r/greenhouse

Old Window Greenhouse — Work in Progress
My husband and I are officially in the middle of building a greenhouse almost entirely from old/reclaimed windows and galvanized metal framing.

The plan is roughly 12’ x 15’, and we’re basically designing it around the windows we’ve been able to find. 😂 We’re using the old windows for the walls, galvanized metal for the structure, and planning an A-frame roof.

It is VERY much a work in progress, so don’t judge her yet. 😂 We’re figuring out window placement, corners, ventilation/opening windows, doors, roofing, and all the little gaps you don’t think about until you actually start putting one together.

I’d love to hear from anyone who has built something similar.

I’ll add progress pictures as we go!

Hi everyone,

Found my way here after seeing Nicholas Walker’s post on LinkedIn. Been lurking for a bit and figured I should introduce myself.

I’m Henrique, a commercial grower from Portugal. I run PREZE, a licensed medicinal facility where we’re currently growing three cultivars for the European market in around 2,400 m² of glass greenhouse.

We’re running Fluence RAPTR LEDs, hanging gutters, heating and a custom HVAC/dehumidification setup.
We’ve only been operational for about 6 months, so we’re still learning a lot and dialing things in, but I’m pretty happy with where the flower is heading.
This is one of our current batches — Funk Bomb, 22% THC, destined for the German medicinal market.

I mainly joined because there seem to be quite a few people here operating at commercial scale and dealing with the same problems we are.

We definitely don’t have everything figured out. Climate control, irrigation strategy, airflow, disease pressure, post-harvest, scaling SOPs… plenty of things have already given us headaches.
Happy to share what has worked, what hasn’t, some of the mistakes we’ve made, and compare notes with other growers here.
Looking forward to contributing.

HeadPeace = (Tiger's Milk x Snow Lotus) x Honey Banana - TerpFiend Genetics

Grape Limeade = Purple Sunset x Tahiti Lime

Scooby Snax = FaceOff OG x Platinum GSC - Archive

Devil Driver = Sundae Driver x Melonade - Tiki Madman

Chemical Cookies = Chem D x Forum GSC - Mamiko

Any advice on how to keep them alive or how to grow them properly? 😂 Is it realistic for me to think I can actually grow something here, or am I just being delusional? 😂