Now that we’ve got our second growing space up for the season, let’s illustrate it a bit more. We’ve demonstrated our grow tent, but let us also demonstrate that there’s other, simpler ways to approach the indoor nursery.
One of the challenges with indoor nurseries is that, once you start transplanting into larger containers, your space needs multiply quickly. This is something many beginners underestimate. Turns out, those cute little seedlings turn into actual plants!
We use two of these temporary setups to help with this indoor nursery expansion. It’s a simple 2×6 table and an inexpensive PVC light hanger. Our quantum board LED grow lights are suspended using light hangers, allowing us to control their height.
This setup can hold nine 1020 trays, very comforatably. It’s nothing special and quite inexpensive to put together. We can set them up wherever we have room. And while it does occupy space, it doesn’t get in the way as you might think.
Our plant nursery is indoors out of necessity, we’re still fighting negative and single digit low temperatures. A beneficial side effect of this setup is that we also get a little bit of our heating from the lighting. This impacts the fuel bill, but the grow lights also provide triple duty by providing room lighting and photosynthesis.
Our opinion is this. Grow tents are overkill for the average indoor nursery. While they have some benefits, a simple and inexpensive setup is all you really need. There’s a ton of flexibility and there’s many ways to grow plants indoors.
What we aim to discuss here are things we think matters. We’ve discussed things like light strength, power efficiency and environmental controls like humidity. Soon, we’ll be discussing some of the recent studies we’ve done around air flow.
Tomorrow, we’ll discuss why we don’t use shelf based growing methods. We’ve tried things both ways and we have a lot of good reasons for using tables over shelves!
