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greenhouse Potawie's greenhouse porn 2009

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The weather has been quite nice here lately. My bigger plants have now spent a few nights in the greenhouse and most of the smaller ones should get potted up today and brought out too. Its a bit of a pain in the bhut feeding the woodstove at night, but it sure saves me a lot of work carrying plants in and out every day. I just hope we don't get any more really cold nights.
Here's a few pics I took today

These are really taking off
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Here's some big 2 and 3 year old plants
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And here's a negative image of some more plants. I like the cool purple effect
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POTAWIE said:
Its a bit of a pain in the bhut feeding the woodstove at night, but it sure saves me a lot of work carrying plants in and out every day.
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Amen to that. If by "woodstove" you substitute "cheap portable BBQ". Looking delicious but you've got the longest wait ever ... except that guy from Alaska.
 
I think I'd sufficate my plants with a cheap portable bbq:( One year a crappy propane heater nearly killed all my toms and some peppers so I had to invest a lot into a woodstove with proper insulated chimney pipe.
 
the weather has been excellent !.. im thinking about bringing them outside as well to start the ' harden off'... are you heating in the days as well ?
 
Potawie,

Did you consider electric heaters? That's what I am leaning toward, based on costs and ease of using. I have one that will heat 100 sq. ft. and if it is on 24/7 the cost is ~$30 so I'm figuring two of them should heat a 12x16' structure. The plants inside will be cooler weather ones where getting as low as 45 degrees overnight will not hurt them. Seedlings and such won't go into it until about the second week of March and it would be rare to have a night with temps below 20F.

I presume your plants are hardened off, at least the sun part of it, but what about the wind? Do you have a strong fan inside?

Mike
 
Electric heat would be far too expensive, its even quite expensive for my small greenhouse. The reason I use a wood-stove is because I get wood very cheap or free. I also have an oil furnace that came with the greenhouse but because its only a month or two that I need heat, its just not practical for me to use it or even to have it certified for insurance purposes.
As for the hardening off, I use a shade-cloth on my greenhouse and run a commercial fan, and an exhaust blower when needed
 
Looking really good!!!!!

What is the size of your greenhouse? I am wanting to build a better one next year. Also, can you more pics of the gh? I am really looking for some ideas.

Muchas Gracias,

B
 
Brian,

That's me too! Except I want to build my first one. My yard faces the perfect direction but the devil is in the details. When I see what AJ and Potawie can grow in one, I have to try.

I'll start a thread in the Tech section so Potawie's porn doesn't get hijacked.

Mike
 
BrianS said:
Looking really good!!!!!

What is the size of your greenhouse? I am wanting to build a better one next year. Also, can you more pics of the gh? I am really looking for some ideas.

Muchas Gracias,

B
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The poly-tunnel is approx 14' by 36' and about 10' tall. I'll be taking more pics soon, but I'll re-post this one for now.

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Here's a couple more cam shots of yesterday's porn

After several years, I'm finally getting a really good looking giant white hab plant
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I love this one. Its a yellow 7-pot/pod that was bonsai'd for the winter, but is now growing free-range and has a few pods on it
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You know Potawie, it's said in almost every thread you make; but you really should write a guide/book or something on what you do.

I've seen you claim that you really don't do anything out of the ordinary yet you produce extraordinary results! :)

Or maybe it's some deep dark voodoo magic that can't shared - muahahahhaha!

Honestly though, very impressive results.
 
POTAWIE said:
After several years, I'm finally getting a really good looking giant white hab plant
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Wow. That looks really interesting - not the bullet type, but more like a reg hab shape, right? Even the leaves look different from mine.

What happened to the previous years' plants?
 
I only got a few pod last year off my giant white hab, and none the year before. I don't really think they are very habs like, and they're also quite different looking than the bullet/ammo types, but similar flavor. I've had good success with the white ammo variety and Peruvian whites, but once again only after saving my own seeds from struggling plants.
 
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