Growing a marijuana crop indoors with the use of fluorescent lighting it is possible to have a healthy mature crop that has a high yield and is potent when smoked. What the grower is attempting to do is to emulate the outdoor conditions without the threats the crop can suffer, such as weather events, drought and hot or cold temperatures. Growing indoors means that the pot plants are in a stable climate environment and with the use of fluorescent lighting the outdoor light can be imitated.

When using this type of lighting for the indoor crop there are several things about their use the grower should know, the first is while these lights can be found in most hardware or home improvement stores, they can also be found in lengths from one foot to four feet. This gives the grower the option to have the right amount of lighting. Then there is the fact that this lighting is easy to raise and lower depending on the height of the plants, because there are times when it should be between 2 and 4 inches from the plants, which the plants use as powerful direct sunlight.

When the grower has newly germinated and planted seedlings the light will need to be on 24 hours a day for optimum growth and the lighting should be approximately 2 inches from the tops of the seedlings.

The plants will be ready to transplant into the larger pots at about three weeks, and within four weeks it should be possible to about 14 hours of light and 10 hours of dark. Some growers during this time will even go with twelve hours of light and twelve hours of darkness. This will be when it might be possible to tell the sex of the plants depending on the strain, for some marijuana plants distinguishing the sex might be later. This can also depend on how well they adapt to the fluorescent lighting.