Tips and Tricks for Growing Cannabis in the Middle of Winter 

heat mat in tent and blankets over tent. 10-15* boost

On my third winter here in Minnesota. Been growing since 85 in my home state of Florida. My first winter was a little challenging...but nothing died...I call it a win.

Great episode fellas! I enjoy flowering in winter because I don't have to worry about humidity in my tents. Growing in an unfinished, insulated basement in tents.

Genetics are the capstone. Here in upstate ny where the the rh in flower is constantly at 90% outdoors, only the most resistant cultivars make it to the finish line. Some just push more secondary metabolites for extra protection and become more resinous, tricomb latent and potent instead of turning into a pile of budrot.

From 25c to -45c i only make 2 small changes and that change saves me on hydro. One is to turn off the window AC and the other is to move the ehaust from the 3 in 1 AC. In the warmer weather it vents outside, in the winter I vent it into my forced air heat vent. It heats my house, no furnace. Hydro cost drops in the winter by about $20 a month. Make no freakin wonder why I love the winters 🙌💚💨

I’m with Matt this year, a couple of ladies couldn’t make it out the cold and keep in mind crowding them together will cause powdery mildew

Missed the live show again. 17°, with 20-30mph winds gives us a "feels like 9°" With wind chill. In Austin, TX! 3-4 days of this. Hopefully no grid going down, like last year. Looks like we'll be okay! Usually doesn't get below freezing, ever. Except the last 3 years. Hotter in the Summer also. No Snow, or Ice control! A few million people, and not one Snow plow! Bizarre..?! One more "far below freezing day" left! 👍💯🙏✌️

That’s exactly what I do, Scotty. Got a Co2 burner for cheap! Turn off my AC & Rock & roll. Love winter grows!

This is was probably right before Matt interviewed Shane on "Talking Loud podcast" on The "I-Can Channel"..?! Lots of talk about spectrum, and especially LED Kelvin temperatures, and how Bruce Bugbee found plant "quality" to be the same from 3000K°-6000K° Diodes. Not mixed (but maybe some Reds with each Kelvin° color), but individual Kelvin colors per same fixture, same clone. Really good interview with Shane, of MIGRO. I've watched his channel for years, and learned much more through Matt's interview. Especially on the kind of light color and equal quality results. I'll have to watch again! Highly recommended!👍💯✌️

The cheapest way to heat an uninsulated structure is insulate it! There's foam panels for the back of the garage door, seals for the bottom, which also keeps rodents out, panels for the walls, etc. All money well spent.

Great ep! All of you have awesome podcasts! Awesome to see the collaboration!

As a new grower this was such an amazing experience thank you ❤

I did show him my frozen fan. It is connected directly to outside. The fan still works. And it is connected to probably about 50 feet of plastic tubing with holes in it. So it is delivering cool air like sweet sweet tickle. Kisses of the cool cool morning.

Shoutout to DGC! 💚 Haters gona hate, we gona keep growing fire!! 🔥

Can't wait to see yall at the cup.🎉

I’m in the PNW and my tent is in my garage. This is my first “indoor” grow. The last three years outdoor I have lost my harvest to natural what I would call disasters! 1st year, a champion fence jumping male in the neighborhood, 2nd year was bugs (fucking worms), 3rd year it rained for a solid week just as my trichs milking up so the entire harvest had to be trashed! Decided to go with a tent in the garage, gonna play God, not gonna have those issues when I’m in control! LMFFO!!! If I’d only known! First real issue was the temps! Got a greenhouse heater, next was humidity! Finally got that dialed by sealing my vents and letting the duct fan do the work. Seems to be working so far. I’m in my flip week and haven’t had any real issues so far! That heater sure works its ass off for sure!

that blanket idea was genius

I have an old 400w Sunpower HPS with a 60lb UL approved remote magnetic ballast that's as good as any radiator heater for warming a room. Plus it throws a shit ton of radiant heat from the bulb.

