outdoor lighting supplerment

newbie to this forum just like know if any one has every tried outdoor led lighting using solar panel, battery, digital timer for outdoor guerrilla grow style to get a head start on the grow season. starting early this season to keep plant in veg using extra lighting outdoors greenhouse to keep out the cold and led lights to extend the day light and stop plant going in to flower. anyone tried this before?

No - but never thought of it - believe it would work

Well I have setup small to begin with for experiment so from what I have researched that if your interrupt the dark cycle with light and it doesn't have to be that strong the light lumens just enough to trick the plant into thinking the days are long eg, the stop flowering. So by setting up solar panel, regulator, battery, digital timer 12volt and led lights DIY. and the polytube greenhouse at the grow site. This way it can take away all the risk of being seen and hassle carrying the plants to the site. By doing this onsite and getting a head start in the season to get bigger guerrilla outdoor monsters and the outlay isn't that much of an expense. All DIY.

How early you starting? My plants are filling up the 300 gallons and they got roots by the end of march, out in the hoophouse by beginning of May with a T5. Starting early helps, but only to a point. For me we start getting consistant sun in May so that is what I shoot for. Too big and they are root bound or crowding each other. Something to think about is how far that light will be bright enough and how many healthy plants can be in that footprint.

Lights at a geurilla grow doesn't't sound very stealthy.

calicocalyx said:

How early you starting? My plants are filling up the 300 gallons and they got roots by the end of march, out in the hoophouse by beginning of May with a T5. Starting early helps, but only to a point. For me we start getting consistant sun in May so that is what I shoot for. Too big and they are root bound or crowding each other. Something to think about is how far that light will be bright enough and how many healthy plants can be in that footprint.

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Hi calicocalyx
I'm in the southern hemisphere so start time here to put them out is September 18th you can start earlier but have to be careful to not have them flower on you, so supplement lighting helps to keep them in veg this way I can start from seed or cutting in July grow them out for a month and move to hoop house / light house at the site. I don't use pots dig big holes and bring soil to the site and its taken time to do that, f^%$#king heavy hard work doing on your own. So have them under that light hoop house setup till September, 2 months early from the usual start. as for lighting footprint the light only has to trick the plant not grow the plant. flowering time here starts late Feb. early march. about the time choppers start hovering, As for being stealthy light in the middle of the bush in the evening for a few extra hours sounds suss but I don't think anyone would want to be that far out and that time of afternoon, real guerrilla style.

Dang, I admire your determination. Guerrilla is hard work as it is, but starting them early adds a lot more. I only mentioned the footprint because the farther from the light, the less lumens, so you'll only have x square feet to work with per light. I can see where my plants have crowded each other by late spring and where the side branches were not growing and now I'm tying the plants out to fill those holes in the canopy. Plants got bigger, faster, than I thought they would.

Calicoalyx yeaha nice setup you inspire me, I guess with the right strains it can be done, last year did this on a small scale and plants wanted to flower when I switched the lights off F*&^K so had a few early smokers not what I was gong for but depends on the strain used some are more light sensitive them others. Follow you on this set up like I said you inspire me.
By the way is it legal were you are, down here its not.