Individual Outdoor light deprivation material ideas

BionicΩChronic

BionicΩChronic

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Hello all
I'm starting my first outdoor organic grow with some plants non organic (autos and some of the early harvesters) anyways that don't matter
What does matter is that i can't grow indicas or even some hybrids without getting wrecked by mold. So I'm gonna flower my indica doms early. Probably June. The plan is to go out there two hours or so before each day is over and wrap some kind of light proof material around them. Then when it's dark go back out and unwrap them so they can breathe and not get molded cause of humidity.

Right now all I can think of is tarps with a lot of black garbage bags glued on
 
charface

charface

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It is good you are concerned with mold.
I live in the Pacific Northwest and have seen a good few people screw up with poorly ventilated makeshift plastic coverings.

Another thing that happens is they don't put a drastic enough slope on it and it becomes a rain catcher.

Sounds like you will be removing them too soon for these problems to really occur.
 
charface

charface

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Forgot,
If you don't have heavy wind and rain
Issues you could simply make Pvc frame then thick panda plastic or whatever.

Then the thing is easy to apply and remove. The white side should help reflect heat in theory.
 
Rob Roy

Rob Roy

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If your plants are auto flowers and smallish early finishers, you could just use a large zip up grow tent as long as it's not a dark color to avoid cooking in the sun.
 
BionicΩChronic

BionicΩChronic

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waterproof808 said:
What is the reasoning behind light deping individual plants instead of doing all your plants at once in a single hoop house?
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I forgot to mention the light dep plants are a part of a semi-gorilla grow.
One big cover over 8 good sized bushes... Not a good idea for this season's grow style
 
BionicΩChronic

BionicΩChronic

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Rob Roy said:
If your plants are auto flowers and smallish early finishers, you could just use a large zip up grow tent as long as it's not a dark color to avoid cooking in the sun.
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None of the autos are getting light dep. Only indicas... And only light depping them to avoid the most humid months that come as soon as hurricane season rolls in. I need them done in august
 
Roger A. Shrubber

Roger A. Shrubber

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on a small scale, i've seen someone use small brown paper bags, taped on with painters tape, but they were doing it to get a node to flower so they could sex the plant, so they stayed there, didn't get removed on a daily basis. i imagine it would be a major pain in the ass to put a 100 or more little bags on, then remove them daily.
depending on the height of the plant, and visibility being a problem, something like this?
https://www.amazon.com/WolfWise-Portable-Changing-Dressing-Backpack/dp/B071RHQP6V/ref=sr_1_11?ie=UTF8&qid=1513984651&sr=8-11&keywords=pop-up+tent
they have a camo one, and a dark green one
put a flap of water proof canvas on the top, open it when its nice, close it when it rains, fold em up and stuff em in the bag during the day.
 
Rob Roy

Rob Roy

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BionicΩChronic said:
None of the autos are getting light dep. Only indicas... And only light depping them to avoid the most humid months that come as soon as hurricane season rolls in. I need them done in august
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Yeah, wouldn't make much sense to light dep an auto. Well good luck finding something that works for you, avoiding the mold can be a real good idea.
 
TrumpOG

TrumpOG

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Are you by chance anywhere near the ocean? If you're under 20 miles from the ocean & aren't at a very high elevation light deping in general is a bad idea IMO. You will always have mold, even light sativas are likely to still test positive for mold if it were to go to a legitimate dispensary. Learned the hard way on that one. The pacific fog rolls in and puts the greenhouses or hoop houses at 100% humidity. Especially when the tarps are up. Coastal Greenhouses (without extremely powerful dehumidifiers and insane air flow) are bound to be trouble. That's why you don't see farms near the beach too often, they're very ineffective.

Un-tarping at night can be a good idea but make sure you know what time the sun is coming up. At the peak of the summer solstice you may have to go so far as to roll up the sides at night and then re-tarp once it gets light so that you can maintain a good 12 hour cycle. In other words if the suns coming up at 5:30am but you're covering them at 6:30 PM they're only getting 11 hours of darkness which could potentially lead to a larfy re-vegged product or hermies.
 
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BionicΩChronic

BionicΩChronic

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Roger A. Shrubber said:
on a small scale, i've seen someone use small brown paper bags, taped on with painters tape, but they were doing it to get a node to flower so they could sex the plant, so they stayed there, didn't get removed on a daily basis. i imagine it would be a major pain in the ass to put a 100 or more little bags on, then remove them daily.
depending on the height of the plant, and visibility being a problem, something like this?
https://www.amazon.com/WolfWise-Portable-Changing-Dressing-Backpack/dp/B071RHQP6V/ref=sr_1_11?ie=UTF8&qid=1513984651&sr=8-11&keywords=pop-up+tent
they have a camo one, and a dark green one
put a flap of water proof canvas on the top, open it when its nice, close it when it rains, fold em up and stuff em in the bag during the day.
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I like the idea of these but they don't look light proof and are also expensive to buy and then make light proof.
I think I'm gonna grow them with big cages around them and have a large stake next to the trunk. And use a tarp with cardboard and black garbage bags glued to it. Thrown over the top of the stake and tied around the bottom. For about the allotted time each day (depending on the sun chart)
And then come back at sundown and take all the tarps off roll them up and hide them.
Thatll be my life for 72 days lol but highly worth it if it's successful
TrumpOG said:
Are you by chance anywhere near the ocean? If you're under 20 miles from the ocean & aren't at a very high elevation light deping in general is a bad idea IMO. You will always have mold, even light sativas are likely to still test positive for mold if it were to go to a legitimate dispensary. Learned the hard way on that one. The pacific fog rolls in and puts the greenhouses or hoop houses at 100% humidity. Especially when the tarps are up. Coastal Greenhouses (without extremely powerful dehumidifiers and insane air flow) are bound to be trouble. That's why you don't see farms near the beach too often, they're very ineffective.

Un-tarping at night can be a good idea but make sure you know what time the sun is coming up. At the peak of the summer solstice you may have to go so far as to roll up the sides at night and then re-tarp once it gets light so that you can maintain a good 12 hour cycle. In other words if the suns coming up at 5:30am but you're covering them at 6:30 PM they're only getting 11 hours of darkness which could potentially lead to a larfy re-vegged product or hermies.
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180 miles from beach and not in greenhouse
 
guitarzan

guitarzan

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Garbage bags will work, but try and get the thickest industrial bags and use bamboo sticks to make a frame type thing for them...one year, decades ago actually, I covered my two plants in the gazeebo with bags and ended up being away from home leaving the bags on for almost three days straight. I figured they were dead or close to it, I get home rip off the bags and I have hairs all over the place...they were tricked. It's weird, usually putting them in the shed or covering them with tarps or thick bags tricks them within ten days to two weeks, sometimes as little as 5 or 6 days I see pussy hairs...but one year especially, I put them in the sheds and in a tent I had set up...they would not trick...I was almost mad. Three weeks and nothing, no hairs, no balls, so I just let them grow. Eventually they tricked themselves naturally as summer ended.
 
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