Growing weeds/grass indoors

yaycolin

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I'm curious if anyone has any experience growing weeds and grass for their tortoise indoors? I live in an apartment and don't have access to a yard to gross fresh food, so I'm curious if it's possible to grow them indoors? If so, what exactly is required?
 

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I grow some indoors. They grow very well! I have the tortoise supply testudo mix growing in a large green tray near my window.
 

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Dirt, water, and sunlight. What do you want to grow is the real question since how you combine those three things is the important part. Some things will die if you look at them funny, others refuse to die when you try to kill them.
 
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Dirt, water, and sunlight. What do you want to grow is the real question since how you combine those three things is the important part. Some things will die if you look at them funny, others refuse to die when you try to kill them.
I'm interested in growing any type of weed that will survive indoors under artificial sunlight. Dandelion, mallow, plantain, thistle, filariae, sow thistle, milk thistle, clovers, chick weed, hawksbit, hensbit, nettles, etc.. I am not interested in spending a lot of money on HPS and metal-halide bulbs. I would prefer to go with the LED or T5 option. Just curious if anyone has any recommendations based on what has worked for them?
 

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I'm interested in growing any type of weed that will survive indoors under artificial sunlight. Dandelion, mallow, plantain, thistle, filariae, sow thistle, milk thistle, clovers, chick weed, hawksbit, hensbit, nettles, etc.. I am not interested in spending a lot of money on HPS and metal-halide bulbs. I would prefer to go with the LED or T5 option. Just curious if anyone has any recommendations based on what has worked for them?
Smaller plants are easier since they need less soil etc.

From my limited experience (with tort friendly weeds) dandelion you can actually just dig up during a thaw and plant and get a couple of flushes before they die. You will even get flowers on some. You can do the same with plantain, but it flushes once and then dies or stalls out. This is without lights or a greenhouse, just a south facing window.

White clover seed germinates quickly without a pre-treatment so it's probably a good candidate for indoors but I've never tried it. Given how easy it is to start outside, I don't see it being difficult. As long as it is warm and damp it should be happy enough to sprout and if you are harvesting it early supplemental light might not be necessary.

Spider plants are dead simple, they just don't care but to get good growth you need lights it seems. You can just pull leaves off for a sustainable harvest.
 

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