Growing under the sun, written for tropical latitudes rather than translated from temperate guides. Season timing, variety choice, monsoon humidity, and the pests and moulds that arrive with a wet season and never appear in a sealed room.
Near the equator the day length barely swings across the year, which removes the seasonal trigger that temperate outdoor growing is organised around and changes both when a photoperiod plant will flower and which varieties are worth planting at all. Autoflowering types and light deprivation both exist partly as answers to that problem.
Two things decide an outdoor season here. Rain during flowering is the main risk to the crop, which makes variety choice, flowering window and canopy density a mould-prevention decision before it is a yield decision. And soil preparation is the part that cannot be fixed later: drainage, organic matter and root volume are set before planting, and a plant in the ground will not be repotted.
Where to start