Need help force flowering my babies.

SoFloFlame

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I have flowered outdoors before season with a garbage can 12/12 cycle but it was a male and I had to cut him down and make cookies out of
him : ) but now I have a dilemea. I have one plant outdoors in a
10 gallon pot and it is 5 feet tall and 3-4 feet
wide. How would I go about force flowering this female? "she is too big for a garbage can and too far away from
any indoor dark place to bring it inside. I could wait for
natural flowering to take place but that won't be untill august. My other plant is 4 feet tall in the ground and about 4 foot
wide and very bushy. Is there some
easy way that someone has to start it floating? I was thinking making a chickenwire and black garbage bag structure but I'm
not too sure. Any help would be appreciated. And also I have a quick
tip for anyone wanting ideas how to prevent bugs from
ruining your pants; mix a small amount of Murray's oil soap with water in a spray bottle and throughly mist your plants once a
day. You can also do this to prevnt bugs."not recomended for
floweing stage however"
 

STZ

Active Member
Build a small greenhouse structure out of PVC and black poly plastic. Take the top off every day at 7:30 or 8am and put it back on around 7:30 or 8 pm. Mine has a permanent pressure treated wood base and is 8.5 by 14 feet and it cost me about 180 bucks to make. I'll be harvesting 23 plants in two days and then running another full summer crop :) You can build a 5 foot PVC frame with black poly plastic skin for like 30 dollars and flower your one plant out no problem.
 

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moash

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^^^^^^^^thatll definately work
if u dont wanna do that then just drive some fence post or something in the ground and throw a tarp over it
 

SoFloFlame

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Build a small greenhouse structure out of PVC and black poly plastic. Take the top off every day at 7:30 or 8am and put it back on around 7:30 or 8 pm. Mine has a permanent pressure treated wood base and is 8.5 by 14 feet and it cost me about 180 bucks to make. I'll be harvesting 23 plants in two days and then running another full summer crop :) You can build a 5 foot PVC frame with black poly plastic skin for like 30 dollars and flower your one plant out no problem.
That my friend is an amazing idea : ) but 23 plants sure seems to be allo just for
personal use lol. Where did you purchase the poly plastic skin at?
 

ganjaluvr

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Build a small greenhouse structure out of PVC and black poly plastic. Take the top off every day at 7:30 or 8am and put it back on around 7:30 or 8 pm. Mine has a permanent pressure treated wood base and is 8.5 by 14 feet and it cost me about 180 bucks to make. I'll be harvesting 23 plants in two days and then running another full summer crop :) You can build a 5 foot PVC frame with black poly plastic skin for like 30 dollars and flower your one plant out no problem.
I love your setup buddy. It's simple.. yet very well put together it looks like. I wish they would hurry up and legalize marijuana in my state for medicinal usage. That way, I could get my Cannabis card.. and be able to grow legally. Right now I'm having to stay indoors with my grows.. which is fine. I live in this house all alone anyhow.. except for a few friends coming over from time to time. But other than that, nobody comes over here. But yeah, I'd love to be able to grow outdoors. I'd definately have a sweet setup like you have there..

Keep up the good work man.. nothings better than natural sunlight for plants. Lumens out the wahhzoo!

Peace.. and good luck buddy!
 

veggiegardener

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Build a small greenhouse structure out of PVC and black poly plastic. Take the top off every day at 7:30 or 8am and put it back on around 7:30 or 8 pm. Mine has a permanent pressure treated wood base and is 8.5 by 14 feet and it cost me about 180 bucks to make. I'll be harvesting 23 plants in two days and then running another full summer crop :) You can build a 5 foot PVC frame with black poly plastic skin for like 30 dollars and flower your one plant out no problem.
Nice looking setup and ideas! I'm assuming you've been inside the structure with the plastic pulled over? It doesn't take much light to screw up a flowering cycle.
 

SoFloFlame

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Alright well the PVC structure is built and it's 6 ft tall and 3.5 foot wide. The only problem is the fact that a piece of tarp that size needed to cover the structure and block all light is around $90. So my question is, what did you use to cover your plants with and where did you purchase it?
 

STZ

Active Member
Giood job getting the PVC structure made man that sounds perfect. Go to home depot and buy 25' x 10' rolls of 3 mil black poly plastic sheeting. Its in the paint department near the dropcloths and tarps. It cost like 9 bucks and gets you 250 square feet of black tarp. Its tough enough to last all summer and dark enough to do the trick.

VG - Yeah even with only 3 mil plastic, I cannot see my hand 3 inches in front of my face inside of there on a 100 degree sunny Northern Cali day. And considering the fact that I just finished harvesting literally no longer than 20 mins ago :), I think I made it through flowering just fine!
 

SoFloFlame

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I ended up being forced to simply bring the plant indoors at night because the polyurethane sheets needed to cover were about 20 bucks a pop and I needed two.
 
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