Gingerbeard
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How many more weeks until harvest?
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LunarsDankCage
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This is my setup in question. Ghetto? Oh hell yes, it is. Does it withstand moderate to light rain? Surprisingly, yes! I have VERY limited resources at my disposal this time around. The shed has no power, so I have to drag out an extension cord from the plug near my pool, which is a good distance away. I would add more fans if the plug weren't in series with my dusk-to-dawn area light—the breaker likes to trip otherwise. I kept one half of the cage with the wild growth to help hide away the plant because people are weirdly nosey.
My plan before the next growing season is to demolish the cage once I harvest this plant and replace it with a hardy greenhouse that has a power source with lights and fans over the winter. The greenhouse will be big enough to shelter cannabis and other fruiting crops like tomatoes and cucumbers, all in raised garden beds with proper trellis. It's a lot of work, but it will be far better than what I have now.
My plan before the next growing season is to demolish the cage once I harvest this plant and replace it with a hardy greenhouse that has a power source with lights and fans over the winter. The greenhouse will be big enough to shelter cannabis and other fruiting crops like tomatoes and cucumbers, all in raised garden beds with proper trellis. It's a lot of work, but it will be far better than what I have now.
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Gingerbeard
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Extension cord to outside fan. Gerry Tweeker greenhouse. Right under your neighbor's window. Well done! You get a thumb. Watch the people post their jealousy.
People been gettin' by in the ghettos for a long time. I can see something like what you have in many backyards in my ghe... neighborhood.
I don't know your weather. Greenhouse, cloche, and painters plastic work well for a ghetto greenhouse. The downside is wind. The plastic needs to be kept as taught and loose end free as possible or wind can tear it apart.
People been gettin' by in the ghettos for a long time. I can see something like what you have in many backyards in my ghe... neighborhood.
I don't know your weather. Greenhouse, cloche, and painters plastic work well for a ghetto greenhouse. The downside is wind. The plastic needs to be kept as taught and loose end free as possible or wind can tear it apart.
LunarsDankCage
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Exactly right! I am using a painter's tarp to shield her. My first design for the tarp was more of a traditional A-frame roof. It looked great, but the first couple of nights the wind destroyed it and the following morning I found my plant wedged in between the fence posts. That was the first few weeks of flowering and thankfully she was unhurt. So, I went for a more flat but bumpy approach, and somehow even though it looks like hell it does very well. I even recessed the milk crate into the ground so the plant could have some headroom.
Oh yeah, I looked like an absolute fent fiend setting this up LOL! But I don't care, as long as it shields my beauty from some poor conditions I am happy. I am in the New England area, so the weather here more often than not changes on a dime. Humidity is the one consistency in the weather, and it's always in the damn 80-90%'s!
Oh yeah, I looked like an absolute fent fiend setting this up LOL! But I don't care, as long as it shields my beauty from some poor conditions I am happy. I am in the New England area, so the weather here more often than not changes on a dime. Humidity is the one consistency in the weather, and it's always in the damn 80-90%'s!
Gingerbeard
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Consider a lean-to style where the slope is only on one side of the roof. That will keep water from pooling.
Also consider various types of chicken wire and plastic mesh you can line the inside with. It will help keep the plastic from flapping and still allow in light. And do not enclose it! An enclosed plastic box outside in your humidity will do things to your plant this forum may have never seen.
I'm about as far southwest US as you can get. New England, man. I want me some New England. My southwest US is covered in concrete and manmade. But I am stupid and poor. I am not stupid because I am poor. I am poor because I am stupid. Unless that first thing changes, all I get are NE pictures. That second thing will never change.
Also consider various types of chicken wire and plastic mesh you can line the inside with. It will help keep the plastic from flapping and still allow in light. And do not enclose it! An enclosed plastic box outside in your humidity will do things to your plant this forum may have never seen.
I'm about as far southwest US as you can get. New England, man. I want me some New England. My southwest US is covered in concrete and manmade. But I am stupid and poor. I am not stupid because I am poor. I am poor because I am stupid. Unless that first thing changes, all I get are NE pictures. That second thing will never change.
LunarsDankCage
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I have a friend who grew autos over the summer, and he dealt with a lot of bud rot too. But he didn't ever shelter his plants from rain, so that didn't help. Humidity at the moment is 79%. Just been a very wet couple of years up here.
LunarsDankCage
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LOL! Oh man, you made me do a little belly laugh! I do not plan to leave the NE USA at any point in my life. I might move to Maine if I ever get the funds. I stay away from the southwest for that very reason. Very cookie-cutter, concrete, and just straight up unsustainable! I hope you get to at least travel to the NE, the nature here is breathtaking, especially during the fall, and let's not forget that NE clam chowdah