Other plants in your grow room?

[bearded.beaver]

Hey everyone. I'm not talking about cover crops.
Does anyone else have other plants in your grow room?
Good idea or bad?
Do you have any companion plants?

What about a tomato plant?
Or maybe some lettuce?

I'm not meaning planting in the same pots. I'm just asking about having other plants in your tent or grow room.

I'm thinking of putting in some aloe, chocolate mint. Aloe I have like 40ish babies. And chocolate mint is from cuttings.
I think the mint might help deter bugs. And aloe I don't have enough window sill space left. I have to give some more away. Guess what everyone is getting for Christmas

 

[Vd22]

Lmao guess what everyone's getting for Christmas

 

[Cannabis.Queen]

I mean, any time Outside I had troubles with my tomato plants getting a bug then it would spread to my ganja. But indoors I'd only worry about the smell of the other plants affecting the bud taste and smell. I was planting tomatoes and garlic in my Grow room in fall and put my flowering plant in there and god did it ever still smell like garlic .. the garlic was picked and the room was cleaned but the flowering plant still smelt like.. garlic

 

[Nutzach91]

I'm starting some Tomato's in my room and I've started some small lettuce plants in there.

 

[bearded.beaver]

I was thinking about a heirloom tomato. I have a purple looking tomato that is really sweet and low acid. I just have to find my tomato seeds

 

[Dr. Who]

I have Christmas cactus's being started all the time.
Mosquito plants (citronella) are always in during the winter.

 

[Kushash]

My Christmas cactus is blooming at the perfect time this year.

I just removed a cat nip plant grown from seed in my veg tent.
I have a younger one in there now.
No harm from what I can tell.
If you can grow cannabis you can grow Nepeta Cataria, it likes the same soil as cannabis, watering and organic feeding needs are also similar to cannabis from what I can tell.

 

[nurrgle]

No freaking way for me.

All those plants are big time sources for pests. Especially if you have had them outside of your grow environment.

I have a pretty large cactus collection and they will pick up Spider Mites from time to time. I use the same process I use to prevent stuff on my herb.

Tomato’s and stuff have all kinds of shit.

I mean I suppose you could move stuff in and out but in my opinion, it’s just not worth the possibility of introducing pests and problems to my grow rooms.

 

[Kushash]

No freaking way for me.

All those plants are big time sources for pests. Especially if you have had them outside of your grow environment.

I have a pretty large cactus collection and they will pick up Spider Mites from time to time. I use the same process I use to prevent stuff on my herb.

Tomato’s and stuff have all kinds of shit.

I mean I suppose you could move stuff in and out but in my opinion, it’s just not worth the possibility of introducing pests and problems to my grow rooms.

I agree!
It would be a bad move to bring plants into the grow.
In my case the cat nip was grown from seed in the tent.
I would never introduce a plant into the grow from that table of plants.
In my case with that table of plants next to the back door that is often left open in nice weather, I have never had anything but fungus gnats as a pest on them.
My Christmas cactus is about 7 years old and fortunately has had no bug problems.

 

[A Viking]

I keep my house plants completely separate from the grow. Weed stays in the shop's grow area.

In the house there are:
four pineapples growing in the kitchen window (my avatar is a prior pineapple grow),
three young windmill palms inside for the winter,
one Aloe, and four or five other succulents.