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Dear Fellow Grower,
In today's issue... - Happy cannabis plants come from happy environments! Make sure your cannabis grows up in the perfect environment for making potent bud!
- This is one of our most concise articles, but we've somehow made it even shorter. Check out the ultra-short 'cliff notes' after the article!
- Macro shots are tough to accomplish. But when you get it right like the grower of todays trophy pics, it's a thing of beauty!
Nebula Haze & Sirius Fourside (founders of GrowWeedEasy.com) "Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change."
~Stephen Hawking
5 Factors to
Creating a Perfect Plant Paradise
by Nebula Haze |
What makes the perfect cannabis growing environment? What does it take to get the healthiest growth and best yields from your indoor cannabis plants?
5 Factors to Creating a Perfect Growing
Environment
(from most important to least important)
- Light – Bright but not too bright
- Temperature – Comfortable for you, comfortable for your plants
- Air Circulation – Fresh air plus a gentle breeze
- Reflection – Cover your walls with a reflective material
- Humidity – Controlling humidity helps plants grow faster and can increase resin production
1.) Light When growing cannabis, you want to give light that is bright but
not too bright. The amount of light you provide is one of the major factors that will determine your yields, and with smaller grow lights your yields will be limited no matter what you do.
Light also changes how your plant grows. For example, the color spectrum of light can cause your plants to grow tall and lanky or more bushy and squat. Some grow lights like LED grow lights take advantage of a
custom color spectrum to help your plants grow as optimally as possible.
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However, it’s also possible to give your cannabis plants too much
light, especially with big grow lights, so it’s important to keep grow lights the right distance away.
2.) Temperature
The long and the short of it is: If it’s comfortable for you, it’s comfortable for your plants.
Cannabis plants like temperatures in the 70-85°F (20-30°C) range and can
start to run into problems when the plants are experiencing temperatures outside that range.
Optimal Temps for Growing Cannabis
3.) Air Circulation & Exhaust
Making sure your plants always have a gentle breeze and plenty of fresh air will not only get your plants to grow faster, but getting this right also prevents problems with mold and common cannabis pests like fungus gnats and spider mites.
Basically, you want a nice, gentle breeze moving over and under your plants if possible. If all the leaves are being gently rustled it’s
perfect. You don’t want to point a fan directly at your plants, but you also don’t want any leaves sitting in stagnant or hot air. A small oscillating fan or two in the grow space can work wonders.
In addition to making sure there’s air moving around in the grow space, it’s also important to vent out heat from your grow lights, especially if it’s getting too hot in your grow space while they’re on. While
many growers know ventilation is crucial to those using HPS lights, it’s important to note that ventilation is just as crucial for LEDs, LECs and even CFLs and t5s. As they get higher in wattage, LEDs and CFLs can and will produce heat that needs to be vented out of the grow area.
4.) Reflection
You will get the most from your indoor grow lights by reflecting light at your
plants. Instead of letting the walls of the grow space absorb extra light from your grow light, you can use a reflective material to bounce it back towards your plants. This allows you to squeeze more yields out of the same grow light without having to change anything else about your environment. Flat white latex paint is a surprisingly cheap and easy wall material that has 85-95% light reflectivity. Yes, it’s true, simply painting your walls can actually increase your yields! There are also many other
materials with great reflectivity, and some of the professional options work better than paint.
5.) Humidity
Unless it’s very high or low, humidity usually won’t cause any major problems with your cannabis grow. However, there are a few tricks with humidity to get faster growth and more resin production on your buds.
Perfecting Your Growing Environment
It’s important to realize that there is no one “perfect” growing environment. Just like people, each plant is a little bit different and may respond better to some environments than others. For example, some plants can better
handle the heat or cold, and some plants aren’t as picky about good air circulation. But by taking care of the 5 factors of a great cannabis growing environment, you will ensure that your plant will be comfortable no matter what the strain!
How to Increase Yields with a Lux Meter |
This article reads pretty quickly, but we can make it even quicker!
Without further ado, here's the TL;DR (too long; didn't read) version of the article for those of you with a busy Sunday!
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Keep up the good work! (Y) Greetings from Turkey"
~Selim |
Trophy Pictures of the Week! |
Sativa bag seeds, first sativa grow. One plant, LST and cloned top after first manifold chop. Just starting to bud and getting sticky trichromes everywhere but I think the manifold may have stunted them. Probably not a good idea to manifold a 16-week sativa, I hope it fattens up in the next few weeks.
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I'll be honest with you, when I first started growing, I struggled. Now, it is my
mission to make it easier for new growers to get started as well as help advanced growers get bigger, better yields with less time and money. We are updating and adding articles every single week and our goal is to eventually build a comprehensive growing resource so anyone and everyone can grow if they want to! If we all share the knowledge there's more buds in the world for everyone :) |
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Sirius Fourside:
Sirius Fourside is a hobbyist grower who has gained the bulk of his experience growing in water as a medium (deep water culture, bubbleponics).
"Growing cannabis can be a relaxing hobby in and of itself, but it also saves you money and keeps you from having to deal with shady characters. Cannabis is much easier to grow than people give it credit for, and growing in water
doesn't increase the difficulty much, if any. But whether you want to grow in water, coco, or a different medium, we'll show you how easy it can be!"
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