Outdoor Greenhouse Grow 2011

Im posting this here instead of the journals cause these is gonna split into and indoor and an outdoor grow soon as my flower room is ready and the plants are ready for outside.
Here's the strain line up:
Seedlings- 5 personal strain(strawberry goo), 4 purple widow, and 2 bag seed unknown.
Clones- 3 Chernobyl, medicine man, chem 4 og, and valley purple.
I have 4 20gal pots, 3 9gal pots and 2 home depot 5 gal buckets that are the future homes for the greenhouse plants. my goal is to fill those with females and keep one or 2 clones for the indoor grow. Just not too sure which strain to go with. leaning towards keeping a Chernobyl for flowering indoors. Any ideas or input on that topic is much appreciated.

The greenhouse is a 6x8 and 6ft tall at the highest point. Im going to add a base of cinder blocks to raise the total height of the greenhouse to maximize the height options. The plan is to do different types of training, i.e. topping, fim, lst and found some thing you can put in pots that are similar to screens in scrog. Ill be using Roots Organics soil again and so far plan on sticking with the Fox Farms full lineup. Organics and solubles and the enzymes.
Please leave any feedback or criticisms as last years grow wasn't the best.

ditch the home depot buckets and go into your local grocery store and buy those .99 cent reuasble bags. they hold 3-5 gallons of soil and breath alot better then plastic.

they work awesome, everyone should be using those. i threw away 28-5 gallon buckets from HD and Lowes....well I recycled them.

Looking good bro, I've used the old cinder block trick before, works great. You can keep adding bricks as your plants grow taller.

I would put plastic on the top & sunscreen mesh on the walls.

peace
doublejj

doublejj said:

Looking good bro, I've used the old cinder block trick before, works great. You can keep adding bricks as your plants grow taller.

I would put plastic on the top & sunscreen mesh on the walls.

peace
doublejj

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ya its not finished yet. I still have to install all the plastic panels. Figured id wait till right before the plants go out to extend the life of the panels. Plus this greenhouse is designed to be broken down after each season. But we'll see if I have the patience for that. +rep

do you really plan on have 30+ plants in a 6x8 green house? I'm planning a grow with my neighbor were gonna use a 10x20 carport doublej style, we were going to do 10 maybe 12 plants

mrduke said:

do you really plan on have 30+ plants in a 6x8 green house? I'm planning a grow with my neighbor were gonna use a 10x20 carport doublej style, we were going to do 10 maybe 12 plants

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Oh no mrduke, i have 6 clones and 11 seedlings from regular seeds. Ill probably have hopefully 12 plants outside, which will keep me within medical laws. +rep

So when i get back from getting some ink done, I plan on topping atleast the valley purple clone cause im leaning towards flowering that one indoors in my lil cabinet im currently trying to build. Ill probably top the chernobyls aswell but may only fim MM and Chem. Pics to come afterwards.

Topped the valley purple clone today after i got back from the tattoo shop. She responded well, no drooping or anything. Tomorrow when I get home i plan on topping the 3 Chernobyl.

So far only have the Valley Purple clone topped. Haven't had the heart to top the others yet. The Chernobyl is drinking up a lot so may have transplant soon and top so can get them growing into lil bushes. The seedlings still having some slow growth, but I also have them in some bad soil. So not sure what i want to do with them since seems early to transplant them. Pics to follow when I get home.

Just got back from Costco. Found some local recycled soil made from compost and other organics so bought 4 cubic ft of that and some soil amendment for some in ground planting. So have room in the greenhouse for 2 in ground plants and im thinking Chernobyl, but if anyone has a better idea let me know plz! Got some more shopping to do, then pics to follow. I promise.

So, cant upload pics right now. Comp not syncing with my sd card reader. dug holes for some plants in ground and almost finished with the greenhouse panels. the plastic filters the light slightly, so im thinking about bringing the plants out soon.

Ok, so I have solved the picture uploading issue and now have a quality update with photos. Yesterday I finished the greenhouse and i'ts now just waiting for plants to fill it. Which is soon because cant get my temps low enough in the veg room right now and the heat is slowing there growth. Enjoy the pics.

when do you plant outdoors in nor cali this month or may right?

@wanabe, ya last year I put em out mid to late may and this year Im trying for beginning of may or by the end of this month. Guess just gotta see how everything pans out with my work schedule and everything.
@shabang, thanks glad to have you following.

Alright and I have also just started my first cardboard box cfl grow. Find the link in my sig...

Just transplanted the clones into bigger pots while they veg for a bit outside in the green house. Fed with the B1 and they appear happy after the transplant. Going to watch them tonight and off to the green house in the morning.

Plants spent all day in the green house, and they will enjoy their first evening outside. The soil mix looks like was a little hot, and I got some burned tips but that's it. Nothing major and wont have to feed them for sometime. The one in the green pot is headed for the flower box inside and the close up with fresh pistils is one of the Chernobyl. All 3 are showing and looking good. Only one is smelling already and thats the Chem 4 OG.

One plant was droopy this morning so they all got some water. Temps in the green house were lil over 80F, but its only a bit over 70 outside. Anyone know some good ways to keep temps lower inside a greenhouse.

have that same green house grew last year with it i mounted a few fans on the back wall to circulate air. mine would hit in the 100's. never seemed to bother the plants tho. ended up doing 2 harvest out of it by adding 2 exhaust fans one sucking air in one blowing air out and covering it up for 12/12. bout to start up again outside.