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Any suggestions on solar powered heating and watering systems for a greenhouse?
Some of you must have tried "growing" things IYKWIM
(I helped save b3ta! mr horrible up yours, dickface, Tue 9 May 2023, 15:31, archived)
Greenhouses tend to be fairly warm already
apart from in the winter, when there's hardly any sun
(I helped save b3ta! Turtle Power & Knuckles, Tue 9 May 2023, 15:57, archived)
There's hardly any sun at night, but it's still warm at night in the summer. How do you explain this?

(I helped save b3ta! mofaha ┐( ˘_˘)┌ ʅ(́◡◝)ʃ, Tue 9 May 2023, 16:03, archived)
What kind of astrologer are you anyway?

(I helped save b3ta! mofaha ┐( ˘_˘)┌ ʅ(́◡◝)ʃ, Tue 9 May 2023, 16:09, archived)
asstrologer

(I helped save b3ta! Cheers Cheers, Tue 9 May 2023, 16:43, archived)
rings round Uranus, etc. etc.

(I helped save b3ta! Mr. Tea 'ulmmm'/'mmneurgh', Tue 9 May 2023, 21:51, archived)
Super Furry Animalzzz

(I helped save b3ta! Cheers Cheers, Tue 9 May 2023, 21:59, archived)
Aliens

(I helped save b3ta! Turtle Power & Knuckles, Tue 9 May 2023, 16:27, archived)
My favorite race is called the Korinians

(I helped save b3ta! mofaha ┐( ˘_˘)┌ ʅ(́◡◝)ʃ, Tue 9 May 2023, 17:37, archived)
BRB KLAXON!!!

(I helped save b3ta! mr horrible up yours, dickface, Tue 9 May 2023, 17:39, archived)
All races taste the same

(I helped save b3ta! Turtle Power & Knuckles, Tue 9 May 2023, 17:54, archived)
Salame!

(I helped save b3ta! mofaha ┐( ˘_˘)┌ ʅ(́◡◝)ʃ, Tue 9 May 2023, 18:48, archived)
I grew shirt potatoes

(President of the lighthouse Organised the Trumpton riots, Tue 9 May 2023, 16:01, archived)
Those grow themselves

(I helped save b3ta! mofaha ┐( ˘_˘)┌ ʅ(́◡◝)ʃ, Tue 9 May 2023, 16:04, archived)
Might be able to offer suggestions for other parts of the process but probably not this part.
Do you literally mean greenhouse, like an outdoor glass structure?
(I helped save b3ta! mofaha ┐( ˘_˘)┌ ʅ(́◡◝)ʃ, Tue 9 May 2023, 16:02, archived)
I do

(I helped save b3ta! mr horrible up yours, dickface, Tue 9 May 2023, 17:07, archived)
gaz mongy, he knows about this sort of thing

(THE MONGDADDY Wibble jib-jib!, Tue 9 May 2023, 16:06, archived)
Don't bother
Solar panels take up space that would be better for letting in sunlight. Water in the morning or evening, but don't water the leaves, just the soil around the base, as wet leaves can scorch
(I helped save b3ta! Smash Monkey 2 Prozac is apparently good for menopause, Tue 9 May 2023, 16:09, archived)
He wants an automated watering system I think

(I helped save b3ta! mofaha ┐( ˘_˘)┌ ʅ(́◡◝)ʃ, Tue 9 May 2023, 16:12, archived)
I do
Like a little pump drip system
(I helped save b3ta! mr horrible up yours, dickface, Tue 9 May 2023, 17:08, archived)
I tried a few things with my greenhouse
Water butt with submersible pump connected to a smart socket, tray watering with little float shutoff valves and a more ambitious project to link arduino soil moisture sensors to electrically operated water valves that I never got round to finishing
(I helped save b3ta! 2 Can Chunder Word to your mums, I came to prod bums, Tue 9 May 2023, 17:13, archived)
This is the sort of thing I'm getting at
But I think a little trickle feed solar panel with a storage battery for the pump/droppers and a small heating element to stop it getting totally freezing in winter.
(I helped save b3ta! mr horrible up yours, dickface, Tue 9 May 2023, 17:33, archived)
I already have an overall temp/humidity sensor in the greenhouse, so I can get all smart with routines from that

(I helped save b3ta! mr horrible up yours, dickface, Tue 9 May 2023, 17:34, archived)
Fair enough. My greenhouse was close enough to the house to make it easier just to run everything off the mains.
Plus my greenhouse heater was a bitcoin mining ASIC in a home made water resistant server enclosure so solar panels wouldn't really have cut it.
(I helped save b3ta! 2 Can Chunder Word to your mums, I came to prod bums, Tue 9 May 2023, 23:07, archived)
Did you find any coins? or whatever the verb is.