My grow is in a tent in my bedroom and it's even sitting at 60 degrees because it's so cold in my house. My home heater here can't keep up with the extreme cold weather here in Fort Collins but man are these plant's looking healthy! They can handle 60 degrees in Veg no problem. Lots of CO2 talk and I just don't use it and my plant's are doing just fine without it. Maybe some day I'll use it but I do just fine and I can grow some DGC Dank without it. I've got a Super Zoldier Syrum grow going now and I have HIGH hopes for a great harvest! I love that Recharge Scotty. I'm almost out so I'll be ordering some more. Big Shout Out to Real Growers!! I think this will be my first trip to the DGC cup this year. Where will it be?

If you are using AC in your grow, in Winter, in a cold climate figure out a way to use either a portable or a window shaker INSIDE. Why dump the heat outside? Window unit works better because the cold side is cold, hot side is hot. Portables are shitty, a dual hose unit is better than a single. I've ducted the exhaust of a window AC and it ran so much better than a portable. The exhaust of the portable would reach 130-140F, the window unit would run 5-10 above room temp

I'm glad to see Matt on the show awesome show as always

In the summer, I put the glass back on my hoods and have the heat sucked out in addition running the lights during coldest hours. I only use my AC when the lights are actually out. Maybe here in there

I live in the Upper Penninsula of MICHIGAN......i had two plants that were in flower when it just got too cold and nasty out. Grew them in my unheated well house. The sour diesel didn't much like it. But it grew. My Smashed Cake (a wedding crasher cross) grew fine. But it grew pink. Harvested at Christmas. The smoke was excellent.

Always the best advice...you all are the fuel that keeps the community growing!!! Thank you all for your contributions to everyones garden.

Environment first! I grow fire with any genetics. Genetics are flavors. 👍🏼🔥🌲. It’s like peppers. The grower grows them healthy and the variety is flavor

Use the co2 burner has a heat source. Interchanged with a small area heater. Winter time produces the best flowers . Grind time

Right on Ican for telling Jerin the truth. Genetics are first. Genetics are why we grow!

in Iowa we are heating I can regulate my humidity with my furnace, if I am comfortable so is the plants, simple

Well, dude, if you build that sexy little box like I have around your AC unit, then attach the in-line fan directly to that box… Keep your garage as cool as a cucumber.

We lost power for 12+ hours Down to 26f Hurt 3 in veg Definitely going to slow things down Synganics dirt Godspeed

Bingo, khaki pants! Right plant, right place baby

I put insulation around my duck work. But you can also simply tape plastic around it so you can direct all the condensation where you want it.

Run the AC below 60F at your own risk. That's the official word from almost all HVAC professionals.

Yes, Scotty shared this information with me. And I believe it about the CO2. I get that. What I don’t understand is when it really is necessary and when it is just icing, gilding the Lily.

I heat my house with a exhaust free fireplace and the Co2 from burning natural gas stays high, at times in the grow room it gets 2500/3000ppm and my plants grow like I'm in a jungle! It's crazy!

Super dope as usual fellas! Mad luv from the East Coast ✌🏼 ❤🤟🏼🙏

That’s right, Rasta! Use that heat

To avoid the overwatering you got to be on the up and up on the weather. I'm always checking the weather. When I see Temps dropping I'm lowering the amount of water I'm giving them. Adjusting environment helps alot too

Love all of you !!! THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS POTCAST

Winter like summer brings its own challanges. The main thing I have always noticed with the winter apart from its always alot colder is this. In the winter, it will take longer to flower, but you usually yield more.

I love the architectures! Don’t bring snowboards though. Sucks trying to carry them up all those tight stairway

Soo get thick as posable cardboard!! Cut'n'tape a cover likr nascar does on radiator to control air flow' if you put them on the outside vents' not the radiator the vents' it restricts fliw enough to keep the radiator warm enough it still functions properly' :) i live in oregon' cold winters works awsome' :) runs 24/7 365'.

