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Grow cannabis in West Hollywood, CA
Growing cannabis in West Hollywood: when the night barely cools the tent
West Hollywood weather lives in a narrow band. The average low stays above 50°F in every month, and in August it holds near 63°F while the afternoon reaches about 79. Month after month, day and night sit only 14 to 17 degrees apart.
That makes frost a nonissue. It also means the air outside brings little relief after dark. If the night will not cool your tent, what will?
Adults 21 and over: yes. Plant limit: 6 living plants per private residence, however many adults live there.
Locked space, not visible from a public place; cities and counties can set reasonable rules for indoor grows (but cannot ban them) and may ban outdoor grows; a landlord may prohibit growing on a rental. Source: Department of Cannabis Control; conditions: Prop 64 text as passed in 2016 (H&S Code 11362.2 and 11362.45). Local rules (landlords, HOAs, city codes) can add more; this is a summary, not legal advice.
A West Hollywood tent through mild, warm nights
Running the lamp at night moves its heat into the coolest hours, and here those hours are not very cool. In July and August, air your fan pulls in after dark is only about 15 degrees below the afternoon. In an apartment off Santa Monica Boulevard or Melrose, the exhaust fan carries most of the load, so size it for the lamp first.
Real heat is rare, and it shows up late. The UCLA station, 4.8 miles away at 430 feet, counts about 10 afternoons a year at 90°F or hotter, and more than half land in September and October. For a spring-started crop those are flowering weeks, so keep a thermometer at canopy height.
Winter asks very little. February, the coolest month, averages a 51°F low, and a typical year brings no freezing nights at all. Run the lights through the hours before dawn and the lamp covers most of it. January's 74 percent outdoor humidity fades inside a closed, warmed home.
Moisture eases slowly through the season. Outdoor humidity averaged 71 percent in June 2024 and slipped every month to 64 in October, the lowest of the months shown. Even that is damper than ripening buds prefer in a room open to outside air. A small dehumidifier on a humidistat (a switch that runs it only above a set humidity) handles late flower. An air conditioner dries the air only while it cools, and on a 60-degree night it sits idle.
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg high °F | 68 | 67 | 68 | 70 | 70 | 73 | 77 | 79 | 79 | 76 | 72 | 67 |
| Avg low °F | 52 | 51 | 52 | 54 | 56 | 59 | 62 | 63 | 63 | 60 | 55 | 51 |
| Humidity % | 74 | 71 | 70 | 68 | 67 | 64 |
Highs and lows: NOAA 1991 to 2020 normals, U C L A station (4.8 miles away). Humidity: Open-Meteo historical model data, average daily humidity in 2024, for the months shown. Planning averages, not a forecast.
Outdoors in West Hollywood
California's limit is 6 living plants per private residence, however many adults live there, and every plant needs a locked space out of sight from any public place. Local governments may set reasonable rules for indoor grows and may prohibit outdoor ones, so read the local rules that cover your address before planting outside. If a balcony can be seen from the sidewalk, plants on it fail the visibility condition.
Where an outdoor spot qualifies, start seeds indoors March 4 to March 18 and plant out from April 15; an autoflower is sown roughly seven days before it moves outside. With no frost to close the season and nights near 60°F or warmer into October, cold does not set the limit here. Damp air and those few hot fall afternoons do. Choose airy varieties that finish by October and thin the inner branches so September's 67 percent air keeps moving.
| Frost | None in a typical year |
|---|---|
| Nights stay 50°F or warmer | all year |
| Start seeds or clones indoors | Mar 4 to Mar 18 |
| Move plants outdoors | Apr 15 or later |
A quiet grow, and a quiet record of it
With a neighbor through the wall, a grow takes some care. You might trade tips with another grower at the Monday market in Plummer Park and still want your own numbers kept out of the conversation. Many grow and notes apps store what you write in a form the company can open.
Canna GLAP seals each grow record on your phone before it travels, and the key that opens it is not ours to hold. Anyone who got past our server defenses would carry off grow records as ciphertext, with nothing to decode them. That protection covers the journal and nothing past it: a hallway that smells of late flower is still yours to manage.
What is encrypted: your plants, notes, photos, feed logs and harvests. What is not: account details (such as your email, name and plan), a grow name or town if you type one, your team, and your sensors' names. The full list: what a hacker would get.
Questions growers in West Hollywood ask
Do I need to heat a grow tent in West Hollywood in winter?
Rarely. The coolest month's nights still average in the low 50s, and a lamp that runs overnight warms a tent through most of them.
When does it get too hot to grow cannabis in West Hollywood?
Hardly ever, but the hot afternoons that do come are bunched late: about 3 each in September and October at the UCLA station. Watch the canopy on those days, since they fall in flower for a spring crop.
Can I grow cannabis on a balcony in West Hollywood?
Only if the plants are locked in, cannot be seen from any public place, and the local rules that cover your address allow outdoor plants. Balcony and indoor plants share the one limit of 6 living plants per residence.
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