Growing environments

Cannabis can grow in any environment that fulfills the basic requirements of providing light, water, and air. This page to here to describe some of the typical configurations and key components for those attempting to grow in a new environment.

Outdoor

When growing outdoors a key consideration is when to plant seeds for optimum light and temperature conditions. It is best to know the DLI your plant will receieve when choosing a location. You can check the DLI for a given longditude and latitude through the year on suntracker. https://dli.suntrackertech.com/

Indoor

While growing indoors it is crucial to monitor and adjust the environment's temperature and humidity as there is no natural mechanism to regulate these factors. Data from environment sensors will give the best indication of if the environment is sufficient but there are alsosymptoms of a bad environments that can be helpful in determining sufficiency.

Raising humidity

Raising the humidity of your growing environment can be most easily achieved by adding an electric humidifier or diffuser to the space. Alternatively, placing a wet towel in the area will help to raise humidity.

Lowering humidity

Electric dehumidifiers are a simple option for lowering humidity but they may be too large for your grow area, a more compact option is to use a chemical dehumidifer. They are comercially available but can also be made from epsom salts or silica gel.

Raising temperature

Generally speaking the easiest way to raise the growing environment temperature is to raise the temperature of the room it is in. If this isn't possible then raising the light intensity or adding an elecric heater can help.

Lowering temperature

Temperature can be lowered by increasing the rate of airflow from inside to outside the growing environment, in other words, increasing ventilation. The light being used may also be adding to the temperature so decreasing its intensity, where possible, will lower the temperature.

Example indoor environments

Spacebucket

An ultra simplistic design often utilizing plastic buckets. https://spacebuckets.com/template