I look forward to seeing how the supercropping goes. I thought about mainlining mine... but I'm trying to go for a low maintenance grow this year, so I'll abuse them in less time consuming ways.
I put my clone out the day after I bought it and the temperature neared 90 that day. I was prepared to shade it but there was no wilt and no harm. I also have a couple of late started skunk #1s (regular, as a promo) and they are a few inches high but whether they are female or male will be the question. It looks like summer is here and nightime lows will stay above 50-55 so we are in business.I look forward to seeing how the supercropping goes. I thought about mainlining mine... but I'm trying to go for a low maintenance grow this year, so I'll abuse them in less time consuming ways.
I've got a pair of J1 photos I'm going to keep small (the only non-autos I have going this summer). I got the clones on the 8th when it was still cool and rainy, and since they were outside when I picked them up I didn't think much about hardening them. Two days later the sun came out all day, the high that day was only 70º so I didn't think twice about them... but they got pretty badly burned.
They've been recovering under some burlap in an area that only gets partial sun, but I'm pretty sure the late start and the burning will stunt them. I'll also keep them in smaller pots, possibly only 10 gallons to keep them smaller and allow me to finish them indoors if that seems like a good idea at the time.
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All the pretty ladies in a row.
You have the set up!
My dog loves to burn them off by lifting his leg, the bastard
Water it in and you have a great nitrogen source. Plus your pooch is lollypoping your plants by removing the lower leaves...smart dog.
I tend to keep my uprights vertical, do you find sinking bamboo at that angle works better?
Do you use the same material on the walls as the roof? It could just be the lighting the photo was taken under, but the walls look like they would filter a lot of light out. When I did my first hoop-house covers and I was looking into using "clear" plastic from Home Depot, I'm not sure about the accuracy but I was told that the 6mil clear plastic sheets cut about 20% of the light, and that even plastic that is designed for greenhouses will cut about that much.
If these plants turn out like previous ones here you won't be able to see the bamboo come harvest.
The roof and walls are SolarSoft 80 8mm double wall polycarbonate. Diffused light is the shit, you need a pair of sunglasses on a cloudy day in there. It gets so intense on sunny hot days I have to pull my 50% alumanet down just to maintain -100 temps. Love my swamp cooler, couldn't grow without it. My GH position is not optimal, built against my house facing the West. The Panda film is on the North wall for reflection, I get about 8 hrs of direct light.
Making a foliage free zone of around a foot or two from the soil up is key.
