Heating Your Greenhouse Without Electricity

Heating Your Greenhouse Without Electricity | Cheap And Easy DIY

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A simple DIY way to heat your greenhouse that takes minutes to assemble and save your plants from frost damage. Will last for nearly a week and cost less than a $1 per day. Follow this step by step tutorial on how to build a heater that really works!!!
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@robgad2271 7 ай бұрын

Also for a wick you can use a kerosene lamp wick or a 5/8" strip of carbon felt and support these with some bare copper which will also transfer heat down into the candle to make them burn a little hotter and burn faster. There are a multitude of things that can be added to the vegetable oil (like candle making hardeners and powdered metals, etc.) that will make the container candle burn up to 1,000°F or hotter if that is needed.

@michelletennyson8535 6 ай бұрын

Great idea! The wicks that go in a zippo lighter have tiny bare copper wires woven around them & I just read the insert from my zippo lighter box and it says those wicks should actually last a lifetime, which is crazy but I wonder if the wire has anything to do with that. I guess they are also usually saturated with lighter fluid & aren’t burn constantly. Anyway. Thanks!

@Gail-gf7km 7 ай бұрын

If you use tall candles you can leave the shortening solid and simply push the candle into the shortening. No need to melt the shortening or fiddle with wicks.

@ZenGardenOasis. 7 ай бұрын

Thanks for your input

@labradoodle5097 7 ай бұрын

If a person happens to raise their own hogs they can render the fat and use it for making candles. I know this doesn't apply to many of us, but I do have family who do just that. Any animal fat can be used, pork fat does not go bad as fast as most others, that's why it is used for lard and can sit on the shelf out of the refrigerator for a prolonged period of time. Lots of "preppers" and hog farmers know that trick. 🙂

@Looneyintheboonies 6 ай бұрын

Hey there, I'm new, but I'm enjoying all the different DIY heating methods you've been utilizing! TIP: I make candles, and the way you keep the wicks from falling is to buy the wicks with the stickers for the bottom as one viewer I saw, said, but you must ALSO, take popsicle sticks and make holes in them big enough to slide over the wick and lay the popsicle stick down across the top of the candle, after sliding it down, over the wicks through the hole in the middle that you made in the popsicle stick. Use one popsicle stick for each wick, and just criss-cross them on top of the candle jar. You can order the bags of wicks that come with the stickers and the popsicle sticks with holes in them already, too! I hope I made sense, sometimes I do to myself, but not too much to others, lol.

@debra-qq1np 5 ай бұрын

I have no clue what you just said. Sorry. Is there a video or something visual?

@Looneyintheboonies 5 ай бұрын

@debra-qq1np I don't know, but the wicks I buy come with the popsicle sticks with the holes in them. Basically, running the wick through the hole, and laying the popsicle stick across the top of the jar keeps the wick standing up straight.

@micheletremonti2434 7 ай бұрын

If you use candle wick stickers to place your wick into your jars and use a Bobbie pin to hold the wick at the top centered where you want it. Just to make things easier🙂

@EFTTappingwithHeatherAmbler 4 ай бұрын

Great video. Super helpful. Thank you!

@ZenGardenOasis. 4 ай бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

@goldriderlc 7 ай бұрын

Thanks for the good ideas.

@ZenGardenOasis. 7 ай бұрын

Thank you…..I’ve got a lot of ideas coming up. Some good, some iffy.

@mechanicalliteracyproject2508 6 ай бұрын

Get dollar store emergency candles or taper candles dropped in the middle of the semi solid shortening. The idea is to turn the wasted heat of an open candle into radiant heat or infrared heat like some guys do with the tin cans and stainless steel screen. The biggest issue I have with Terra cotta pots is consistent quality. I've had them crack using this type of heater.

@johnfitbyfaithnet 8 ай бұрын

Great tips thank you for sharing this important information listening from Bangs Texas

@ZenGardenOasis. 8 ай бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

@eleanorrandels 25 күн бұрын

What kind of wicks do you use with the crisco candles, and what is the approxment burn time for the quart size candle? Is smoke a problem? I’m planning to make a six quart bucket of sand, copper flashing heater with one quart crisco and want the best information on the wick (wicks) that have been most successful for you and where do you purchase such wicks. This sand heater has impressed me and I thank you for this!

@omarmoreno3778 7 ай бұрын

you can use roolls too that you pull up during the day....

@janenefreitag6625 6 ай бұрын

Question: why not put shortening in jar and melt in the jar? Seems it would be safer...?

@debra-qq1np 5 ай бұрын

I was actually looking at metal containers, ideally with lids or even stackable. I saw a 6 gallon trash can with lid that could hold a lot of crisco! To radiate the heat longer, another video talks about using copper to transfer heat to sand. Not having to worry about an unattended flame, a heat sink like that could radiate heat for a while after we blow out the flames and go to bed. I am thinking about a number of ways to mix & match good ideas. I really like the idea of a 3 to 7 gallon long burning crisco candles, in glass containers. Not all glass is created equal, and high temp is an issue. I don't want anything that could break.

