The future is at hand........

Could auto flowers be used here in a greenhouse? Or are they too small?
Only ever grew one..it was smallish.
 
The Hippy said:
Could auto flowers be used here in a greenhouse? Or are they too small?
Only ever grew one..it was smallish.
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Autos have come along way. They are definitely an option for our climate. But Mother Nature is unpredictable at best, it's always a challenge here in BC to harvest successfully outdoor.

Itsme.
 
itsmehigh said:
Care to elaborate? Your going to argue you can produce cheaper under artificial lights indoors than to grow under the sun?

Itsme.
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Greenhouses require heating in winter and cooling in summer and ventilation all the time.

In addition, the sun doesn't shine all the time, so production suffers in winter and during bad weather.

Indoors can be kept in optimum conditions all the time, leading to higher productivity. Coupled with advances in lighting technology, indoor gardens beat greenhouse productivity per square foot and per watt used.

Counterintuitive? Perhaps, yet still true.

The best combination is a hybrid greenhouse with supplemental lighting, but designers are finding out that in order to realize the benefits it has to be very well insulated indeed. Turns out that's not easy to do and still let enough sunlight in to effect a net gain.

'The more you know'
 
I'm planning on doing a "hybrid greenhouse" this year lol. During the summer I'll put my plants in a greenhouse and in the winter I'll grow in a box lol.
Seriously though, if I can have a decent harvest from the greenhouse I won't have to grow in the winter :-)
 
ttystikk said:
Greenhouses require heating in winter and cooling in summer and ventilation all the time.

In addition, the sun doesn't shine all the time, so production suffers in winter and during bad weather.

Indoors can be kept in optimum conditions all the time, leading to higher productivity. Coupled with advances in lighting technology, indoor gardens beat greenhouse productivity per square foot and per watt used.

Counterintuitive? Perhaps, yet still true.

The best combination is a hybrid greenhouse with supplemental lighting, but designers are finding out that in order to realize the benefits it has to be very well insulated indeed. Turns out that's not easy to do and still let enough sunlight in to effect a net gain.

'The more you know'
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That all seems about what would happen.
The summers here can be not that sunny ...I dunno. I have zero outdoor experience.
 
The Hippy said:
That all seems about what would happen.
The summers here can be not that sunny ...I dunno. I have zero outdoor experience.
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It doesn't have to be sunny every day. I have lots of experience with growing a garden and huge pumpkins lol. Outdoor weed can't be that hard. A friend of a friend has an outdoor grow that he literally never touches except to harvest.
 
I have had amazing outdoor experiences....growing....clone .plant monsters are where it is at.
I scrog my plants to keep the height down but mostly to open them up to the light
so the lower area's grow properly...these beasts also yield massive....
my from seed plants I let develop naturally and then provide support for the plant when its bigger from wind....
nothing worse than seeing , quarter pound o bud branches... snapping off during a thunderstorms high wind..
most of these will reach 12 to 13 feet high under full day sun.....
 
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