A beginner grower recently asked, “How do I grow cannabis in a grow cube like that?”

Cannabis plants in a 2’x2’x3′ grow tent under a Spider Farmer SF1000 LED grow light.

I realized this grow setup really is like a “grow cube” for marijuana plants. It’s a tiny “microgrowery” without any DIY aspects like a space bucket. It contains smells and nurtures small cannabis plants from when they’re seedlings to a productive harvest. Just follow the instructions on this tutorial to achieve similar results yourself at home.

A “Cannabis Grow Cube” with a good LED grow light can produce a ton of weed in a small space. For this size tent, I recommend an LED that uses about 100W of electricity. A bigger size tends to get a bit too hot for this small space. All of the pictures on this tutorial page feature either the HLG 100 V2 4000k or Spider Farmer SF1000 (which are both 100W LED grow lights) and those models get excellent yields and bud quality. However, any high-quality cannabis LED grow light  in the 100W size range should work.

When set up right, you can produce a surprising amount of weed in a tiny space!

What is a cannabis “Grow Cube”? It’s just a cool way to refer to a small, versatile grow tent well-suited to growing weed.

When it’s all closed up, it looks like a big black cube.

This is a remarkably easy way to grow weed and fits in the corner of your bedroom.

A Pineapple Chunk plant I grew in one of these cannabis Grow Cubes.

That cannabis plant above was only 18″ (45 cm) tall at harvest, and produced several ounces of weed!

Follow the step-by-step instructions below to copy these results.

My partner Sirius took a picture of me holding it just before harvest. All the buds started falling over from their own weight.

I will show you exactly how to grow 1-4 plants successfully in this cannabis grow cube so you also make a ton of high-quality buds in one quick harvest, even in a really small space. Make sure to start with good genetics and follow the directions below to ensure you produce a top-shelf weed (and lots of it!).

Here’s an example of bud quality grown in this setup.

Supplies for a Cannabis Grow Cube Setup

Here’s a complete supplies list to make your own cannabis grow cube.

2’x2’x3′ Grow Tent

A small grow tent that is 2’x2′ and 3-4′ tall. Most pictures on this page use the 2’x2’x3′ Grow Tent by CoolGrows, and a few use the slightly taller 2’x2’x4′ grow tent. I have had good experiences with the CoolGrows, Vivosun, and Melonfarm brands for small grow tents. But any similarly sized grow tent will be perfect for this cannabis grow style.

Cost: $50

A 2’x2’x3′ Grow Tent is tiny but can produce several ounces of weed when used correctly. Get a slightly taller 2’x2’x4′ grow tent if you want to grow bigger plants.

Here’s my CoolGrows 2x2x3′ grow tent with cannabis plants inside. CoolGrows is a good brand, but any similar 2’x2′ grow tent should work with this tutorial. Vivosun’s version of this size grow tent is the most popular on Amazon.

100W LED Grow Light

Cannabis plants grow fast and healthy under the Spider Farmer SF1000 LED grow light, which costs only $90 and comes with a handy dimmer to adjust the brightness.

Cost: $90

The Spider Farmer SF1000 LED grow light in action. (Can be surprisingly close to plants without light stress)

Alternative light: I also have had great results with the $150 HLG 100 Quantum Board (100W LED grow light) in this setup. However, it costs $50 more and doesn’t have a dimmer. Cannabis plants seem to respond really well to both, and both produce excellent bud quality/yields. I still need to do a side-by-side experiment to see if one outperforms the other when it comes to potency or yields.

HLG 100 LED grow light in action in this setup.

Exhaust Fan + Smell Filtering

Cannabis plants can create a lot of humidity in the tent (at least if your grow cube is filled with cannabis plants like in the pictures) and cannabis buds don’t form well in high humidity. You need a good exhaust fan to ensure that the humidity from all the plants doesn’t build up too much. An exhaust fan can also be hooked up to a carbon filter in order to filter smells from leaking out of the tent.

Option 1: Loud, But Cheap

This iPower 4 Inch 200 CFM Exhaust Inline Fan with Speed Controller and Air Carbon Filter costs $80 and includes a loud but effective exhaust fan and a matching carbon filter to scrub smells.

Cost: $80

The iPower 4 Inch kit is effective but the fan is kind of loud.

Option 2: Much Quieter, But Costs More

Mars Hydro 4″ Quiet Exhaust fan and Short Carbon Filter kit ($130 high-end alternative). If you want a fan that runs almost silently, you need to invest a bit more money and get a quiet fan like the AC Infinity version or this just-as-effective-but-cheaper Mars Hydro knockoff. The Mars Hydro 4″ kit includes the fan and a matching carbon filter. The reason I like this kit is it includes a small yet effective carbon filter. This is the kind of carbon filter I use, and I have a hard time finding them in this size anymore.

Cost: $130

The Mars Hydro 4″ kit is quieter but costs more. I use this in my bedroom.

Do I need a carbon filter to prevent weed smell?

Although a carbon filter is not necessary for cannabis plants to grow, if you don’t hook up a carbon filter to an exhaust fan, your tent may fill the surrounding area with a pungent weed smell as buds start forming. Normally it wouldn’t be such a big deal with such a small grow space, but you are going to be growing a surprising amount of weed in here!

