Growing your own weed is an entirely different and rewarding experience than just consuming it. You get to watch the entire process and lifecycle of how cannabis seeds mature. To first-time growers, the process of cultivating seeds may seem overwhelming at first. However, growing weed indoors needn’t be difficult. You just need to understand a couple of things about the properties of marijuana seeds and how to best cultivate them.
What Are Indoor Marijuana Seeds?
Marijuana seeds designed to grow in indoor conditions provide some level of flexibility and convenience that’s great for first-time growers. In contrast to outdoor cultivation in a field or pots, indoor cultivation of marijuana seeds only require artificial light and small grow-houses/tents.
Indoor Cannabis Properties
Not all hemp seeds can be considered suitable for indoor cultivation. Growing indoors requires specific characteristics that do not belong to all seeds. For a seed to be grown indoors, it must be able to produce plants with exceptional characteristics, such as:
Auto-Flowering Cannabis Seeds
Auto-flowering, as the name suggests, are seeds that can automatically produce flowering plants. They are usually a cross between Indica/Sativa and Ruderalis. This makes them quite different from typical cannabis plants that you see other growers cultivating. Auto-flower seeds produce flowers depending on age instead of the seasonal flowers that other cannabis plants produce based on the photoperiod.
This is an excellent advantage as outdoor growers no longer have to rely on the seasons to wait for their plants to produce flowers. Regardless of what season it is, auto-flower plants are an excellent choice for indoor growers. Autoflowering plants also produce blossoms much faster than photoperiod plants.
However, auto-flowering seeds do require certain acceptable conditions for the plants to yield well. One such condition is providing 18-24 hours of daylight. This could be quite troublesome as it can drive your energy bills through the roof.
Feminised Auto-Flowering Seeds
As you should know, the gender of cannabis seeds matters a lot to growers. This is because only female plants produce buds. Since regular marijuana seeds have a 50:50 chance of producing male and female plants, that means half of what you produce is unusable. This is where feminised auto-flowering seeds rise above the rest.
Feminised seeds have a 99% probability of producing female plants. You no longer have to go through all the trouble of determining the sex of your plants. Also, there’s no risk of experiencing ‘male cannabis panic,’ where male cannabis plants immediately fertilise the female flowers around them. Fertilisation interrupts the flowering process, which leads to crop loss.
With all those factors combined, feminised auto-flowering cannabis seeds seem like the better option, especially for first-time growers.
Dwarf Auto-Flowering Seeds
Indoor growers also benefit a lot from using dwarf auto-flowering seeds. This is due to the fact that they produce smaller plants that are more suitable for small indoor grow-houses. If you have limited space inside your property, then dwarf plants may be more ideal for you. Dwarf plants typically don’t grow taller than a metre indoors, which is significantly smaller than regular cannabis plants that grow as tall as three to four metres outside.
Conclusion
Knowing the advantages and disadvantages of growing different types of marijuana seeds can go a long way if you’re just starting. Quality seeds combined with the right equipment and conditions will net you a good yield of cannabis plants.
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