(I helped save b3ta! mofaha ┐( ˘_˘)┌ ʅ(́◡◝)ʃ, Wed 10 May 2023, 2:24, archived)
I mined 3 bitcoins but the FBI confiscated them when they shut down BTC-E :(

(I helped save b3ta! 2 Can Chunder Word to your mums, I came to prod bums, Wed 10 May 2023, 9:55, archived)

ter nk
(I helped save b3ta! Mr. Tea 'ulmmm'/'mmneurgh', Tue 9 May 2023, 17:37, archived)
Solar power isn't up to that yet

(I helped save b3ta! mongychops, Tue 9 May 2023, 16:42, archived)
Surely enough to keep a battery topped up, little bit of heat and pump activity a few times a day?

(I helped save b3ta! mr horrible up yours, dickface, Tue 9 May 2023, 17:35, archived)
I’ve grown tired of this place

(I helped save b3ta! Cheers Cheers, Tue 9 May 2023, 16:44, archived)
When a man is tired of repetitious and boring online chat he is tired of life

(THE MONGDADDY Wibble jib-jib!, Tue 9 May 2023, 16:58, archived)
Cheers

(I helped save b3ta! Cheers Cheers, Tue 9 May 2023, 17:00, archived)
what proof is it?

(I helped save b3ta! MiseryCunt sometimes the squirrel catches the dog, Tue 9 May 2023, 20:01, archived)
Thanks for reminding me that I don't have a greenhouse any more 😥
Jerk
(I helped save b3ta! 2 Can Chunder Word to your mums, I came to prod bums, Tue 9 May 2023, 17:05, archived)
I have a greenhouse AND a shed
What happened to your greenhouse?
(President of the lighthouse Organised the Trumpton riots, Tue 9 May 2023, 17:12, archived)
Had to leave it behind at the old house.
The new house does have two fairly massive sheds though, admittedly in a state of disrepair.
(I helped save b3ta! 2 Can Chunder Word to your mums, I came to prod bums, Tue 9 May 2023, 17:15, archived)
Not quite shed and buried then?
Ka-ching
(President of the lighthouse Organised the Trumpton riots, Tue 9 May 2023, 18:02, archived)
Unless the greenhouse is in the Arctic/Antarctic or on the moon or Mars
I don't think you'll need heating.
(I helped save b3ta! brb Monkhouse Stampede, Tue 9 May 2023, 17:07, archived)
Overwintering tomato plants is the aim

(I helped save b3ta! mr horrible up yours, dickface, Tue 9 May 2023, 17:08, archived)
You could paint the (concrete?) floor black
to absorb heat during the day and radiate it at night.

Or you could build a proper passive solar collector heat sink type of thing.

Are you doing soil or aqua? If aqua, fish or no fish?
(I helped save b3ta! brb Monkhouse Stampede, Tue 9 May 2023, 18:01, archived)
Seems easier just to get rid of the greenhouse and rely on the earth's own solar powered heating and watering systems.
If anything the glass just gets in the way.
(I helped save b3ta! 2 Can Chunder Word to your mums, I came to prod bums, Tue 9 May 2023, 17:10, archived)
Seems better not to jog with limestone
If anything, your wall just gets in the way.
(I helped save b3ta! mr horrible up yours, dickface, Tue 9 May 2023, 17:36, archived)
The sun is overrated anyway
i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/04/17/article-0-1D28F8E000000578-927_634x422.jpg
(I helped save b3ta! Turtle Power & Knuckles, Tue 9 May 2023, 18:48, archived)
Yeah, what you need to do, first of all, is remove one of the glass panes from the greenhouse
Then snap it into a shard, and ram it down your japper. After that you'll be sorted
(I helped save b3ta! Queef Smegwin U r a 🔔🔚, Tue 9 May 2023, 17:48, archived)
Along with some billy obvs

(President of the lighthouse Organised the Trumpton riots, Tue 9 May 2023, 18:03, archived)
Naturally

(I helped save b3ta! mr horrible up yours, dickface, Tue 9 May 2023, 20:04, archived)