Ohhh... the horror !!! (update: Al is doing a $150 ghetto greenhouse)

WalkGood · May 24, 2013

Hahahahaha I believe you on Al Gore & latest tech new

Now that’s funny stuff!!!

Ok, love dat getto nursery/sauna, for a minute there I thought I was looking at a Coke stand in Jamaica

hehehe. Nice, great job & idea!!! What ever gets the job done at the lowest cost is the way I fly too. Seedlings & plants looking a nice shade of green, so they must be loving it fa sure mon.

Whoa indoor in-ground herb garden, now that’s killa … reminds me of my mother in law’s indoor grow in V-land, it looks beautiful, great job! Awesome place for you to add them bhuts & butch T’s & others, now that’s super cool mon ^_^

Love the update Al, ~~great~~ awesome job … keep dem coming \o/

Al-from-Chile · May 24, 2013

WalkGood said:
Ok, love dat getto nursery/sauna, for a minute there I thought I was looking at a Coke stand in Jamaica hehehe.

... if you think the sauna is ghetto, wait until I up the pics of the greenhouse (which, btw. is neither green nor in the shape of a house)

WalkGood · May 24, 2013

I didn't mean anything bad, just a term we use in da streets here and I look forward to the purplehouse if that's what it will be

Edit: BTW our house is red, no joking, lols ....

Al-from-Chile · May 24, 2013

easy mon... its understood that everything here is tongue in cheek ...

here is a pic of the greenhouse (or should I call it black-1//4cylinder?)

basically I am using existent infrastructure ...
there's four 3/4" 6meter long tube that is squeezed in between the metal pillars to the right and the lowish fence to the left (which has been reenforced)

Both support points have about 8" of rebar welded on, over which the tube slips

the hoops are just held in by tension (think fiberglass rods in an igloo-tent) and will be pulled in spring. the 2 reinforcing parallel tubes are just held in place with some wire and give the structure the necesary stability and are aligning the hoops. The whole structure is 30' x 20'. I hope the next couple of days will allow me to put the plastic on and tension it down (so basically its a balance act between the metal hoops pushing the film up and the strings that will push the film down (again, think tent)

basically it will look like half a version of this

lets keep fingers crossed everything works out!

cheers,
Al

ps: again, thx to Al Gore for allowing me to use his internets

WalkGood · Jun 1, 2013

Nice structure Al, did you finally get the plastic on?

Al-from-Chile · Jun 1, 2013

Not yet...

I bought a roll of plastic (65yrds) it sits right there weighing 130lb.... But it has been rainy / stormy for the past couple of days. I didn't feel like manhandling 600sqft of sail in the wind

(see pd: below)

I'm waiting for things to dry up - hopefully Monday.

Of course I will have pics coming ;-)

Cheers, Alfred

Pd: the Jamaican - ghetto sauna flew away in the last storm (the roof structure that is) - had to patch her up - shit happens I guess

Devv · Jun 1, 2013

Dang here in Tejas 1200sqft is just a stroll in the park...are you slacking there or what..LOL

edit: of course I don't know what the hell I'm talking about..but it did sound good at the time :drunk:

Rum and coke anyone?

Al-from-Chile · Jun 3, 2013

ok, update time

bon scott got a baby! (dirty deeds, done dirt cheap?)

the big Scott family ... and the smaller Bhut cousins

some Moruga Scorps, Choc.Scorps, a butch, a Barrackpore and assorted tomatoes, (chicken sold separately ...

)

I am glad for the glass in between

lets see: last weeks overview:

now this weeks overview: (whoever finds the 7 differences .... well ... he can keep them

)

ok, if I can get a bump - I drop my pants and show the "making of the making of the non-green greenhouse"

here is a teaser ...

cheers,
Al

Al-from-Chile · Jun 4, 2013

btw ... how can I change (=update) the title of my glog?

anyone can help?

thx al

WalkGood · Jun 4, 2013

Al-from-Chile said:
btw ... how can I change (=update) the title of my glog?

anyone can help?

thx al

go to your first post, click edit, click use full editor and you'll see "topic, tags, etc" ... you can change it there.

BTW nice updat mon

sicman · Jun 4, 2013

nice looking grow you got there. love the birds,very pretty barred rocks

Al-from-Chile · Jun 4, 2013

Thx 'mon - I'm on the tablet right now - will show the full () * tomorrow.

* the empty brackets () are short for the "greenhouse that is neither green nor a house" . Kinda like the artist formerly known as price

Thx for all the fish,
Al

Al-from-Chile · Jun 5, 2013

ok, we wanna see piccies, right?

here, for your reading pleasure, I laid everything out nicely

here is the basic structure ... its just held in between the 2 fences by pure tension - not a single nail, screw or so ... I plan to use the greenhouse only 4 month in the year - so I need to have it fairly modular to up and down it without too much hassle.

we got some 22yds of 10ft wide double folded PE-film - thats gotta go up ... my problem is I am pretty much alone so I have to be organized or things are gonna go up in flames ...

here is the same film after I sprayed on some secret radioactive emulsion that help absorb UV-rays. Needless to say, Ms. Luna the lab died instantly but without pain

I chose to work with 2 x 1" (3.5 yds long) and proceeded to staple the nylon down with my cosmic staplegun (normally I only manage to staple the webbing between my fingers to the 2x1" but this time I lucked out... hahaa

next step: sammich-nailing the two 2x1" together to release stress for the nylon - so basically I have one 2x2" with nylon in it. I did this along both looooong sides of the nylon - you guessed right - those "rails" will be the anchor points. There are six 2x1" in the top and six in the lower rail.

I anchored 2 ropes on the extreme parts of the top rails and with a little help from my friends, used those ropes to slide the top rail over the structure

... and ...

... and...

so - Voilá ... there you go ...

want more pics ... bump!

;D

Al

Jeff H · Jun 5, 2013

millworkman · Jun 5, 2013

That is a great looking setup!

Al-from-Chile · Jun 5, 2013

ok, here some more pics ...

the 2 black metal posts are to anker the blue-white shade-cloth in summertime - then I will take the nylon off

i call it the plant-penthouse

with a nice view on the andes ... it may not show from those pics, but we are entering winter

the tallest mountain here is the Cerro Plomo (grey montain) which is roughly 5500mts high.

I let google take the funny moment of this post with its conversion:

5500 meters = 18 044 feet 77⁄16inches

(give or take a few inches)

cheers, Al

ps: I am currently doing some detail-work to make the ~~green~~penthouse more storm worthy (e.g. tucking the ends in) ... I will shoot up some more pics in the next few days

Devv · Jun 5, 2013

I like it, doing things on the cheap and simple is the way to go when it comes to growing.

Good job there Al!

Sorry about Ms. Luna :crazy:

Al-from-Chile · Jun 5, 2013

Devv said:
I like it, doing things on the cheap and simple is the way to go when it comes to growing.

Good job there Al!

Sorry about Ms. Luna

she had it coming - she was a real bitch

well - she did not really die ... she sometimes sleeps in the most incredible positions - I really have to get close and see if she is still breathing and farting (she is as gassy as they come) ...

:shh:

Al

WalkGood · Jun 18, 2013

Al penthouse looks awesome mon and love the shot of Luna kicking back to play dead, lolz! Great update brethren, better late than never on my part, hehe. Keep up the awesome job, as Billy would say "looking marvelous!"

Al-from-Chile · Jun 18, 2013

Glad you like it... I have a hump that the penthouse will be the place of many future adventures (and funny moments)...

Funny as in... "honey, I put a thai hot up my nose and can't get it out again"

Cheers, Al