Bugeye
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That's hilarious! I've had that same experience. Funnier when it happens to someone else!
Bugeye's 2014 Organic Greenhouse Grow
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Bugeye
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Week 26 - Flower Week 10
Cold temps the last two nights, 46F in gh with heaters on. Some nice fall colors coming out on the green crack fan leaves, yellows, browns and purples.
Pic 1 - Chocolope Kush
Pic 2 - Green Crack
Pic 3 - Kosher Kush
Pic 4 - Mekong High
Pic 5 - OG #18 - supposed to be done in a few days...I don't think so!
Pic 6 - Tora Bora - same dirt as KK and OG but showing signs of excess N. Oh well...
Cold temps the last two nights, 46F in gh with heaters on. Some nice fall colors coming out on the green crack fan leaves, yellows, browns and purples.
Pic 1 - Chocolope Kush
Pic 2 - Green Crack
Pic 3 - Kosher Kush
Pic 4 - Mekong High
Pic 5 - OG #18 - supposed to be done in a few days...I don't think so!
Pic 6 - Tora Bora - same dirt as KK and OG but showing signs of excess N. Oh well...
elkamino
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Dang am I late to this party but incredible grow Bugeye. I've grown a medical garden for years in cheap greenhouses (carports) in MT and AK with good success but boy you are taking it to a next level. Your style and standard make for a beautiful garden, so well-perched and pleasant, it must be extra hard to leave the girls each day!
So many gardens have to be hidden for legal reasons, and are kinda lab-like, and full of off-spectrum light, and plants are so tweaked in so many ways, like you mentioned not wanting the cage affect, that they lose some of their connection to the natural world- not so much the plants themselves but the space. Lab vs. Garden. Yours is able to get around much of that, despite challenges of high elevation CO, and faces the sun proudly, with plants right in the front. Yeah I realize its maybe not the front of your property but still, it looks perfectly positioned and ready to make the most of your spot. Feng shui or something... Anyway I don't mean to go off but you are an inspiration for doing things right and when I get the space, your build will inspire mine to be better. So thanks!
You should write "High Elevation Greenhouse Cannabis Production for Legal Adult Growers" You've written and shot most of it already anyway. I'd buy a copy!
So many gardens have to be hidden for legal reasons, and are kinda lab-like, and full of off-spectrum light, and plants are so tweaked in so many ways, like you mentioned not wanting the cage affect, that they lose some of their connection to the natural world- not so much the plants themselves but the space. Lab vs. Garden. Yours is able to get around much of that, despite challenges of high elevation CO, and faces the sun proudly, with plants right in the front. Yeah I realize its maybe not the front of your property but still, it looks perfectly positioned and ready to make the most of your spot. Feng shui or something... Anyway I don't mean to go off but you are an inspiration for doing things right and when I get the space, your build will inspire mine to be better. So thanks!
You should write "High Elevation Greenhouse Cannabis Production for Legal Adult Growers" You've written and shot most of it already anyway. I'd buy a copy!
pinkjackyle
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chopped and hung today , was cool all day high 63deg burrr .
Bugeye
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I'm SO looking forward to getting things chopped...just not time yet. Hope you are celebrating!
pinkjackyle
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shit
man im tired and my hands are sore & seriously thinking about bed at 9pm on a saturday . i remember being a kid and i was like , when i grow up im gonna stay up late everynite seems so silly and foreign now .
Bugeye
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Thanks elkamino, you made my night with those comments! Sorry I didn't get to reply last night, my alarms started going off at the greenhouse so I had to head up the hill. Just a fox moving through I suspect, never saw him.Dang am I late to this party but incredible grow Bugeye. I've grown a medical garden for years in cheap greenhouses (carports) in MT and AK with good success but boy you are taking it to a next level. Your style and standard make for a beautiful garden, so well-perched and pleasant, it must be extra hard to leave the girls each day!
So many gardens have to be hidden for legal reasons, and are kinda lab-like, and full of off-spectrum light, and plants are so tweaked in so many ways, like you mentioned not wanting the cage affect, that they lose some of their connection to the natural world- not so much the plants themselves but the space. Lab vs. Garden. Yours is able to get around much of that, despite challenges of high elevation CO, and faces the sun proudly, with plants right in the front. Yeah I realize its maybe not the front of your property but still, it looks perfectly positioned and ready to make the most of your spot. Feng shui or something... Anyway I don't mean to go off but you are an inspiration for doing things right and when I get the space, your build will inspire mine to be better. So thanks!
You should write "High Elevation Greenhouse Cannabis Production for Legal Adult Growers" You've written and shot most of it already anyway. I'd buy a copy!
I do love hanging out at my greenhouse but I honestly had even more fun building it. I'm hoping to do a little addition off the back this spring, not because I really need more room for my little 6 plant grow, but more because I know how much fun I'll have doing it. It's a good challenge because every board has to be carried by hand up the equivalent of a 4 story building. Makes getting started a little intimidating but with a few tokes for motivation it becomes a zen like experience. If I can pull together the cash flow to do it, I'll post pics of the process.
Anyway, thanks again for your nice comments!!
papapayne
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Found your thread, better late then never. Not often I see plants that healthy man, looking great. Defin going to have to read the TLO book. I already am mostly organic, using teas and such already, but I didn't run mycos this cycle. Need to remember to pick some up. Anyways, I Subbed up to finish the ride with ya. hope all is well.
Stay free, stay high,
papa
Stay free, stay high,
papa
Bugeye
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Thanks papa! Pretty healthy this year but certainly room for improvement. Just came down from the greenhouse and all plants are now in some stage of dying a good death. Not ready to harvest but I'm clearly in end stage on a few. I'd be a little sad about it if I wasn't SO ready to get done. No PM tonight so still in check.
