Light Deprivation Greenhouse

i think i might even try to do a light dep in my big greenhouse in the spring next year before i plant my big crop in there.

UncleBuck said:

i think i might even try to do a light dep in my big greenhouse in the spring next year before i plant my big crop in there.

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you've got me thinking........

doublejj said:

you've got me thinking........

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especially where you're at where the temps are a bit warmer, it would be great. throw them out there around the equinox and you won't even have to cover the GH for a month or so.

harvest in late may and plant your summer crop on june 1st. easy stuff.

UncleBuck said:

especially where you're at where the temps are a bit warmer, it would be great. throw them out there around the equinox and you won't even have to cover the GH for a month or so.

harvest in late may and plant your summer crop on june 1st. easy stuff.

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I'm gonna buy some pieces of tubing so I can shorten the legs on my carport, I won't need the height & it will make covering much easier. I'll put the long legs back on for summer........oh yes.....I think I will do this next year......

Looking good man. Light dep looks like an awesome technique. You can take advantage of the bright summer sun, avoid the late season frost/rain and command pre-croptober prices if needed.

doublejj said:

I'm gonna buy some pieces of tubing so I can shorten the legs on my carport, I won't need the height & it will make covering much easier. I'll put the long legs back on for summer........oh yes.....I think I will do this next year......

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next year, i'm gonna make a few kludges to my light dep GH so that i can just unroll some plastic flat down the length of the roof from the inside. much easier than going over the top of the roof or sliding in several sheets of 4x8 every night. covering the sides is the easy part.

BigB 420 said:

Looking good man. Light dep looks like an awesome technique. You can take advantage of the bright summer sun, avoid the late season frost/rain and command pre-croptober prices if needed.

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the prices here for good outdoor stay pretty steady as long as you can find a buyer, but that october flood does make it pretty difficult to find a buyer when everyone and their brother has 4 pounds to get rid of.

i just sit on mine and wait them out until thanksgiving or christmas. my crop has been gone just after new years the last two years.

UncleBuck said:

the prices here for good outdoor stay pretty steady as long as you can find a buyer, but that october flood does make it pretty difficult to find a buyer when everyone and their brother has 4 pounds to get rid of.

i just sit on mine and wait them out until thanksgiving or christmas. my crop has been gone just after new years the last two years.

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Don't you have issues with it getting bone-dry and crumbly? If not, how do you avoid that?

heckler73 said:

Don't you have issues with it getting bone-dry and crumbly? If not, how do you avoid that?

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tortilla's..............

UncleBuck said:

i think i might even try to do a light dep in my big greenhouse in the spring next year before i plant my big crop in there.

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Usually yields half of what a summer light dep does. Try vegging them so they're a little bigger when you put them out in the spring.

Aye buck hellauva 3am drunken idea!
So your 36 days in an stopping pulling your tarp??? I am at like 30 an may do the same .
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might wait another week though as my sour d is kinda touchy

heckler73 said:

Don't you have issues with it getting bone-dry and crumbly? If not, how do you avoid that?

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maybe a little bit, especially if the bag is left open too much.

otherwise, seal the bag after a perfect dry and cure, crack it every so often to inspect for mold/mildew, and they stay OK.

Joedank said:

Aye buck hellauva 3am drunken idea!
So your 36 days in an stopping pulling your tarp??? I am at like 30 an may do the same .
+ rep
might wait another week though as my sour d is kinda touchy

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i pulled the tarp because we were a month from equinox. a couple plants did not like it. fuck those plants. all the others were fine.

just got done branching the first plant (it was trimmed and dried, now it starts its cure).

7 ounces, even after a bit of mold loss

it'll probably cure down to 6.5 ounces, but still. pretty awesome stuff.

now that burning man is over, I'm watching for a free carport frame......I want short legs!.....

my last plant to trim is sitting in front of the fan drying off from the rain. this batch took a damn long time to trim, and i am glad it's almost over.

gives me a bit less than a month to rest (by rest, i mean build several new flower rooms) before the really big trim job is ready for me.

Hey yall, nice thread. I have this idea, and wondering what yall think. I have 2 hoop style green houses. Right now i am still pulling my cover, because i got some frikin prima donnas.that my buddy started off in la la land somewhere. Every little thing effects them. Little princesses.
Anyway, gunna keep pulling it right up until the equinox.. Possibly longer. It gets cold here and the extra plastic is a great insulator. Next spring, as soon as temps allow, i am going to loosely those 2 gh with ladies ive been growing since, well shit. Since 3 weeks ago! Haha... Anyway, fill em up. Light dep on one, let the other go natural. All the plants that flower, cool, move em to light dep. The ones that dont... Cool keep brewing em. in the main gh. As i start to harvest out of the light dep side, juat keep hauling in ladies from the veg house and replacing them with ladies that i will still be brewing in an offsite location...
Oh yeah, and most of the "second round" of reinforcements for the veg tent would be fast flowerers ajyway, that i could put outside in 100 gal pots.

Does this make sense to anyone. Basically an outdoor sea of green.

final count is in from round 2.

5.97 pounds, and i've already given away about a half pound to my neighbors and wife as well.

i have 13 in there for round 3, which is not light dep since we are so close to the equinox. but that's the great part, you have another greenhouse and you don't even have to bother with the cover towards the end of the season (and the start).

all in all, we're looking at about 12 pounds from the light dep, not bad for a drunken 3 am idea put together for about $500.

might get more out of the light dep GH than i do out of the big GH.

light dep is the way to go.

Nice. Congrats.

I can certainly see how light deprivation would be the way to go. 3 outdoor harvests per year, to quote Charlie Sheen : "Duh, winning!".

I've been staring at the same damn plant for almost 6 months now, and she's probably at least 2 months from harvest. So yeah, I think you're definitely on to something. Not bad for a guy with no reading compensation.

gonna figure a way to heat it over the winter?