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Show us your Ghetto growing gear.
- Thread starter InCider
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I'll post a pic of my actual grow setup at some point, but this is my high tech bottom-heated germination apparatus...
I've tried other things, but the heat output from the router is perfect. Everything usually sprouts within a week. Tepins, Bhuts, 7Pods... no issues. I can layer about 5 or 6 bags at a time on it.
Thanks for the bright idea. Mines a bit different so here it goes.
Actually, I did see that on PBS a few months ago.
great job steve5000, it is so hard to find a use for used styrofoam, i hate breaking it up and throwing it in the garbage as our recycle program doesn't accept it. that gives me some new ideas but i am not going to share them with you groovie cats....... just yet.
beat this ghetto set up
This I think will take the ghetto cake.
In florida, most of us exist in defiance of winter... True story - there are entire facebook groups (more than one!) devoted to wearing sandals in winter even when its freezing, or after having moved to other states, in the snow - that are more or less expressing this sentiment. I don't think its a conscious thing... But never the less, the farmers almanac said the final frost would be the second week in Feb, so after the final frost, I planted out everything that was ready at the time. Then nature threw a curve, and decided to frost again... So the afternoon of the day it was to freeze, I'm scrambling trying to come up with some way to keep them from being turned into peppersickles.
In a moment of ghetto brilliance, or insanity (jury is still out) I remembered my neighbors stand of bamboo that he hates... I cut down a few of the taller stouter pieces, borrowed some painters drop cloth from my sister (who had just painted two days prior... still smelt of pain on the edges), and some duct tape, and built the following gheto glam bivouac style green house.
it actually worked fairly well also... I used a big cinderblock (not pictured) to hold the center down on the side facing us, and the wind caused it to tear, which caused three plants to be exposed to the frost... 1 is in the process of dying, the other two already have new growth...
This green house is guaranteed to be an eyesore that will cause at least minor annoyance to your neighbors....
In florida, most of us exist in defiance of winter... True story - there are entire facebook groups (more than one!) devoted to wearing sandals in winter even when its freezing, or after having moved to other states, in the snow - that are more or less expressing this sentiment. I don't think its a conscious thing... But never the less, the farmers almanac said the final frost would be the second week in Feb, so after the final frost, I planted out everything that was ready at the time. Then nature threw a curve, and decided to frost again... So the afternoon of the day it was to freeze, I'm scrambling trying to come up with some way to keep them from being turned into peppersickles.
In a moment of ghetto brilliance, or insanity (jury is still out) I remembered my neighbors stand of bamboo that he hates... I cut down a few of the taller stouter pieces, borrowed some painters drop cloth from my sister (who had just painted two days prior... still smelt of pain on the edges), and some duct tape, and built the following gheto glam bivouac style green house.
it actually worked fairly well also... I used a big cinderblock (not pictured) to hold the center down on the side facing us, and the wind caused it to tear, which caused three plants to be exposed to the frost... 1 is in the process of dying, the other two already have new growth...
This green house is guaranteed to be an eyesore that will cause at least minor annoyance to your neighbors....
Mine is far from ghetto compared to some of these setups... I shelled out the money for a roll of mylar and a couple light fixtures and went to town. I have a 4-bulb 4' T5HO fixture hanging from the clothes rack in my closet, and then a 2-bulb 4' T8 fixture hanging from one of the doors using a stretched out clothes hanger. It's getting a bit crowded in there, but there's enough reflected light that the plants are happy even if they aren't sitting directly under the light.
Give me a break, it's my first try at growing.
FIFY
the one didn't show up when I went to the link, but this one did.
No kidding.
Here's my creation....
Vintage fridge, gutted and turned into nursery, complete with thermostat and computer fan exhaust.