Use a carbon filter for a smell-free cannabis garden!

Grow Medium + Pots

A cannabis grow cube can accommodate just about grow medium. I’ve grown in these with cannabis in soil, coco, or hydro (in a mini DWC kit). If you’re not sure what to use, here’s my recommendation:

• One $40 big bag of Coco Loco, a coco-based soil with perlite. This 2 cu ft bag should be enough to fill 14 gallons worth of pots (for example seven 2-gallon pots). You’ll have enough to last a few grows if you’re growing small, and any extra can be used later.
• 2-gallon fabric pots (here’s an example of a 5-pack for $14) – Just about any brand of fabric pot works great.

Cost: ~$55

Coco Loco is a coco-based soil that makes thriving cannabis plants.

 Example of a 5-pack of 2-gallon fabric pots (any brand works great).

Containers: I like 2-gallon for this size. You can go bigger, but I recommend sticking to 3 gallons in size or less, to keep plants a bit smaller. Plant tend to get much bigger in a big pot then if kept in a small pot. Plus it’s more difficult to overwater plants in smaller pots.

My experience with each size pot in this setup.

• 1-gallon pots help keep plants small by restricting their root size. This is a great size if you want to grow multiple plants in a small grow tent. If you go with the 1-gallon size, make sure to get a hard-sided plant pot (like a plastic or clay pot). This helps hold in water so the soil is slower to dry out. I’ve found that 1-gallon fabric pots need to be watered all the time because the grow medium dries from the sides extremely quickly.
• 2-gallon fabric pots give the benefits of fabric (faster growth by getting more air to the roots) but are big enough they can be watered much less often than 1-gallon fabric pots. This is my preferred size for this setup.
• 3-gallon pots were the easiest to water, but the plant really wanted to grow big. I had to do a lot of bending to keep the branches from growing into the light. Best if you’re only going to grow one plant in the grow tent.

Nutrients

The soil recommended above, Coco Loco, contains some nutrients already, but cannabis plants will use it up by the time they get to the flowering stage. Growers should give extra nutrients while buds are forming to ensure the best yields, density, and overall potency. There are lots of awesome cannabis nutrient options, but if you’re not sure, the following option is cheap, effective, and easy to use.

Dyna-Gro Grow + Bloom

• Grow bottle: Give about 1 tsp per gallon of “Grow” during the vegetative stage
• Bloom bottle: Give 1 tsp/gallon of “Bloom” during the flowering stage

Cost: $15

Dyna-Gro Grow + Bloom is my recommended nutrient system for newbies. One bottle for veg, one for bloom. 1 tsp/gallon. Super simple and effective!

Professional Nutrients: My favorite nutrients for growing cannabis is the $40 General Hydroponics Flora trio. This is what I keep coming back to when I’m not testing out new nutrients. Unlike the 1-part Dyna-Gro bottles, it requires 3 bottles and you have to measure different amounts of each bottle depending on the stage of life. How to Use: Follow the instructions on the side of the bottles at half-strength. You typically don’t need to go up to full-strength nutrients under a smaller grow light like the 100W LED size in this tutorial.

My personal favorite cannabis nutrient system is the General Hydroponics Flora trio. Use at 1/2 strength what the bottles say.

Other Supplementary Items

• Get your seeds – $10-20/seed on average, but can be more or less depending on the breeder. Make sure to get “feminized” seeds to ensure every plant is female and makes buds. I personally like autoflowering strains for this setup because they are usually ready to harvest in 2-3 months from germination and tend to stay small. NASC is the seed vendor I’ve been using lately, and they have an excellent selection of autoflowering seeds.
• 24-Hour Timer – Growers put a grow light on a timer so the plants get a day and night period on a schedule – $9
• Water containers – You may have something already around the house. I personally use a 3-gallon or 5-gallon water jug to mix up nutrients, but anything can work. If you need to buy one, it’s much cheaper to buy these at Wal-Mart or a water container store ($5-15) than online.
• Thermometer/Humidity Monitor with a probe so you can keep track of the temperature inside the tent (unless you got the really fancy Cloudline exhaust fan with a temperature and humidity probe built-in). It’s nice to have more than one so you can measure the air in different parts of the grow space. – $15
• PH Test Kit – Prevent potential nutrient deficiencies by testing the water pH – $18
• Clip-On Fan – You can get a basic clip-on-fan for $13, but they’re a pain to clip onto the poles of a grow tent. I recommend spending a little extra for a small fan that is made to clip directly on the poles of your grow tent, like this $36 Vivosun Aerowave grow tent fan.
• Measuring spoons for measuring out your nutrients (many people already have these) – $10
• (Optional) Zip ties – the hanging apparatus that comes with many grow lights add several inches of height for no real reason. They just aren’t designed for height-limited growing. In a mini tent like this, height is at a premium and a few inches can make a big difference. When you need to get your light all the way to the top of your tent, nothing seems to work better than industrial zip ties! Once you start using zip ties you end up using them for everything. They’re weirdly permanent and strong for something so disposable – $10

Total: ~$80 plus seeds

Estimated Cost for Basic Setup: $370

How to Set Up a Cannabis Grow Cube

1.) Assemble the grow tent according to the instructions (similar to setting up a camping tent)

Here’s a quick idea of what that looks like.

