Light Deprivation Greenhouse
- Thread starter UncleBuck
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Figong
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This, good sir, is why the system would best be engineered with a winch-type setup, spring / tension wheel to roll up the film at the base/edge of the greenhouse floor. Kick the winch on, it starts to pull shit, unrolling said roll as it stretches it up the side, through a rectangle-shaped section to account for the angle, and to the peak. When it's time to drop it, put the winch in reverse on slow, spring tension on the roll would conveniently re-roll the film.. when it's done, turn the thing off. If multiple setups/greenhouses.. just run and kick the switches off for all of them and a few min later it's 100% re-rolled. If you wanted it automated, plug said setup into a digital timer and you could also automate it coming up and turning off so the winch didn't rip the greenhouse frame and/or film up. Just a thought in passing as I quickly considered how I would do such a thing.
AimAim
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Well it's your lucky day! Word on the street is SkinFaggy is looking for a new couch to hold down over the summer. Actually the guy who owns the couch he is currently holding down, is looking for a different couch he can hold down, in a different time zone. Anyhow there's your little helper buddy for the grow.
And what better way to learn, first hand, all his advanced techniques. Bet youd save some big $ on nutes and media. Milk, rice, propane hand torch, all cheap. Urine and jism free.
You can thank me later for this inside tip.
UncleBuck
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actually, the "final solution" came to me the other day, it's pretty ingenious. don't need to loop anything over the top each day (thereby eliminating the possibility of tears in the dark cover).
i finally got my burn pile done (took 3 days to burn all the wet straw) and so am ready to plastic the greenhouse today.
definitely will have pics today. pics of the dark cover to come shortly. as i said, it's a super fucking simple and 100% effective idea. no ladders involved.
i finally got my burn pile done (took 3 days to burn all the wet straw) and so am ready to plastic the greenhouse today.
definitely will have pics today. pics of the dark cover to come shortly. as i said, it's a super fucking simple and 100% effective idea. no ladders involved.
Why not just make a pvc pipe square a tiny bit lower than top of the GH, use plastic loops on a tarp on the back side and both sides then for the front you have several ropes tied to tarp which ties to front pcv. Then it would pull tight over whole thing. Also cause it using plastic loops it wouldnt get caught up or twisted. In the morning you untie the front and pull rope to the back an it slide back... pretty simple. One person can do it. Just gotta find a tarp that is close size to GH so when you shut it the tarp streches alittle.
angryblackman
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In for results. 
Not much for the banter.
Not much for the banter.
UncleBuck
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if i understand you correctly, i did have that idea at one time. but here is what i came up with instead:
in the pic i posted, you can see a small gap between the walls and roof. this was on purpose. i am going install a few more 2''x2''x8' pieces across the top and simply slide in 4'x8' sheets of OSB to dark out the roof. for the sides, i can either buttress in similar sheets of OSB or just roll/unroll sheets of 11 mm black plastic sheeting.
i'll be keeping you waiting a bit! a few of the plants out there already are either hermie prone or have gone hermy due to irregular light schedule and some darn cold temps at night (i put them out there in march). might as well have called this thread "uncle buck's hermie hut" for the time being.In for results.
but i should start seeing some decent crops by july, continuing all the way until november. it will be nice to beat the inevitable october flood.
Flaming Pie
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Can't see the pic. Sad face.
UncleBuck
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Flaming Pie
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I see a barn door.how about now?
UncleBuck
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i was out looking for a topsy turvy today for the topsy turvy thread, but got skunked.
i did notice a harbor freight next to the dollar store though and picked up a driveway alarm. gotta say, so much better than the old motion sensor i had. don't have to worry about waking the neighborhood with 100 decibels and i can take the receiver with me wherever, so if i have to go to the garage and work, no problem.
only $18, too. they have fake cameras there for only $9 as well. i'm gonna stock up.
will be transplanting as soon as the grow store orders in more soil and then the experiment will begin.
i did notice a harbor freight next to the dollar store though and picked up a driveway alarm. gotta say, so much better than the old motion sensor i had. don't have to worry about waking the neighborhood with 100 decibels and i can take the receiver with me wherever, so if i have to go to the garage and work, no problem.
only $18, too. they have fake cameras there for only $9 as well. i'm gonna stock up.
will be transplanting as soon as the grow store orders in more soil and then the experiment will begin.
j/k comon buck mon waiting to see this.....
Flaming Pie
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Fancy.
So how does it go dark?
So how does it go dark?
UncleBuck
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notice the gap between the roof and the sides? i slip sheets of 4'x8' through there. the sides will be covered by rolls of 11 mm black plastic sheeting. voila.
