Long time follower first time poster just wondering how you guys have had success using light dep. I live at 48 n and a lot of the strains I'd love to grow just wont finish by end of sept. I will be doing a decent size guerilla grow next year and would love to hear some input from my fellow growers on what they think the most efficient setup for my situation would be. Any and all advice welcome thanks in advance and happy growing
Light dep help?
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Garden Boss
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Build a dark tent or shed on site (camouflaged) simply haul each plant outside at 7 am, then back in a 7pm. However, a carport/greenhouse could extend your season.
thanks for the info garden boss definitely gunna do the dark tent sounds like the best bet. Always been interested in carport greenhouses could u elaborate more on how they work I was under the impression they would block light but rather interested in the idea
Garden Boss
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https://www.rollitup.org/outdoor-growing/634073-doublejj-carport-greenhouse-discussion-thread.html Double JJ is a Jedi at carport greenhouses.. check out his thread
hoonry
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ah man, you're taking the hardest way to grow weed, guerilla, and making it even harder! alright then, if that's what you must do, you're going to have to simulate night somehow to get them to go into flower - which means you'll have to be at the site at least once a day.
The first way is what everybody has mentioned already - you can move the plants into a darkened structure or you can cover the immobile plants. I'm not even going to start with suggestions on how to construct a backcountry blackout room. You either have to put the plants to bed at night and pull them back out again in the morning, or you have to cover them at least until night falls - I see a lot of people reporting success with pulling their tarps before dusk, then removing them a few hours later - this would cut your trips out there to once a day.
I would also shoot for indica dominant strains. Once you have been blacking them out for 3-4 weeks, they should be far enough along that they will continue flowering even after you stop blacking them out. Sativas and sat dominants have a tendency to revert to vegetative growth if their light cycle gets screwed with too much. good luck! let us know how it goes...
The first way is what everybody has mentioned already - you can move the plants into a darkened structure or you can cover the immobile plants. I'm not even going to start with suggestions on how to construct a backcountry blackout room. You either have to put the plants to bed at night and pull them back out again in the morning, or you have to cover them at least until night falls - I see a lot of people reporting success with pulling their tarps before dusk, then removing them a few hours later - this would cut your trips out there to once a day.
I would also shoot for indica dominant strains. Once you have been blacking them out for 3-4 weeks, they should be far enough along that they will continue flowering even after you stop blacking them out. Sativas and sat dominants have a tendency to revert to vegetative growth if their light cycle gets screwed with too much. good luck! let us know how it goes...
skunkd0c
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not sure if it makes it any easier but you only need to cover them for a few hours to make the day length shorter
when its dark anyway they don't need to be covered
so you can cover them at 6-7 pm, when it would normally be light until 9-10 pm in the summer
uncover them at 10pm , or anytime after
they only need 9.5 to 10 hours of darkness to flower anyway
peace
Thanks for the advice hoonry I am actually a carpenter so building the structure would be no problem. It would probably be the camouflage part I'd struggle with. I debated doing sheets over individual plants but made this post in attempts to find the most tried and true light dep technique if there is one as my best thought seems rather tedious. I plan on doing at least 20 to 30, twenty gallon smart pots next year so trying to get a jump again thanks for the input
hoonry
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I'd love to hear if anyone out there has experience doing a light dep crop with a far red spectrum 730 nm bulb. Sseedz - I didn't mention it before because I haven't done it myself and can't attest to it being tried and true. The theory of it however, is wonderful - no tarps, structures, nothing. Apparently all you do is wave the bulb over the plant and dusk nightly, this supposedly "adds" a couple of hours to the dark cycle... blah blah phytochrome blah blah sorry can't give you the science of it but it's quite researchable!
I'm fantasizing a little bit here, it does seem a little good to be true. Powering the bulb would be the challenge in a guerrilla setting, and a floating red orb in the distance might arouse suspicions to anybody who happened to see it!
I'm fantasizing a little bit here, it does seem a little good to be true. Powering the bulb would be the challenge in a guerrilla setting, and a floating red orb in the distance might arouse suspicions to anybody who happened to see it!
stealmyfaceGD
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I've done some black boxing. I'm not sure how this would work guerilla though. I just bought some conduit PVC piping a fairly flexible grade and some huskey black plastic. The plastic was 20ft wide so measure the PVC accordingly or piece the plastic together for more feet with clips or something if you need more height. I used some rebar about 2 and half foot long as stakes and just slip the PVC over the rebar spaced about 6ft apart put long piece of PVC as a too cross bar and tied each end to some stakes. Nothing fancy but it works and you could easily knock down the PVC hoops daily and hide the plactis and PVC together, maybe get a double layer going of plastic one as a protective cover so you could kinda bury the PVC and plastic a liltte with leafs and what not but not be pulling a dirty cover dropping shit all over your plants.
oh yea leave at least an extra foot on each side to bury or put some logs or sand bags to hold the plastic down i think the height was 6 and a half foot tallest point with a 20ft wide sheet but dont remember
oh yea leave at least an extra foot on each side to bury or put some logs or sand bags to hold the plastic down i think the height was 6 and a half foot tallest point with a 20ft wide sheet but dont remember