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ComoTentGrow.com
Mid-Missouri's Best Agricultural Consultants
Over 20 Years Of Experience.
From Seed To Harvest, We're With You Every Step!
The Grow Whisperer's
Every Plant Has A Story,
If They Could Speak, This Is What They Would Say.
They would tell us precisely what they need to grow because a plant's whole purpose is to grow into the most abundant it can.
And while plants can't speak out loud, they show us what they need through the conditions in which they're being cultivated. Modify the requirements to the proper process, and you'll be amazed at the results.
Our team has spent over 20 years traveling the world, learning, studying, and creating. We educate and consult on the best microclimates to design excellent home-based tent setups and large indoor-outdoor grow operations. Take one look at the results we produce, and you may want to call us "The Grow Whisperer."
Our passion is these plants and the healing medicinal powers they bring to the world. So if you're a newbie beginning the journey, ready for your medical card to start growing, or an advanced level grower seeking on-site consultation, we'd love to help.
Choosing Your Seeds
Seed selection varies based on each individual or corporate grower and their goals. So it's much more than knowing the strain of choice, flavor, aroma, or taste profile; it also has to do with the environment you plan to grow in.
Where it Begins
Are You Growing For Medical or Recreational,
What Results Do You Wish to Create From Your Strain?
There are many aspects to look at when choosing the right seeds. The process may seem overwhelming at first. So before you throw a bunch of money towards buying seeds, lights, power, nutrients, and fertilizers, you want to devise a plan to yield the best results.
We help you build that strong foundation first and put a plan in place that will turn out an impressive harvest beyond your wildest dreams. Even the more advanced grower has something to learn, like increasing yields and profits by reviewing their current strategy and systems to fine-tune their farming mechanics.
Here are just a few questions we'll be sure to ask, and happy to share the education on to get you the proper structure designed for success.
*Do you know what strain? Indica, Sativa, Hybrid.
*How do you want it to make you feel? Pain-Free, Laser-Focused, Social, Inspiring, or Relaxed.
*Do you know your growing environment? For Example, Indoor/Outdoor, Grow Tent, or Greenhouse.
*Do you want more care-free growing or more advanced? Disease Resistant or Exploring Crossbreeding.
*Do you know your seed type? Regular, Feminized, Autoflowering, or Photoperiod.
Contact us today to get started.
Selecting Your Medium
There's no best way to grow. So instead, there's experimentation, trial & error, studying your environment, and then taking steps to create the best outcome. First, select the medium based on goals, then add nutrients, water, and oxygen.
Laying The Foundation
Soil, Hydro, Or Coco-Coir?
Know Your Soil Conditions or Maybe Don't Use Soil.
Some experts will swear by one medium over another, but it's not about which is better because plants grow miraculously. But the foundation you choose to plant your seeds in must take the environmental factors surrounding your grow site.
Suppose the outside soil and compost aren't favorable. You may have to spend considerable money re-introducing the needed nutrients and fertilizers to the earth and plants to yield a successful harvest.
If the climate is volatile and unpredictable, this can significantly limit your growing season. For example, suppose your area brings heavy rainstorms, hail, frost, or erratic temperature swings. In that case, you may want to protect the process and consider growing inside. You may want to look at particular soil & compost options, soilless blends like Coco-Coir & Perlite, or go all-in on a Full Hydro-System.
We're here to help you decipher these options and review the right choices to protect your budget and harvest.
Let's Get Sprouting
Is there a "best way" to germinate your seeds? Or do you prefer to use clones? This process moves relatively quickly, whether you're growing for personal use or corporate income production. Most seeds start to sprout in 3-10 days.
The Vital Stages
Let's Set Up Your Germination Station,
Whether Choosing Seeds Or Clones, There's Much To Learn & Know.
If you're a beginner and have never started the germination process before or know what a clone is, this is where we will begin. By gaining a comprehensive understanding of your goals, we can design the best strategy to go forward.
Seeds and Clones are temperamental, they need the right environment to sprout and the right amount of love and attention to grow into a fully mature adult plant.
*How do you germinate your seeds? Regular, Feminized, Autoflowering, or Photoperiod.
*Setting up your germination station? Best choices for in-home setup or corporate grow operations.
*Which ways should you germinate? Paper Towels, Water Soaking, Direct Planting, or Jiffy Pots.
*What choice produces a more robust plant? Growing from seed or choosing clones.
*Pros and Cons of Clones? Characteristics, Flavor Profile, Cannabinoid Structure, Disease, Pests, or More.
Sprouting is one of the most critical stages to getting started; too little attention and the seeds won't sprout, or the clones will fail. Too much water, wrong nutrients, inhospitable climate, and disaster can strike. So every farmer, small and large, knows this is a crucial component of starting your crops.
