One of the most demanding things about being an ambitious indoor grower is that you always have to work hard to keep reaching that next level of quality growing. You play with your nutrient solution, experiment with lights, and try other methods always to keep improving your yields. These components are the core backbone of your grow operations, and all the smart growing instructions in the world will not help your garden grow bigger or better if you do not have all your ducks in a row. Unfortunately, it is inevitable that you will reach a point where it seems like you cannot get any more out of your garden. When that time comes, it is time to start thinking about basic indoor growing tips that you can employ to reach that next level of development in your garden.
Here are a few tips you can use right away if you wish to grow bigger, higher quality gardens.
Start Foliar Feeding Early – While your roots are the primary way that your plants get their nutrients, there is still a limit to how much they can absorb. Even thick, full, and complicated roots cannot provide all the nutrients your plants need to grow big. Once you hit this limit, it is time to start thinking about the basic techniques you can use to provide even more nutrients to your plants.
One of the smartest ways you can achieve this is through foliar feeding, which is simply a method of giving nutrients directly to your leaves. They absorb a smaller amount of nutrients in this manner, which makes it ideal for when you want to supplement your usual nutrient solution. For this, you will need a good sprayer, a quality nutrient solution, and surfactant that you can use to spread the solution evenly over the leaf.
Explore B Vitamins – Far too many growers ignore the influence of stress on their plants. Even if you do not suffer any disease, and growing conditions in your grow room are ideal, your plant still might be stunted by stress. So if you think that you have hit a wall in your plant’s growth, one of the simplest tips that you can take to heart is to start using B vitamin supplements regularly. These are totally safe for your garden, and even modest usage can help growth significantly.
Upgrade Your Lights – This growth tip might require a substantial investment on your part, but it can make a significant change in how your garden changes and improves. The typical indoor garden uses HID (High-Intensity Discharge) lamps as it is a primary means of stimulating photosynthesis, but there is a new method of lighting that is proving to be treasured in the world of indoor growing. LED lights that provide the spectrum of light that growing plants need have proven to be extremely effective in stimulating additional growth. Since these lights require comparatively less energy, it’s a smart way to cut off the electricity bills. They can even make the temperature in your grow room a little easier to maintain because they give off a lot less heat than traditional grow lights.
Control Odor – People who have a large, professional grow rooms usually have “skunky odors” at the bottom of their to-do list. If you are a hobby grower, you will probably be concerned about containing smells and limiting them to your grow room. One of the best ways to stay away from this is to add an air scrubber to not only help with controlling smell, but to clean the air of VOC’s, mold and bacteria.
Consider Your Walls – How you choose to paint the walls of the grow room can have a result on the success of your garden somewhat. If you want a dark color or use dark-colored siding, the illumination from your grow lights will only be absorbed into the walls. If they are more of a light color, they will reflect off the wall and back into your grow room. So it is smart to just paint the walls with a white gloss or semigloss paint.
Create Plenty of Walking Space – If you are particularly ambitious, it can sometimes be tempting to try and pack as much equipment and grow trays into your grow room as possible. Apparently, the more grow trays that you fit into your grow room, the more that you will be able to grow. You will have to move and walk around in this grow room still, so it is entirely essential to make sure that there is enough space in between each grow tray, table or isle so that you can walk in between the lanes.
Those are some basic tips for indoor growing. The requirements of plants vary in different stages of growth and accordingly you have to suffice them. Last but not the least, pay attention to your system and ensure that the surroundings are free from fungus, bacteria, pests, diseases and other types of germs and disorders.
At Jeremy Electrical, we are experts in horticultural projects. We are licensed and insured and we can provide lighting and climate control for any size garden. With ten years of experience in cultivation systems and installations, we’ll help you avoid beginner mistakes and grow a garden you can be proud of.