A typical grow tent comes with these pieces, including the directions.

First set up the structure by clicking all the poles together.

Then put the “tent” part over the outside, like you’re giving it clothes. Last, put the flexible waterproof tray in the bottom. You’re done!

Unlike most grow tents, this one is so little it’s easy to just pick it up and bring it anywhere in the house.

2.) Set up the carbon filter and exhaust fan in a bottom port

This step is needed to cool the grow cube, remove humidity, and stop smells from leaking out. This setup doesn’t have a whole lot of extra room inside. If you’ve got the smaller 3′ tall version, you have two main options to setup the fan and filter.

Option 1: Carbon filter inside tent in bottom port, connected to exhaust fan outside tent (with air pointing out).

Here’s what that looks like (lower right) The downside to this configuration is it causes you to lose a little room inside the tent. This pulls the air through the filter so the smells have already been filtered before leaving the tent.

Option 2: Carbon filter and fan are outside of the tent.

This allows you to have the full inside of the space for your plants. To do this you have the fan in a port pointed out, and connect that to the filter. This pushes the air through the filter before it is released into the room. With this option, you can either have the fan and filter in a bottom port, and they’ll be laying on the floor. Or you could put them in a top port and have them both sitting on top of the tent.

This is what I ended up settling with, since I can easily hide these behind the tent it lets me keep the clean look of the grow cube and have full space for the plants inside. Note: this is using the small filter included in the Mars Hydro 4″ kit. If you got the cheaper kit, your carbon filter is likely several inches longer.

Don’t forget to install your small clip-on grow tent fan to blow over the tops of your plants.

3.) Plug in the timer to an electrical outlet.

Plug in your electrical timer. I put my on a power strip for extra protection. Set it to the correct time, and then have it turn off the lights for 6 hours a day (so they’re on for 18 hours every day). This is known as an 18/6 time schedule. Whatever strain of cannabis you’re growing, 18/6 is a great light schedule to start plants on.

4.) Hang the LED from the top using the included hanging hardware and then plug it into the timer.

On the Spider Farmer SF1000, there is a dial to adjust the intensity of the light, and also a switch that lets you easily turn it on and off without having to unplug it.

5.) Turn everything on and let run for 24 hours before adding plants.

Let everything run for 24 hours, just to make sure everything works, and you’re ready for plants.

It’s cannabis time!

How to Grow a Ton of Weed in a Cannabis Grow Cube

Now it’s time to grow some cannabis. Follow the directions to achieve results like this:

1.) Germinate Your Seeds

Easiest method is to just put the seeds directly in soil.

Dampen your soil then get your cannabis seed.

Poke a little hole and add your cannabis seed, then cover it up.

Put it in your cannabis grow cube with the lights on, make sure it doesn’t dry out, and you should see a seedling in a few days.

The key to watering cannabis seedlings is to give just a little water at a time, and wait a few days between waterings. Once the seedling grows bigger, it drinks more and can be watered normally.

We have a complete “how to water” tutorial but check out this example schedule for watering seedlings.

Day 1 – Give 1 cup (250ml) water per seedling
Day 3 – Give 2 cups (500ml) water per seedling
Day 6 – Give 2 cups (500ml) water per seedling
Day 8 – Give 2 cups (750ml) water per seedling
Day 10 – Give 3 cups (750ml) water per seedling

This is just a general starting guide. You need to watch your plants to see if they need more or less water at a time.

2.) Vegetative Stage

Main goals in the cannabis vegetative stage:

• Keep plants healthy – Keep watering plant regularly and giving nutrients. If using Dyna-Gro, give them 1 tsp of Grow per gallon of water. Check the pH if you notice any nutrient deficiencies. In soil, the water should be between 6-7 pH or you’ll see deficiencies (spots or markings on your leaves).
• Train plants to grow wide and flat like a table  – Full instructions below
• Wait until they have reached half the final desired size – Once plants have reached half their final desired size, it’s time to move to the next stage. They double in size (on average) after they start the flowering stage.

Overview of how to train plants to grow flat and wide like a table

• Cut off the top of young plants – Cut off the top of young plants in the vegetative stage. Cutting off the top of a plant is often called “topping” in the cannabis growing world. Topping splits any stem into two, and a plant with two tops is easier to spread out to create flat plants than a plant with one main top
  • Beginner tip: Wait until the seedling has grown 6 sets of leaves. Cut off the top through the main stem above the 5th set of leaves (pictures below). Easy and simple, yet won’t stress plants. After being topped, your plant is easier to spread out and naturally grows more bushy and wide.
• Tall stems should also be “topped” – Cut off the ends of any stem that’s growing much faster than the rest. Each new pair of stems grows slower than the original one. Topping is a great tool to curb fast-growing stems in the vegetative stage.
• Spread out – As the plant grows, spread out the stems by bending them down and away from the center of the plant. Don’t forget to tie branches down with something like plant twist tie or they’ll spring right back up the next day!
• Supercrop (if necessary) – Cannabis stems get hard and woody as time goes on. If you find you need to bend a stem that’s already stiff, use the supercropping technique to bend even the toughest stems at any angle. This is a bit advanced because you can accidentally split stems. But don’t worry if you do. Simply tape broken stems back together like a cast and the plant can heal. One of the things I love about cannabis plants is it can recover if you make big mistakes in the vegetative stage.

