[plantingplants]

My buddy told me he saw a dep setup where a rope was suspended inside the GH, along the center of the GH, and the center of the tarp was somehow connected to rings and then conncted to the rope, so to pull tarp you just pulled the tarp along the rope like a showrr curtain. It did drape on the edges of the canopy, but it means i wouldnt have to build a hoophouse. Just two supports for the tarp rope.

Any idea how this is accomplished?? Anybody try it?

[CrushnYuba]

Yes. You take steel cable and you run it across the greenhouse in a few spots. Use a turnbuckle to get cable tight. You can just drape it across the cable. You could also use rings to hang under the cable like a shower curtain. I have done it and its the only way i would manually cover. Covering over a greenhouse manually Is to hard and tarps get trashed. I personally only do auto depps now though because the system i use is to cheap and easy to justify manually covering.

[CrushnYuba]

I just saw that you wanted to do it without building a greenhouse. That's possible to. You would just need to build to end walls. I forgot to mention that the end walls need to stay blacked out.

[Deezl]

Metal Wires every 3-4 feet w plastic wires every 1 1/2 feet or so.

The metal wires are unbraided to protect the tarp and tightened w turnbuckles.

The tarp is on top of the wires. I would love to see a curtain ring setup, that sounds really easy to pull!

Icmag site will only allow me to attach one image on my phone. I'll embed more when I'm in my desktop

[CrushnYuba]

Deezle: They sell these tarp clips. One piece on bottom, one on the top. It sandwiches your tarp. Use it to attach rings. They aren't the tarp clips that only grab the ends of the tarps. I got them online, can't remember where.
As long as you get the cable tight with the turnbuckle, it slides like a dream.
So you don't do any plastic? Just end walls?

[Deezl]

Pic was from during build (that's why the door is a tarp), but I didn't add the plastic until full term (rain in the fall).

I've left the sidewalls rolled up the whole time though. I don't have heating or real fans yet.

[CrushnYuba]

Deezle. I have all these extra plants sitting Around and people keep bailing on taking them. I'm thinking about depping out my veg house. Only thing is it's narrow and short. 12 ft wide. 8 ish feet tall.How would you make cables fit of it were you?

[HuffnPufferfish]

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[stone meadow]

Originally Posted by CrushnYuba

Deezle. I have all these extra plants sitting Around and people keep bailing on taking them. I'm thinking about depping out my veg house. Only thing is it's narrow and short. 12 ft wide. 8 ish feet tall.How would you make cables fit of it were you?

I understand your interest is in curtain cables but two 10' poles work very well on that size hut.
just picture a golden arm without bottom piece. just put that pole on the ground and swing it over.

[Deezl]

Crushinyuba:
I dunno it's hard to visualize but you loose about a foot (maybe less) of width and height if it's internal. I mean you can angle the wires so that they are closer to the sides on the end that doesn't get the tarp bunched up in it, but I didn't try that. The side wires also have another wire closer to the side of the GH to keep the tarp in between the wires. For a short span pvc poles might work well instead of wires.