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Depends what you mean indoors. Just on a windowsill or counter or in an actual artificial environment (tent with lighting).
One of our managers at work grew a reaper on his desk all the way through to fruit last year and it's still alive after winter. A bit leggy but producing nevertheless.
I've got an indoor setup and have gone to fruit over winter no problem but that's all simulated conditions. Controlled temp and humidity with 16hr lighting.
One of our managers at work grew a reaper on his desk all the way through to fruit last year and it's still alive after winter. A bit leggy but producing nevertheless.
I've got an indoor setup and have gone to fruit over winter no problem but that's all simulated conditions. Controlled temp and humidity with 16hr lighting.
Grow lights will work but the pods don't form right indoors. Start them under lights and grow them outside.
I have a peach ghost and naga brains red growing indoor under a light. Just for fun this winter.Papyrus said:
It seems lots of people grow indoors under grow light, particularly in hydro/aeroponics, but getting much info besides growing mj is hard to find. I'm starting with a little 45 watt led for now, if its not enough to fruit out I'll add more lighting, if Ill post my results one way it the other. But, have seen several successful indoor grows, even under cfl's with reflectors, so yes, its possible.
jedisushi06 said:
This is false. You can replicate the exact spectrum of the sun if you so wish in a tent indoors. It's not some magic to it, it's just electromagnetic radiation fully characterized by intensity at a specific wavelength. How would the plants ever know that they were not outdoors? Unless of course you're speaking of microbiome or pollination, but these you can obviously also solve via compost/AACT and hand pollination/fans.
With this said, many people do use weak lights and many do the mistake of using LED lights focused solely on the photosynthesis (red and blue light) with an unnatural lack of green and IR, which activate signaling pathways in the plants through cytochromes. This is probably why HPS lights (continuous spectrum) are preferred by growers instead of LED panels, even though you can get perfectly good light (cheap) from good LED panels.
OP, I grow my entire summer collection indoors in a tent of 1.2m×1.2m now. ~750W LED lights with a proper spectral distribution. The plants do absolutely not fair worse than during the summer with natural light. In fact, they grow vastly better. I'm not kidding. My tent beat full Swedish summer without a problem. I had picked 5-6 (!) ripe Bhut Jolokia when autumn arrived here in Sweden. Three weaks in the tent (at 500W at that)? Suddenly >100 pods which were green/white for months outside were suddenly ripe and very tasty and hot.
You can totally grow indoors just as well as you can outdoors. However, if you live in a climate where you have good (free!) natural summer there's maybe not much point in it for you. But if you do not, suddenly you can match the production of those who do. But keep in mind that indoor growing comes with a multitude of new challenges to consider. E.g. light source, power usage, light quality, temperature, ventilation and air flow, pests (no natural predators), microbiome, pollination, etc. To just mention a few. It's definitely a project which swallows a lot of your free time (and your wallet if you let it)!
As long as you got the proper lights, yes, Ive grown a few indoors, fruits and all, few others on the forum have also, pests i found can be a problem.
I have a bhut that was just blossoming at the middle of September here in Oregon, but my lack of knowledge on the proper climate for it to set caused problems with the fruiting.
Now it is indoors and occasionally gets bright warm sunlight. Am going to try and build a small twnt for it in the garage.
Pest problems are attempting to set in but I am trying to control them with dishsoap insecticide.
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Now it is indoors and occasionally gets bright warm sunlight. Am going to try and build a small twnt for it in the garage.
Pest problems are attempting to set in but I am trying to control them with dishsoap insecticide.
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dragonsfire said:
Very much this! Pests are definitely one of the challenges you become quite accustomed to dealing with during indoors growing. Sure, it can be a problem outdoors too but they can truly explode in a terrific fashion indoors, away from all natural predators in a cosy grow space.
On the other hand... If you manage to eradicate them fully and it's winter, they're not coming back until it's summer again! It's not a trivial task to eradicate them fully, but it can be done.
So I am trying out growing two pepper plants indoors over this fall and winter. I have a peach ghost and a naga brains red. The seeds are originally from White Hot Peppers and were gifted to me a few months ago. So the picture below is my peach ghost. It was planted directly into the soil. I used Fox Farms Ocean Forest soil. Some on the thread of that soil said it was to hot for younger plants with nutrients, but this peach ghost and the naga brains seem to love it. . I just put it under a T8 grow light from Home Depot when I wake up, and turn off the light before going to bed. Only concern is the plant not having a strong body and stems with no wind.
Here is my Naga Brains red plant
Here is my Naga Brains red plant
I don't think fox farms is too hot for your plants. I've used it many many times without an issue. If you're worried about the stems not being strong enough then the best thing to do is put a fan on it. The fan also helps keep fungal gnats away.GhostPepperz said:
nice!