Grow Hydroponic Weed

Marijuana Hydroponics Tips for Beginners

You may want to grow hydroponic weed if you want to have a personal marijuana garden indoors, and if you want to additionally ensure you are growing healthy plants.

In hydroponics, the plant gets a perfect and balanced nutrition at any time and it is easy for you to control the nutritional value and pH of the water. This is difficult, if not impossible, to accomplish when you plant in the soil. Growing your marijuana indoors also has the advantage of assuring you that you have a good plant because you are able to easily regulate the conditions of the plant's environment.

If you want to go into hydroponic gardening for marijuana, be ready with your (approximately) USD 500 because this is the average cost of setting up a garden of about five to 10 plants for personal use. You may want to employ the Ebb and Flow system because of these advantages: it is easy to use, it has a high productivity, and it does not require much maintenance.

Basically, the setup is that of a reservoir with the nutrient solution placed under a tray. The marijuana plants are placed in cups that hold the plants in a growing medium such as rockwool. These plant containers are placed in the tray that is located above the nutrient reservoir.

You also have to put some lighting when you want to engage in marijuana hydroponics. You have to have a metal halide (MH) lamp or a high pressure sodium (HPS) lamp, but you may only have to buy an HPS fixture because MH lamps could fit into it.

However, HPS lamps cannot fit into the MH fixture, so make sure to buy an HPS fixture if your budget is limited. The best way is to have both HPS and MH light in both growth stages, but you may also have either MH light or HPS light for both stages. You can also use MH light during the vegetative growth phase and then HPS light in the flowering stage.

If you have to germinate marijuana seeds in hydroponic gardening, you prepare the garden first before begin the germinating process. After the root has reached a length of one-fourth inch after germination, you can transfer the seed to the hydroponic cups along with some growing media. If you can obtain some marijuana clones, you may skip the germinating process and just place the clone in the cups, making sure that they are surrounded by the growing media.

Hydroponic marijuana needs different proportions of the nutrients during the two growth stages, but a nutrient solution that also contains secondary elements and trace elements could be employed for both stages. You may have to add more nitrogen if the temperature in the growing room is under 80 degrees during the vegetative phase. However, in the flowering stage, more phosphorus is required no matter what the temperature is.

When you grow hydroponic weed indoors, you will most probably find that they will have thinner and weaker stems than similar plants grown outdoors. Nevertheless, don't worry because the THC content of the indoor plants may even be more if not the same as those in the outdoor plants.