Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1679925 in Books
• Published on: 1993-06-02
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 306 pages

Customer Reviews

This book does not give factual answers.
This book is called Ask Ed. What you get is Ed's answers to questions set forth by the public in his popular High Times magazine column. "Great!" I thought. Just what I need. Something to improve my growing skills.... But wait............

The book is full mistakes and errors! As a "type-of-grow-book" it will certainly give you a foundation for cannabis growing logic and a bit about how to solve cannabis problems, but it has a fatal flaw. It appears that the writer has not actually put much of his "Answers" into practice.

There are a number of passages that read well and you say to yourself 'wow' that is a great idea. Putting them into practice is another thing all together. For example: a guerrilla grower (someone who grows outside of their own property) asks the author what he can do about predators eating his plants. The author tells him to put up an electrical fence around the plant! (How is he supposed to power the fence? Hot-wire it to an electrical pylon near-by?) But in all fairness the author does follow this up and admits that it is a bit silly and not very 'stealthy', but then he tells us to do something else that quite frankly does not work. It appears that the answers to the questions have been rushed and not well thought-out.

I have also noticed that the book was written in the late 80's. Sorry but there are better books out there on the cannabis subject that are more up-to-date. Do not expect to find new techniques mentioned in this book. What you can expect is 80's material that has a lot of holes in it. The back of this book tells us that the author has been giving out "expert advice" that has been used by millions of gardeners. I have to say that if this is the standard of advice he has given out then those 'millions of gardeners' are certainly not getting very far with their grow. There are only 3 or 4 photographs which give us a good example of what a proper flowering cannabis plant should look like and yield. All the other pictures are sub-standard. Most of the picture suggest that only 1/8 of an Ounce is the standard yield for indica plants, when in fact it is closer to 1 Ounce and more.

But I do confess. I often turn to this book for its short but very interesting glossary. Pages 265 - 272 are really the meat of this book and that is about it. Go elsewhere for better information. Even a good non-cannabis grow book will give better information on the subject of cannabis growing than this one.

ed knows almost everithing!
Ask Ed is, yet, a excellent book. Ed Rosenthal is a famous writer about cannabis and related subjects, thast almost everyone knows. In this book, "Ask Ed", he write, in very simply mode, all the basics knowledge who ones need know about marijuana cultivation, specially for newbbies. All the basics are here, in simply but very helpfull text. Some informations are a little obsolete (Ed is from hippie generation...), but the book could vbe, yet, very helpful. For a new grower is a good source of knowledge and tips. Finishing: Ask Ed: if you are not an expert yet, this book is a good source.