Greenhouse: Growing In The Shade.

[greenleaf]

I'd like your opinion on growing with 55% shade cloth for your greenhouse or hoop house. B)

 

How many hours of direct sunlight are we talking about to be successful? What's your feel, what's your experience?

[nigel]

I dunno Green...from my small amount of outdoor grow experience in MI.. The plants that recieved the most "MORNING" sunlight did best. I guess you should never underestimate the Sun. Have seen some MI. plants get pretty big in a semi shaded area. I belief I read that on average you want at least 5 hours of "DIRECT" sunlight a day. And a strain that deals with the humidity well. B)

Have no clue what to use for green houses...but I would also be interested.

[llamabox]

I posted this at the other site for you Green. I will re-post it here.

 

Maybe with some digging you can find this full article on "effect of light levels on cannabanoid content" http://www.jstor.org/pss/2474665

 

It states plants grown in shaded daylight did NOT have significantly lower levels of THC.

 

Or here is a study on the spectrum of light allowed to pass through different types of greenhouse and nursery shade material. http://www.personal.psu.edu/drd10/Site/Publications_files/SpectralTransGreenhouseMat.pdf

 

Or this one THE BENEFIT OF SHADE TO IMPROVE QUALITY OF GREENHOUSE TOMATO. http://www.reeis.usda.gov/web/crisprojectpages/193029.html

[TheFlyingBuddha]

growing with a shade cloth? I've never heard of this, and it seems counter-intuitive to me. I'll have to read up on it, i like to learn something new at least once a day. This site is pretty good at providing me with that opportunity!

 

TFB

[greenleaf]

I posted this at the other site for you Green. I will re-post it here.

 

Maybe with some digging you can find this full article on "effect of light levels on cannabanoid content" http://www.jstor.org/pss/2474665

 

It states plants grown in shaded daylight did NOT have significantly lower levels of THC.

 

Or here is a study on the spectrum of light allowed to pass through different types of greenhouse and nursery shade material. http://www.personal.psu.edu/drd10/Site/Publications_files/SpectralTransGreenhouseMat.pdf

 

Or this one THE BENEFIT OF SHADE TO IMPROVE QUALITY OF GREENHOUSE TOMATO. http://www.reeis.usda.gov/web/crisprojectpages/193029.html

 

Thanks for all of these. I have some reading to do.

 

I was thinking of growing 1 or 2 plants outdoors this year to deal with first-timer mishaps and the learning curve, and then maybe invest in a greenhouse for the coming season (after I've done some reading )

 

Thanks much, again.

[greenleaf]

growing with a shade cloth? I've never heard of this, and it seems counter-intuitive to me. I'll have to read up on it, i like to learn something new at least once a day. This site is pretty good at providing me with that opportunity!

 

TFB

Mostly for security concerns. My city has a helicopter, our neighbor city has several and there are news choppers flying around, periodically. Even though legal, discretion is important. Out of sight, out of mind.

 

Idea being, you'd have to break and enter to ever know what was growing there. I want to grow 1 or 2 to gauge the odor and deal with pests and neighbors see how that'd multiply.

[greenleaf]

I dunno Green...from my small amount of outdoor grow experience in MI.. The plants that recieved the most "MORNING" sunlight did best. And never underestimate the Sun. Have seen some MI. plants get pretty big in a semi shaded area. I belief I read that on average you want at least 5 hours of "DIRECT" sunlight a day. And a strain that deals with the humidity well. B)

Have no clue what to use for green houses...but I would also be interested.

 

Thanks for the tips and insight. I'm going to be scanning all of the big sites for grow reports and checking out what Llama sent over.

[2d]

Last year I used some "row cover" that lets in 70%-80% of the light. Worked quite well.

[greenleaf]

Last year I used some "row cover" that lets in 70%-80% of the light. Worked quite well.

Interesting.

[kenzie1051]

I would go for that Hard Transluscent white material... iv'e seen it at Lowes before and in the pictures of some pretty nice 'semi-outdoor' grows. Good Luck!