Choose the Best Cannabis Grow Tents

The best cannabis grow tent are domestic greenhouses, designed for growing indoors. Their goal is to recreate all the conditions that allow plants to grow outside, from light to ventilation, guaranteeing those who don't have a garden or a balcony to be able to dedicate themselves to the cultivation of their favorite species. In this guide you will find all the advice and information you need to set up your grow tent or grow room, according to what we have learned in twenty years of practice and studies or indoor growing. Before starting, we just have to make a distinction on how to choose the best cannabis grow tents to buy?

• Grow tents are, as the name suggests, "tents" designed to contain and grow seedlings
• Grow rooms are real rooms used for cultivation, so in this case the "box" is the walls of the room. Now there are also grow tents on the market so large as to be real grow rooms, but these are products that in all respects must be chosen and compared using the same logical steps of a box; for this reason, especially for practical purposes, we want to maintain the distinction between real rooms and ad hoc containers built to house plants.

It might seem obvious, but obviously depending on which option you choose, two different types of equipment become necessary. We will focus specifically on grow boxes in this guide, while you can find references to grow room tools within our indoor growing guide . Let's start!

Complete or DIY grow tent setup?

The first choice you will have to make is between complete and handcrafted grow tents setup. In any case, the final instrument is always composed of :

• Container
• Lighting system (lamps)
• Air extractor
• Control tools, i.e. timer, thermo-hygrometer and/or climate control
• Earth
• Vases
• Fertilizer
• Power connection cables

To help you decide, we will take a closer look at both types of solutions.

Complete Grow Tents

This choice is very popular, especially among beginners, because it protects against the most common mistakes that are made when starting to grow in a grow tent.

These are solutions, like the ones we offer in our shop, which save you all the training necessary to obtain a valid grow tent. A full tent includes all the elements we listed above, but there's more.

These are already designed to integrate better with each other, avoiding problems of space or compatibility between the external structure and internal elements. You won't encounter unexpected events and you can rely on the manufacturer's experience , to which is added a second level of guarantee.

Since there are hundreds of products on the market, the second level of guarantee is represented precisely by our further experience which allows us to offer further selected complete grow tents within the shop . Among the complete kits that we offer you we want to point out:

• Mini Grow Tent 40 Kit : if you want to start growing indoors with only 140 euros and the smallest possible footprint, this small but powerful grow tent is what you need. With a square base of 40x40cm, all you need is a corner of the house to grow your plants with everything they need, including two 125W and 200W lamps for the growth and flowering phases, analog timer and fertilizers from the line BioBizz to guarantee a breakfast of champions for your seedlings; Price: 148 euros
• Grow Tent 80 : one of the most loved products by our customers and the best seller in the category. In less than one square metre, everything you need for a professional grow tent: 250 W lamp with reflector and 3m of cable, a TT 100 Bi-Power aspirator, 4 6.5 liter pots and 2 meters of flexible cable offered by us to connect the vacuum cleaner to the outside. Price: 290 euros
• Grow Tent 120 PRO 600W : the ideal solution for those who want the best and that's it. This professional grow tent is the flagship of our shop and uses a 600 W magnetic ballast to manage the lamp power supply. This can be a GroLux or a SunMaster and it is further possible to decide on the reflector: in fact, to guarantee excellent lighting, you can opt for the Adjust-A-Wing reflector instead of the Diamond. With this kit you will also have the opportunity to receive a free potentiometer, offered by Grow Shop Italia. Price: 479-534 euros

DIY: setting up a grow tent

If you're more into the idea of ​​customizing your own kit, you can always choose to build your own grow tent. In this case you will have to decide which elements to put together to build your cultivation tent, starting right from the space you have available. In a second step we will write a definitive guide to creating a grow tent from scratch, but we immediately want to give important guidelines to those who intend to follow this path. The first thing you will need to do is think about how to choose a container large enough to accommodate all the elements you need and leave the right space between the lamp and the plants. One of the most common errors is precisely that of not considering precisely how much space the seedling will occupy once it has grown: it is a nasty surprise to see that the leaves start to burn due to being too close to the heat source precisely during the expansion that follows beginning of the flowering stage. You'll want to think about building the container after you've sorted out your other equipment so you know what to expect. When choosing your fixtures, avoid the common mistake of spending your entire budget on the lamp thinking that the rest, after all, is marginal. The extractor fan, the reflector, the substrate, the fertilizers and at least a timer are equally essential for the success of your project; just as you wouldn't buy a Ferrari if you didn't know you could also afford road tax, insurance and petrol, you shouldn't buy a lamp without having taken into consideration all the other elements (including the cost of the lamp itself) . By doing all the necessary calculations, in any case, you will be able to build yourself a perfect grow tent for your needs and maybe even save something compared to an already assembled kit. Since we want everything to go smoothly, we remind you that you can contact us; We will be happy to help you chooseall the material you need for the construction of your grow box, thus avoiding unpleasant accidents along the way.