How does someone growing for 40 years get into this computer stuff! I always felt like I was going to get in trouble. Kinda like the old rule , dont tell anyone even your best friend! Things are so different now & I have a little FOMO 😂❤. Love yall & hope to be more active part of things after the cup, maybe.❤

I legit saw a plant frozen in ice, that thawed out and was eventually harvested. It was only a few inches at the time. The pot didn't have holes so it filled with water and then froze.

At 6:06 Scotty yeah you're not really supposed to run your air conditioner in the winter but you can with something called a fan cycle switch it interrupts the fan and let the compressor continue to run until a certain pressure and then it turns the fan on so you could but it's not really good

The AC Infiniti booster fans are legit af for the price. I also cut a 6in port in my basement window with a booster fan on a diy temp control switch module. It blasts arctic air into the lung room at 80⁰.

I got tired of coughing my ass off so I bought a Dynavap! Shout out! It’s the bomb!!

Tis the season Pm' commeth to visit in my grow each year .....really need to find something resistant again, sadly lost the cut I had last winter .... . anyone noticed that the reisitant strains just get these little white circles , almost like water stains on leaves but just wipes off with no pm problem developing

Great finish...bob marley lyrical master musical master

Thanks for another great show DGC. Can someone please get the guys from Grease on one of the shows I really want some more information.

Dutch shovel huh? That's funny as hell. When it's this damn cold, I don't think a small grow will clear the roofs around here in OK

How’s it going DGC fam! This was a great panel choice thanks! Always struggling with low humidity during the winters. I think I’ll eventually get a humidifier to help extend dry times etc

Talking about running the ac in the winter why? I would always just turn the fan function on and it blows the even colder air in then what the ac was even putting out.

I have a semi heated garage there's a heat run out there and the garage door is insulated but it still gets really cold out there so I ran the heat run to the tent... stays about 77° in there now

Thank u so much for talking about cold soil. I been plagued with this because my floors are so cold and guess what shows up deficient every time? Exactly what u said. Between four grows i did everythimg in the world to fix mag deficiency and i had a feeling cold soil had something to do with it. Now i know. Wrinlky leaves and some cal issues too but not as much as mag. I have big heat mats as of saturday. I have talked to both rasta jeff and jerin about this in the past while figuratively(almost literally) banging my head off the wall. I was almost ready to quit because i knew i was doing everything right and they kept fucking up.

Man, that was well said the smart thing to think about saving lives

Yeah, here in Washington I’m having to crank my humidifier! My 5x5 is around 55RH but my 2x4 is sitting around 38RH! Ugh

10 deegrees here in Maryland at 853 pm

Jerin u and me have the same exact ideals when it comes to growing our favorite plant . I also use the winter time to un ac and use cold air thats free

I dont know about Matt but ive been using small space heaters for my tents for years.

I can't do backwoods but I'll smoke swishers all day

Genetics and enviroment are both equally as important in their own ways. Both have negatives and positves, but both are needed to see good results. Can have the best setup in the world, but if you put shit genetics in there, not much will come from it, same way you can have the best genetics, but without the right enviroment, they will never reach their potential. That being said I will put enviroment slightly higher on the priority list, simply because a bad enviroment can ruin/kill a crop and its the easiest issue to "fix". Stuff like bad air flow could cause rot on any bud your lucky to get grow and its easy to spot, good genetics is a whole other thing as your only limited to what you see growing yourself , so you might not even know the difference. Most people wont even really understand what "bad" and "good" genetics really means in this day and age. Nowdays, even crappy strains still give you something usually, but way back in the day, this wasnt the case, there was TONS of trash out there that hardly even flowered etc etc. Back in the day "Top shelf genetics" would just grow and yield in ways you wouldnt bellieve next to the average strain, if you havent seen it you wont understand. However in this day and age, this isnt as big an issue, but still something to take into account. As those killer genetics in a dialed in room are how you make the party rock and roll.

