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seaofgreen18
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Cover crops can make environmental controls more challenging. While this may be a somewhat minor point, adding more plant biomass in a room will potentially increase transpiration and respiration rates, and possibly require more energy in the form of environmental controls like dehumidification.
I realize that some growers will still choose to utilize cover crops indoors and I have seen some successful use cases on social media that appear to show healthy plants. However when weighing out the pros and cons and optimizing processes in our garden, I don’t believe cover crops belong indoors. Of course in a small tent garden, where scouting and plant management is quite simple, this is much less of an issue. When we move into the commercial realm with hundreds or thousands of plants, the added labor and associated pest risk far outweigh any benefits a cover crop may offer.
I realize that some growers will still choose to utilize cover crops indoors and I have seen some successful use cases on social media that appear to show healthy plants. However when weighing out the pros and cons and optimizing processes in our garden, I don’t believe cover crops belong indoors. Of course in a small tent garden, where scouting and plant management is quite simple, this is much less of an issue. When we move into the commercial realm with hundreds or thousands of plants, the added labor and associated pest risk far outweigh any benefits a cover crop may offer.