Cannabis

How to grow whatever variety of Ganga Aquaponicly

Skunk and most other species of Marijuana can be grown more efficiently, in an Aquaponic system, than in a Hydroponic one.  Increasing the efficiency of your operation and lowering your costs significantly.  Whether using grow-lights or not!

About Cannabis Sativum

This plant is a weedy annual, with many variants growing both wild and in cultivation.  It has some relatives, with are even woody perennials or small shrubs.  The types grown in commercial production are generally hybrids of popular annual varieties such as ‘Skunk’ or ‘Northern Lights’.  Cannabis is very sensitive to the hours of daylight and this tells it when to grow and when to flower.  In the longer summer days it is triggered to grow fast and to produce lots of ever bigger leaves.  But as the days draw in, with the onset of autumn; the plants are triggered to flower. 

Growing under lights

Growers using hermetically sealed rooms and artificial sodium lighting can manipulate the hours of light, that the plants have, by placing all the lights on a timer and giving 18 hours light to growing plants, to replicate the summer and 12 hours light to make them think it’s autumn and to make them flower.

Such systems must have fan powered air flow, taking old wet air out and bringing new dry air in.  Otherwise the walls will drip and rot with mould and your ceiling will fall in!

Having your ceiling falling on top of your crop and your lights, etc; is allot more worrying than being the only house with no snow on the roof!

Such systems are at risk of light pollution, if any outside light gets in when the lights are off.  Just a little bit of light can ruin a whole crop.  But you can use a 20 watt green light bulb in your grow-room & that will not effect your plants.

Advantages with using an Aquaponic system

                        I.         There is no need to feed the plants and therefore no need to buy expensive plant food or to visit the grow-shop quite as often.

                       II.         pH is far less of a concern and more natural methods can be employed, like adding chalk to your gravel medium to raise your ph or rusty nails to lower it.  The system its self is supposed to regulate the pH its self, but there are a few suggestions if you live in an area, where the water is extremely off to one extreme or the other.

                     III.         The tank need only be changed a few times a year, but even then; not fully.  Many Aquaponic growers only change the water between actual crops of fish.  This saves time, your water bill and all that expensive grow-shop nutrient feed, which just gets tipped on the vegetable patch or simply thrown away.

                    IV.         So long as you use organic fish food and steer clear of inorganic pesticides, when dealing with Spider-mite, or other pests; then your product is Organic and should therefore fetch a higher price as most organic products do.

                      V.         You get Fish, whether you raise them as food, sell or just keep ornamental ones; they are an extra thing, taking up no extra space or equipment and they will be saving you money.

Legality

Unfortunately this plant is illegal.  Even where it grows wild and even where it has been employed by local shaman for millennia. 

It really is a crime that this wonderful thought provoking and medicinal plant is kept so unavailable to so many people.  But it is.  So if you grow it, please remember to be careful and try not to tell anyone who is not directly involved in the operation