3. INDOORS & OUTDOORS - CONSTANT HARVEST STRATEGY

One of the best solutions to save energy is the use of sunlight for flowering and indoors artificial light for germination and vegetative growth. This will take advantage of the natural light/dark cycle and cuts your energy use in half. For this purpose, a small greenhouse can be built of Filon fibreglass or PVC sheets. It is possible to make it look harmless, like a storage shed or tool shed, to not raise suspicion.

In fact, a large shed of metal or plywood can also be modified with a luminous roof of PVC, glass, fibreglass or plastic sheets. In such a shed strains can be grown that do not require a great deal of light. It will not easy be discovered by fly-by sightings and keeps your business your own! It also makes it possible to keep out rats, gophers and neighbour kids because it can be easy locked up. It will furthermore give you the opportunity to actually plant in the ground.

During winter, the indoor space should be used to start new seedlings or cuttings. They can be placed outside in spring, using natural sunlight to ripen the plants. This routine will provide at least 3 outdoor/greenhouse harvests per year. If it is possible to constantly start indoors while flowering outdoors, harvests will be there every 60 days, with possibly a small winter indoor harvest as well.

For year round production it is necessary to understand the plant has two main stages; a vegetative - and flowering stage. Plants will stay in a vegetative stage when they at least get 14 hours of light every day, otherwise they go into a flowering stage. Once a plant has the desired length (for seedlings 30-45 cm; for clones any desired length; see chapter Sea Of Green), weather permitting, it can be forced to start flowering by placing it outside in the Spring or Fall. For Summer outdoor flowering, the night must be artificially lengthened in the greenhouse to "force" the plants to flower (see FLOWERING chapter).

Keep in mind that "Big Brother" is mainly looking for plants in the Sept./Oct./Nov. time-frame, and may never notice plants placed outside to flower in April. Be smart, make your big harvest in May, not October!

See also: Lowryder.