Unlock the Science Behind High-Quality Cultivation
A complete grower’s guide packed with science-based techniques and easy-to-follow steps.
Coco - Rockwool - HPS - LED
Easy to follow SOPs to Master Every Step of Cultivation. The most efficient, effective, profitable, and fun cultivation methods used by leading growers in California.
Testimonial of the CCI Black Book | PowrHouse x CoNNect Community
"Operating in one of the most competitive cannabis markets in the world—Sacramento’s District 6, home to over 2.5 million square feet of canopy—means there’s no room for guesswork. The CCI Black Book distills years of high-level cultivation knowledge into a tactical, easy-to-reference guide that delivers exactly what commercial operators need to scale quality and consistency. The contributing authors are highly respected friends & colleagues, which makes this a trusted resource for any cultivator.
Whether you're building a new facility or dialing in your next phenohunt, the CCI Black Book is a modern cultivator’s manual rooted in science, shaped by experience, and reflective of the evolution taking place across California’s best gardens. If you're serious about growing like California cultivators, start here."
Sergio “The Custodian” Picazo
PowrHouse / The CoNNect Community
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Step-by-Step Illustrated Instructions For Every Phase of the Cultivation Process
Immerse yourself in 60 easy-to-follow lessons, accompanied by high-quality images, illustrations, and graphics, to optimize every crucial stage of your plants’ life cycle. A detailed, visual journey walks you through…
- Mastering garden management
- Creating a successful mother room
- Optimizing efficiency in your clone room
- A fool proof plan for vigorous vegetation
- Safe and effective Integrated Pest Management
- Optimizing bloom phase for yields and quality
- The best practices for your dry room
- Proven techniques for well-trimmed buds
- And much more
Efficient
Simple to follow instructions. Clear steps and pictures.
Effective
High-Quality High-Yield Harvests. Master every step for consistent results that will put you in the top 1% of cultivators worldwide.
Profitable
- High-Yield = Lower production cost.
- High-quality = High pound price, faster sales.
- Minimal/Simple steps = minimal labor and less errors.
- CCI Black Book SOPs = Maximum Profits.
Master every step to thrive in challenging and competitive markets.
Fun
- Healthy thriving plants = healthy thriving teams
- Healthy thriving teams = healthy thriving plants
- Clear and simple SOPs = Optimal training
- Org Chart and Clear Job Descriptions = Clarity and Consistency
Cultivating cannabis is supposed to be fun. Master every step with your team and have a blast growing fire while the profits and bonuses are maximized.
We can help. Have you seen any issues below?
Are you crop steering? (Tracking a grow to keep in optimum setpoint ranges)
- Do you use day and night environmental setpoints and irrigation strategies to steer your crop?
- Chapter 1.1 in The CCI Black Book is an in-depth description of all the crop steering tips and tricks we use to have high-yield gardens.
- Learn the foundation of crop steering.
- Learn irrigation math for all aspects including runoff and nute ratios in water amounts.
- Learn irrigation strategies and how they can be used to control the height of your canopy and your yield.
HPS or LED?
- Find setpoints for growing with each type of light.
- Skip the learning curve of making the LED transition.
- Maximize photosynthesis with easy to use setpoints.
Are you using tools to measure all of the inputs in your garden?
- List of all tools we use for success included.
- Charts with all setpoints so that you can measure your way to success.
Genetics and analyzing them? Are you making strategic decisions with cultivars so you grow to maximize your ROI or streamline any processes?
- Plant density strategies and over resourcing finding and changing.
- Pairing genetics by size with crop steering strategies for each category.
- Don’t play favorites. if it is not helping your ROI.
Are you rooting in your clones and veg plants so that you have a robust root structure?
- Easy to follow instructions for rooting plants into rockwool and coco.
- This is the foundation which will give a grower the potential to hit maximum yield goals.
- Accelerate growth with a strong root structure.
Rockwool or Coco?
- Step by step instructions for growing with both substrates.
- Information to consider when choosing your substrate.
- Most efficient and cost effective choices for growing in each substrate.
Do you have nutrient deficiencies?
- Learn our nutrient protocols.
- Tips and tricks for identifying and fixing deficiencies.
- Most common problems and how to avoid them in advance.
Are your mother plants healthy?
- Mother plants are the foundation of any successful operation.
- Learn our mother plant rotation schedule to ensure robust cuttings.
- Find protocols for maintaining optimal mother health.
How do you finish your plants?
- Ripening protocols.
- How to determine when a flower is finished.
- How to plan your garden based on flower periods.
- Use supplements to increase terpenes, trichome production, and increase hash yields.
Do you maximize yield by correctly drying and curing plants?