@sarahgrooms5606 6 ай бұрын

You can use a canning funnel to put the hot crisco into the jars.

@ZenGardenOasis. 5 ай бұрын

Excellent thought thanks

@CL-ps7kh 6 ай бұрын

When welding galvanized metal it emits poisonous gas requiring a respirator. I don't know if a candle gets the metal hot enough for this reaction to occur but I would proceed with caution. Hopefully someone familar with the temperature that galvanized metal emits the poison gas can share their knowledge here.

@larrywillard844 5 ай бұрын

I was waiting to see the cooled shortening in the mason jars ... and whether the 2 wicks were together or if they were separated to make 2 flames?

@ZenGardenOasis. 5 ай бұрын

Together

@blenderbenderguy 8 ай бұрын

I tried the 3 terra cotta stack-o-pots using walmart shortening. I used 3 wicks per another youtube video, trimmed to 1/2". I had an ample gap at the bottom for intake air.... it started smoking badly initially but after it warmed up it cleared up. I assumed all was good until I came back after about 90 minutes to check it. The greenhouse was totally full of black smoke. I shut er down and haven't revisited using it. I wonder what the problem was 🤔

@ZenGardenOasis. 8 ай бұрын

Another gut I saw on yt talked about how if the chimney wasn’t right it would smoke. I would try removing the small top pot and mixing up wick types.

@blenderbenderguy 8 ай бұрын

Not sure what you mean by mixing up wick types 🤔@@ZenGardenOasis.

@jerrydiaz2954 7 ай бұрын

My interpretation of "mixing up wick types" is: 1) A newer wick vs. an aged, weathered, sunlight stored, 'it was free", wick 2) As in: Different type, different manufacturer or both. It could have been as simple as it was tilted at an angle and as it began its burn, the lard oil suddenly ran and exposed more wick to ignite.i😢

@explained3799 7 ай бұрын

Maybe it's the walmart shortening??? I'd hesitate to eat it if it is the sourde of black smoke.

@omarmoreno3778 7 ай бұрын

y think you can put some 8 by 4 stiro form insulation to cover all the sides of the green house in the night easy to put them on the inside will be better on both side will be great.. then you fo not need that much heat...just a idea...

@marinigrey4913 2 ай бұрын

Can we also use the grease we collect from bacon being fried up .

@ZenGardenOasis. 2 ай бұрын

Possibly never tried it though

@billchambers2585 7 ай бұрын

I liked your video, and I know what you mean, but its carbon monoxide not carbon dioxide you need to worry about. It's understandable people confuse the two all the time.

@ZenGardenOasis. 7 ай бұрын

Thanks yes sometimes my brain and tongue refuse to work together. 😂

@triciakelly6536 7 ай бұрын

Where do I find 2" copper?... bc so far not available where I live. Plse sdvise.

@ZenGardenOasis. 7 ай бұрын

Check the Amazon link in description I just updated as previous sold out.

@josephinecunningham5998 5 ай бұрын

Why didnt you use a canning jar funnel

@tamaramartinez3948 6 ай бұрын

Why don't you put the smaller pot inside the other, then this two inside the other and so,the air moving may reheat inside.

@omarmoreno3778 7 ай бұрын

one coment only if you put insylation during the night on the walls is rhat will be better to heat the green house? somthing that you put against the plastic,, only in the night easy to puto and take off...pre cut to sixe,,,

@Embassy_of_Jupiter 8 ай бұрын

I wonder if one could build a passive thermosiphon geothernal water heater to heat the greenhouse and act as a thermal mass. You know the ground is always warm, warm water rises, cool water sinks. Perhaps one could burry a water hose connected to a water tank and get a warm greenhouse out of it. Perhaps one could burry a water tank half way into the ground to achieve the same. I've seen passive heating being done with air, but it seems like a hassle, need to bury lots of ducting. Perhaps a thin long homemade tank that runs along the entire greenhouse. Built using wood and liner or concrete.

@ZenGardenOasis. 8 ай бұрын

I love thinking about possible ideas. I’ve been thinking about copper tubing thru large compost bins and circulating water thru them then a small fan over the copper tubing when the warm water heats the tubing. Geothermal is good too…..a lot of digging though. Thanks for the ideas. Have a great day.

@zmavrick 8 ай бұрын

Very doable, especially with a system under a vacuum. The problem is transferring enough BTU's to produce enough heat to be worthwhile. What I did see was where a guy in Idaho built a wallapini and across the low side dug a 3 foot wide by 6 foot deep trench along the entire side to use the geothermal effect. He claimed the Native Americans did this and it was not an original design other than the glazing. The cold air flowing down the glazing into the trench warmed a few degrees and rising over the grow beds and up to provide a continuous natural loop. It wasn't enough to keep the place warm, but it was enough to keep it above freezing in his context. I would love to try this, but there is no way I could get the building permits approved where I live. Or look up a video called Oranges in the Snow on KZfaq For another idea.