# Home grow

> Home grow is growing cannabis for personal use at your residence, permitted in some jurisdictions within plant-count, location and security limits.

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- Also written: home cultivation, homegrow, growing at home, home growing, personal grow
- Glossary category: Legal and regulatory
- Status: Draft: awaiting expert review · Updated: 2026-10-31
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Home grow means cultivating cannabis at a private residence for your own use, not for sale. Where it is legal, it usually comes with conditions: a maximum number of plants per person or household, rules on where plants may be (indoors, outdoors, visible from the street), security and child-access requirements, a minimum age, and sometimes landlord or local consent.

## In practice

A household in a place allowing four plants per residence can grow four, whether they are [seedlings](https://genetixbay.com/knowledge/glossary/seedling.md) or in flower, unless the rule distinguishes stages. Some places allow home grow for registered medical patients only, or set different limits for adult use. Others ban it completely even where retail sales are legal. Growing more than the limit, selling home-grown cannabis, or giving it away in exchange for anything of value can turn a legal hobby into a serious offence.

GenetixBay's position is that growing your own is the most direct way to know what you are consuming: how it was grown, dried and [cured](https://genetixbay.com/knowledge/glossary/curing.md), and that it was not irradiated. That is an argument for legal home grow, never for breaking local law.

Rules differ by country, state, province and city, and change often. This is a general definition, not legal advice: check local rules.

## Don't confuse with

- **Personal cultivation limit**: the specific numeric cap that defines a legal home grow.
- **Licensed production**: commercial growing under a licence, with tracking and testing.
- **Decriminalisation**: reduced penalties, which may not make growing legal.

## Related terms

[Personal cultivation limit](https://genetixbay.com/knowledge/glossary/personal-cultivation-limit.md), [Plant count limit](https://genetixbay.com/knowledge/glossary/plant-count-limit.md), [Possession limit](https://genetixbay.com/knowledge/glossary/possession-limit.md), [Decriminalisation vs legalisation](https://genetixbay.com/knowledge/glossary/decriminalisation.md)

## Read more

- [Your first grow: a plan from seed to jar](https://genetixbay.com/knowledge/basics/first-grow-guide.md)