Sorry if this has been asked before, but I if I'm gonna start doing an indoor grow (completely legal since I'm gonna become an MMJ patient), I might as well grow my own vegetables as well. Plus I figure that growing other things might help conceal my primary purpose for this grow-op I may or may not be planning. Suggestions? I've heard tomatoes grow in similar conditions but what else?
You really want to grow veggies inside? That will take a lot of space, light, and money. I'm not sure I'd recommend it. If you can't hide your indoor pot plants, you won't be able to hide by growing veggies. The smell will give you away and people will wonder why you're growing veggies indoors. Plus if you're going to be a legal grower, why are you trying to hide your indoor plants. I'm totally confused by this post. If you were growing outdoors I'd corn and tomatoes around your garden will grow tall and conceal your plants, then around the edge you could have some zucchini, cucumber, peppers...whatever you want. Try stopping by your local nursery.
if YOU DO decide to grow indoors, i'd suggest a fiber optic sky light that leads to your grow closet, may as well use the free light you get from the sun hey?
it is not efficient to grow indoors, the cost will be more than actually buying the produce. I do how ever every year place a MH light in the flower room and start my entire garden a month in advanced and plant starts. I run my grow room year round anyway and a month out of the year is not a huge loss for me. I would not however take produce full term indoors. I tried once and got a total of three tomatoes from a full sized plant.
A nice cherry tomato plant would work. Bell peppers also. I'm sure there are probably other things you could grow. But other than snap peas and onions. Everything else I grow outside. Squash don't do well indoors or in greenhouses because they are prone to powdery mildew. Although I often start seeds in my grow room and then transfer them to my greenhouse until it's warm enough to put them in the ground. Just be very careful not to bring plants that have already been outside into your room. The chances of you introducing some pest like spider mites just isn't worth the risk.
Depends on where you live. If you get a lot of natural light outside, just do little plants inside like herbs. Lettuce seems to do poorly outside where I live, and since it doesn't take up much space, I have it growing beside most of my windows. I cannot get good hot peppers to grow here either, so I pop them under some nice 1000w bulbs and hope to have something spicy soon!
[quote name='"mjmama25"']You really want to grow veggies inside? That will take a lot of space, light, and money. I'm not sure I'd recommend it. If you can't hide your indoor pot plants, you won't be able to hide by growing veggies. The smell will give you away and people will wonder why you're growing veggies indoors. Plus if you're going to be a legal grower, why are you trying to hide your indoor plants. I'm totally confused by this post. If you were growing outdoors I'd corn and tomatoes around your garden will grow tall and conceal your plants, then around the edge you could have some zucchini, cucumber, peppers...whatever you want. Try stopping by your local nursery.[/quote] Even if I was a legal grower I would want to hide it. Why open yourself up to be robbed. I grow vegetables indoors. Jalapenos, tomatoes, and bell peppers. All under one 400 watt light. They always produce very well.