How to Set Up an Indoor Grow Room for Cannabis: Complete Guide
So, you’ve decided to embrace your green thumb and try your hand at growing marijuana indoors. Choosing to grow marijuana is not as easy as going to the store, picking up a seedling, and tending to it the way you would other plants. Growing cannabis is a nuanced art that requires patience and practice, can be extremely rewarding.
Who Should Use Grow Tents?
Marijuana grow tents are designed to keep things simple for hobbyist cannabis growers. As convenient as grow tents are, they’re not designed for huge marijuana grow operations! But for someone who wants 1-5 ounces/month, a grow tent may be the best way to go!
Pros of Growing Cannabis in a Grow Tent
Relatively Cheap – Prices are around $70-150 for your average grow tent. Setting up a grow space to have all the same characteristics (reflective walls, air-tight vents, light proof, a waterproof tray at the bottom to catch spilled water, etc.) can easily cost the same amount or more. Plus it’s difficult to DIY a space so that it works as well as a grow tent (which has been designed for this purpose) and it will often take more time, planning and effort than simply buying a pre-made tent.
Easy & Quick to Set Up – Assembling your grow tent and getting completely set up to start growing will take about an afternoon and can be done by just about anyone (full instructions below). Overall, the work of setting up a grow tent reminds me of putting together an old-fashioned camping tent, only weed comes out of it a few months later!
Inline Fans
Fans bring in fresh air from the outside of the tent and push our used air from the inside of the tent. These fans are often called ‘inline’ fans because they are often connected to tubing and other equipment such as carbon filters, creating a ‘line’ of equipment through which air moves.
There are two types of inline fans: intake fans and exhaust fans. Intake fans bring air into the tent while exhaust fans pull air out of the tent. Make sure you get the right fan for the right purpose, as some fans are specifically built for only one of these two use cases.
Potting Your Plants
We recommend using 30-gallon or 45-gallon fabric pots for the actual planting of your cannabis seeds, placed upon a grate-system for easy drainage when flushing or watering. Fabric pots will obviously leak directly onto whatever surface they are placed on, so building a simple grate-topped table with a drainage system underneath, will help tremendously with cleanup and management of humidity in your grow room.
Another option is to line your floor with plastic and to place saucers underneath each plant when watering. If using this method, just remember to always remove and clean the saucers afterward, otherwise, they can become a thriving environment for mold growth.
Depending on the kind of plants that you want to grow, you need to decide the kind of grow lights that will be the best for your plants. In case of growing cannabis indoors, we recommend using full-spectrum LED grow lights which have a switch that can change the lights from ‘vegetative’ mode to ‘flowering’ mode, meaning that you can use the same grow lights for both the phases of growth and you do not have to change it again and again. Hanging the grow lights is also quite a challenge and you need to make sure the distance is just right and that you have made use of proper equipment to hang it so that the lights remain firm and stable and do not fall down. Also check if the lights are equally balanced. Lastly, make sure you’ve hung it at an appropriate distance from the top of the plants so that the heat doesn’t burn out the plants.
If you are looking to grow indoors, you are no question looking for the best grow tent kits on the market. But, there are so many options out there, and a lot of them are cheap, low-quality tent brands with bottom-tier lights in them.
Who Should Use Grow Tents?
Marijuana grow tents are designed to keep things simple for hobbyist cannabis growers. As convenient as grow tents are, they’re not designed for huge marijuana grow operations! But for someone who wants 1-5 ounces/month, a grow tent may be the best way to go!
Pros of Growing Cannabis in a Grow Tent
Relatively Cheap – Prices are around $70-150 for your average grow tent. Setting up a grow space to have all the same characteristics (reflective walls, air-tight vents, light proof, a waterproof tray at the bottom to catch spilled water, etc.) can easily cost the same amount or more. Plus it’s difficult to DIY a space so that it works as well as a grow tent (which has been designed for this purpose) and it will often take more time, planning and effort than simply buying a pre-made tent.
Easy & Quick to Set Up – Assembling your grow tent and getting completely set up to start growing will take about an afternoon and can be done by just about anyone (full instructions below). Overall, the work of setting up a grow tent reminds me of putting together an old-fashioned camping tent, only weed comes out of it a few months later!
Inline Fans
Fans bring in fresh air from the outside of the tent and push our used air from the inside of the tent. These fans are often called ‘inline’ fans because they are often connected to tubing and other equipment such as carbon filters, creating a ‘line’ of equipment through which air moves.
There are two types of inline fans: intake fans and exhaust fans. Intake fans bring air into the tent while exhaust fans pull air out of the tent. Make sure you get the right fan for the right purpose, as some fans are specifically built for only one of these two use cases.
Potting Your Plants
We recommend using 30-gallon or 45-gallon fabric pots for the actual planting of your cannabis seeds, placed upon a grate-system for easy drainage when flushing or watering. Fabric pots will obviously leak directly onto whatever surface they are placed on, so building a simple grate-topped table with a drainage system underneath, will help tremendously with cleanup and management of humidity in your grow room.
Another option is to line your floor with plastic and to place saucers underneath each plant when watering. If using this method, just remember to always remove and clean the saucers afterward, otherwise, they can become a thriving environment for mold growth.
Depending on the kind of plants that you want to grow, you need to decide the kind of grow lights that will be the best for your plants. In case of growing cannabis indoors, we recommend using full-spectrum LED grow lights which have a switch that can change the lights from ‘vegetative’ mode to ‘flowering’ mode, meaning that you can use the same grow lights for both the phases of growth and you do not have to change it again and again. Hanging the grow lights is also quite a challenge and you need to make sure the distance is just right and that you have made use of proper equipment to hang it so that the lights remain firm and stable and do not fall down. Also check if the lights are equally balanced. Lastly, make sure you’ve hung it at an appropriate distance from the top of the plants so that the heat doesn’t burn out the plants.
If you are looking to grow indoors, you are no question looking for the best grow tent kits on the market. But, there are so many options out there, and a lot of them are cheap, low-quality tent brands with bottom-tier lights in them.
Best 4'x4' Grow Tent Kit 2020
The indoor marijuana growing kit by ECO Farm is a serious weed growing machine. This indoor kit comes with a 480W LED light. The grow tent itself is made out of 96% highly-reflective waterproof diamond mylar. The exterior is composed of durable, heavy-duty light proof oxford cloth that is 600D.
The grow tent has one of the best and sturdiest construction setups you will find. It is equipped with 16MM diameter metal rods that are coated in white paint for maximum reflectivity. The plastic corners are thick, 16mm, and reinforced. Inside, the tent has a 6” fan, ducting, and filter combination to keep things nice and airy. 1” carbon filter layer to keep the good stuff in and the bad stuff out. So you don’t need to worry about smells giving you away.
Summary
Hope you’ve got a good grasp on what makes a truly good grow tent kit and which would better fit inside your house.
I’m also hoping that with the complete guide above you’ll be able to make an educated decision.
Go and purchase your very first best quality grow tent kit so that you can feel that tremendous fun that I’ve felt during my early years of using my grow tents.
Have Fun!
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