The cultivation of marijuana is very popular now because of great demand due to the fact that marijuana is used as a recreational drug as well as medicine. Its price and demand has increased considerably. Many countries the world over allow marijuana to be cultivated to a certain extent. Few of these countries are Mexico, Paraguay, Afghanistan and Colombia. As the cultivation of marijuana has become profit-making enterprise a lot of people cultivate it at home.
You can cultivate marijuana outdoors and indoors however, it remains a drug that is banned. Though its medical use is legalized in quite a lot of countries like Germany and Canada, its used for recreation is disallowed in such countries too. Hence the cultivation of marijuana involves risks, which is why people prefer growing it indoors. What is more growing marijuana indoors gives growers more control over environment. The plants could also be secured from heavy rain and frost on being grown indoors.
You need to have the necessary marijuana growing supplies in order to grow cannabis indoors. There are a number of marijuana growing supplies available in the market. You can also buy them online. Marijuana growing supplies consist of pesticides, fertilizers, seeds and equipment such as carbon filter that is necessary for growing the plant indoors. A number of seed strains have been created especially in order to grow cannabis indoors hence there are a variety of seeds available.
Ruderalis, Sativa and Indica are the important varieties. The seeds that are very popular are those of the sativa variety due to the high content of THC. Seeds of marijuana are available in the female and male version as well. The female version is highly popular because the seeds are extremely intoxicating. Once you are armed with the marijuana growing supplies you could begin the process of cultivation. For growing marijuana its seeds have to be germinated first. Seeds of marijuana require moist and warm atmosphere for germination.
They usually take around 12 hours – 8 days for germinating. A quick way of germinating the seeds is soaking them in warm water in a cup and keeping it for an entire day in dark room. After germination, the sprouts should be planted. The ideal soil that is required for marijuana is one that is very well drained, has neutral content of pH and has all the essential nutrients. The soil that is considered to be best for the purpose is loamy soil.
In order to grow marijuana indoors there has to be proper light arrangement as the growth of the marijuana plants depends on the quantity of light that they receive. The marijuana plants require a lot of light while they are growing.
If the light supply is inadequate the plants would grow poorly. Fluorescent bulbs could be used for the purpose. Quite a number of kits containing marijuana growing supplies come with fluorescent lights. The lights have to be fixed two feet away from these plants. Many kits of marijuana growing supplies contain a device that is used for maximizing use of lights.