Grow Marijuana Using Hydroponic Gardening

The Medical Marijuana patient is permitted to grow marijuana in several states. Depending on rate of consumption, growing your own marijuana makes sound financial sense. Doing so also allows you to have unlimited supply of your favorite strain of weed.

Unless you own a vast estate, your best bet for growing marijuana is to grow it indoors using a hydroponics system. Hyroponics systems could go as low as $300 to as large as many thousands of dollars. Different hydroponic systems largely vary according to (a) amount of automation (b) one stage only versus all-inclusive mother plant area, vegetation and flowering area. The advantages of the latter are essential: by having a permanent mother plant, you have access to unlimited clones anytime them; you can reduce the gap between harvest with the separate vegetation and flowering areas. Stealth Hydroponics has some very efficient low end systems. Their grow tents are great if you do not have a closet. If you want to go all-the-way extravagant, take a look at BC Northern Lights, the Rolls Royce of hydroponics.

Your natural tendency is going to be to grow as big of plants as you can. This can backfire on you. Each plant needs a footprint of at least three feet by three feet. Going below this limit would affect the amount of illumination that gets to your plant. On the other side, trying to grow really huge marijuana plants may also result to them growing right past your lights. To ensure that you’re on the right track, remember these: (1) during the flowering stage, your plant will grow one and one-halffeet and (2) you should start the flowering process when the plants reach to within 24″ of the lights in their highest position. Typically, this occurs anywhere between 3 and 8 weeks from starting with a clone.

Finding a source for clones is the true secret to successfully grow marijuana. This ensures two things: 1) your plant shall be a female; and 2) your plant will survive (the most delicate stage in a plants life is the first week or two when sprouting from a seed). The great thing is that once you have a clone, you can make clones of your own and have a perpetual crop going year-round.

Advanced nutrients are important to a good marijuana crop. Miracle Gro and other normal fertilizers will not work. It’s wonderful that Stealth Hydroponics and BC Northern Lights offer a wide range of this kind of products. If you follow a thorough schedule of draining and refilling the water every two weeks and adding nutrients as required, you really won’t fail. Tap water, let set for about ten minutes is perfect. Much is made about treating your plants gently and carefully: controlling PH, CO2, humidity, as well as temperature. Note that in reality, Marijuana is a weed, so it will take quite a bit to kill it. Just one suggestion though, don’t add the first round until two weeks after the vegetation stage.

Lastly, regarding lighting… Lighting is important in growing marijuana. But you have a wide array of lights to choose from: silver halide, CFL fluorescent as well as other high tech lights. They could do the job perfectly. Vegetation spectrum is in the 6000 Kelvin range and the Flower Spectrum is in the 2700 Kelvin range. Thus, it is useful to take note of both spectrums; but of course, pay more attention to the one that matches the phase where your marijuana growth is at.

About 12 weeks, that is the total time from cloning to harvest when you grow marijuana. Yield is within 4-6 ounces per plant.

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