The main goal is to bend over tall steps to create flat plants…

…with full plant coverage from above.

Why? Later, this shape leads to a cannabis plant with tons of buds sites filling the mini tent.

Auto-flowering training guide

If you’re growing an autoflowering strain, follow this autoflowering-specific plant training guide. The following guide also works for autoflowering plants, but there are a few things you should watch out for and the full autoflowering training guide breaks it all down so you know exactly what to do.

Click here: How to Train Auto-Flowering Plants

I’ve fit up to 4 autoflowering cannabis plants in one of these mini tents!

Main Idea: Bend over tall branches as they grow, so they fill up the whole space.

Your Goal: Total plant coverage in the grow tent.

Example of training a photoperiod plant in a cannabis grow cube:

Cut off the top of a young plant right above the 5th set of leaves (“top” the seedling above the 5th node).

When cutting through a stem, be careful not to damage the growing tips at the base of each leaf. These will become your two new stems.

Topping splits the main stem into two. You can see the two new “main stems” on each side of the cut.

Since you waited until the plant had several sets of leaves before cutting a small piece off the top, it will continue growing as if nothing happened.

As the plant grows, spread out the branches and cut off the top of any stem that’s getting bigger than the others. You don’t want your plant putting too much energy into any one branch.

The plant was given a week to grow after being topped. Now it’s training time!

Bend over all the stems down and away from the center until it looks flat from the side.

I used plant twist tie to hook on to each branch and tie it down where I wanted. I attached the other end to the fabric pot.

How to attach to the pot? You can use safety pins or binder clips but I think this is easier. Poke holes in the fabric using sharp pointy Fiskars pruning scissors and thread the twist tie through.

Back to training. Here’s a top view. We’re trying to fill the entire tent with this cannabis plant. If you’ve got multiple plants, then you’re trying to fill the whole space with them, too.

A few days later the plant has filled in nicely.

Repeat the steps until you’ve filled your entire grow space from above.

Regardless of the number of cannabis plants, just focus on achieving the a wide tabletop canopy. This makes it so that all your buds will be about the same distance from the grow light in the flowering stage.

When to go to the flowering stage:

• Auto-flowering strains – If you’re growing an autoflowering strain, the plant will automatically start making flowers/buds 4-6 weeks after germination. At that point, regardless of the plant size, you have to move to the next stage.
• Photoperiod strains – If you’re growing a photoperiod plant, then it will stay in the vegetative stage until you “tell” it to start flowering/making buds by giving it a 12/12 light schedule. The long nights simulate the late summer sun and cause the plant to “think” winter is coming so it starts its second stage of life.

3.) Flowering Stage

Main goals in the flowering stage:

• Initiate flowering by putting the lights on a 12/12 light schedule – Get plants to start making buds/flowers (this step is unnecessary if you’re growing autoflowering strains because they automatically start flowering after a few weeks regardless of the light schedule)
• Expose bud sites to light and air – Use strategic defoliation and/or tuck away extra leaves to make sure that your bud sites get access to a ton of direct light and gentle air circulation. Maximizing light to your buds will greatly increase both yields and THC levels/ potency.

Initiate 12/12 when plants have complete coverage at the height you want. Look at all the bud sites on this 1 plant right as it starts flowering.

Here’s a side view. At this point, the only thing to do is water the plant and give it nutrients until harvest.

At harvest, this plant was just over 18″ (46 cm) tall, yet yielded several ounces because it was trained to grow wide and flat. Talk about making the most out of one small plant.

Here’s a cannabis grow cube with multiple plants at harvest.

4.) Harvest, Dry & Cure

Buds are ready to harvest when nearly all the white hairs have darkened and curled in.

This picture shows examples of ready-to-harvest cannabis buds. Buds should appear solid and the hairs should be curled in.

Read the tutorial on how to dry and cure your newly harvested buds!

5.) Enjoy your weed!

You’ve worked so hard. Now it’s time to enjoy your weed!

This was my first harvest out of the mini tent.

About the Author: Nebula Haze

Nebula Haze is an experienced cannabis cultivator and co-founder of GrowWeedEasy.com, the web’s most comprehensive online resource for growing marijuana indoors at home. Since creating the website in 2010, Nebula has dedicated her life to understanding the cannabis plant and teaching fellow growers how to produce huge yields and captivating bud quality at home. Stop paying other people a ton of money for sub-par weed and start growing better weed for a fraction of the cost today!

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Cannabis Life Stages

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• What Setup Should I Get?
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  • What causes red stems in cannabis plants?
• Diagnose Your Sick Plant
• Bugs & Other Cannabis Pests
• How to Prevent Nutrient Deficiencies
  • Which Nutrient Deficiencies are Caused by pH? (picture guide)
  • How to Stop Flowering Stage Nutrient Deficiencies
• 7 Reasons Why Cannabis Plants Grow Slow
• 5-Step Remedy That Fixes 99% of Grow Problems
• All-Natural Pesticides – Safe Up to Harvest!

