How to Grow Cannabis Indoors: Essential Steps and Smart Tips

As cannabis legalization increases across the world, growing cannabis at home has become increasingly popular among those who want to be able to choose their own cannabis strain, and to have greater control over the overall quality of the cannabis being grown. Growing cannabis at home will require a general knowledge of the basics of how plants grow, what lighting systems to use, and how to control the environment your plant(s) will be growing in.

How to Grow Cannabis at Home: Setting Up a Space

An empty room, a closet, or even a grow tent can serve as a grow space as long as you can create a well ventilated area (at least 6-8 feet vertically), and control airflow through the use of intake and exhaust fans along with a carbon filter to remove odors.

Optimal Cannabis Growing Temperature Ranges and Controls

The Full Process of Growing Marijuana at Home

Growing marijuana is a process that includes germinating your seeds. Many growers soak their seeds in water for 12-24 hours before planting them to increase their germination success rates.

Vegetative Stage (Weeks 1-8):

• Requires approximately 18 hours of light per day.
• Should be fed with fertilizers that contain a higher amount of nitrogen.

Flowering Stage (Weeks 9-12):

• Triggers when the light cycle changes to 12/12.
• Plants should be fed with fertilizers that have a higher phosphorus and potassium content in order to facilitate the growth of flowers/buds.

Modern Methods of Growing Cannabis with Led

LEDs consume about 40-60% less energy than HIDs and generate much less heat; this makes maintaining a consistent temperature much easier. LED full spectrum lighting contains wavelengths that allow for both vegetative and flowering plant growth. In comparison to HID systems under similar conditions, many growers have reported a 20-30% increased harvest yield when using LED full spectrum lighting.

Growing Cannabis from Seeds Indoors: Selecting Genetics

When growing cannabis from seed at home, selecting the correct genetics is important.

• Indica dominant strains are generally better suited to smaller vertical spaces.
• Autoflowering seeds are also very popular since they do not require changing the light cycle and typically complete their life cycle in 8-10 weeks.
• Feminized seeds are the most popular due to the fact that they produce only female plants, and it is the female plants that will develop the consumable buds.

Common Problems Growing Cannabis: Issues That May Occur

Most growing problems stem from either environmental issues or mistakes made with regard to nutrition.

• When you over-water your cannabis plant it can lead to root rot and stunt growth.
• If you give your cannabis plant too much fertilizer it can cause “nutrient burn” which presents itself as brown leaf tips.
• When you put your cannabis plants too close to your lighting system it causes “light burn,” which bleaches the upper parts of your cannabis leaves and reduces the potency of your cannabis.

Now that you know about the process of home growing, it will be significantly easier for you to identify quality in the end product – both the genetics and the care that the plant received.

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