Nice Rasta! Move that air!

OK Scott, let’s say we use our CO2 burner for heat. Do you need the heat when the lights on? And do you need the CO2 and the lights off?

Guys, first of stop calling it a "hot water heater"! They don't heat hot water, they heat cold water. Second, water heaters now have sealed combustion chambers. If your water heater is the old style, it's already unsafe and needs to be replaced.

I was just sitting here forever waiting for it to start thinking that I finally caught a live in weeks and I just now realized it was posted an hour ago 😂😂😂 Dark hollow will get ya if you ain’t careful. Thanks Rasta Jeff 👊🏻😎

Yellow flame means monoxide, blue flame dioxide

Bros im geowing autos outdoors and its 60 in the day and 35-40 at night. no frost though I'm in California. plants growing great

Grow your indicas in the winter and your sativas in the summer

Panel on point grownies

I would use dudes cold air intake to chill my 1000 watt HPS some time ago

So damm good people!😎 Thank you all .... 😄

I just got bit by the weather switch a couple months ago. Cold came in and I was too focused on life and paying the electric that I didn’t get the space heaters out early enough. Went maybe 8-10 days with it being too cold at night and not quite high enough when lights on and the run was killed yield wise. Some of this was timing right at the end of Veg and beginning of flip and that just nosedived the the stretch. Smaller plants less yield. 😱

RASTA JEFF You FKN legend!

Man!.. one of these days I'm gonna be there with you guys talking weed shit...🤫🤔😏

Great Episode!!!!!

Ya exactly check how much it's going to add to your garden first. In alot of cases c02 isn't even worth the investment if your trying to go by how much you put into your garden vs what you get back. If it ups your yield a bit is that going to be worth the extra expense?

And now he’s talking about jumping cold air in. Yeah, you gotta defuse that shit! Thank God for my air tubes.

The ambient CO2 in my basement was around 460 and we got a new high efficiency furnace and now it's 405. Unintended consequences.

Ya genetics are a big factor. Even with outdoors.

Great show yall, proud of you. even you Grambo.

Adirondacks New York here. I have a 7 x 7 room in my insulated garage. There's a 3 x3 veg tent along with a 4 x 4 flower area. The garage typically stays 30-40 f during the winter months. I use two 1500 watt electric heaters to heat the room. I would like to change it out to a propane heater eventually.

Love the show

Theres a westport in the city im from Chad! 😊 Pretty sure theres one in every big city lol

Love these Panel Shows! 🤜🪴🤛

I’m with Jerrin! But I bet he could use my air tubes…

Great panel and excellent discussion. Candle in a small mason jar adds CO2 for my tents. Dollar store for candles. Plants seem to love it. Peace! Kenabyss DGC 613 🇨🇦

I find HPS to be more gooey with the buds.

00:12:50 lol😅 one of my greatest fears, too

Dude, dude, dude, you can build a box around it now or you can build it around it in the summer. But you’re gonna be building a box around that AC.

Yes light on at 40 percent won’t go past 70

Rasta Jeff last 10 days method is where it's at

AC Infinity's A.C. "Infinite " unit will probably be out for next Winter after this episode. 😊

I need that pulse with CO2!

Man my buds in flower all got down to 30 degrees bc the tent and whole garage filled with cold air and grow tent. I added a heater to the grow tent too now and thawed the buds and plants out after almost 2 days at 75-80. I've literally been losing my head son

I never use co2 now beat that

Scotty and his butter knife. What is he doing with that thing? I have not yet seen it.

Does selecting a small bottom branch to breed with pollen make more female seeds or still 50 50 since its only a small branch an rest female

You only grow indoors mainly during the winter💯%fact

Hi love you guys videos!Would a filter from the intake fan make a difference? In the cold?