I don’t have one…but I would like one someday.
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Sadly I don’t have one. But I’m fairly certain that I’m driving the wife nuts with the pots that take over ever winter so its just a matter of time, effort, and resources. I’m happy to get ideas from others even if the envy will be tough to bear for now.
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Epic oldschool wow what beauty
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Mine is missing some important pieces, but the ground is too frozen now to set the posts. Hoping to finish this spring or summer.
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Looks better than mine. Then again IA winters are a different beast than the mild chill that I deal with in NJ-7A. I look forward to the finished product.
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Here is mine: before all the fish tanks to hold heat. I did not run power to the fans or louvers or thermostat. I use the beeswax and spring mechanical auto openers for the vents set to 80degrees. The only heat is a 300watt aquarium heater I put in a 200gallon tank for the colder snaps. Otherwise passive. Zone 8b Seattle burb.
Got it for free, someone was moving and the new buyers wanted it gone as part of closing. Taking it apart carefully (drilling out all the rivets) was the hardest part.
I did the siding on the thing w cedar fence planks that were on sale. Cedar siding was too expensive. I angled the top and bottom on the table saw and made my own overlapping for drips siding. Did the top rail wrap with metal flashing.
The ground slopes down from my slab steeply on the south side towards the creek. It left a void since I leveled off the concrete slab. Instead of wood or hard foam I decided to fill it in with acrylic double walled. I went to tap plastic and found all this 1/4” acrylic strip trims in their 1$ scrap bin. It’s my favorite part of the greenhouse. The original sunny toekick. Ha.
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I have a few orchids which I can put outside in the warm months of the year.
The rest of the year they are in a indoor “grow tent “.
They actually are doing better inside so I am hoping the Cattleya types will bloom this year.
The Phalaenopsis bloom almost non stop.
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I’ve been thinking about getting a high tunnel for a while. Would you mind sharing where you got bought yours?
Sure here you go.
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My Rl digbyana has bloomed for the first time in my indoor grow tent !!
This is the wild species that is used extensively in hybridization to create the ruffly corsage type Cattleyas orchids.
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friend of mine with more money than sense got me a planta after visiting and thinking my hoophouse was “hard to hang out in”. it’s been great so far.
i dug in 2 feet almost, by hand. filled that about a foot deep with sand so i could walk in there
it’s evolved. i think I’m on year 3
currently all the starts are going in there
the wind doesn’t bother it and the snow slides right off.
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Here’s one of our hoop houses March 2015 with a heavy snow load, second one collapsed because the roof didn’t shed the snow properly.
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yeah with mine i had enough curve that it didn’t hold snow. trying to find a picture
i used some 2x4s scrap to hold up the outside layer too. thing was built completely out of garbage and i was really proud of it. it worked pretty good for what it was for a couple of years
had a few nights running out in a wind storm blizzard to load down the edges when the winds will try to take it, so I’m glad to have the one i got now
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What a wonderful space you have created. I say that my favorite ‘room’ to be in is in our hoop house.
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How about a greenhouse inside a greenhouse! This is a 10x20 inside a 32x54 back when I was in the nursery business. The smaller one was to provide warmer nights for starting cuttings while getting chilling for stone fruit.
Oh, wait at this point there wasn’t any stone fruit. That was earlier. Anyway, I heated the smaller one about 20F warmer than the bigger one. Heating the big one to 70F would cost a boat load of $$$$$
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that’s the smart way to do it!
i think the sand floor was my better idea, i do like it. It is not hot in summer or cold in winter
my only regret is that being in town i could not dig down deeper to get that walpini effect for evening the temps. i may be using a rocket stove or??? alternative heat next year as electric has gone up due to data centers nearby.
so i may need to rethink the warmth in winter. i have a large swamp cooler for summer but will run into the same problem so may sell that and rely on solar fans and let it be high heat
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Wow, good recycling work!
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Greenhouse in a greenhouse! Never thought of that. Crazy smart idea if you need it, I guess. Like that orchid grower. Or maybe grow tropical fruit in it.
I will have to learn all about the trials and tribulations of greenhouse growing if I ever get one.
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