My Growitup Greenhouse Grow 2010

what i do is i use a magnifying glass and put it to my camera phone lense and zoom in or out till i find great resolution as close as possible...check out my link below see how goo dit works lemme kno wha u think

Yea guys, I tried all kinds of stuff in the past, magnifying glass that has the little section on the bottom of the glass pressed next to a camera on a micro setting worked the best untill I got a camera with super micro. That did the same thing but the key is the picture size in the first place. Set your camera to the largest picture size, In my cannon its select function then the L for large. 3648x2736 Then you got a shit load of pixels for a better look close up. Then I use Microsoft picture manager. I zoom in on the pic to find the area I want then back out, select crop, crop it. Then re size to 700 pixels wide to fit in the window right.

This uses a lot of memory on the card but I wipe it clean after each shoot.

These were not done in the largest picture size, I think it was M2 thats 2272x1704 and in macro not super macro. That camera is sensitive to temps and if I dont keep it in a bag, I think its condensation that builds up and it wont turn on. safety precaution is my guess. Funny thing while I was checking the picture size on the little cam I think I found a wide screen setting for the vids too. Cool.

OH yea, I got a 20lb co2 canister and a test kit. Grabbed a bottle of that SM -90 I been reading about too. I will be adding that a couple times a week from now on.


Ok you little fuckers, COME GET SOME!

i did it and look who i found when i was re sizing and croping...

see the little basterd, man you can never really get rid of them

so cruzer, have you thought about a winter crop much lately?

gumball said:

so cruzer, have you thought about a winter crop much lately?

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Is that even possible in the greenhouse? I think the angle of the sun is off...

...but then again, you could be speaking about cruzer's indoor grows like he did in the past...?

Weedoozie said:

Is that even possible in the greenhouse? I think the angle of the sun is off...

...but then again, you could be speaking about cruzer's indoor grows like he did in the past...?

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no, i was speaking of the greenhouse. i seem to remember him laying out a plan for it when the green house first began life. i could have been stoned. no, wait, i was stoned, but it still could have been.

gumball said:

no, i was speaking of the greenhouse. i seem to remember him laying out a plan for it when the green house first began life. i could have been stoned. no, wait, i was stoned, but it still could have been.

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Damn, that would interesting and I would totally be an audience member to that. I'm growing in a greenhouse of my own and I was debating on the merits of growing during the winter months as well but I don't think it'll work very well as it get's really humid near the Bay Area and the sun's at a lower angle making bud growth delay for a longer time than during the regular season...I haven't seen any grows attempt this though and I'd really like to know what would happen

what about ground freezes, do y'all get that in Cali? im in NC, so we get everything, just about!

gumball said:

what about ground freezes, do y'all get that in Cali? im in NC, so we get everything, just about!

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Some times we do get frost overnight but that doesn't come until late in winter, around the end of January. Usually, it just rains a lot

Yea, your right gumball, my plan is three harvests a year out of this. Here we have 6 months of less than 12 hours of sun a day. If I swing it right I can do it. Bummer though I lost the clones I had and will have to replace them. I need a short flowering time so I'm lookin indica. Smaller plants like 12 about 3 feet high. We dont get any ground freeze here in cali, sure we get frost sometimes but not often where I am. Temps average low to mid 40"s so I will need a heater but I think I will have enough light. You can do it Doozie, you may need a dehumidifier being so close to the water and all, it would serve as a heater and a dehumidifier if you didnt vent the heat it makes.

cruzer101 said:

Yea, your right gumball, my plan is three harvests a year out of this. Here we have 6 months of less than 12 hours of sun a day. If I swing it right I can do it. Bummer though I lost the clones I had and will have to replace them. I need a short flowering time so I'm lookin indica. Smaller plants like 12 about 3 feet high. We dont get any ground freeze here in cali, sure we get frost sometimes but not often where I am. Temps average low to mid 40"s so I will need a heater but I think I will have enough light. You can do it Doozie, you may need a dehumidifier being so close to the water and all, it would serve as a heater and a dehumidifier if you didnt vent the heat it makes.

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SWEET completely new news to me!
I'm going to start saving my $$$ for a dehumidifier/heater
...but then again, coastal areas gets some harsh winds in the winter as well as some storms that knock some trees down...I'm unsure if a greenhouse will be able to stay put with father winter blowing on her...you may not have the same problem, cruzer, huh?

I didnt think about that, I'm in a 2x4 structure in a yard with a fence that blocks the wind.
Well I tell ya what, skip this year and if she is still standing after this winter we will know for sure!

cruzer101 said:

I didnt think about that, I'm in a 2x4 structure in a yard with a fence that blocks the wind.
Well I tell ya what, skip this year and if she is still standing after this winter we will know for sure!

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Lol yes I could do that but I'd prefer not to have to chase the greenhouse across my hillside that's visible for the entire town from the main road

That already happened to me once lol
silly me put up the original greenhouse without strapping it down securely enough and a windy storm blew that baby up and off my deck into the trees, fucked up my 1st attempt and it was my fault for not considering the wrath of nature before my plans to grow

growing in a greenhouse through the winter wouldn't be that difficult. In Cruzers case you just need to supplement some artificial light if you want to veg in the greenhouse. You can also use the heat from the light(s) to keep the greenhouse temps high enough to keep the plant growth from slowing & for cloudy days. that's my theory anyway. If you use HID lighting you also have heat generated from the ballasts. Cruzer has polycarb sheeting on his greenhouse so it'll hold temps better than one covered with just plastic. with good weather you wouldn't need to run the lights more than a couple of hours a day. Now where I live I would still have to add a heater, we get some fairly cold stretches even down to zero at times. I also had an idea for a light proof curtain that you could pull across the greenhouse to force flowering anytime . I can see it working for small greenhouses like Cruzers. though you could just add a flowering room I guess. I'm still planning all this out for my own build, hopefully soon.

