If you are an indoor cannabis grower, the most important thing that you would demand is to grow bigger yields without spending much time, money, and effort. It may feel fantastic to grow your cannabis indoors. But you should always grow it in huge amounts of your time and hard work would be wasted and you may not get satisfactory results. To help you achieve this goal of increasing cannabis yields indoors, a few important tips are discussed below.
Four easy ways to increase indoor cannabis yields, no matter what strain you are growing.
Increasing Light Intensity
Light intensity plays a key role in increasing the bud size in the flowering stage. The right light intensity helps improve the size, number, and density of the buds. If your cannabis plants do not have any illness or growing problem, the lack of proper light intensity can be the reason that’s hindering its growth.
Remember that light is the basic food for plants. Converting the light into energy through the process of photosynthesis is how plants grow and produce buds.
The unavailability of enough light can force the cannabis plant to stretch or grow too tall towards light causing it to even fall over sometimes. This creates a lot of stems between nodes and leaves. The stretching as you can already guess is not a good thing for the plant.
Hence allowing enough light intensity to the plants is the most effective way to increase your final yields.
How Much Light Is Too Much?
While growing cannabis indoors, it is very unlikely for the grower to provide too much light to the plant. Because marijuana plants that are usually grown outdoors use a surprising amount of direct sunlight for growing. Therefore, until you are keeping the light at the right distance from your cannabis plants, you are very much unlikely to hurt your plants with an extra light supply.
Manipulate The Plant Structure
Manipulating the real structure of your plants in the growing stage is a freeway that can help you increase your yields. Doing the action, you neither need to buy expensive nutrients or arrange for indoor grow lights. All that you need to do is just bend the plant without cutting it. This unique way of growing cannabis is often referred to as LST or “low-stress training”.
The process involves manually forcing the cannabis plant to grow flat and wide against the usual structure of tall and thin growth.
Besides LST another way to grow the plant better through manipulating its structure is called “super cropping”. This way of manipulating your plant structure involves bending the plant in a way to form a knuckle laying the stems flat.
Getting The Right Cannabis Nutrients
As we all know, any plant needs nutrients to grow. But, which nutrients are best for the plants, is the most important part to understand. Also, you should be aware of the right quantity of nutrients your plants need too.
So, just finding the right kind of nutrients and following the correct schedule is not just enough for the right growth of the plant. Sometimes, it is often seen that people trying to grow cannabis indoors often offer too many nutrients to the plants. The action is common among growers using a mixture of multiple nutrients and supplements together without knowing the right amount or the actual requirement of the plant.
So, as a grower, you must understand certain signs that depict that the plant is getting more than the required levels of nutrients. The most common sign is the tips of the leaf getting yellow. This is also described as “nutrient burn”.
Temperature Control
Another important factor that helps better growth of cannabis yield indoors is by maintaining a favorable growing temperature. If the temperature or the humidity of the place is too high or too low for the plants, it may hinder the proper growth of the plants. Also, the buds will not get their required size.
Too much hot temperature in the flowering stage of the plant can even reduce the actual smell potency of the buds. This happens because too much heat burns away cannabinoids and terpenes.
Thus, maintaining the right temperature will help increase the smell potency of the buds.
One easy way to identify which heat source is harming your plant is by taking a close look at the color of the leaves. You may notice that leaves that are close to the heat will turn to develop a brownish color.
The Bottom Line
Above mentioned are the most important tips that can help you increase cannabis yields indoors. Following a few necessary steps and taking the right care of your cannabis plants can help you get the best result within a short time that too without spending tons of money.