Grow Easy: Organic crops for pots and small plots

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The amount of “flowering stretch” is dependent on your strain, which is why it’s important to have picked a strain that suits your needs. Kale is an easy-to-grow plant that will crop for most of the year, providing you with rich, nutrient-dense food. If you already have female plants, you can clone them to make more plants (copies) without ever having to worry about sexing your plants or creating seeds. All coco coir should be rinsed well before you start your grow (though some packages states the coco has been washed and pH’ed). Most weed strains are fine and will flourish when given 24 hours of light a day in the vegetative stage.

The best time differs depending on where you live in the world, but as long as nights are shorter than 12 hours and days are growing longer, it should be a good time to place plants outside. Just sow the seeds straight into the ground in a sunny, sheltered spot and watch them grow and grow and grow! Soil is the growing medium that most people are familiar with, and one of the most common growing methods, but it’s not the only one. Because temps are so important, it’s best to be able to have some amount of control over the temperature of your grow area. I personally keep my lights on and 18-6 schedule (18 hours of light, 6 hours of dark) for all my plants during the vegetative stage.LEDs usually get far better yields than CFLs or T5s for the amount of electricity used, but they just can’t compete with MH/HPS/LEC grow lights when it comes to yields, at least not yet. There are popular brands of fabric pots like “Smart Pot,” but you can also make your own fabric pot at home. Once you have expanded and thoroughly rinsed your coco coir, it should easily break into a consistency that is a bit like dark rich soil.

In the end, I highly encourage you to pick the grow light that sticks out to you, or seems more interesting. It’s important to keep a close eye on your personal garden during your first couple of grows, and it is inevitable that you will make some sort of mistake or have some sort of problem with your plants. If you’re not sure what to get, I encourage you to look at LECs, which seem to be consistently getting better yields than LEDs in our grow forum!

As long as your cannabis plants receive a 12+ hour dark period every day, plants will stay in the flowering stage until harvest.

Some types of nutrients just don’t contain the right “stuff” for the best plant growth and bud development. While young cannabis plants seem to be able to grow in bright, sunny windows, cannabis plants usually don’t ever produce more than a few wispy hairs during the flowering stage, and may not produce any bud at all. If you are trying to keep your plants smaller, you will want to keep them in the vegetative stage for a shorter amount of time.Starting with a cannabis clone can save you a couple of weeks to a month compared to starting with seeds because they have a head start on growth. New clones need to get their water through their leaves until their roots haven’t formed, which is why a nice humid cloner works great. Outdoor growers need a accessible, private space that gets 8+ hours of direct sunlight a day for the best results.

CFLs can be “plugged in” to almost any space and can be bought at the supermarket, which makes CFLs a great choice for a small stealthy setup like growing in a space bucket. The reason a green light works at night is because plants reflect back green light instead of absorbing it (hence their green color). Some strains grow very tall after being switched to flowering, doubling or tripling their height (or more).All growing mediums have their upsides and downsides, but they are all straightforward once you have the information you need to provide a perfect growing environment.