What are grow box and grow closet and differences between them

We have mentioned several times in this guide that an essential element of grow tents is the container. We haven't explored this issue yet, but there are actually two different types of "box": curtains and lockers. Grow boxes inside a tent are technically called a grow tent , while those that are fitted into a cabinet are a grow closet . There are more or less large differences between the two systems: in general, as the quality of the products compared increases, the differences decrease. The curtains they can be made with a very varied build quality. For this reason, they have long been chosen by those who wanted to save money without paying too much attention to the technical characteristics. Being easy to assemble, disassemble and transport, they represent a more practical but also less aesthetically pleasing solution. Also, cheaper grow tents don't have a good zipper seal system with which they open and close, which causes light and heat from the lamps to leak out. By improving the quality of the blind by choosing a well-made model, however, this problem does not arise and only the "problem" of the aesthetic aspect remains. The grow closets from the outside, they look like real lockers unrecognizable from those used to store clothes and objects. This is why it is possible to choose models that integrate aesthetically with the colors of your home environments and make them pieces of furniture that are well integrated with the rest. They often feature two separate compartments for veg and flowering. In both cases, it is very important that the internal surface of the container is highly reflective. The walls must not absorb the light and the precious heat that the lamp emits, otherwise part of its effectiveness will be lost. Mylar is usually used, a material with a very high reflective capacity; this is measured as a percentage, and Mylar is able to reflect as much as 94% of the light it radiates. In the event that the inside of the grow tent you are about to buy is made from another material, remember to check its reflective capacity before proceeding.

Advantages of a grow tent

There are so many advantages to choosing a grow box for growing seedlings indoors. These can always remain in controlled temperature and humidity conditions, without being exposed to the external climate; at the beginning of germination it is impossible to know which days will be sunny or rainy or how windy it will be in the flowering stage, so indoor cultivation in itself already offers greater security to see your seedlings grow and blossom. Furthermore, compared to a grow room, there are further differences:

• A grow box, being small and compact , can be placed in any home. A grow room implies a considerable space, which city dwellers can hardly have available.
• Being limited in size, the lamps are also adapted to these spaces. For this reason, the overall consumption of electricity is almost always lower than that of a grow room.
• Since with a complete grow box the spaces are already calculated to optimize the size of the pots and the distance from the lamp , the problems of spacing and size that often afflict novice growers in a grow room can be avoided.

Useful tips for choosing a grow tent

We now come to the conclusion, with some tips fot choosing a grow tent that you will surely need if you are thinking of buying one. These are also the result of experience and the many mistakes we too made in the late 90s when we started growing indoors.

• Remember to think about where to put your grow tent with the length of the extractor tube in mind . This must be connected to the outside, otherwise it will not be able to release the typical smells of cultivation outside the house. The distance from the sockets is less important, because you can always use an extension cord with minimal expense, but the distance from the window is decisive.
• Check, before completing the purchase, the amount of electricity you will need to keep the grow room active. In addition to representing a cost that you will have to bear in the bill, there is also a matter of no small importance regarding the peak power that you can reach in your home network. If to keep your grow room active you can no longer turn on any appliances without blowing out the lights, you may have to live like a man of stone to grow indoors ... prevent this eventuality.
• Don't make the mistake of thinking that the equipment makes the cultivator . Clearly with a better setup you will be able to obtain better results, just as a larger grow tent equals more plants and therefore a possible more abundant harvest. At least in the first moment, when you will get to grips with this art for the first time, what will really make the difference will be the way you take care of the irrigation, the control of the photoperiod, the temperature and humidity conditions, the transition from the vegetative stage to the flowering stage and so on. There is no grow tent that can compensate for carelessness or inexperience, so accept that buying equipment is just the beginning of a journey that can give you much satisfaction along the way.