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Zbud94

Zbud94

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Unable to bring my two ladies in the 30s in tonight... so I’ve made a small greenhouse structure type deal lol. Having two cages around the plants I used that as support to hold the clear tarp then tucked the remaining under the watered smart pots. I then placed 4 of the super body warmers inside the structure and a thermometer to see if this actually works...
 

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too larry

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Zbud94 said:
Unable to bring my two ladies in the 30s in tonight... so I’ve made a small greenhouse structure type deal lol. Having two cages around the plants I used that as support to hold the clear tarp then tucked the remaining under the watered smart pots. I then placed 4 of the super body warmers inside the structure and a thermometer to see if this actually works...
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Hell, I'd sleep in that thing in the 30's. What does it weigh? I might add it to my pack.
 
DCcan

DCcan

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Got the Tomato and pepper garden up with deer cages and companion plants, and prepped the cucumber/ bean bed.
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The Herbal grow area needs alot of work.
I have dig out the front, put up fence posts and fencing and a gate.
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I've got 10 plants that need sexing still, pretty sure 4 at least are female.
Getaway Mt skunks:
Downeast
Goldmine
Kodiak

I have 2 Pink GG#4 also, and am popping a few Autos if I need to fill my quota for a lack of females.
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More stuff on the porch to go
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Zbud94

Zbud94

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too larry said:
Hell, I'd sleep in that thing in the 30's. What does it weigh? I might add it to my pack.
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All I did was put a wire cage around the plants in the smart pots then layed a 10x10 piece of clear 5mm plastic tarp and tucked the excess under the 30 gallon smart pots. So tomorrow after the hopefully last cold night of the season I’m praying !! I’ll take the tarp back down. So it kept the frost off the plants. I had the thermometer in the structure sitting on the soil mix in the smart pot and the high was 102 !!! That’s because I had 4 body warmers the 18 hour ones going I only cracked the bags open and gave them a quick shake and placed them all around the inside of the structure on the soil.... then when it got down to its low of 34... they must have given a huge amount of heat right off the bat ! Boy if I stuck around to watch that heat up ! I bet there was steam coming off of that no problem !
So i don’t think the hand warmers worked but I do think the clear tarp kept the frost off.
 
too larry

too larry

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Zbud94 said:
All I did was put a wire cage around the plants in the smart pots then layed a 10x10 piece of clear 5mm plastic tarp and tucked the excess under the 30 gallon smart pots. So tomorrow after the hopefully last cold night of the season I’m praying !! I’ll take the tarp back down. So it kept the frost off the plants. I had the thermometer in the structure sitting on the soil mix in the smart pot and the high was 102 !!! That’s because I had 4 body warmers the 18 hour ones going I only cracked the bags open and gave them a quick shake and placed them all around the inside of the structure on the soil.... then when it got down to its low of 34... they must have given a huge amount of heat right off the bat ! Boy if I stuck around to watch that heat up ! I bet there was steam coming off of that no problem !
So i don’t think the hand warmers worked but I do think the clear tarp kept the frost off.
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Cold nights will slow them down, but not kill them. When I did a Spring crop in 16-17, I covered my plants with the white frost cloth on extreme nights, but they were on their on most of the time. Got down to 25F for two nights. Did do some damage, but didn't kill them. This year all my Spring plants got killed by two nights of 16F. I had too many to cover, so they had to weather it on their on.
 
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Zbud94 said:
All I did was put a wire cage around the plants in the smart pots then layed a 10x10 piece of clear 5mm plastic tarp and tucked the excess under the 30 gallon smart pots. So tomorrow after the hopefully last cold night of the season I’m praying !! I’ll take the tarp back down. So it kept the frost off the plants. I had the thermometer in the structure sitting on the soil mix in the smart pot and the high was 102 !!! That’s because I had 4 body warmers the 18 hour ones going I only cracked the bags open and gave them a quick shake and placed them all around the inside of the structure on the soil.... then when it got down to its low of 34... they must have given a huge amount of heat right off the bat ! Boy if I stuck around to watch that heat up ! I bet there was steam coming off of that no problem !
So i don’t think the hand warmers worked but I do think the clear tarp kept the frost off.
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nice I got down to 36 no frost left a male out uncovered to test it didn't even blink!! only got to 44 in the gh tonight is going to be cold also depending on clould cover
 
doug mirabelli

doug mirabelli

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Excited for my second outdoor grow. Got me own land now so I’m flying high. Got some freebie and green house seeds left over from last year. 11/12 of my beans survived including two sets of twins. Fraternal and identical. The identical is very interesting I’ve seen someone post a pic of one that grew this way before. It’s an auto Pineapple Express. I also have
critical cheese
Blue dream cbd
Grand daddy purp
Gorilla glue
Girl Scout cookie
Super lemon haze grew last year too
Church grew last year too
Kush cheese
Great white shark
Lemon skunk

Got them in 3 gallon pots now with roots organic original mixed with a few tablespoons of down to earth all purpose. I plan on bringing them out around the soltice to my spacious backyard. Just invested in a rain barrel and will be using rain water and spring water throughout the grow. Going to make a compost tea tonight with fish hudrosolate, earth worm castings and molasses.

The small plant is the identical twin and the pic with the hydrometer shows the fraternal twin/doppelgänger
 

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Moderndayhippy

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Got about 5 degrees cooler than expected last night woke up at 5:30 it was 34 degrees and a light frost the plants in the ground didn't look real impressed. By 7:30-8:00 they looked like nothing had happened never missed a beat.IMG_0618.JPGEverything in the greenhouses stayed warm enough, gotten most of the males out of my sativas, the haze does not look like it will be showing sex anytime soon but everyone else has and great thing with equatorial sativas they are mostly female 8/11 from the ones that have shown so far.IMG_0621.JPG
 
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Moderndayhippy said:
Got about 5 degrees cooler than expected last night woke up at 5:30 it was 34 degrees and a light frost the plants in the ground didn't look real impressed. By 7:30-8:00 they looked like nothing had happened never missed a beat.View attachment 4135315Everything in the greenhouses stayed warm enough, gotten most of the males out of my sativas, the haze does not look like it will be showing sex anytime soon but everyone else has and great thing with equatorial sativas they are mostly female 8/11 from the ones that have shown so far.View attachment 4135316
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Do you have to dehumidify that greenhouse at all times?
 
Moderndayhippy

Moderndayhippy

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doug mirabelli said:
Do you have to dehumidify that greenhouse at all times?
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Just at night it is so windy where I live even if the sides are up a foot there's a steady breeze across them. I have one 70 liter dehumidifier in there now which keeps it from collecting dew in the morning and I will add another one in a month or so when these start to produce some nugs and my inside grows are done. Two running at night and during wet rainy days kept it mold free last fall when everything else outside was going to shit
 
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Moderndayhippy said:
Just at night it is so windy where I live even if the sides are up a foot there's a steady breeze across them. I have one 70 liter dehumidifier in there now which keeps it from collecting dew in the morning and I will add another one in a month or so when these start to produce some nugs and my inside grows are done. Two running at night and during wet rainy days kept it mold free last fall when everything else outside was going to shit
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Wow that’s the way to go man. Big bucks for a big green house like that and those big dehumidifiers though, no?
 
Moderndayhippy

Moderndayhippy

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doug mirabelli said:
Wow that’s the way to go man. Big bucks for a big green house like that and those big dehumidifiers though, no?
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Greenhouse was not cheap but if you want to grow equatorial sativas in this part of the world it is about the only way to do it. Dehumidifiers are like $150 and I use them year round not just in the greenhouse.
 
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