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• Simplest Plant Training Guide Ever!
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• Complete Plant Training Guide
• Breakdown of Techniques​
  • Low Stress Training (LST) Tutorial
  • Topping vs FIMing Tutorial
  • LBH’s Famous ScrOG Tutorial
  • Supercropping: Magic Technique to Control Cannabis Plant Height
  • Sea of Green (SoG) Tutorial
  • 12-12 from Seed – Flowering Plants Early
  • Nebula’s Manifold Tutorial
  • How to Manifold Clones
  • Nebula’s Bud-Based Defoliation Tutorial
  • Alternate Defoliation Tutorial ​
  • What is Re-Vegging / Monstercropping?
• How Can I Train an Auto-Flowering Plant?
• 7 Unfortunate Plant Training Mistakes

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• What’s the Best Growing Medium?
• Soil vs Coco vs Hydro
• Basic Soil Guide
• Organic Soil Compost Guide (Super Soil) – Just Add Water!
• Coco Coir Guide
  • Coco Coir: The Most Flexible Cannabis Grow Medium
• Hydro/DWC/Bubbleponics Guide
• “True” Organic Growing vs Just Using Organic Nutrients
• Can You Use Miracle-Gro?

Nutrients

• Which Nutrients Are Best For Growing Cannabis?
• Soil Nutrients
• Coco Coir Nutrients
• Hydroponic Nutrients

Grow Lights

• 5 Best LED Grow Lights 2025 (Yields, Speed, & Bud Quality)
• Compare Types of Cannabis Grow Lights
  • Fluorescents (T5s) – Good for Seedlings Only (not powerful enough to produce potent buds or big yields)
  • CFLs (Spiral Bulbs) – Not Recommended (LEDs are much better)
  • LED Grow Lights – Recommended for Most Home Growers
  • MH/HPS Grow Lights – Good Alternative to LEDs, But Run Much Hotter
  • CMH / LEC Grow Lights – Good Alternative to LEDs, But Run Much Hotter
  • Plasma / Magnetic Induction Grow Lights – Not Recommended (poor cannabis growth)
• How Does Light Spectrum Affect Marijuana Plants?
• How Far Away Do I Keep My Grow Lights?
• You Can Actually Give Plants Too Much Light?!
• Grow Light Upgrade Guide: Yields & Potency Explained
• Cannabis Grow Lights: What’s the Best Size?

Best LED Grow Light Articles

• 5 Best LED Grow Lights 2025 (Yields, Speed, & Bud Quality)
• LED Grow Lights: Too Much or Not Enough Light?
• LED Grow Journal: Mars Hydro TSL-2000W vs Spider Farmer SF-2000
• LEC vs LED Grow Lights: Side-by-Side Cannabis Grow Journal
• Nebula’s Auto-Flowering Grow Journal (Topping vs Natural) – cannabis plants are grown under LED grow lights

Environment

• Create the Perfect Growing Environment
  • Temperature Tutorial
  • 5 Secrets to Heat Control
  • Control Humidity for Better Buds
  • How to Use Reflective Walls to Increase Yields Indoors
  • How to Make Plants Grow Faster with CO2
• Where’s the Best Place in the House to Grow Your Plants?
• How to Control Odors
• How to Set Up an Exhaust
• How to Set Up a Grow Tent for Better Yields (and Stealth)

Plant Care Tutorials

• Cloning
  • How to clone weed in a cup of water (easy!)
  • How to make cannabis clones with an aero cloner
• Intro to Plant Training for Bigger Yields Indoors
• How Often to Water Plants
  • The Easiest Way to Water Plants & Remove Runoff
• How (and When) to Transplant Cannabis
• Male vs Female Plants
• When to Harvest?
• Drying & Curing

How to Improve…

• Yields
• Bud Quality
  • 7 Environment Effects on Bud Quality
  • The Secret to Excellent Bud Quality
• THC Levels
• CBD Levels
• Smell/Taste
• Density
• Bud Color (How to Grow Pink or Purple Buds)
• Glitter (Make Buds Sparkle with More Trichomes)
• Bonus: What Determines Yields?

Buying Seeds

• Where to Get Seeds
• How to Find the Right Strain
• What are “Feminized” Seeds?
• Which Breeders to Trust?
• Photoperiod vs Auto-Flowering Cannabis Strains
• Bag Seed vs Hype Seed: Is it worth it to buy cannabis seeds?

Recommended Strains

• Best Autoflowering Cannabis Strains for Yields & Potency
• List of Sugar-Dusted Strains (Heavy Trichome Genetics)
• 10 Cold-Resistant Cannabis Strains
• 14 Heat-Resistant Cannabis Strains
• Which cannabis strains stay short? (Best strains for small spaces)

Auto-Flowering Strains

• Nebula’s Guide to Cannabis Auto-Flowering Strains (Photoperiod vs Auto-Flowering)
• Should I “Top” or Train an Auto-Flowering Plant?
• What’s the best light schedule for auto-flowering strains?
• Nebula’s Auto-Flowering Grow Journal (Topping vs Natural)

Edibles

• Decarboxylation: How to Decarb Your Weed (crucial step for just about every edible recipe)
• Best Weed Butter Recipe
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• Canna Caps
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Extracts (No Solvents Used in Any Recipe)

• Solventless Extraction Showdown – Bubble Hash vs. Dry-Ice Hash!
• Dry Ice Hash (Made with Dry Ice)
• How to Make Bubble Hash (Made with Ice Water)
• How To Make Your Own Homemade Rosin (dabs)

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Take a look

Only one of my 3 plants is having this issue.