Lighting & Setup
Setting up your grow operation can be pretty straightforward or incredibly intricate, depending on your goals and growing conditions. The sun gives us energy which provides us with life, and the proper lighting times are crucial for your plants.
Energy & Structure
Let There Be Light,
And Photosynthesis, Energy, Growth, & Success.
Lighting can arguably be considered an essential factor for thriving vegetation and, ultimately, the flowering of your plants. However, outdoor growing seasons are limited to usually one crop per year due to weather conditions and sun composition. Nevertheless, if you live where the climate, hours of sun, and atmosphere will conform to the 12 hours on 12 hours off rule-of-thumb, you may be able to grow a few crops a year.
Arrangement, structure, and lighting coverage are the most important aspects to consider for indoor & tent growers. Because the wide varieties of lighting fixtures, dealers, opinions, and costs associated with lighting, are virtually endless. Therefore, the proper lighting is vital for your plants' success. In addition, knowing what to buy and where to place your lights is another way we help you expand production.
You could be doing everything in the process correctly and have poor lighting, and the results will rob your plant of its proper growth and yield potential. Our team of professionals in Mid-Missouri has spent decades working with lighting dealers and manufacturers worldwide to perfect lighting, angles, timing, and setup to create the most success.
We will discuss the impact of the proper lighting, light intensity, quality, light integral, light spectrum, adjusting light intensity, light uniformity, fine-tuning color distribution, and growing environmental parameters.
We review the different choices of grow lights available. We like to select the best fit for your growing operation once we know more specifics you provide. Some lighting examples are fluorescent, high-intensity discharge (HID), and light-emitting diodes (LED). In addition, we regularly consult with growers already invested in lighting and grow operations to discuss how to lower overall energy costs and work within everyone's budget and needs.
Ventilation, Exhaust, & Power
If you plan to grow outdoors, nature will provide all the ventilation you need. However, growing indoors is a different ballgame. Proper ventilation, exhaust, and easy access to electrical power are necessary for any size indoor grow operation.
Breath Is Life
Breathe In, Breathe Out,
Proper, non-restricted airflow is a must.
Your grow house ventilation systems are just as crucial as your lighting systems and as vital as the nutrient-rich Soil you plant your seeds in. All three work in harmony to give your plant the best chances for total mature growth and bud production.
Your ventilation system helps control atmospheric conditions inside your grow-tent, warehouse, basement, greenhouse, or wherever you grow inside. It helps balance temperature, humidity, and CO2 levels, impacting achieved photosynthesis.
Our team shares the full 411 regarding oscillating fans, exhaust fans, transpiration, CO2 injection, suction, seals, and negative air pressure. And how to reduce noise and which products are best for your environment. In addition, we will share how we use carbon filtration and help choose between passive or active intake systems.
We'll review topics like temperature control, how to disperse heat, humidity control, and mature and electrical venting. Then, we calculate your needs based on the size of the area and the number of plants you're growing.
It sounds technical because it is. Combining a little bit of science, a few calculations, and these beautiful plants, we nerd out on this part to help get it right. We want to keep your grow area smelling clean and staying fresh while maximizing total operational capacity.
Indoor & Tent Growing
Open room growing, closed tent system, or both? Which is best for you depends on the end goal. Extensive operation cultivation will employ many styles to balance their harvest. In contrast, the home grower tends to go towards tent growing.
Creating A Microclimate
To Control Or Not To Control,
That is The Question.
This question has been a topic of discussion since the first person decided to grow indoors. Which is better, indoor or outdoor, control the environment or don't?
But it's not a debate because it comes down to personal goals and personal preference. Some factors will always cause someone to choose one style over the next, and mostly it has to do with their climate and environment at different times of the year.
Controlling your environment is the main difference between indoor and outdoor growing ops. Either you let nature takes its course from the sun, rain, and elements outside, or you take complete control and bring your operation indoors.
Many growers tend to prefer indoors just based on this desire to control the conditions they know will bring the best results for their strain of crops.
However, the benefits of indoor growing do ultimately win out over outdoor growing for the following reasons.
- You can constantly produce ongoing harvests, growing in multiple stages year-round.
- You're taking full responsibility for maintaining the perfect environment, from climate to temperature, humidity, and ventilation, producing the ideal scenario for your plants to thrive.
- Typically you'll reduce growing time and speed up the output. As you hone your craft, you'll have the ability to maintain more consistent and quality development.
- You can grow at your discretion, away from prying eyes and unwanted attention.
Any negatives are reasonably easy to overcome. Most growers reference initial startup costs, lighting, energy consumption, and ventilation costs. What's usually never mentioned as a negative is the quality of the product produced from indoor setups.
Most initial costs can be quickly paid back by producing multiple crops all year round, versus typically one yield per year when growing outdoors.
