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The growing large plants, outdoors, thread...

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Very nice easy... love the pile of stalks on the bottom right...congrats on finishing your year up...do you think next year you'll put up reflective material all over your green house?

ianSF - Is that your waste processing machine? hehehe
 
Feb2006er

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Rabbits, chickens, turkeys, and goats are the best at it...horses are nice too, but you have to take what they make and give it to the worms :)
 
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Hey TG. Reflective material wasn't really needed but I'll probably paint the interior siding with white paint and mold resistant additive (sorry photo deleted). Humidity levels late in the season caused some surface mold on the siding. The light reflection off the white would just be an added bonus. This was my first run in this greenhouse and this season was sort of a 'shake out' run. Next year I'll add an extra layer of plastic on the roof and install a small inflation fan (insulates and stops condensation), run row plantings and trellising, and most important of all... find quality genetics that will finish in late September and not late November! I'm at 46* North and had to heat the greenie at night for the last 5 weeks just to keep the girls from freezing.

Thank you again.
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easy said:
I just finished my first large plant medical grow. Big thanks to everyone who contributed to this and other outdoor threads... especially Tom, HL, GanjaD, Nomaad, TG, and Fisher.

I truly could never have been as successful without all of your help.
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no worries. very happy to see all the success stories this year. can't wait to see what happens in 2011.
 
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Hi TG-

That horse belongs to a neighbor, the only unexpected visitor to our grow all year. (besides the Sheriff's Department, and that went surprisingly well.) He had permission to ride a large ranch that borders us. Came riding by one morning and yelled "Howdy neighbor, I have one rolled! Wanna burn?" Now I'm composting two pickup loads of old manure on the property.

Hi Nomaad-

Thanks for your advice this year. I saw the Cervantes video. I'm speechless! You gave me something to aim for next summer. Best to you and your family.

Anyone hear how Tom is doing?
 
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i got a question for all you sup. light users..... do you prefer the lights being on after sundown or turn on before sunrise? anybody done both and received different results?
 
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OK, I have spent the last week reading this entire thread. I feel like there should now be a final exam or something:

What's Tom's soil recipe?
What gift did IanSF take to the local Sheriff?
Does water kill PM, or not?
Why did Butte leave the thread?
What are Tom's three essential meters? (And two supplementals?)
How can you make your own smartpots?
What's the optimum diameter of a breathable airpot for growing huge plants?
How many gallons of soil does it take to fill such a container?
What is the role of calcium in preventing disease?

And on and on and on.

This year we did a seat-of-our pants grow that actually turned out ok. We had some seeds and supplemented those with some late-planted clones from a local nursery. Still not sure of the total yield.

We arrived to the grow already in progress, started by relatives. The garden was a mix of native soil and composted horse manure and was already a couple seasons old. (There were also veggies, which I want to eliminate next year...the beans RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE were such a PM magnet, thankfully the blueberry kush right next to them seemed pretty resistant.

For next year I'm starting some compost piles, plus planting cover crops. Gotta do no-till. The compost is going to be mostly humus from the forested areas of our property, harvested sustainably. I'll mix in some of the composted manure and maybe some hotter stuff, plus some amendments. I really want to keep it as local as possible, I can't make sense of organic with an enormous carbon footprint, to me organic means nothing if not sustainable. My hope is that it will turn out that you can get really awesome results without lots of inputs through soil management.

But I'm a novice. And the most dangerous sort, armed with all the knowledge from the thread but lacking experience.

Big thanks and happy Thanksgiving to everyone who has added to this thread.
 
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not all of us are blessed enough to grow somewhere with no neighbors, so we wouldn't want lights on our ladies all night for everybody to see, you know? but since I've read through this thread I've seen the monster guys say back and forth that some use it in the early morning some in the early evening. all im asking is which do most prefer?
 
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If I was going to turn them on and off I'd have them come on in the morning and stay on through part of the day and go off again.
 
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My eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the weed.
We smoked up all the pot we had and planted all the seeds.
The plants we had they grew into enormous ganja trees.
We get high all day long!
 
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Trinity Gold said:
next year im going to turn it off at the end of july. woot woot.
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what lighting do you intend to use?

i like this idea. curious how effective it is inducing flowering for strains that otherwise wouldn't switch for at least another couple weeks.

do u think/know by doing this bomb threat would come in early october for instance?
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McDank8O5

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supp. lighting is to give your outdoor ladies that extra light so their photoperiod isn't off and they don't have the urge to switch over to flower in the early months of summer. (+ more veg time) These veteran supp. light users could explain it much better but there it is in a nutshell!

I really like TG's idea of going to the end of July with it, atleast down south that would be very helpful we had most plants switch by July 28th this past season, way to early!
 
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More time spent vegging during the period of time that I have to veg....will force plants to flower harder etc.,
 
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