A friend suggested that the issue may be low humidity.

I live in a dry area so the humidity in my house is normally below 20%. However, when I checked the humidity in my grow tent, it was 36% so I’m not actually sure it’s actually too low.

Any ideas of anything else I should check?

More grow details: 250W HID, 2x3x5 grow tent with 4″ inline fan. Northern Lights strain. Seeds germinated in rockwool and transplanted into 4-gallon smart pots w/ mix of peat moss and perlite. Fox Farms Nutrient Trio for nutes – following the dosing schedule but started with 1/2 doses for the first week. pH of water is 6.5-6.6 and runoff from pots tested at 6.4-6.6.

Answer: Heat stress, Root Problems or Extreme Humidity

This looks like the result of excessive heat, root problems (possibly from overwatering) and/or suffering from extreme humidity levels (such as very high or low humidity).

When the serrated edges of marijuana leaves curls or tipped up like that, it’s often a sign of temperature stress, overwatering/root problems or extreme humidity levels. This plant was overwatered and living in high heat, which is what caused these symptoms.

When the problem is low humidity, the leaf will also often fold in the middle, like a taco.

What’s your temperature in your grow area? Is there a hot spot around these plants from the grow light?

You mentioned that this is happening to only some of your plants. If this is happening to the plants which are closest to your grow light, that’s a hint that the problem may be temperature related.

If your light is simply too close, you can move the bulb further away from these plants and this issue may resolve itself. However, these leaves are showing symptoms of heat stress, without light stress (burning/spotting), so it’s more likely that the light is a good distance away and the heat just isn’t being controlled properly.

If plants are also droopy, it’s likely you’re dealing with watering or root problems.

When growing with hot HID lights, good ventilation and an exhaust fan will go a long way towards preventing all these problems. If the whole grow area is too hot with stagnant air, you will want to consider venting out all that extra heat.

Having good air movement, like a small fan in your grow tent blowing over the tops of your plants, can help prevent hot spots from forming directly under your grow lights.

In general, if it’s too hot for you to be comfortable, it’s too hot for your plants.

Learn More About Cannabis Heat Stress

Learn More About Root Problems

Learn About Controlling Humidity

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Leaf tips turned down? It may be a Nitrogen Toxicity
How to Set Up / Vent Heat with HID Grow Lights
Check These 7 Things & Cure 99% of Marijuana Growing Problems
1st Grow in My Garage – Auto Northern Lights in Grow Box Under 400W HPS

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This article comes courtesy of the good folks at seattlecannabisjournal.com, and was re-edited for clarity and ease of reading. Click Here to view the original article in all its glory!

The day I got a recommendation for medicinal Cannabis was a relief. This was followed by the knowledge and urgency that I needed to get some plants in the ground immediately.

This had been a long-time dream of mine, and I fondly imagined my first harvest, curing my flowers to perfection, and collecting their resin for concentrates. I saw myself carefully journaling their progress, and eventually becoming an expert caretaker of myself and my marijuana garden.

Then reality set in: I have a small space, in a small house, in a crowded neighborhood.

Momentarily discouraged, I quickly scrapped the idea of a dedicated room filled to the brim. I began with getting clear about my intentions; I wanted to inconspicuously and autonomously produce my medicine. This was a much more respectable and realistic goal, and one that I could embrace.

After months pouring over cannabis-related text and furrowing my brow at various nooks throughout my home, I saw through the problem. I would build a stealthy grow cabinet!

On Craigslist I found a cabinet kit still in the box for only $35. It came in at 24″ L x 30″ W x 70″ H. Next, I purchased a 6″ inline fan for another $100. The fan combined with a 400 watt light and Cool Tube from a previous grow gave me something to design around.

My sights set, I loaded Google’s 3D rendering freeware, Google SketchUp, and got to work.

Sirius: Google sold SketchUp to a company called Trimble. Although they have a free online option, SketchUp is no longer “freeware”. Additionally, SketchUp can be pretty tough to use without training, especially if you’ve never used it and you just want to design one thing. Rest assured: some paper, a pencil, a little math, and careful planning will work just as well!

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1st Grow in My Garage – Using Homemade Grow Box Under 400W HPS

CFL Dresser Microgrow in Pictures – Clone to Harvest

How to Grow Weed in 20 Minutes a Week Using Bubbleponics

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Marijuana Yields & CO2

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Quick Grow Snapshot

• Strains: 3 x Auto-flowering Northern Lights
• Grow medium: FF Soil
• Grow Light:
  • Vegetative: 6400k T5 Grow Light
  • Flowering: 400W HPS with digital ballast and air-cooled hood
• Nutrients or Additives: Fox Farms Soil Nutrient Trio

May 5, 2012: Seeds sprouted
July 29, 2012: Harvest!

Total Time – Seed to Harvest:
85 days (2 months, 24 days)

Final Yield
5.35 oz

View full grow journal below!

