24 x 24 x 36″ Water Resistant Grow Tent with Observation Window
Where you decide to grow your marijuana, your grow room, is possibly one of the most important decisions you will make and will have a direct impact on your success or failure.
Your options will, naturally, be determined by where you live and what available space or room you have. Some ideas might be:
An Attic? – Not recommended as it is very difficult to control the temperature. Too hot in summer, too cold in winter.
A cellar? – Much better. Cellars maintain a much more even temperature throughout the year. And are generally secure.
Outhouse or shed? – A location away from your home might tempt thieves and unless very well insulated may well prove difficult to control the ambient temperature, humidity, and lighting.
Garage? – Yes, you know that place that once housed your car before it became filled with household items. It might be possible to partition a part of this to use as a grow room but security could still be a problem unless it is well secured.
A Spare Room? – Great if you have one that is not being used for any other purpose. Not south facing and with adequate ventilation and can be made light proof.
Box Room or Large Cupboard? – Either of these will work and maybe the only option if you live in a small house or apartment.
The most important consideration, however, is how you will control the environment within which your cannabis plants will grow. They need light, and dark, space to grow, pots to grow in, water, air circulation, and a means to carry the plant odor out of the grow space. That can be tricky to install and for that reason, we do recommend you consider investing in a Grow Tent.
Grow Tents come in all shapes and sizes, so it won’t matter if you have a narrow but high space or a short, wide one. Even better, you can purchase one with everything you need, lights, pumps, tubing, pots, and ancillary items included. We recommend a kit is a good way if this is your first purchase. You can see some options on our tent products page.
If you are a beginner, we suggest starting with just one small tent and once you have “cut your teeth” on your first grow, then consider buying a second unit if you have spare space. There is a good reason for this. Many states, where growing is allowed, place limits on the number of plants you can have at various stages, flowering, vegetation, seedlings. We don’t need to explain that you cannot have plants at different stages under the same conditions, so having more than one grow tent where you can be growing at different stages makes a lot of sense to enable a constant supply of cannabis. There are even now combined grow tents that let you have seedlings and small vegetation plants in one section and full-sized plants in another!
The space you have available will also determine the best type of cannabis plant to grow. Some strains need height whilst others, an indica strain, for example, tend to grow short, stocky plants closer to the ground. This will also affect the type of pots to use. Buying the correct seeds for your grow space and from a reputable recognized seedsman will help you to get the best results. You will find our recommendations here.
If you’re growing in a taller, vertical space, you will want taller, thinner containers. If you’re growing in a space with lower ceilings, you’re going to want containers that are lower to the ground and fatter.
When looking to maximize your crop from a small vertical grow space consider the Scrog method. Scrogging, or “screen of green”, is a form of LST (low-stress training) where the main goal is to maximize the footprint of your light. With standard, Christmas tree-style plants, you can only lower the light until it’s close enough to the top cola. ANY bud from there down is getting less light. With a traditional setup, the lower each bud is on the plant, the less light those buds get.
The scrog process is done by dividing, or breaking down the main cola, in conjunction with raising all the lower bud up to the canopy.
You can then grow the plant horizontally until you are a few weeks into the flowering stage.
The important message here is that whatever grow room space you have, using it to your best advantage will enable you to produce an excellent crop so don’t be afraid to experiment a little.
If you are new to all this then do get a copy of our Free Beginners Guide – the link is in the side panel. It will help you get off to a good start.
