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Growing indoor is a popular option for professional growers, having your crop on premises can really make things easily accessible, especially when you need to grow year round! Most of us do not have the pleasure of living in a tropical environment 365 days a year and have to create one in our own space for our baby girls to be able to survive all year round. Having your plants indoors makes it possible to monitor and adjust growth, stunting, and progress in flowering. Adjusting temperature, light and moisture is a luxury that outdoor growers just don’t have access to. Having such a wide range of control allows you to experiment with different kinds of strains and procedures that you would not be accessible in an outdoor crop. If your serious about growing all year round, this option would be a good one for you.

However, along with anything that has pros, there will be cons. Growing marijuana indoors can be a risky experience at times. At times, the smell can be hard to mask, basically announcing to your neighborhood that your basement is full of the precious green. Even though your crop is legal through Health Canada, it still is not something you want to be announcing to the world. Theft and marijuana have been known to go hand in hand unfortunately, and drawing attention to your personal place of residence is never a settling thought. Another downfall of growing indoors is, legal or not, your current provider may not be willing to insure your property, so growing outdoors or designating a grower is always something to consider.

Growing outdoor can be a great option for those less serious about growing. Raising your plants in dirt outdoors can produce a more tasty, clean product. Outdoor season is a great, but a short time of year however. Considering here in BC it’s only hot a couple months out of the year, that doesn’t leave much time open for growing. But if you can get some seeds planted in the spring, you’ll find by fall that you will be pleasantly surprised by the lack of work needed for an outdoor crop. As long as the weather stays solid and it rains often enough, you barely need to put any work into it at all. However, it is smart to plant by a creek, just incase it doesn’t rain, you don’t want to be packing water mid season to your crop during a dry spell. Also, be sure to plant it in an area with access to enough sunlight.

Although outdoor can be relatively stress free, there are some stressful factors that can come in to play. Not having a watchful eye over your plants can leave them open to danger. People, animals and weather can become factors in not harvesting your expected crop, and considering outdoor only comes once a year, not harvesting doesn’t even seem like an option.

Certain strains do well indoors compared to outdoors and vice versa. Make sure you research which grows where best and why. Keeping track of little details like this is what can promise you a potent and staggering yield.

The reason I started looking for other on-demand publishers is that I have a quarterly magazine with a circulation of under 20 (actually 20, NOT 20 thousand), and I’ve been using Lulu to get them printed.  Lulu has a “no-touch” system wherein they can’t fix anything once you’ve placed the order, and this has caused me a problem twice.  It seems that the efficiencies they achieve by doing things that way are worth the troubles though, because I have not yet found a printer that will bind a small number of high quality product for me for as low a price.

If I may bend your ear for a moment… My impetus for the magazine was to demonstrate something that is mathematically obvious, but in a way that the general public can understand and which can profit those willing to put in the effort.  The mathematically obvious thing is that it is more useful to say one thing is better than another than to say whether or not a particular thing is good.  In fact, the material published in my magazine is discovered through technology that asks website visitors to decide which of two submissions they like better.

The reason I wanted to share this with you is that all big website companies these days are trying to figure out how to balance the participation of site visitors against the provision of content that brings them back for more.  It seems to me that the technology my site employs goes a long way to achieving this balance.  As someone at Amazon who knows about what my site is doing, you may prove to be a valuable contact.  In a nutshell, user participation is generally restricted to absolute judgements (“did you like this?”), but when it is expanded to allow relative judgments (“which did you like more?”), it becomes more engaging and also more valuable.  If this idea interests Amazon, I’m available to explain more.