subject: Perfect Indoor Growing Environment [print this page] The world is changing all around us, with change comes opportunity. The opportunity to use a medicine that is completely natural! This medicine helps people suffering from pain, in some cases it even heals people with illnesses that can't be healed with all those prescription medications that have horrible side effects. Now in lots of places in the world we have the right to grow our own natural medicine indoors or outdoors, if you choose to grow indoors you must replicate the perfect environment of nature. In this article you will learn just that!
First off, you want to find a space whether it be a closet, a room or you can even build your own. A good place to grow is in a basement where it's easy to maintain a constant temperature year round. Wherever you choose make sure it can get proper ventilation, in and out. Fresh air is essential in all gardens, outdoors the air is abundant and packed with carbon dioxide which is necessary for plant life, and indoor gardens must be meticulously controlled to replicate the outdoor atmosphere. Air should be able to be evacuated from the entire room in less than 5 minutes. That means you need to have entry for the air and an exit for the air. Vent fans work best for this. Because plants consume so much water and they transpire most of the water into the air, if there is not proper circulation of air the humidity in the room will eventually reach 100% which causes the growth to stop. It also makes it easier for pest attacks and disease to grow.
The first thing you need to do to your space is clean it! If there is carpet you need to remove it, this eliminates the growth of mold and extra moisture. Then you need to vacuum the room make sure to get in all the corners. Lastly you need to disinfect the whole room to help prevent disease. Next you will want to do the walls, you should line the walls with either milar which is a flat white paint, or you can use viscline plastic with the white side showing. Never use foil, it causes hot spots. Make sure to cover all the walls completely.
Now on to the lighting, there is a few different lights to work with; a metal halide, a compact fluorescent lamp, a high pressure sodium lamp. Your lighting will have to accommodate your space for instance if you have a small space try using a 400 watt high pressure sodium light for flowering and if you have a pretty good size space try going with a 1,000 watt high pressure sodium light. Remember that the 1,000 watt is going to give off a lot more heat so make sure the room is properly ventilated to control rising temperatures.
Here are some things to remember about the temperature and the humidity in the room at different stages in the plants life cycle. The ideal temperature for indoor growth is between 72 and 76 degrees at all times. Ideally you want the humidity at about 50 percent during the flowering stage and 60 65 percent during the vegetative stage
One of the problems you may run into with an indoor garden is odor control, a good exhaust fan hooked to a carbon filter works the best and is an easy way to keep the smell to a minimum. You can use an ozone generator to treat the air and take out all the smell before it is expelled. Charcoal filters also work great for smell.
Take these simple steps into consideration when growing indoors and you are sure to have potent, prime medication for many harvests in the future. The information above is only for medicinal marijuana patients seeking information on indoor medical cultivation.
