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I'm hoping to see how all these fancy light dep greenhouses are working out for anyone who has bit the bullet and went big on automation. What problems have you came across? How many runs per year is everyone doing? What kind of controllers are available?I'm just hoping to get a good thread going with useful info on auto light depping.
I'm a 10 year indoor grower with a few good outdoor seasons in the past. I have been learning tons of new info on growing in greenhouse's, as well as endless info on automation.
We built a 24'x24' gro-tech greenhouse. It's on a concrete foundation with floor drains throughout. We have 9 gavitas for supplemental lightning. We had a good size evap cooler, about 2000 cfm. It helped but it still gets hot so I put a chiller on the evap and that made a big difference.
We did a first run in spring and early summer with mixed results. The quality was amazing for anything I have ever seen come from outside. Big bummer, gro-tech sucks ballsack and sells shit box tarps that light leak pretty bad and what do you know? I should start a seed company. So a few phone calls to grotech and they send us another set of tarps. After we got those on, what do you know the new one is worse then the old one. Anyhow we are going into winter with short days so I'm not worried about seeds this run but I guess I'll be changing tarps again after the second run.
Has anyone ever dealt with wadsworth? They seem to have some useful info and fancy controllers, and tarps. I just left them a voicemail to see about getting new tarps through them but missed the guys call late Friday when he called back.
Anyhow anyone else have any experience/ pics I would love to hear/ see all about it.
I'm a 10 year indoor grower with a few good outdoor seasons in the past. I have been learning tons of new info on growing in greenhouse's, as well as endless info on automation.
We built a 24'x24' gro-tech greenhouse. It's on a concrete foundation with floor drains throughout. We have 9 gavitas for supplemental lightning. We had a good size evap cooler, about 2000 cfm. It helped but it still gets hot so I put a chiller on the evap and that made a big difference.
We did a first run in spring and early summer with mixed results. The quality was amazing for anything I have ever seen come from outside. Big bummer, gro-tech sucks ballsack and sells shit box tarps that light leak pretty bad and what do you know? I should start a seed company. So a few phone calls to grotech and they send us another set of tarps. After we got those on, what do you know the new one is worse then the old one. Anyhow we are going into winter with short days so I'm not worried about seeds this run but I guess I'll be changing tarps again after the second run.
Has anyone ever dealt with wadsworth? They seem to have some useful info and fancy controllers, and tarps. I just left them a voicemail to see about getting new tarps through them but missed the guys call late Friday when he called back.
Anyhow anyone else have any experience/ pics I would love to hear/ see all about it.