Getting Started – Pre-Grow

With space to grow in the garage, I decided to build a grow box and try my hand at growing marijuana, even though I’d never grown anything before.

In addition to learning grow skills, building my box was a big test of my carpentry skills, or lack of skills I guess I should say. I’d never built anything like this before.

Planning My Grow Box

Build grow box out of plywood and 2x2s with 2 chambers so I can swap the plants between the chambers when it’s time to flower.

The dimensions of the box are 4’W x 2.5’D x 5’H.

The grow box cost me about $135 for the lumber, screws, caulk, sandpaper, wood stain, and hinges.

You’ll see how the box is divided into 3 sections. I want to put a vent in the ceiling of the bottom right section and a vent in the top of the wall in the left section so that both of them feed into that top part where my carbon filter will be.

What would be the best way of ducting both of those vents into a single carbon filter?

Choosing The Right Grow Light

I was concerned about heat and light usage for my small space.

I looked at LEDs when I first started my research, but I kept reading things about them being kinda sketchy. A lot of people seemed to think they didn’t live up to all the hype.

I considered using T5 grow lights for both the vegetative and flowering stage (6400k bulbs for vegging and 2700k for flowering) because they produce such low heat.

I was hesitant about using a T5 in flowering, though. Some growers seemed to be getting good results with them, yet I was worried that a T5 was not going to be intense enough to get good yields in the flowering stage.

I decided to go with a 400W HPS light with an air-cooled hood and exhaust fan for the flower chamber. It was hard to resist getting a bigger light, but I knew that a 600W was going to be too big/hot for my space.

Final Setup

Grow Lights

• Vegetative: 6400k T5 Grow Light
• Flowering: 400W HPS with digital ballast and air-cooled hood

Grow medium

• Fox Farms Ocean Forest Soil

Nutrients

• Fox Farms Soil Trio

Strain

• Feminized Northern Lights (from Pyramid Seeds), ordered them from AttitudeI probably wouldn’t order seeds from this breeder again. The seeds ended up being an autoflowering strain even though it was advertised as being a photoperiod strain. It all ended up working out, but I would have been happier if I’d received the seeds I ordered.

My First Grow In Pictures!

I started germinating my seeds in a shot glass.

I put the seeds in a shot glass filled with water to germinate themI put the seeds in a shot glass filled with water to germinate them

Seeds have sprouted roots

I’ve got a pack of these pellets to start them in. I did a test run by putting a pellet in a cup of water, damn those things expand!

Here is what I ended up doing, I tried to cut out any extra steps and just put the pellets directly into the soil from the start.

I put bottles on top to help retain extra humidity (like a humidity dome). Here are my ultra cheap humidity domes

Seedlings under T5 Grow Light in Veg Chamber. It’s a steady 85 degrees F in there, no idea about the humidity in the bottles.

Day 7 from seed 

Day 13 from seed 

Day 19 from seed – Plants started looking a little sick

Leaves started looking sick on Day 19 I thought they may have used up all the nutrient in the soil (I haven’t been feeding extra nutrients until now). I started feeding them with Fox Farms Nutrient Trio.

I also considered it might be stress from the wind of the fan, so I got a lot more careful about blowing air on the seedlings.

With these two changes, the problem seemed to sort itself out.

Day 39 from seed – Moved plants into flowering chamber under 400W HPS

I moved the plants into the flowering chamber with the 400W HPS grow light.

At this point, I continued to keep them on a 18/6 light schedule, which should have kept them in the vegetative stage. I wanted to let the plants get a bit bigger before switching them to flowering.

I did not yet realize that these were autoflowering plants.

Day 41 from seed 

Today is also the first day I’ve tried to LST (low stress training). I know it’s generally recommended to start LST earlier, but I was trying to avoid it on my first grow just to see how my yield would be with no training.

I ended up LSTing one of the girls who was getting too tall.

I was surprised to see my plants start flowering (you can see a couple of flowers starting to appear in the picture above).

I’d purchased non-autoflowering seeds. Guess I’ll never order from that seed vendor again. At first I thought I was seeing pre-flowers, but I soon realized my plant was producing full-on flowers.

Then I saw something even more scary, a hermie banana…

On the advice of others, I plucked this single banana and finished flowering my girls. This was the only hermie sac I saw throughout the grow, and I’m glad I ended up finishing the girls because I had a fantastic harvest.

Day 45 from seed – Closeup of trichomes on the buds and surrounding sugar leaves

Day 53 / 54 from seed  – Buds are fattening up

The plants in the grow box definitely smell at this point, but it only became noticeable to me within the last few weeks. Even now it’s not too bad, and you would have to be in the same room as them to smell it.

Day 63 from seed 

Closeup of trichomes

Day 79 – End… The final days 

At this point I still don’t have a fan hooked up to my vented hood and I’ve been relying on a wimpy little one and keep the door cracked open to let the heat out.

For my next grow I’ll have a real ventilation system set up and heat shouldn’t be a problem. I’ve been running my light at half power (200W) for the past couple weeks to control the heat. I’ll have much better ventilation my next grow so I’ll be able to run it at 400W the whole time.

