What Are the Ideal Indoor Conditions to Grow Medical Cannabis?
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[dropcap class=”kp-dropcap”]C[/dropcap]ultivating hydroponics cannabis indoors offers you a yield improving chance you do not have when you cultivate outdoor marijuana. You get to change input factors and control environment aspects, which impact how big the buds can grow into and what kind of THC content they’ve.
Apart from marijuana genetics, you can control your hydroponics cannabis grow room as per light. There is a lot of difference between one pound and 2 pounds per light.
There are some specific conditions to cultivate cannabis indoors; these ideal conditions are time tested by serious and commercial growers in California, Washington, Colorado, and other legal areas. The closer you observe the grow room the more is the yield you get.
Talking about the temperature range, the maximum should be 70-75F when the lights are on. The operating temperature is altered by adding CO2 to hydroponics cultivating room. The temperature without C02 should be 74F and with C02 augmentation it should be 82F. When the lights are turned off, you should maintain between 65 and 70F. You can choose any strain and see how the temperature changes can affect the growing conditions. Some varieties need more or lesser light in night and day temperature. You need to monitor the temperature as per your chosen variety.
If you are cultivating in cement slabs or basements, you shouldn’t put containers directly on the floor, especially when the temperature outside is really cold or chilled out. The root zone temperature should be maintained around 66-68F.
The nutrient or water solution temperature should be same as root temperature; warmer nutrient temp contributes to development of harmful organisms that can slow root growth or root function.
The humidity level in the grow room should be 40-55 percent during flowering phase and 45-57 percent during vegetative period. The excess humid level can generate conditions that let powdery mildew, mold, and other dangerous organisms that can destroy buds.
The lighting system should be as follows; during vegetative growth, the lights should be kept on for 18 hrs and off for remaining hours. The floral growth and triggering needs 12 hrs light-on and if you’ve purchased auto flowering cannabis, then you should supply 18-24hrs of light from the beginning to end.
Use light movers to extend the coverage areas;white paint, mirrors, and aluminum foil don’t add enough degrees of reflectivity. Air exchange and air circulation also has to be kept in mind to grow medical cannabis indoors.
