Growing Marijuana Seeds

There are two types of affordable fluorescent lights that are usable for growing marijuana. There are many different grow-light fluorescent tubes. A popular brand of fluorescent grow-light tubes is Grow-Lux, but several other brands exist. These kinds of lights require fluorescent fixtures to be used, which are available at any hardware story for only a few dollars and they are relatively easy to construct. The second most important thing about watering is to see to it that the pot has great drainage. The soil near the top of the potting edge is always drier than the soil further down. You can drown your marijuana plant just as easily as you can let it get too dry and it is more likely to survive a dry spell than it is to survive a torrential flood. Water the plants well when you water and don't water them at all when they don't need it. There should be some holes in the bottom so that any of the smelly excess water will run out. If the pot won't drain, the excess water will accumulate in a pocket and rot the roots of the plant or simply make the soil sour or mildew. The soil, as we said earlier, must allow the water to drain evenly through it and must not become hard or packed.

If you have made sure that the soil contains sand and pearlite, you shouldn't have growing marijuanna seed drainage problems. There are several brands of bulb type. One is the incandescent plant spot light which emits higher amounts of red and blue light than the common light bulb. It is an improvement, but has it drawbacks. it is hot, for example, and cannot be placed close to the plants. To discover when to water, feel the soil with your finger. If you feel moisture in the soil when growing marijuanna seeds, you can wait a day or two to water. The rule of thumb seems to be the more light, the better. In one experiment we know of, eight eight-foot VHO Gro-Lux fixtures were used over eight plants. The plants grew at an astonishing rate. There are many types of artificial light and all of them do different things to your plants. The common incandescent light bulb emits some of the frequencies of light the plant can use, but it also emits a high percentage of far red and infra-red light which cause the plant to concentrate its growth on the stem. This results in the plant stretching toward the light bulb until it becomes so tall and spindly that it just weakly topples over.