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Nutrients
With lighting, AC, and other Adding CO2 to your indoor garden
environmental controls in place, can drastically improve your yields.
indoor cannabis plants will require While the atmosphere naturally has
large amounts of fertilizer or an average CO2 concentration of
nutrients throughout their lifespans. around 400 parts per million (PPM),
Hydroponic systems lack the base most indoor growers try to maintain
nutrients that occur within soil; that a range of 800 to 2,000 PPM,
leaves it up to you, the grower, to depending on the plants' growth
feed their plants with nutrient stage. Levels above 2,000 PPM can
concentrations — the exact formula damage plants, and anything above
of which depends upon plant variety 3,000 PPM can be dangerous to
and phase of cultivation. With humans.
hydroponics, salt-based nutrients
typically come in the form of a
concentrated liquid or dry soluble
powder that can be mixed with The amount of CO2 you supplement
water. your garden with depends on how
much light your plants are receiving,
As a cannabis plant develops, its the growth phase they are in, and
nutrient needs change. That's why their overall size. CO2 should only be
different nutrient lines are available used during the “daylight” period, as
for different growth phases. Most plants are unable to utilize CO2 at
nutrient lines come with night or in the dark. Sealed grow
recommended feeding charts. If rooms are ideal when supplementing
you're just starting out, be sure to get CO2, as open rooms tend to exhaust
to know your nutrients and their the CO2 more quickly than the plants
ratios. can use it.
CO2 can be supplemented into an
Carbon dioxide indoor garden using compressed gas
supplementation tanks or generators. Using
Controlling the amount of available compressed CO2 tanks is the most
carbon dioxide (CO2) in your garden common method because they're
is another aspect of growing readily available, easy to set up, and
marijuana at home. During do not add any extra heat to your
photosynthesis, CO2 converts into room the way a CO2 generator does.
sugar, which the plant uses as energy
for growing its vegetation and,
ultimately, its seeds or flowers.
