Summer Indoors

Vacations are the biggest impediment to growing this month and next. Everybody is going on vacations. Who do you have take care of your garden? If your neighbor or friend is going to do it, make sure to have their telephone number so you can check on them. Also leave them a detailed daily list of what to do. If any nutrients need to be mixed, try to have them premixed so your helper has as little to think about as possible.

A second-generation (F2) bud of Jack Herer is packed with resin in this Spanish grow room. Beautiful buds like this are also possible during hot weather providing the grow room stays reasonably cool, around 25 degrees C.

This smart Dutch grower found that training a fan on ballasts kept them running quieter and cooler. An extraction fan above the transformers removes hot air.

Strings 40 centimeters long hang from reflectors to measure distance between garden canopy and 600w lamps. Do you keep your grow room this clean? This crop produced one gram per watt of electricity during 8 weeks of flowering. The expert Spanish growers harvested the heavy crop last year when temperatures topped 35 degrees C.

Backside of a Blueberry leaf is oozes resin. If you grow for personal stash or commercially, when leaves are packed with resin, there is more top quality smoke overall. Although Blueberry is a little fussy to grow, harvests like this make it worthwhile.

Close-up of a single NYC Diesel bud shows it’s distinctive shape and form. This variety is becoming more popular worldwide after winning prizes and marijuana competitions in Europe.

If you are going on vacation for a month or longer and plan to shut down your grow room, you will need clones when you return. Clonex Root Matrix (available via www.growthtechnology.com) will prove indispensable. This cloning gel starts out as a liquid and turns to a gel. You squirt it into containers, it turns to gel and you place cuttings in it. The cool part is that cuttings will grow roots but grow very little foliage. You can leave clones in the gel for a month or two to be ready for you when you get back. Maintenance is minimal. If you are able to purchase clones, order them before you leave so they will be ready when you return.

Happy holidays!

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