- Maximize yield by not over drying.
- Maximize terpenes retention.
- Create a beautiful and delicious finished flower.
Our lessons cover each phase of the plant’s life:
Mothers, Clones, Veg, Flower, Harvest, Trimming, and Curing.
Along with garden management and design, our disease and pest protocol (IPM), technology products, nutrient examples, and core job descriptions for each section.
Module 1: Garden Management
Follow these CCI’s to understand the full breath of garden management for the grow facility. You will find the crop steering information and setpoints to creating schedules for each room or section of the grow process.
Module 2: Mother Room
Creating a successful Mother Room is crucial for consistent and timely harvests. The mothers are your base of how healthy the plants will be and sets the plant and room cycles, being the start of the growing cycle and source of clones.
Module 3: Clone Room
The clone room is another essential aspect of the grow cycle. Creating an efficient and scheduled clone room drives a smooth grow cycle for the rest of the process.
Module 4: Veg Room
The Veg Room is the largest and most time-consuming section in the grow process. Follow the CCI process for a successful Veg Room.
Module 5: Integrated Pest Management (IPM)
It is important to have safe and environmentally friendly IPM protocols. We work with the top companies to find solutions that will work and be approved for any location.
Module 6: Flower Room
This is everyone’s favorite part of the process. Follow these to create the best flowering plants to increase yields and quality.
Module 7: Dry Room
This section walks you through all the best practices and processes of the dry room to make the final product as nice as it can be.
Module 8: Trim Room
For the Trim Room we go over the best techniques and show examples of well trimmed flower for the trimmers.
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3 categories of clones
Culling Clones Reference Guide
(image comparison guide from book and also a facility sheet download)
Keepers
Healthy clones with a strong rootstructure, light green healthygrowth on top.
Rejects
Clones that rooted but only have 1-3 small roots popping out, darker growth on top.
Kills
Zero roots. Clones with zero rootsget trashed in the kill bucket.
Let customers speak for us
This book is miles ahead by not only its system, but the way they present it with the visuals and design. It is broken down in a step-by-step instructional visitation process, which I've never seen before in a grow book, it looks clean, modern, and just well thought out. It is fun to read and keeps you interested along with being able to pick it up at any point in the process daily, to review or double check yourself and look at that area and focus down on it. This is also still the only book and system that has current successful grows that the system was based from and use the system, that are now succeeding and growing the best plant and yeilds possible. I can't recommend this book anymore. If it doesn't all match what you're doing, just slight easy changes to make will make it work for anyone's location and anyone's setup that they have. Me and the people I know, pick it up daily and we also can use it as a training manual to help train others new to the grow to give ourselves the time we need to do our own work. Again, no other book has such good design and then a visual step by step guide to make everything easy to understand and implement.
easy to do and great resutt. thanks for CCI blackbook
Insane amount of information in this book! Even for a seasoned operation, this has helped us so much.
I haven't been able to put it down since it arrived. Exactly what I needed and have been looking for! The way the chapters and instructions are written makes learning so easy. All the beautiful pictures, diagrams and charts are so helpful 💯 Thank you so much for sharing this amazing resource!
The books cool but that was a dirty move. More than half off on sale the day after I bought it with no way of a refund.
Great book, full of new knowledge even for a 25+ year grower. Only issue is that it's bound like a traditional book and I had to take it to a print & copy shop to have them replace with a spiral binding so it can lay flat.
This is the most detailed cannabis cultivation book I've ever read. It covers everything from seed to cure in step-by-step detail, with setpoints for HPS and LED lighting and setpoints for Rockwool or Coco Coir. My only suggestion is that the next addition covers cannabis nutrition in the same detail. Weekly feeding charts showing the PPM of each macronutrient and secondary nutrient would be helpful for those not using the Advanced Nutrients line of fertilizers.
This book is absolutely incredible, a lot of the information I already know but skimming through it it’s very easy to pinpoint and highlight the important parts and there is so much information and that helps improve your growing whether it’s small or big. I’m looking forward to doing my first grow with some of the new information
This book is the only step by step book that covers data driven commercial cultivation from A to Z. Even for those who’ve been growing for years, this book has tons of value. I really enjoyed the section on garden management. In addition to tons of cultivation related information, the CCI book also included some great philosophies on life that really hit home, as well as some very inspirational quotes sprinkled throughout.
This book gave us the knowledge needed to totally revamp our grow to achieve 30% - 40% higher yields. Really simple read. Great for a team of growers. The book was expensive but it was worth it for us.
This book gave us the knowledge needed to totally revamp our grow to achieve 30% - 40% higher yields. Really simple read. Great for a team of growers. The book was expensive but it was worth it for us.
