GROWING FOOD INDOORS

I am planning on growing some food in my apartment. I have a 2 bedroom apartment, but one bedroom is quite small ( 8ftx7ft). I have a twin bed in the small room and plan on dedicating the rest of the room to growing some good.

So far, i plan on growing tomatoes, strawberries, and lettuce. I will also grow a variety of flowers.

My question for the botany students out there, what type of lighting should i be looking at for my plants?

Also, what other types of food might i be able to grow inside?

THANKS ALL

ps, cannabis is not an option. tho i wish it were.

tomatoes are good, peppers, leaf lettuce, check with your local hydro dealer they can recomend proper lighting.

Why did you come to a cannabis web site asking how to grow food?

Growing other plants along side of Cannabis is also a great idea. I do this as well. I grow mint, parsley , oregeno , basil. for many reasons i do this. I produce herbs for my family. learn more of botany and also if i am growing cannabis it will blend nicely. Its not like I am just growing cannabis. funny you should post this because I just created a thread speaking on other methods to aid with growing cannabis discretely.

i'm not trying to grow cannabis because the money supplier that supports me while i go to school would not be happy with that.

anymore suggestions/info would be great, thanks all

Tomatoes, peppers, basil, other warm-weather crops are fairly easy. I grow hot peppers in my grow room- they thrive under the same conditions that cannabis does.

Lettuce/greens are a little harder because they are so heat sensitive and prone to bolting.

Root vegetables in hydro are doable but take more extensive knowledge and care.

Tomatoes will get huge so be prepared to stake them last winter I grew tomatoes cukes and peppers all did well except cukes, you have to play the birds and bees with them they need to be pollinated, mine were mostly males with no cukes tomatoes were fantastic just like out of your summer garden, I used a gromason nutes thru out whole growing with great results.

I grow peppers, basil, cilantro, and different flowers all the time. I use halide in order to do most of it. Yet, a high pressure sodium would work even better due to the flowering plants. The only problem is that if it's too warm lettuce starts to bolt and flower. I also suggest using tomato hybrids that don't branch out and run as many vines. Find something that stays bushy. YOu can do spinach too.

Yes, I forgot to say, a tomato variety listed as a 'patio tomato' is great indoors because it remains compact.

lmdesade, did you find that your cilantro was hard to keep pest-free? I've had terrible trouble with it indoors- aphids appear seemingly out of NOWHERE. It's like the front page of the aphid newsletter says, 'there's a single cilantro plant at foxy's house, everyone go eat it!!!'

an idea i have thought about too. for tomatoes look for determinate(hope that is the right word) they grow a certain size then quit growing to produce fruit. indeterminate keep growing and you get fruits at different times rather than all at once. these are usually the vining tomatoes. also you can start new tomato plants from cuttings. i have been thinking about hot peppers since they dont do well in the garden here and to have plants for spring and peppers for winter. cilantro and dill are my favorite herbs so i might try those too. i think i have seen somewhere that eggplant does well too.