Outdoor Growing
Farming outside comes with many benefits and is often associated with commercial operations following their county, state, or country's laws. However, from lower startup costs to larger plants, the outdoors cant be ignored.
Braving The Elements
Throw Caution To The Wind,
Literally...
Letting nature do its thing or controlling the process indoors when planting your crops has long been a discussion amongst enthusiasts in this market. There is no 100% wrong or 100% correct way to choose; there is just the way that works best for you.
However, when researching outdoor growing, you'll quickly learn your climate, environment, rainfall, storm patterns, soil composition, costs of land, and access to water as critical factors before you start.
The startup costs are vastly lower when comparing the harvest potential. With suitable climates and care, your plants have more space to grow. Often, outdoor-grown plants grow considerably more significantly, yielding more bud potential. Plus, you get free, unlimited lighting and ventilation.
Some of the negatives could be access to water on your land, wrong soil composition, securing your crops from others, or protecting from a hungry family of deer or other pests. These are all situations that can wipe out or compromise your crops. Ultimately, it will come down to personal choice, costs, and resources.
Suppose you're weighing your options on which way to start or exploring current outdoor growing systems. In that case, we'd love to connect and discuss it further.
Harvesting & Processing
Many products can be produced from the buds, whether growing for personal use or on a corporate scale. Cannabis & CBD plants are no longer about the pure flower; extracts, resins, oils, CBD, tinctures, and more is possible.
Handling The Bounty
Reap What You Sow,
You planted the seed, grew the plants; now what?
You can't just cut down your crop one day and expect it to be ready the next; there is a whole process to prepare your crops for personal use and commercial consumption.
Everything from drying time, trimming, curing, storing, and processing into other forms will be unique for each plant and strain you have. However, the plants are good at telling us when they are ready; the trick is knowing what to look for.
Sativa, Indica, and Hybrid strains all will have different timing needed. You want to look for the formation of "Trichomes," those sticky, epic-smelling, crystal-like structures found all over a beautifully grown plant. Yet if you're harvesting an auto-flower plant, it's not always as obvious.
We'll discuss the right time to harvest, trim and cure and the techniques used to create different variations of THC and CBD products you can make. Your options are endless.
Enthusiasts, creators, naturopathic healers, chefs, bakers, and candy makers are experimenting with extracts. As a result, these innovators are helping the market move away from smoking being the only option.
Let's have a conversation about your goals for harvesting and find the endless opportunities available.
Hybrids & Crossbreeding
Learn all about the fine art of crossbreeding new strains as our team provides hands-on experience to yield you some of the most beautiful sticky-bud creations known yet. Tap you into our resources & connections, and let your mind run wild.
Advanced Horticulture
If You Breed It, They Will Come,
Well, It's Not That Easy, But We'll Help You Through.
Crossbreeding is where we get into super-advanced horticulture work at its absolute finest. Creating new hybrids and strains can be a multi-generational growth process that can yield stunning sticky-icky creations that connoisseurs worldwide will seek out.
We'll start with the basics of breeding and dive into the attributes of strains and variations. Then, we discuss how to breed your plants, share knowledge on phenotypes and gene protection, and how-to backcross your plants to make them produce more desirable traits.
Creating crossbreeds and new variations is fun and takes time and patience, but it is always worth the rewards. So, are you up for the challenge to try out your green thumb on crossbreeding? If so, reach out today so we can discuss your goals and set up a plan.
Increasing Harvest
Yield & Profits
Now is where all of your hard work pays off. You put in the time, investment, sweat, and patience. After this, you'll be well established with a tasty personal supply and the knowledge to keep growing & developing a market strategy to maximize profits.
Maximum Rewards
This is where the fun part comes in,
You've Gained The Knowledge, Now Let's Multiply!
What's next? You've now made it from the journey of seed to harvest with the final product in hand. If you were a newbie, you should be incredibly proud. You breathed life into the possibilities and get to see the rewards. So now you know how always to keep your supply stocked to the fullest.
With this knowledge, you can start working on hybrids, and crossbreeds, take notes about what you appreciate or don't enjoy about your strain, and research what you want to grow next. Then, you can get started right away; for outdoor growers, just time your next crop around the ideal growing seasons.
However, if you're an industry novice or advanced grower, now is when to explore increasing your crops. First, dial in your financials for what is possible.
We help experienced growers get centered in areas like maximizing profit margins, optimizing floor space and farm yields, introducing automation sequences, working to reduce energy costs, exploring alternate product offerings, and helping to create industry-level affiliate relationships.
The list goes on and on where you can take this; as more and more states enact legislation, the creative possibilities continue to expand. We are so excited to be a part of your journey; reach out today!
Get Ready For The Journey
Dare To Explore Your Growing Potential.
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