If you are looking for cheap, organic and all-natural ways to enjoy sufficient yields with your outdoor or indoor marijuana garden, there are multiple suitable companion plants which will gladly help you on your mission.
Among the many beneficial partner plants to support the health and well-being of your cannabeauties, stinging nettle companion plant is a fantastic choice.
Apart from being one of the best companions to camouflage outdoor marijuana growing, the stinging nettle is also wonderful for providing a strong nutrient-boost to indoor cannabis cultivation setups.
Read on to find out more about how you can take advantage of companion planting, along with easy-to-apply guidelines and tips.
Stinging Nettle Companion Plant: A Green Queen with an Attitude for Cannabis Growing
Stinging nettle (Urtica Dioica)is, in fact, a very broad term which refers to more than 50 varieties of this distant relative of the Mint plants family.
We all know the one-of-a-kind character of stinging nettle, which is why it lives up true to its name.
Whoever gets in touch with her leaves is doomed to quickly run away after getting in touch with the stinging leaves end up with a burning and itchy after-feeling on the skin.
But there is much more to the benefits of stinging nettle as a companion plant to your marijuana garden than the fact that it will certainly help to keep away unwanted visitors.
How to Protect your Marijuana Garden’s Privacy with Stinging Nettles
If you’ve ever paid attention to the appearance of stinging nettle, grown outside or in the wild, then you already have an idea of how much it resembles the shape of marijuana plants.
Nettle grows relatively high and can easily reach about 4 feet.
When multiple stinging nettles are growing together, it will be almost impossible to spot the presence of marijuana plants, placed anywhere in between.
Here’s a shot of an all-natural stinging nettle mini-forest which I was just recently introduced with by one of my fellow marijuana-gardeners.
Now, I bet if I ask you to find the marijuana plants hiding somewhere between the stinging nettles, that would be a rather tough task. J
So, in the case you are concerned about the privacy of your cannabeauties, planting a dense fence of stinging nettle will definitely dispell any unnecessary attention.
Most of the people automatically disregard walking into the nettle plants, although clothes can keep you safe from getting burnt by the leaves.
However, if by any chance one gets brushed by the itchy stinging nettle’s leaves, you can be pretty sure he/she would prefer to turn a back around instead of trying to walk any further into the garden.
But the benefits of stinging nettle as a partner in cannabis cultivation reach far beyond camouflaging the presence of marijuana plants in your garden.
The Benefits of Stinging Nettle Plants for Increasing Cannabis Yields
When planted directly in the pots of your indoor cannabis beauties or by direct contact with the soil, where you have placed your outdoor green babes, stinging nettle can help tremendously to increase your yields.
Nettle is famous for its healing properties, which have been treasured for centuries.
It is rich in essential oils, which easily get transmuted into the surrounding growing medium.
Subsequently, these precious oils aid in rapidly increasing the production of terpenes-rich oils in marijuana plants, as well.
As a result, the resin, which generously covers the delicious cannabis buds will also increase.
Thus, you can enjoy an awesome quality of your green medication, which will also become far more potent in effects after-consumption.
More Benefits: Deer-free Weed Garden with Nettle Companions
On another note, if you happen to live in a region where deer might come to pay your cannabis garden a visit, they will be quickly discouraged by the presence of nettle.
How to Plant and Take Care of Stinging Nettles?
Stinging nettle is a very non-demanding companion plant and it won’t take any of your attention or show high demands to grow.
In fact, it develops pretty vigorously, just like any ordinary weed will.
Just make sure you plan your moves in advance as not to miss the most appropriate time to plant your stinging nettle marijuana companions.
Doing so will help you grow both your emerald princesses and their fellow-nettle partners within the same time frame to ensure best results.
You can either plant nettle seeds inside and then transport them outdoors if you wish, or you can directly throw the seeds into your outside garden.
In the case you are planning to start with growing your nettle plants inside, mind that the germination period will take about 14 days. You only need to keep the growing medium moist and you’ll be good to go.
Provided you are considering outdoor planting of your stinging nettles, simply place the seeds in rows, about an inch away from each other.
Just don’t forget to keep the soil moist, so that nettles can grow fast and strong.
Other marijuana-friendly companion plants, such as beans, corn, yarrow, basil, clover, chamomile, sunflowers and much more, can work great together.
However, remember that doing not all companion plants will give their best when they are surrounded by too many other companions.
Take, for example, basil, chamomile, and stinging nettle.
In this combination, you’d better skip on planting either the chamomile or the stinging nettle.
Both of these will release precious oils to stimulate resin production but when in conjunction, the effect on your marijuana plants might be too robust than needed.
Whichever plant specimens you prefer to add to your marijuana garden will be of tremendous benefit to the well-being of Planet Earth.
Pesticides are slowly killing our home here on Earth so the better we learn to protect our cannabis plants than treat already existing issues with chemicals, the better for the entire humankind.
So congratulations if you are planning to take advantage of stinging nettle companion plant, bud-buddies! That’s the way to go!