Day 84 from seed – Day before harvest (ready to be cut down)

I’m really happy with how they turned out.

For my 2nd grow I’ll have 4 plants instead of 3 and I’ll be LSTing from the start.

Also, I will finish my grow box by hooking up a fan to my hood (with a carbon filter), and I put mylar up on 2 of the remaining walls where I still need to cut some holes.

My light has only been running at 200W for a majority of the grow because the weather has been so hot and my ventilation sucks.

I’ll be really interested to see how much doubling the light, making all the other minor improvements, and avoiding all my previous mistakes will affect my yield.

Day 85 – Harvest!

I ended up having to go to a pet store and buying some activated carbon to control the smell of my drying buds. I knew it would smell, I just didn’t think that much!

Harvest Final Weight 5.35 oz!

My 2nd Grow in Pictures!

Stay tuned for my second grow in pictures.

Here’s a quick preview…

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Quick Grow Snapshot

• Strain: Unknown
• Grow medium: Soil (Fox Farms Ocean Forest mixed with perlite)
• Grow Light: 8 x CFLs
  • Vegetative Stage – 184w Total Watts
    8 x 23w 6500k CFLs (100w equivalent)
  • Flowering Stage – 274w Total Watts
    6 x 23w 2700k CFLs (100w equivalent)
    2 x 68w 2700k CFLs (300w equivalent)
• Nutrients or Additives: Verde Fire powder Grow and Bloom
• Grown in a DIY Grow Box made out of a old dressor

View the complete grow setup here

Total Time – Seed to Harvest:
119 days (3 months, 28 days)

Final Yield
2.69 oz

View full grow journal below!

Cost: Roughly averaged $20 a month over 4 months. I have 2 pc fans on constantly and 1 desk type fan to keep air circulating and it also blows across the bulbs. Also a tower fan blowing in from outside to control temp on a timer with the lights.

Here's some weekly growth pictures. 

Vegetative Stage

Veg CFL lights: 18/6 schedule. 6500k. 184w.

 

Day 1 – New Clone

 

1 week – Starting LST (low stress training)

2 weeks

3 weeks

4 weeks

5 weeks

6 weeks

Flowering Stage

Flower CFL lights day 50: 12/12 schedule. 2700k. 274w.

 

Day 50 – Switch to Flowering Light Cycle (12/12)

8 weeks

9 weeks

10 weeks

11 weeks

12 weeks

13 weeks

14 weeks

15 weeks

16 weeks

17 weeks – Harvest

I was pretty diligent about keeping the canopy as even as I could and within a few inches from the CFL bulbs.

After the uproot, I let her hang upside down for a week to dry out nice and slow. There was a total of 38 branches so I just clipped them all off, piled them up and got down and dirty with the trim job that took about an hour.

The nugs varied in size between 1.5-2.5 grams each. Along with a bunch of popcorn buds, the total weight came to 76.4 grams. I expect to still lose a little more moisture weight but not much. I definitely made it my 2 oz goal this time.

Each of my grows have shown significant improvement. Take a look:

See My Past Dresser Microgrows

First grow

Second grow

Third Grow

Here's a link to my dresser grow box that was pretty inexpensive to make, and perfect for growing with CFLs.

I started with a 1/2 gallon sized pot, then transplanted to 2.5 and ended up in big 5 gallon pot. Using the old faithful Fox Farms Ocean Forest  soil mixed with some extra perlite.

Earth Juice: Verde Fire powder nutrients for grow and bloom added every other watering.

For training, I topped the clone after a couple days and leaned her to the side.

I topped all of those side shoots that came up, and then each of those new shoots again after a couple nodes.

Low stressed trained (LST'ed) the hell out of them, without supercropping, to grow out first and then upward.

Here's a nice shot of her legs.

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Now It's Your Turn!

Make your own dresser microgrow setup just like Mind_if_I_do_a_J and start growing marijuana with CFLs today! 

Soil: Fox Farms Ocean Forest mixed with perlite

Nutrients: Verde Fire powder Grow and Bloom (used every other watering)

Note about nutrients: Mind_If_I_Do_A_J started using Verde Fire Grow at Week 3, since Fox Farms Ocean Forest soil already has been enriched with some nutrients.

Dresser Grow Box (See pictures of his setup here)

• Dresser
   
• Power strip with a long enough cord
   
• 2 x PC Fans (converted to wall power using ac/dc adapter)
   
• Desk Fan
   
• Timer
   
• Digital thermometer
   
• Lined with mylar
   
• Gardening Pots (0.5, 2.5 & 5 gallon pot for transplanting)
   
• CFLs
  • Vegetative Stage – 184w Total Watts
    8 x 23w 6500k CFLs (100w equivalent)
     
  • Flowering Stage – 274w Total Watts
    6 x 23w 2700k CFLs (100w equivalent)
    2 x 68w 2700k CFLs (300w equivalent)

How He Did It…

by Mind_if_I_do_a_J (the author of today's article)

 "I know your site well, as a matter of fact,: I used advice and technique from Keef Treez to experiment with some defoliation myself. Here is a link that shows more training and lollipopping. And here, I just really like this shot. Check out these close up shots.

We're so glad to hear our website helped you grow such an awesome plant! Congrats!

-Nebula & Sirius

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