rastadred22
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so cruzer, have you thought about a winter crop much lately?
Is that even possible in the greenhouse? I think the angle of the sun is off...
...but then again, you could be speaking about cruzer's indoor grows like he did in the past...?
no, i was speaking of the greenhouse. i seem to remember him laying out a plan for it when the green house first began life. i could have been stoned. no, wait, i was stoned, but it still could have been.![]()
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what about ground freezes, do y'all get that in Cali? im in NC, so we get everything, just about!
Yea, your right gumball, my plan is three harvests a year out of this. Here we have 6 months of less than 12 hours of sun a day. If I swing it right I can do it. Bummer though I lost the clones I had and will have to replace them. I need a short flowering time so I'm lookin indica. Smaller plants like 12 about 3 feet high. We dont get any ground freeze here in cali, sure we get frost sometimes but not often where I am. Temps average low to mid 40"s so I will need a heater but I think I will have enough light. You can do it Doozie, you may need a dehumidifier being so close to the water and all, it would serve as a heater and a dehumidifier if you didnt vent the heat it makes.
I didnt think about that, I'm in a 2x4 structure in a yard with a fence that blocks the wind.
Well I tell ya what, skip this year and if she is still standing after this winter we will know for sure!
Lol yes I could do that but I'd prefer not to have to chase the greenhouse across my hillside that's visible for the entire town from the main road That already happened to me once lol silly me put up the original greenhouse without strapping it down securely enough and a windy storm blew that baby up and off my deck into the trees, fucked up my 1st attempt and it was my fault for not considering the wrath of nature before my plans to grow![]()
growing in a greenhouse through the winter wouldn't be that difficult. In Cruzers case you just need to supplement some artificial light if you want to veg in the greenhouse. You can also use the heat from the light(s) to keep the greenhouse temps high enough to keep the plant growth from slowing & for cloudy days. that's my theory anyway. If you use HID lighting you also have heat generated from the ballasts. Cruzer has polycarb sheeting on his greenhouse so it'll hold temps better than one covered with just plastic. with good weather you wouldn't need to run the lights more than a couple of hours a day. Now where I live I would still have to add a heater, we get some fairly cold stretches even down to zero at times. I also had an idea for a light proof curtain that you could pull across the greenhouse to force flowering anytime . I can see it working for small greenhouses like Cruzers. though you could just add a flowering room I guess. I'm still planning all this out for my own build, hopefully soon.
People do grow winter greenhouse runs in worse conditions with minimal extra heating even. Some folks in Colorado have done this for quite some time even above 7K in elevation etc. (think snow and sub zero temps to manage) Keeping the floor/roots warm enough and the ambient up as much as possible is not that hard in SoCal. This should be a no-brainer with the right starters and/or supplemental lighting to dial in the size you want Cruzer. Just plan on a little less fresh air in at night etc. With the right sized plants and good recirculation in there this will not be hard to manage. Besides, no sense in that thing sitting empty all winter when you can be experimenting with a handful of plants.
Don't forget humidity. Don't know bout the west coast, but east coast has some dry ass winters, yet humid as summers. I also heard of folks using fridges/freezers filled with soil to grow in so the ground would never freeze. Don't think you'll need that though cruzer![]()
Na, it dont get that cold here.
Dont get me wrong it gets cold enough to ware a jacket. We might get 3 or 4 nights a year where it drops below 32° and when its cold like that it's still, no wind. My guess is daytime temps wont be a problem, night time temps I will need to raise about 20° to 60° or so. Humidity is high though I will have to watch that but I remember last year when I was drying, outdoors was like 60 to 70%