People do grow winter greenhouse runs in worse conditions with minimal extra heating even. Some folks in Colorado have done this for quite some time even above 7K in elevation etc. (think snow and sub zero temps to manage) Keeping the floor/roots warm enough and the ambient up as much as possible is not that hard in SoCal. This should be a no-brainer with the right starters and/or supplemental lighting to dial in the size you want Cruzer. Just plan on a little less fresh air in at night etc. With the right sized plants and good recirculation in there this will not be hard to manage. Besides, no sense in that thing sitting empty all winter when you can be experimenting with a handful of plants.

Don't forget humidity. Don't know bout the west coast, but east coast has some dry ass winters, yet humid as summers. I also heard of folks using fridges/freezers filled with soil to grow in so the ground would never freeze. Don't think you'll need that though cruzer

Weedoozie said:

Lol yes I could do that but I'd prefer not to have to chase the greenhouse across my hillside that's visible for the entire town from the main road That already happened to me once lol silly me put up the original greenhouse without strapping it down securely enough and a windy storm blew that baby up and off my deck into the trees, fucked up my 1st attempt and it was my fault for not considering the wrath of nature before my plans to grow

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Ha! that would have been a sight to see. I had a 10x10 portable shade thingy fly up out of my yard and land on my next door neighbors roof last winter. Didnt take it down in time. Duh.

WWShadow said:

growing in a greenhouse through the winter wouldn't be that difficult. In Cruzers case you just need to supplement some artificial light if you want to veg in the greenhouse. You can also use the heat from the light(s) to keep the greenhouse temps high enough to keep the plant growth from slowing & for cloudy days. that's my theory anyway. If you use HID lighting you also have heat generated from the ballasts. Cruzer has polycarb sheeting on his greenhouse so it'll hold temps better than one covered with just plastic. with good weather you wouldn't need to run the lights more than a couple of hours a day. Now where I live I would still have to add a heater, we get some fairly cold stretches even down to zero at times. I also had an idea for a light proof curtain that you could pull across the greenhouse to force flowering anytime . I can see it working for small greenhouses like Cruzers. though you could just add a flowering room I guess. I'm still planning all this out for my own build, hopefully soon.

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I thought about vegging out there but I dont want the attention a light might bring. I got a cab to veg in and started some but I lost them. Paying more attention to the big girls I guess. I can get good size clones, like 15 to 18 inches for $20 in 4 in rockwool cubes and I figure thats about the size I want to start flowering at for winter grows. so thats what I'm gonna do. Then Im not sure what type but I want to try hydro, it will get them bigger faster and maybe it will be eaiser to warm the water then the soil and the whole greenhouse. I know by cooling the water plants can withstand higher temps why not the other way around.

psari said:

People do grow winter greenhouse runs in worse conditions with minimal extra heating even. Some folks in Colorado have done this for quite some time even above 7K in elevation etc. (think snow and sub zero temps to manage) Keeping the floor/roots warm enough and the ambient up as much as possible is not that hard in SoCal. This should be a no-brainer with the right starters and/or supplemental lighting to dial in the size you want Cruzer. Just plan on a little less fresh air in at night etc. With the right sized plants and good recirculation in there this will not be hard to manage. Besides, no sense in that thing sitting empty all winter when you can be experimenting with a handful of plants.

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Good idea. I was thinking of going all one strain but first time around and all I suppose its better to see what grows best.
Yea, I got a waterfarm 8 station setup I can rig more like a dutch pot system where it all drains back to one res and keep that heated but the other thing I have in mind is stinkbuds 4" pvc deal with the sprayers. That would be eaiser to keep the roots warm in being its smaller. IDK have to try some shit out.

gumball said:

Don't forget humidity. Don't know bout the west coast, but east coast has some dry ass winters, yet humid as summers. I also heard of folks using fridges/freezers filled with soil to grow in so the ground would never freeze. Don't think you'll need that though cruzer

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Na, it dont get that cold here.
Dont get me wrong it gets cold enough to ware a jacket. We might get 3 or 4 nights a year where it drops below 32° and when its cold like that it's still, no wind. My guess is daytime temps wont be a problem, night time temps I will need to raise about 20° to 60° or so. Humidity is high though I will have to watch that but I remember last year when I was drying, outdoors was like 60 to 70%

cruzer101 said:

Na, it dont get that cold here.
Dont get me wrong it gets cold enough to ware a jacket. We might get 3 or 4 nights a year where it drops below 32° and when its cold like that it's still, no wind. My guess is daytime temps wont be a problem, night time temps I will need to raise about 20° to 60° or so. Humidity is high though I will have to watch that but I remember last year when I was drying, outdoors was like 60 to 70%

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WOW thats high winter humidty. and i here you on the hydro, i have read on many garden forums if you keep the roots warm and happy the rest of the plant will make it through as long as the leaves dont have frost on them everyday.