INDOOR AIR QUALITY FOR HOMEGROWN CANNABIS

One of the prominent impressions that homegrown cannabis cultivation could have on environmental health is probably the connections to its recurring issues on indoor air quality when growing cannabis indoors. 

There are primary concerns to address in regards to a safer indoor grow setup in relation to air quality and other factors.

Increased Relative Humidity In Homegrown Cannabis

The relative humidity is an essential factor of the germination of fungi or mold in the marijuana grow room. Indoor unwanted moisture and molds are in circulation connected with respiratory conditions such as asthma, cough, (RI) respiratory infections, (URTS) upper respiratory tract symptoms and wheeze, among others. 

Understanding the air quality to limit or restrict mold growth is a must. Also, subsequent respiratory health concerns, as well as expensive removal of pollution or contaminants. Engineers and expert grower of cannabis, recommend maintaining relative humidity under Sixty Five percent 65% in indoor growing.

Homegrown cannabis can raise the room’s relative humidity levels through many different factors and can do so significantly. When breeding young clones, for example, breeders often use mizzling or humidifiers to increase relative humidity to sometimes as high as Seventy percent 70% to sustain blooming marijuana plants until the rooting grows and becomes stabilized.

Air Flow With Fan For Soil Cultivation

For those using soils, fertilizers feed, nutrients and such as substrates will benefit from also adding products such as feeds that contain enzymes and minerals. To repair the deadening cannabis roots and turn them into feed for the soils and the flowering cycle begins. 

All feeds used in the vegetation period are not used with exception to the enzyme for the cannabis plant for those using soils, while with hydroponics the roots are fed oxygen via an air pump pushing air into the nutrient reservoir through air diffusers. This process ensures the cannabis root zone is fed with oxygen and will keep the roots from drying and rotting. 

Homegrown Cannabis Ventilation To Control Fumes From Feeds

Phosphorus and Potassium (PK) on top of the booster and floral feed. The cannabis enzymes are then required to repair the root zone from the harsh chemicals found in the Phosphorus and potassium feeds (PK). 

To do this, cannabis growers add Phosphorus and Potassium into the flower booster and the floral feeding schedule begins. Thus, ensuring the cannabis roots can uptake the water required to clean the plant's substrates cleaning the minerals and nutrients telling the plant to finish its cycle. A supplement with good minerals and enzymes are widely available and helps the cannabis plant in various ways such as;

• Telling the plant to finish its flowering cycle 

• Cleans the substrate, roots, and stalks of existing feeds.

• Flush cleans out the plants of unwanted salts. 

Foliar feeding of cannabis flower boosters is highly recommended from day one of flowering until Flush has been applied. Not all flower boosters for cannabis can be added to the plants using foliar feeding.

Side notes

Grow your own cannabis and processing of cannabis for recreational and medicinal use is a swiftly growing industry both at home and commercial level. The demand for cannabis products, the quantity of products produced and the volume of cannabis grower continues to increase substantially. 

Because the legal cannabis industry is relatively new, there is limited quantitative data available about health and safety hazards that growers may face. Potential hazardous exposures in this industry include (UV) Ultraviolet radiation, unwanted molds, pesky pests, volatile organic compounds, particulate matter, and ergonomic injuries.

Homegrown cannabis cultivation is a resource-intensive process with energy demands as the most contributor to the cannabis environmental footprint. While growing cannabis in a controlled indoor environment leads to easy production and more varieties of derived products, high energy consumption and increasing price competition are pushing cannabis growers to get familiar with the air quality that impacts high energy consumptions.