CBDMed
Well-Known Member
Hola a todos, and welcome to my Colombian Andes greenhouse organic grow! 

I am somewhat autistic and CBD helps me to communicate. And also calm down, and sleep.
Long story but we are trying to start a sustainable farm operation. Colombian Organic certification is not practical because of government over-regulation, but at least I can grow organic medicine on the side.
My guys are working on a greenhouse. I have not seen it yet. Part of it will be for my medicinal plants (cannabis, coca, etc.)
Because we are near the equator (4 degrees north) our lighting is +/- @ 12/12 all year round.
Because of that, I bought two strings of "super bright" solar-powered LED lights to extend the "daylight", and shorten the night. (One for a backup, because it takes 2-3 weeks for stuff to get here--so anything that is critical, you need to have a spare.)
Like I say, I have not seen it.
My manager just sent me some photos, along with requests for instructions on how to grow the cannabis.
He says they hope to cover it with plastic next week. There will be a big 12-18" overlap-vent at the apex (because that is how they do it here).
They will anchor it with some concrete anchors, I guess.
I am a little concerned, because the contractor indicated before that he knew how to grow cannabis in a greenhouse so that it does not mold, but now today it turns out that he has never grown cannabis!?!?!?
(Umm, maybe he knows someone who grew cannabis in greenhouses before, and it did not mold, and he is confident of his ability at gardening?? No idea. I hope to ask him when I see him next.)
Anyway it is humid as anything here. We are coming into the dry season (US and northern hemisphere winter) so probably I will be ok, but long term I have a bunch of mold-resistant sativa CBD seeds coming.
I tried growing in a greenhouse on my roof before (long story) and it molded, and it was a blueberry haze--so now I am concerned.
Anyway, the best I can do is to get mold-resistant sativas, and see what makes it.
The soil is 6" of clay topsoil, and then sort of scree rock, clay, and sand, depending.
They plan to irrigate the rest of the greenhouse with drip irrigation, and they think to use drip irrigation for my cannabis also.
Haha, part of me is still asking if I want to plant in ground, or if I want to take an ice-pik to my fabric pots, and put them in a water bucket, and go SWICK.
I have a ton of hot soil (Subcool supersoil variant) sitting in trash cans that I could have hauled over there, and then we could recycle the soil on site between grows (and I would just need to bring in the nutes we need for reconditioning).
Alternately, I could learn how to amend the ground soil (which would probably be more familiar to the guys).
We have lots of cow, sheep, and goat manure, although we may have to sell the sheep (because they walk right through the electric fences, because of all of their hair). But the goat manure usually comes with straw that has to be composted.
I have not asked but I am sure there is plenty of compost--and if not we can fake it until we can get a compost heap set up.
If I decide to go in ground, how big of a hole do I want to prepare?
I have some indica clones I am doubtful will survive a greenhouse grow.
I want to try indicas in the summer, because the humidity is less. I have good hopes we can grow indica CBD in the summer (Candida), and then maybe in winter I can grow Dr. Seedsman 30:1 (which is sativa). We will see.
I planted seeds today in Solo cups and Root Riot starter cubes (because the seeds were old, and they handle moisture really well).
A lot of the seeds are regulars. I tried to go through with a magnifying glass and look for the ones that were round, and get rid of the ones that were oblong, in case that actually works (or in case I can actually figure out how to do it is more like it, haha).
(I'm not too sure if I did a good job or not, but at least the ones I put in the cubes were more rounder-ish than the ones that I sorted out as being "oblong".)
Everything was bought from a sponsor. (Or at least they were sponsors when I bought!)
CBD God
Harlequin BX4
Sour Tsunami CBD
Candida (sent to me by some cool grower)
Cannatonic
And (1 each) Delimed CBD plus
I was kind of freaked out to hear that the contractor who assured me that he knew how to grow cannabis in a greenhouse without molding has never grown cannabis before! (That was not cool.)
He has been very helpful so far, so maybe he had a good reason for saying that. (I hope to ask him the next time I see him.)
Things are still in the planning stages, so it would be great to hear any and all feedback.



