Indoor Kyote's 2021 Adventures in Grow Land Indoor & Outdoor

[The^Dude]

End of week 12 on the Dawg. Water only now as it started foxtailing like crazee, so it' gonna be chop time in the coming week and the trichomes are cloudy as well.

I figure the foxtailing is due to too high a DLI for the environment, so I backed the lights down a bit.

NLxBB in the gallon pot is doing alright and the other NLxBB received some light lst. Bent the main over is all on this one. Feeding both NLxBB @ 500 to 600ppm of Mega Crop, and both received Miicrobial Mass this week.

Also started getting a couple spots in the greenhouse prepared for photo grows.

The tent
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Candy Dawg pics
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Crazee foxtailing
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And a little lights out bud shot the other night
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NLxBB's
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Copper wire hook pulling the main over. The other one was topped so doing something different with this one
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And greenhouse prep - going to be nice this coming week, so will get this together in here. Think I've healed enough from surgery to start tossing bags around There will be approximately 3 cubic feet of soil in each hole.
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That'z all for the adventures in Kyoteland this week

I want a greenhouse so bad. You probably already did but can you tell me about it, how you heat it, and your experience building and working with it?

 

[Kyote]

I want a greenhouse so bad. You probably already did but can you tell me about it, how you heat it, and your experience building and working with it?

I have no experience growing in one. It came with the place we bought 1.5 years ago. Last summer, I grew under a greenhouse tarp. Monitored the temperatures in the greenhouse, and the direct sunlight. It got hot, too hot, so I picked up a 16" oscillating fan, and will figure out an exhaust fan if needed. I think the amount of direct daylight will be ok for photos.

We don't heat it, but we've been eating spinach out of there all winter.

I wouldn't buy this piece of junk. All plastic, doesn't hold up well to the bad storms we get here. There are much better ones out there. In this area, wind and snow load are important to consider.

So this will be a new one for me, and have no idea how it will go. Figuring it's a modified outdoor grow, with the sun as the light, the plants in the earth, supplemented with a fan for circulation.

Will get some seeds going early May indoors for two weeks or so, then move em out and see what happens

 

[Olderfart]

We live in an agricultural community (small farms). It's all cooked and turned well as it has no manure smell. I have a friend who used it last year in his veggie garden and had no problem with seeds. The soil mix is made about 30 miles from here, so all locally sourced.

I'm thinking this for right now.

Per ten gallons of soil mix adding
3 gallons of perlite
1 gallon EWC
1/2 gallon mixed manure
1/4 cup DE
1/4 cup alfalfa meal

The soil mix contains horticultural grade peat moss, coconut coir, premium aged organic compost, organic soil, Natural Zeolite, Organic Kelp, Slow release fertilizer and perlite.

This is being mixed for photoperiods. What ya think? Ya, na? Hell no?

FWIW, I would not use any mix with "slow release fertilizer", unless they are talking about the organic additives that feed the microbes. The problem is that even if you know what nutrient ratios you are starting with, by the time you need to deal with an emerging issue, you have no idea what is left in there, so how are you supposed to know how to fix things?

My next peat based grow, if there is one, will probably start with Dr. Bugbee's peat/vermiculite mix. If I go with salt nutes, it will just be adjusted with dolomite to deal with pH, if I go living soil, it will have the usual organic additives to adjust pH and feed the bugs. If living, it will be cooked indoors where the bloody gnats can't get at it. The main attraction to me is that I will know what is in there, and I will at least start without pests. All just theory at the moment however, so judge accordingly.

Good luck with it.

 

[DCLXVI]

Cool stuff man! Even if the greenhouse isn't great, at least you have space to play with.

 

[Jraven]

I used a 16" 12v fan and an 80 watt solar panel purchased separately. Stuck the panel on the roof. You may need two fans in your warmer climate. Mounted the fan at the opposite end from the oscillating fan. Works great, no temp spikes and keeps the moisture down

 

[The^Dude]

I used a 16" 12v fan and an 80 watt solar panel purchased separately. Stuck the panel on the roof. You may need two fans in your warmer climate. Mounted the fan at the opposite end from the oscillating fan. Works great, no temp spikes and keeps the moisture down
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Do you use an inverter, battery, or controller? Or just wire that bad boy right to the fan and call it a day?

 

[Jraven]

Do you use an inverter, battery, or controller? Or just wire that bad boy right to the fan and call it a day?

Nothing in between more sun=more speed....it doesn't take much to get it going. The dc motor doesn't care

 

[Olderfart]

Nothing in between more sun=more speed....it doesn't take much to get it going. The dc motor doesn't care

More sun=more speed is just what the doc ordered.

Except at night when the temperature goes down and the RH goes up, if my experience is any indication. But I like your setup!

 

[Jraven]

More sun=more speed is just what the doc ordered.

Except at night when the temperature goes down and the RH goes up, if my experience is any indication. But I like your setup!

Greenhouse growing is definitely still loaded with potential disaster lol. But my outdoor conditions are pretty bad but the set-up has been working. I haven't had much of a mold problem compared to before the exhaust fan. The oscillating fan goes 24/7.

 

[Olderfart]

Your oscillating fan should keep you out of trouble unless things get really wet. My last fail due to mold was when the power to my fan died. Until that happened, there was no sign of it. I’ve given up growing in my little “greenhouse” because of mold. I defeated the gnats and slugs, but not the mold.