally grow and possess, so utilizing your homegrown cannabis plants is essential.

1. Edibles

An edible is a food item that retains the THC to create a mind-altering effect after eating. There are many different forms of edibles you can learn to make at home. Using cannabis plants as an ingredient in foods is relatively easy and is often used in baked goods like brownies and cookies. You can also make lollipops, snacks, nut butter, pot brownies, hummus, and extract as cannabis edibles. If you don’t already have cannabis edible recipes, you can ask friends who already make edibles or do a simple search online for “cannabis edibles.”

2. Cannabis-Infused Dishes

Cooking cannabis-infused dishes is a great way to use your marijuana plants creatively without being wasteful. There are several different ways to accomplish this, but one basic way is by making cannabis-infused olive oil and using that in your cooking. You’ll get the light cannabis flavor without overpowering the rest of your food. Similarly, you can also make cannabis butter to use in food preparation. It is often commonly added to coconut oil and then used in cooking.

When you want to infuse the oil with the cannabis plant, you soak the leaves in the oil for an extended time while warming it. The easiest way to do this is to put the cannabis plant in a canning jar. Then submerge the plant with the oil. Next, close the jar and place it in a slow cooker of water. Turn the crockpot on to warm and leave the jar of oil in the water for four hours. You can use this same method with coconut oil, but you’ll need to check on it periodically to make sure the coconut oil is melting down. If the jar is not full as the coconut oil melts, you can open it up and add more coconut oil.

3. Dry it for smoking

While finding creative ways to consume your cannabis plants is common, you can still dry them out and smoke them to get the effects of the cannabis. The legality of cannabis use varies by state, so you must be aware of and abide by local and state laws regarding marijuana usage.

Growth factors, including the soil mix, plant matter, nutrients, micronutrients, direct sunlight, how much water they get, and pesticides, all impact the quality and potency of the weed and how much THC is in the final product. The best option is to focus on creating super soil with the nutrients, water, plant matter, and fertilizer to get the perfect final product before worrying too much about how you’re going to use it. Then, you can imagine all the creative edibles and infusions you’ll make with your homegrown cannabis plants.

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NOTE: Growing and consuming cannabis is illegal in the Cayman Islands