Need help with outdoor setup please help time is ticking =(

infect3d

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Ok well High all im glad to have found this site. I'm totally new to growing and so far i have clones that are super healthy and are about 12 days old. Anyways I dont have enough money to get a 1000 or 600 watt right now... so I wanted to grow outdoor in my bacony but I wanted to make a green house type thing but very clean and like air tight somehow i know i can do it. But the thing is.... I dont know what kinda plastic to buy to wrap it with. I dont know what plastics out there that are the best for my plants. I saw Sollexx rolls Iono if its good or not but any ideas? I live in LA and I have my med card and the owners are fine with me growing it outside. my bacony is 175(L) x 100(w) x 95(h). i was planning to controll the air and temps but allowing them to get real sunlight and thats about 10-12hours of light a day thats pretty good. Please shoot me ideas and thoughts and opinions. My plants and I need your help thanks for reading. :leaf:
 
Any clear plastic at home depot will work fine.

Your likely going to need to add some kind of lighting for a few hours at night so they won't flower....

and then in the spring..your going to have to routinely block out light for a couple hours to get them to flower early...or wait until the fall when daylight hours decrease to 13 or so and they will flower on their own.
 
Yep, clear plastic (like in the paint dept at Home Depot) would be fine. And maybe make a frame out of PVC pipes and fittings?

That's a pretty big balcony. How many plants will you be growing?

I agree with legallyflying about the hours of light issue. Probably not the ideal time of year to start an outside grow - unless you're planning to grow them all the way through until next fall, you'll need some way to do "lights out" a little early. Maybe a layer of thick black poly over the clear plastic (rolled up/down like a window shade)? I dunno, just thinking...
 
Thanks for your feed backs i forgot to mention i have a vegi closet. opps...so the outdoor will be the flowering room...my vegi hours are from 10pm-4am.....from 4am-8am the are under a 200watt 10,000 lemun CFL. then i take them out every morning from 8am-5pm to get real sunlight. then i bring them back in to the CFL light from 5pm-10pm so thats what ive been doing and they look sexy. Ill try to get pictures up.
 
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