One of the biggest challenges of indoor gardening is simply finding the space in your home for all the things you want to grow plus their equipment. A great strategy for making the most of your space is separating plants into different growth stages. New plants can take up less room, which means you can put them in a smaller area and then move them to your larger room as needed.

Regardless of the amount of space, most garden enthusiasts still want to see big results and high yields from their flowering plants. Micro greenhouses are helping people see those results even with limited growing space.

What’s a micro greenhouse?

A micro greenhouse is quite simply a closed plant enclosure that can fit within a small area. That’s a pretty subjective definition, so let’s get a bit more specific. How big is micro, exactly?

For some people, a greenhouse that can fit in their backyard is sufficiently small, and they may call it a micro greenhouse. But viable plant enclosures can get even smaller than that.

You can use various types of clear plastic or glass domes to create tiny greenhouses that fit on a window sill or table.

Benefits of growing big plants in tiny houses

As a grower, you’re probably familiar with how difficult it can be to control temperatures, lighting, and humidity in a large grow room. And these factors can be especially important when a plant is still young and fragile. A micro greenhouse allows you to control growing variables much easier than in a large room.

You won’t need to monitor and adjust humidity levels for the entire room where your micro greenhouses are. You just need to maintain proper levels within their tiny enclosures.

Another big benefit is that if the environment gets off in one micro greenhouse, it doesn’t affect the results in your other plants growing in their own separate houses. That can mean a big difference in saved specimens.

Similarly, you can perform tests on various specimens to tweak different lighting, temps, and humidity in order to find optimal levels. Water and fertilizer amounts can also be closely monitored and adjusted. Your variable groups are easily identified by their separate enclosures.

Don’t forget that growing in a greenhouse also reduces your watering needs because you lose less moisture.

The final result of this controlled space is that you are able to finesse the best results out of your indoor garden. And when your specimens are too big for their tiny greenhouse, you can rotate them to another space.

Micro greenhouse vs. grow tent

Of course, grow tents are another option for the indoor gardener, and which choice you go with depends on your particular priorities. It’s going to be a lot harder to make your plants visually appealing in a grow tent, if that is your intent. Grow tents do have the advantage, however, of allowing better ventilation than tiny greenhouse domes.

You can always move your plants from micro greenhouse to grow tent as they mature. Send our team at Indoor Cultivator your questions about indoor growing.