The UK Growers Thread!

[jimmygreenfingers]

Lot of the lads that dont PH have good tap water and i suppose that makes the difference. The further north you go seems the water quality improves the jocks have it best of all from all accounts. Ive seen alot of the guys plants that dont and they look spot on, guess there just lucky fuckers, i know i cant get away without PHing.

 

[mrt1980]

One of the BW's I'm training.. got some clones from her so will be chucking them in alongside her.

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Thanks for the info dude +rep

no problem mate that looks good. i cant be bothered with the training myself, i just let them go and tie the top branches over when they stop stretching to try and even out the canopy. i done the nuckling thing last time and the stems split when they swole up

 

[mrt1980]

Lot of the lads that dont PH have good tap water and i suppose that makes the difference. The further north you go seems the water quality improves the jocks have it best of all from all accounts. Ive seen alot of the guys plants that dont and they look spot on, guess there just lucky fuckers, i know i cant get away without PHing.

i gave up phing. i was checking the water after i put my nutes in and it was 5.8 anyway. when i did ph at the start of my last grow i had mag def but im putting that down to a problem strain. the pen was calibrated too lol

 

[batf1nk]

This was needed due to space restrictions in me tent. Really slowed them down for me, not sure I will mainline for 8 heads again, takes too fucking long....

(also never pH'd any of these, but please note I make my own soil and only use water) Every situation is different but as a default, always pH... As in, if your not sure if you should be pH'ng, you should be.

 

[IC3M4L3]

rite im going in!!!! bb in 10

 

[uksecretsensi]

I wish I could get away without phing. Here in northants the water is shit.

 

[jimmygreenfingers]

i gave up phing. i was checking the water after i put my nutes in and it was 5.8 anyway. when i did ph at the start of my last grow i had mag def but im putting that down to a problem strain. the pen was calibrated too lol

Im the same, always around 5.8 5.9 but thats only cause i use RO. If i didnt then its like 6.9 or some shit like that, ive really hard water here its total shite.

 

[mrt1980]

im in wales and it comes out of the tap about 7.1

i might have a look for one of those RO filter for the grow after next being as ill be using the hydro setup

 

[batf1nk]

Dont forget I make my own soil, fully organically fert'd and buffered/tested etc.

Only thing I ever add is food for the micro-organisms and pH kills all the microheard (as does the other shit in tap water).... but you can bet your fucking ass, If i see a pH related issue, I WILL pH.

 

[jimmygreenfingers]

Dont forget I make my own soil, fully organically fert'd and buffered/tested etc.

Only thing I ever add is food for the micro-organisms and pH kills all the microheard (as does the other shit in tap water).... but you can bet your fucking ass, If i see a pH related issue, I WILL pH.

Ive never done a soil grow, everything i plant in the garden dies, thats probably due to the fact that my dogs piss all over everything growing out ther tho. Do you get major PH issues with soil, ive been thinking of trying a few gals init for me percy smoke.

 

[uksecretsensi]

Dutch pro is getting my ph down to 5.9 without phing. I add jus a small amount of phosphoric acid to drop it to 5.5

 

[batf1nk]

Nope, mate I started on hydro, fucking hell i could show you pics that will crack you up.....

Dont get me wrong, once I started getting into it (I am HIGHLY ocd!) I loved it.... but just doesnt suit my grow style.

I really have no issues with pH in soil.. for example...

When I brew an AACT highly charged with EM-1, after a couple of days there is so much bacteria brewed the pH drops to 3 or 4....

Do i pH it, no fucking way.... straight on the plants and they eat it all up. With soil its more important what the pH of the soil is and other buffers rather than the input water.

In my case especially as the organisms have the ability to change the pH based on what they need at that precise point in time.

There is no pH in nature.

But please this is only in reference to organics.

 

[IC3M4L3]

day 27



picture 4 is a PE candidtae,, infact i do think thats the one.

one of me plants has apropper lean on at the moment, my plant stand should show up tomorrow so i can rectify that

 

[uksecretsensi]

Lookin good ic3 but deffo start phing. Looks like mag def a bit leaves curling upwards is mag def. But could also be under feeding.

 

[batf1nk]

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Is that the yellowing your talking about? If so, yes you need to pH

 

[batf1nk]

Chaps, off home to start the crop....

Been a pleasure, will pop by later to chuck up some sticky tga goodness.

 

[IC3M4L3]

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Is that the yellowing your talking about? If so, yes you need to pH

yeh thats the yellow,, a few leaves simply dropped off, so okey dokey ph it is

weird how one just started leaning,, lol,. like i never bureid the clone deap enough,,HURRY UP PLANT STAN YA CUNT!!

 

[uksecretsensi]

Not phing can cause all sorts of problems. Feeding at optimal ph 5.5-5.8 make all nutes available for the plant. If ph is out it means some of them nutes are not useable by the plant causing a def of overfert. Imo ph is the most important thing to keep on top of if using coco. Soil on the other hand is a completely differentiated medium. Ph is not so important in soil as soil tends to have a low ph.

 

[dura72]

Yeah man, pics will be of help.

Cropping tonight when I get home, got nowhere to hang this time, gonna hang it all in me room lol!

Moving my Blue Widow girls in tomorrow, got a nice BW ive mainlined so looking forward to seeing how she performs.

Anyone grown out the BW? She a heavy feeder?

ivr grown b/w in soil, dwc and hydro, cant really say i noticed her being a heavy feeder...yeild was reasonable and lotta good reports on the smoke , especially the last one i did which was my first coco grow, just used canna a +b witha bit of pk 13/14....what i will say is that it was fast finishing 7 weeks and i was totally ready, i could even have chopped at six. she couldve probably taken more feed though, i tend to be a cautious feeder.

 

[drgrowshit]

day 27

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picture 4 is a PE candidtae,, infact i do think thats the one.

one of me plants has apropper lean on at the moment, my plant stand should show up tomorrow so i can rectify that

l;;oing good ye man ph will sort it o[t