by Jorge Cervantes
Cannabis Life Cycle and Indoor Growing
Cannabis cultivated indoors needs light, air, a growing medium, warmth, nutrients, and water. As explained earlier in this chapter, you can control all these needs in yur indoor garden and achieve optimum results.
Cannabis is a shirt-day plant. In nature, it flowers when autumn days are short and nights are long. Outdoors, cannabis normally grows as an annual plant, completing its life cycle within one year. A seed that is planted in the spring will grow through the summer and flower in the fall, producing more seeds.
Cannabis goes thru three distinct stages of growth: seedling, vegetative, and flowering. Most varieties or strains will stay in the vegetative growth stage as long as they receive 18-24 hours of light and 6-0 hours of darkness. Most strains of cannabis will flower when they receive 12 hours of light and 12 hours of uninterrupted darkness.
Indoors you can use this knowledge t control the life cycle and harvest up to six crops a year.