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indoor growing - Luci_ferson - 6 April 2013
many of you will have plans for some form of indoor growing.
it could be hydroponics.
it could be simply removing the roof from an empty building and planting in the upstairs rooms in grow bags. (great idea , thanks SD)
most of you will have had a few plants on window sills.
most of you will have had varying levels of success with this.
ive grown plants indoors on numerous occasions and in many ways. you pick up a few tricks along the way.
at one point I had a fully automated organic hydroponic climatically controlled 1metre square cupboard. (hand built)
I could grow anything I wanted from anywhere in the world.
all I had to do is learn the plants requirements.
what country it was from.
what time of the year it flowered.(fruited)
soil type ( its type gives a clue to the plants real ph requirements when growing hydroponically, not its soil ph as there was none used and a plants soil ph requirement is not the same as its ph requirement when there is no soil, which is the ph that the plant will take on nutrients the best.)
anyway im getting side tracked I was trying to keep it simple.
when growing indoors you must always remember the key rules of a good plant.
if it has a good root system then its a healthy plant. (not always but mostly)
the key to a good root system in a tall growing plant like tomatoes etc. is airflow.
If there is air movement making the plant move it responds by trying to throw deeper roots. this is to hold itself firmer in the ground.
The stronger the roots the thicker the stem will become.
the thicker its main stem the stronger the plant.
without air movement the plants stem can still become thick but its hollow inside and its roots are thin and flimsy.
the plant falls over as soon as its fruits become heavy.
yes we can prop the plants up with sticks and string. but the fruit will never be the same as a one that was grown outdoor.
youl still get a crop. but when growing indoors space is a luxury.
a strong good plant will provide more crop than one tied up with string propped up on sticks.
a little bit of airflow can make a lot of difference.
by airflow I don't mean just fresh air in the room.
I mean enough so the plant can sense it.
it has to be able to make the plant move.
my cupboard had an oscilating fan so the breeze moved across my plants.
try it the difference is amazing.
obviously we wont be able to run an oscilating fan without electricity. so when planning your indoor garden. just remember to make sure you don't block out all the air movement when you block out prying eyes.
The results to your plants may not be immediately noticeable , until the crop turns out pointless.
the best book to explain it better than myself would be a book by G. Mayfield called gold harvest.
hes a very smart man.
hes also a bit of an expert on growing things secretly and undetected.
covering everything from noise dampening. to carbon filtration.
RE: indoor growing - Wildman - 6 April 2013
looks like we share the same love of green fingers!! if u ever want to talk genetics, i'm a self educated guru on the subject. my ak47 x nl#5 haze mist clones are still being passed around in circles. (mother only). i call it "ak45 mist" lol
RE: indoor growing - Luci_ferson - 6 April 2013
lol , im interested in genetics too
but I don't specialise in one species of plant.
I steer clear of the sativa and indicas now since my climate cupboard was discovered.
now I stick to things that wont lose me my equipment.
white widow was always my favourite to play with.
every thing I learned though , I learned it with one plant, the one we know and love.
RE: indoor growing - Wildman - 7 April 2013
i use to be into it for a hobby a few years ago, unfortunately i have not got the means to tinker at the moment. so for the last few years i have been experimenting with nature. even tried using a stream as a natural nft system.
and i'm sure you know but just incase u didnt, the white widow createded by shantibaba by mr nice seeds are the only original f1 versions available. every other seed company (especially green house) are pushing out weak remakes or complete fakes.
RE: indoor growing - Luci_ferson - 7 April 2013
my white widow were pretty unique, I got 2 first generation mothers. all my cuttings came from them.
cant say where they came from, but I think you've got a pretty good idea.
its weird what people pay off their favours with lol.
I also like to dable with nature, and science is a passion.
put the two together and the results are amazing.
gardening is just science anyway.
well 90% science and 10 % passion.
ive dabbled with everything from gravity fed vertical irrigation to shoving a plant in the ground and preying lol
I just cant leave things alone. ive got to mess with it and improve it somehow. its an addiction.
other plants are not as easy as the ones weve been talking about but the methods are the same and the results are pretty similar.
learn the basics and its the same for all plants.
its not enough to stick a plant in the ground and hope for the best.
give the plant the best from the beginning and it just loves you for it.
and that's 90% of them. the other 10% love to be gently tortured.
the best thing about indoor growing is how easy it is to control pests without pesticides.
even those little spider mites are easy to get rid of.
I had 4 venus fly traps in my cupboard and never seen a fly once lol
tried the washing up liquid trick, and it lowered the numbers but not enough.
4 venus flytraps sitting underneath making the most of the shade soon sorted them out.
ive just grown another 2 ready to go in our greenhouse. hopefully they are as successful there as they were in my cupboard lol
allthough theyre only 1cm tall at the moment.