Cultivation indoor

Trichocereus pachanoi, or "Satt Pedro." The cactus very rarely flowers when cultivated indoors. 

Just like all herbal medicinal preparations, C. sativa should be standardized if extracts or whole plant material are to be used for medicinal purposes. Basic requirements are that all detectable constituents should be known, but also a sustainable quahty control system must be established to achieve the same quahty over all batches. For industrial use of cannabis, standardization could also be necessary to equahze the quality of the product. However, it must be stated that cultivation for this purposes is mostly performed outdoors. Outdoor growth makes standardization of the product difficult due to the environmental changes. For this reason the Dutch medicinal C. sativa is grown under strictly controllable conditions, and therefore indoors, by the company Bedrocan. At this company clones are used for breeding to maintain high standards for quantity and quality. After a strictly selective breeding procedure a plant fine has been estabhshed fulfilhng all criteria as a herb for medicinal use. 

In California, outdoor cultivation of coca is possible only around San Diego, if there. Trujillo Coca would probably do well there under irrigation and intensive care. Elsewhere, forget it. I do not subscribe to growing it commercially indoors and doubt if the produce would be worthwhile. Greenhouse and apartment grown leaf is very inferior in flavor and potency. Fresh air and sunshine are in order (as with Cannabis). 

Therefore, an indoor cultivation system was established in Japan nearly 80 years ago [1]. The stigmas can be collected from full blooming C. sativus in the room, Fig. (1) resulted that the concentration of crocin reached approximately 30 % in ethanol extracts of saffron [1]. This is the reason why the indoor cultivation method is advantageous for the achievement of a high quality and homogenous saffron and for saving time. 

Many people cultivate their own herb gardens of various species in the mint family that are used as flavorings. This is done to ensure a continuous and fresh supply of these flavorful herbs for use in aromatic, epicurean cooking. Recently, people have also began to grow these plants indoors under artificial sources of light so that they will continue to have access to fresh edible mints during the winter. 

It should also be mentioned that the majority of microbial airborne particles are dead or noncultivable , which means that they do not grow under the laboratory conditions chosen. This is, for example, true for microorganisms hke Stachybotrys chartarum. To fully survey the indoor microbial situation and to avoid overlooking fungal species which may be indicators of damage, additional samples have to be taken using methods hke direct microscopy which are not dependent on hving, cultivable cultures. Here, for example, microscopic slides with an adhesive surface are inserted in special impactor samplers. The airborne particles collected are stained in the laboratory. EspeciaUy spores with a characteristic shape hke those of S. chartarum are easily detected under the microscope. 

Derikx PJ, Simons FH, OP Den Camp HJ, et al. 1991. Evolution of volatile sulfur compounds during laboratory-scale incubations and indoor preparation of compost used as a substrate in mushroom cultivation. Appl Environ Microbiol 57(2) 563-567. 

Sunesson A.L., Nilsson C.A., Carlson R., Blomquist G. and Andersson B. (1995d) Influence of temperature, oxygen and carbon dioxide levels on the production of volatile metabolites from Streptomyces albidoflavus cultivated on gypsum board and tryptone glucose extract agar. In Sunesson A.L., Volatile metabolites from microorganisms in indoor environments-sampling, analysis and identification. Thesis, Umea University, Sweden. 

Indoor cultivation is not completely immune to detection by law enforcement agencies, however. The special high-intensity lights used... 

Chini ZitteUi GC, PastoreUi R, Tredici MR A modular flat panel photobioreactor (MFPP) for indoor mass cultivation of Nannochloropsis sp. imder artificial illumination, J Appl Phycol 12(3-5) 521-526, 2000. 

West et al. [160] discuss the measurement of bulk carbon and nitrogen isotope values for 508 marijuana samples from the United States and for a number of other samples from other countries. The authors provide a framework for determining cultivation methods (i.e., indoor vs. outdoor grown) based on the carbon and nitrogen isotope data. 

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