Posted: Dec 30, 2013 9:26 am
I was joking about the trash barrels and 2 story greenhouse. But trash barrels for pots would yield more than smaller buckets, and a greenhouse would yield more than an HID light. Plants can be grown to 12 feet. Perhaps more, I dunno. 
Both outdoors and indoors have their advantages.
Where I am, indoor would be better because the growing season is over by Sept 15. It doesn't go over 70 much after that, and it goes below freezing a lot, including hard freezes sometimes.
You can't put it out until June 1, or you risk the chance of possible frosts.
Plus the nightly dews all summer long wreak havoc with the mold. By Sept 1 the sun is at a lower angle, and that dew might linger all day in shady areas.
People do get away with putting it out in early May and leaving it until October, but they lose a lot to mold and frost.
And it's one of the cloudier places in the lower 48. The city of Caribou (Pop. 9000) makes the top 20 list for cloudiest US cities.
Slugs love this place, due to the wetness, and they preferentially love cannabis plants. Almost as much as they love moose shit.
Fences and frames stand out and bring attention to the plants, they're not an option until it's completely legal.
Medicinal patients aren't allowed to grow outdoors, afaik.
All that said nothing beats the natural sun for a light source, even in a cloudy place. And the air circulation.
I think a greenhouse would be the best of both worlds. If it were legal I'd try that first.
Both outdoors and indoors have their advantages.
Where I am, indoor would be better because the growing season is over by Sept 15. It doesn't go over 70 much after that, and it goes below freezing a lot, including hard freezes sometimes.
You can't put it out until June 1, or you risk the chance of possible frosts.
Plus the nightly dews all summer long wreak havoc with the mold. By Sept 1 the sun is at a lower angle, and that dew might linger all day in shady areas.
People do get away with putting it out in early May and leaving it until October, but they lose a lot to mold and frost.
And it's one of the cloudier places in the lower 48. The city of Caribou (Pop. 9000) makes the top 20 list for cloudiest US cities.
Slugs love this place, due to the wetness, and they preferentially love cannabis plants. Almost as much as they love moose shit.
Fences and frames stand out and bring attention to the plants, they're not an option until it's completely legal.
Medicinal patients aren't allowed to grow outdoors, afaik.
All that said nothing beats the natural sun for a light source, even in a cloudy place. And the air circulation.
I think a greenhouse would be the best of both worlds. If it were legal I'd try that first.