I think you'll really like the mycos! Everything is easier when they take. Thanks for stopping in!
UncleBuck
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looking good man.
do mites stay away at your elevation, or do you have to treat?
by the way, got some plans worked up for a three seasons passive solar heated greenhouse in the works, might want to talk to you about heating requirements.
good luck on the harvest. many hours of happy trimming to you!
do mites stay away at your elevation, or do you have to treat?
by the way, got some plans worked up for a three seasons passive solar heated greenhouse in the works, might want to talk to you about heating requirements.
good luck on the harvest. many hours of happy trimming to you!
Bugeye
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Thanks! We do have mites here at 7600', my buddy is doing battle with them right now because he doesn't do preventative pest treatments (live and learn - ha ha). Haven't seen them at my place...yet. I think I have enough Azamax down to keep them away for rest of season.
Not sure how much I can help with your passive solar project but I'm more than happy to share anything I've learned. If your temps are anything like mine you will need more than a single layer skin for sure. I dream of going to a 2 or 3 ply when I replace the skin in another 5 or 6 years, but it gets oh so much more expensive!
I've got my scissors all sprayed with Pam and I'm ready to start trimming!! Just need the plants to cooperate and get done. I'm going to take all the popcorn buds on day of harvest and do a dry ice trichome screening on them. I'm only trimming decent buds this year.
UncleBuck
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i'm down at 5400' and am basically gonna build a fully insulated shed with 3 panels of polycarbonate twinwall on the southern facing roof. i have a nice south facing, south sloped yard so i may as well use it.
must be getting cold outside for the mites, a few of them have been finding their way to my inside plants.
good luck on the trimming, i know how much fun it can be to reap the rewards of that season of work, but it can also get to be a tedious and seemingly neverending task. a bittersweet time of the year for sure.
Bugeye
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That's beautiful! Now just make it twice as big!! LOL Can you work some windows into the east wall or is that a security issue? Adding high mount vents and fans? Are you going to do water drums or something to capture and retain heat?i'm down at 5400' and am basically gonna build a fully insulated shed with 3 panels of polycarbonate twinwall on the southern facing roof. i have a nice south facing, south sloped yard so i may as well use it.
must be getting cold outside for the mites, a few of them have been finding their way to my inside plants.
good luck on the trimming, i know how much fun it can be to reap the rewards of that season of work, but it can also get to be a tedious and seemingly neverending task. a bittersweet time of the year for sure.
Dang Bugeye! I haven't stopped in for a while, been busy lately, but those are looking very impressive! Makes me drool just looking at them lol. Have a happy harvest man
UncleBuck
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wish i had the budget and level land to go twice as big.
will be doing black painted jugs of water for heat retention, an east window to warm things up quicker in the morning is actually smart. hadn't thought of that.
the heating calculations are pretty cool. they sell a 650 gallon tank for about $1000, with a gallon of water being 8.34 pounds, that means 5421 pounds of water. since a BTU is simply the amount of energy it takes to heat a pound of water by one degree, that means i get 5421 BTUs of heating power for every degree the temperature drops. might be enough to keep a 10x12 space warm enough year round with just a little supplemental night time heating.
anyhoo, sorry for the threadjack. looking forward to seeing the final harvest pics.
Bugeye
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I'm not really all that amped for trimming, just trying to fake it! Thought about getting one of those trimbots but decided against it. So we'll just have to hunker down and get through it.
Bugeye
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No Hijack at all, I love talking greenhouses! Went to bed thinking about your plan.
I think with double pane you will have an easy time keeping the temps good for 3 seasons. A small electric oil filled heater would probably be all you need to supplement a week of cloudy cold weather.
Look into the diffused glass/plastic options. It spreads your light in every direction leaving no shadows. Great for larger plants. Not sure if it would be the best for your water jugs? Just make sure your product is UV protected or it will disintegrate in a few years. Consider doing the whole south roof in glass/plastic. Might be easier and will produce more light.
I've seen pictures of passive solar barrels that were painted white on one face and black on the other. They were mounted on some type of lazy suzan so you could spin the white side out for heat of summer and not heat your water so much and then spin to black side for spring and fall. Guess you could do the same thing by placing a white tarp over them in summer.
I picked up my 275 gallon tote for $40 from some recyclers in Denver that reclaim them from food producers. Mine had a little caro syrup in it but we blasted it out at the car wash. Maybe they won't work for what you need, but 3 of those would be a lot cheaper if they would work. You probably need one large tank for a heat sink?
Keeping your gh from over heating in the summer will probably be a bigger issue than keeping it warm in the fall. Lots of air exchange is the only answer that has worked for me. I lose too much light to my roof beams, which were sized for a 3+ foot wet snow load. So shade cloths are a poor option for me. You might be able to use them though because you have a nice roof pitch that won't snow load so you won't need more than 2x4s for rafters I imagine. I found that once you lose more than 30% of your sunlight, your bud production is really impacted and your internodal spacing gets too long.
When you think about your floor, try to come up with something that can be hosed down. My floor slopes 1/8" per foot toward my dirt bays so I can make a big fucking mess on the tile and then just hose it off. This has been a great feature. If you put some dirt bays in the ground on the short side of your structure you could maximize your grow space more and have a place to wash the floor into.
papapayne
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Dang, theres a lot more to greenhouses then I expected, although being from cali and now in the Willamette valley in oregon, my climate is a bit friendlier. Way to make it work. I love that you do it in such a way to have a nice chill spot with the ladies. I spend a lot of time with my ladies smoking and enjoying watching them follow the sun, and if you watch long enough, see the subtle changes as the plants breath. Can imagine being mountain side would be the spot to be! GF would never see me lol.