THE IDEAL INDOOR HYDROPONICS CONDITIONS FOR GROWING MEDICAL MARIJUANA
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Here are the ideal conditions for growing marijuana indoors! 
Growing hydroponics marijuana indoors gives you a yield-boosting opportunity you don't have when you grow outdoors: you get to control the environmental and input factors that influence how big your buds are and how much THC they have.
Other than marijuana genetics, you are the god of your marijuana plants, because what you do or don't do in your hydroponics marijuana grow room makes the difference between two pounds per light and one pound per light.
That's why we're giving you this exclusive listing of the specific ideal conditions for growing marijuana indoors. These conditions are time-tested by the largest commercial marijuana growers and the most serious home connoisseur marijuana growers in Colorado, Washington, California and other legal states.
The closer you get to making your marijuana grow room have these conditions, the closer you get to marijuana maximum yield!
TEMPERATURE RANGE: During lights-on cycle, 70-75 degrees Fahrenheit (F). Maximum operating temperature is influenced by whether or not you are adding C02 to your hydroponics grow room. Ideal day cycle growing temperature without C02 augmentation: 74F. Ideal day cycle temperature with maximum C02 augmentation at 1600 ppm C02: 82F. During lights-off cycle, between 65-70F. Watch your specific marijuana strains to see if temperature stress is affecting them. Some varieties of marijuana need slight adjustments to day and night temperatures.
ROOT ZONE TEMPERATURE: 67-68F. If you're growing in basements or cement slabs, you should not put pots directly on the floor, as this can cool the root zone, especially in colder months.
WATER/NUTRIENT SOLUTION TEMPERATURE: 66-68F. Warmer nutrients solution temperatures contributes to growth of harmful organisms in hydroponics reservoirs or can slow root function and deter root growth.
GROW ROOM HUMIDITY: 47-57% during vegetative phase; 40 to 55% during flowering. Excess humidity creates conditions that allow mold, powdery mildew, and other harmful organisms to flourish, which can destroy your buds.
LIGHT CYCLES: Vegetative Growth: 18 hours on, 6 hours off. Floral triggering and growth: 12 hours on, 12 hours off. Note that for auto-flowering marijuana you can run 18-24 hours of light from start to finish.
TYPES OF LIGHTING: For clones and seedlings- T-5 high-output fluorescent lighting. Vegetative Growth of established plants: Metal halide augmented by vertical T5 for side growth. Lighting for Bloom phase: High Pressure Sodium/MH combo. At present, non-HID lighting technology such as CFLs, induction and LEDs do not have enough intensity to power a serious marijuana garden. You only use those when you have very limited space.
LIGHT COVERAGE: Stationary lights: One 400 watt bulb provides adequate light for 10 square feet of space. A 1000-watt light provides adequate light for 20 square feet of space. The use of light movers can extend these coverage areas.
LIGHT REFLECTION: Easy Grow reflective materials, white glossy poly plastic or similar materials on all walls. Aluminum foil, mirrors, and white paint do not have adequate degrees of reflectivity.
DISTANCE OF PLANT TOPS TO LIGHTS: Metal Halide and High Pressure Sodium bulbs, if not separated from plants by glass or in cooled hoods should be at least 28 inches feet from top of plant to bottom of light. Fluorescent lights can be eight inches from plant tops. Glass-shielded and/or cooled MH/HPS: 18 inches from plant tops. Hold your hand under the light where your leaves are. If your hand feels like it's too hot, your leaves are too hot, so move the light higher.
STERILE GROW MEDIA: Grodan Rockwool, coco coir, lava rocks, vermiculite, perlite, clay pellets, water culture. Note that I do not include soil. Why? Because soil cannot be totally controlled.
ATMOSPHERIC REQUIREMENTS: Growing medical marijuana indoors requires that your marijuana plants get large amounts of oxygen, including in the root zone. They also need large amounts of carbon dioxide (C02), especially at underside of leaves. Total ambient air C02 in your marijuana grow op should be between 900-1600 parts per million during lights-on cycle. Natural C02 levels are approximately 387 ppm. C02 emitter should be timed in relation to exhaust fan so that C02 is not sucked out of room. You don't need to add C02 during lights-off cycle.
AIR CIRCULATION (INTERNAL): Circulation by at least one medium size oscillating fan for any size grow space, no matter how small. For larger grow spaces, at least one medium size oscillating fan for every three 1000 watt lights. You should be able to feel air movement in your grow space at plant level so that all plants are in a moving ocean of air.
AIR EXCHANGE: Install exhaust fan sufficient to totally exchange all air in grow space every five minutes. Exhaust fans must be timed relevant to C02 augmentation to avoid removing augmented C02 from your hydroponics grow room.
IDEAL Ph OF GROW MEDIA AND NUTRIENT SOLUTION/WATER: Between 5.8 and 6.3. IDEAL pH OF SOIL: 6.5. Use pH Perfect base nutrients so you eliminate worries about pH.
IDEAL PPM (parts per million) OF HYDROPONICS NUTRIENTS SOLUTION: Varies widely and you have to watch your plants closely because nutrient burn is an epidemic in our marijuana growing community, especially during bloom phase. In general with established marijuana plants, start by running 1/4 of the manufacturer's recommended nutrients dose and go up from there. If you're running more than 1200 ppm, and especially if you don't flush periodically, you will likely toxify your root zone and marijuana plants with excess nutrients salts.
IDEAL WATER: Rainwater, or reverse osmosis water.
IDEAL PROTECTION: Filtered air intake and outflow. No pets, debris or other polluters in the grow room. Don't tell anybody you grow marijuana. Isolate your plants from mold and mildew spores and other vectors.
Now that you know the ideal conditions for growing medical marijuana indoors, there’s one other thing for you to know: having a sealed grow room (otherwise known as Controlled Environment Agriculture, or CEA), is going to give you the best chance to create the ideal hydroponics conditions for growing marijuana indoors.
If your marijuana plants are having problems, the causes could be genetics, your grow room environment, their root zone material, and what you're feeding them. Many marijuana growers are not providing ideal indoor grow room conditions, and they're losing out on maximum yield per watt. Don't be one of them...establish these ideal conditions in your grow op, and get more weight and THC from your marijuana plants.
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Monday, 20 May 2013
