Growing Weed

Ganga

In the future Hydro & Aquaponic systems will be used mostly for growing food, mainly green vegetables and fresh water fish.  But currently these systems, particularly Hydroponics; are mostly used for growing Cannabis, for sale on the black market.

Of course, if I am to be selling Aquaponic products, then I must realise that ganga growers, who are currently using Hydroponic systems are potentially my biggest group of customers, so long as I can convince them that Aquaponics has far greater advantages for them and would increase their profits allot + do the same for reducing waste and cost.  I do not plan to grow weed as a commercial crop my self though.

It is perfectly legal to sell equipment used to grow these plants.  It's even legal to sell the seeds.  The law in this country is very draconian & strange.

Grow Lights

The two pictures above show weed being grown under artificial lighting, which costs a fortune in electricity, but weed-growers have to hide what they are doing because it's prohibited.  Also, because of Prohibition; the price is high enough to justify all that extra cost.  The result of course is allot of electricity usage, which would not be necessary if the plant was legal. 

Below is a picture of out door skunk.  A more hardy faster flowering variety, which can be grown out side in cooler climates.

Cannabis is a light sensitive plant.  It's life cycle is triggered by hours of daylight per day; this is another reason why growers use lights; so they can do a number of crops per year, rather than just the one. 

Other commercial growers use artificial sodium lighting for many other crops, including cut flowers, such as Chrysanthemums, usually just to extend the daylight hours in greenhouses during the winter.  

Cannabis likes 18 hours of light to grow and 12 hours of light to flower.  It is triggered to flower in the Autumn, which is fine in warmer parts of the world, but here, in the UK; Autumn means frost and the subsequent death of any unprotected plants outside and subsequent loss of the crop.