I grow on a 28"x28" floorspace between the washing machine and the wall back in the laundry room. The room has a 7' ceiling, so it's short. By the time you factor in the height of the containers and the 400w mh fixture, there is only about 4' of growing height, or about 22 cubic feet of space. I believe that it is the surface area of your growing space that counts -- the part exposed to sunlight. I have about 780 square inches of surface to grow in, and I can grow 0.5g/in^2 (er -- a half gram per square inch) of BUD in this space. I can get four flower pots into the space, and therefore about four plants per crop. So I'm getting 100g/plant on the average, about 2.5 times a year. I don't know how this compares to you other folks, but without any fancy co2, hydroponics, music, or adding red lights for flowering, I think I'm doing OK.

The biggest trick to growing indoors is to find the right strain of plant for your chosen technique. All plants are different, and even identical clones will act different than their brethren down through their generations. Some plants thrive better in a small space than others. I've just found a cross (old seeds in the back of the seed stash) that's into it's 2nd generation and doing really well with the stressful method I grow by. I've been germinating seeds for about six grow cycles now, looking for the "right stuff" to continue cultivating.

What I've come up with is obviously a cross into purple haze from something. I expect my winter crop to have some purple in it due to the cool temps in the laundry room. This stuff is purple in the summer, too. It's not too leggy with it's nodes, bends nicely without breaking, kicks into flower as soon as it notices an increase in the dark period, and finishes quickly. Colas can be the size of banannas. It has a great smell on the vine, and a very hashy aftertaste. It's more of the body stone than the head stone . . . .

Why do I go on about this? It's because a good plant is hard to find. Once you've got it, you want to hang on to it as long as possible -- until you're bored with the taste or some disaster kills it off. But while you've got it, you modify your plant to your growing technique, and the plant modifies your technique to its own best benefit. Both you and the plant need to be flexible. Don't get in a dogma-bound ritual of habit and technique. Don't be afraid to try something interesting that you read or hear about. Don't be afraid to give up on a detail that isn't working for the plant. Remember -- it's supposed to be as enjoyable to gow this stuff as it is to consume it.

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rodekyll Reviewed by rodekyll on . best way to grow id like to know how different growers grow there plant only experienced cultivators. tell me if you grow from clones, seeds, if you let it grow without any pruning or if you bend etc and the benefits from doing so personally i grow from clones started in rockwool then transfered to pots and i let them do there thing but if some start to grow tall and thin ill take a clone from the central stem Rating: 5