I am somewhat autistic and CBD helps me to communicate. And also calm down, and sleep.
Long story but we are trying to start a sustainable farm operation. Colombian Organic certification is not practical because of government over-regulation, but at least I can grow organic medicine on the side.
My guys are working on a greenhouse. I have not seen it yet. Part of it will be for my medicinal plants (cannabis, coca, etc.)
Because we are near the equator (4 degrees north) our lighting is +/- @ 12/12 all year round.
Because of that, I bought two strings of "super bright" solar-powered LED lights to extend the "daylight", and shorten the night. (One for a backup, because it takes 2-3 weeks for stuff to get here--so anything that is critical, you need to have a spare.)
Like I say, I have not seen it.
My manager just sent me some photos, along with requests for instructions on how to grow the cannabis.
He says they hope to cover it with plastic next week. There will be a big 12-18" overlap-vent at the apex (because that is how they do it here).
They will anchor it with some concrete anchors, I guess.
I am a little concerned, because the contractor indicated before that he knew how to grow cannabis in a greenhouse so that it does not mold, but now today it turns out that he has never grown cannabis!?!?!?
(Umm, maybe he knows someone who grew cannabis in greenhouses before, and it did not mold, and he is confident of his ability at gardening?? No idea. I hope to ask him when I see him next.)
Anyway it is humid as anything here. We are coming into the dry season (US and northern hemisphere winter) so probably I will be ok, but long term I have a bunch of mold-resistant sativa CBD seeds coming.
I tried growing in a greenhouse on my roof before (long story) and it molded, and it was a blueberry haze--so now I am concerned.
Anyway, the best I can do is to get mold-resistant sativas, and see what makes it.
The soil is 6" of clay topsoil, and then sort of scree rock, clay, and sand, depending.
They plan to irrigate the rest of the greenhouse with drip irrigation, and they think to use drip irrigation for my cannabis also.
Haha, part of me is still asking if I want to plant in ground, or if I want to take an ice-pik to my fabric pots, and put them in a water bucket, and go SWICK.
I have a ton of hot soil (Subcool supersoil variant) sitting in trash cans that I could have hauled over there, and then we could recycle the soil on site between grows (and I would just need to bring in the nutes we need for reconditioning).
Alternately, I could learn how to amend the ground soil (which would probably be more familiar to the guys).
We have lots of cow, sheep, and goat manure, although we may have to sell the sheep (because they walk right through the electric fences, because of all of their hair). But the goat manure usually comes with straw that has to be composted.
I have not asked but I am sure there is plenty of compost--and if not we can fake it until we can get a compost heap set up.
If I decide to go in ground, how big of a hole do I want to prepare?
I have some indica clones I am doubtful will survive a greenhouse grow.
I want to try indicas in the summer, because the humidity is less. I have good hopes we can grow indica CBD in the summer (Candida), and then maybe in winter I can grow Dr. Seedsman 30:1 (which is sativa). We will see.
I planted seeds today in Solo cups and Root Riot starter cubes (because the seeds were old, and they handle moisture really well).
A lot of the seeds are regulars. I tried to go through with a magnifying glass and look for the ones that were round, and get rid of the ones that were oblong, in case that actually works (or in case I can actually figure out how to do it is more like it, haha).
(I'm not too sure if I did a good job or not, but at least the ones I put in the cubes were more rounder-ish than the ones that I sorted out as being "oblong".)
Everything was bought from a sponsor. (Or at least they were sponsors when I bought!)
CBD God
Harlequin BX4
Sour Tsunami CBD
Candida (sent to me by some cool grower)

Cannatonic
And (1 each) Delimed CBD plus
I was kind of freaked out to hear that the contractor who assured me that he knew how to grow cannabis in a greenhouse without molding has never grown cannabis before! (That was not cool.)
He has been very helpful so far, so maybe he had a good reason for saying that. (I hope to ask him the next time I see him.)
Things are still in the planning stages, so it would be great to hear any and all feedback.
