The UK Growers Thread!
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just seen this
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/12-POT-RTA-AIR-POT-SYSTEM-FLEXIBLE-HYDROPONIC-SYSTEM-/160632984697?pt=UK_HomeGarden_Garden_PlantsSeedsBulbs_JN&var=&hash=item256678d479
looks mad to me, guess itw orks mind
http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/Garden-Patio-/159912/i.html?_from=R40&_nkw=airpot
not bad prices
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/12-POT-RTA-AIR-POT-SYSTEM-FLEXIBLE-HYDROPONIC-SYSTEM-/160632984697?pt=UK_HomeGarden_Garden_PlantsSeedsBulbs_JN&var=&hash=item256678d479
looks mad to me, guess itw orks mind
http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/Garden-Patio-/159912/i.html?_from=R40&_nkw=airpot
not bad prices
PUKKA BUD
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There the original producers mate from the states probs could get from over here cheaper....
nice 1 mate
The Yorkshireman
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Never mind we misunderstood each other but in answer to why they do it's because pepper's and chilli's need shit loads of sun to do well, normal UK climate is shite for em.
My mates dad down the road grows super hot chillis in a tent but doesn't grow weed!
The Yorkshireman
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That looks like a flood and drain system with airpot's added to me, which logically fails.
And they say more kit needs to be bought separately to use it as a top dripper.
3 'Wilma big 4' systems with 15L airpots added comes to £180.
yeh i been looking at them wilmas, i may buy a 4 pot for next run, simplicity aint it,
ok so they need hot weather, but, it would be like haveing a extra plant under your light no? im usre id rather have 9 weed plants going thatn 8 and 1 pepper, u aint getting 4-500 qwid for a grown pepper are ya?
ok so they need hot weather, but, it would be like haveing a extra plant under your light no? im usre id rather have 9 weed plants going thatn 8 and 1 pepper, u aint getting 4-500 qwid for a grown pepper are ya?
iiKode
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lmfao hahahaha true dat
cues
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Hang on, is this all aimed at me?
Look, I grow peppers because I want to. I enjoy it. Simples.
I may grow the odd weed plant in-between and do a damn good job at it too but there is only so much I smoke. After that it's all peppers. It's not about money. Most hobbies aren't.
Look, I grow peppers because I want to. I enjoy it. Simples.
I may grow the odd weed plant in-between and do a damn good job at it too but there is only so much I smoke. After that it's all peppers. It's not about money. Most hobbies aren't.
lmao tetchy fucker, why would it be about u? dunno who u even are? anyways,, dontu find u loose yeild with extra veggis in ther?
yeh they would be a kinda goo idea,
looking it seems ther chargin extra for a feeding system, but also looing at the pictures the run of valves ar on the bottom of the trays, so u would need each tray on a platform, coz i dont see legs
The Yorkshireman
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No, they need lots of light.
It is an extra plant under your light yes but you are lighting up a surface area not an amount of plants.
Say you have a 1m square tent with a 600w bulb, it makes no difference if you have 1 plant or 20 plants in that tent they are all getting the same amount of light.
cues
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As far as I know I'm the only one who grows chillies!
Losing yield? Well, this is the way I see it.
You pay a lot for electricity for lighting. Every part of the grow room that isn't used is wasted. If you are in early veg, that's a lot of wasted space that could be used.
O.K., I compromise my weed growing but that's just me (I would say I compromise my pepper growing). You don't need to compromise anything to fill up space in early veg. Then, as the space fills up, you can move your 'legal' plants to a windowsill. Nothing lost.
Losing yield? Well, this is the way I see it.
You pay a lot for electricity for lighting. Every part of the grow room that isn't used is wasted. If you are in early veg, that's a lot of wasted space that could be used.
O.K., I compromise my weed growing but that's just me (I would say I compromise my pepper growing). You don't need to compromise anything to fill up space in early veg. Then, as the space fills up, you can move your 'legal' plants to a windowsill. Nothing lost.
The Yorkshireman
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Quite right mate, so you could just make them yourself from big plant pot saucers, some tubing and a hand full of rubber grommet's.
Sit the pots on the saucers, have the saucers sat on upturned buckets and the tubing running the waste into a bucket that you pour out once a week ish.
cues
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p.s. They don't have a perfect symbiotic relationship. Generally, peppers prefer a similar nute regime to flowering weed (not much N) but they do like it it a little hotter, more humid and they like 16/8. They are fine with 18/6 and tolerate 12/12 but they will grow whatever. They aren't dependant upon 12 hrs of dark to fruit either.
What I'm trying to say is how hard is it to pop into an indian store on the way past, spend 10p on a chilli you like the look of and throw it in to fill up any unused space in your grow? When you run out of room, put it on the windowsill.
What I'm trying to say is how hard is it to pop into an indian store on the way past, spend 10p on a chilli you like the look of and throw it in to fill up any unused space in your grow? When you run out of room, put it on the windowsill.
cues
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It's all about the lumens hitting the leaf. I guess you mean less leaves=more reflected light. I understand your thinking but it doesn't work that way. Well, actually it does to a small extent. You know the inverse square law?
fuk me bruv u do love your peppers, IMO, buy a sperate tent,, have learned to lst and top your peppers then? lol,, seirously ther must be sum training methds u can use for better reults/.?
yeh pukka but the valve itself stik out the bottom on the side
u commented as i did,, so gravity itself, i thim them autopot systems use the same method but with a weird pump, why have a pump to suk it out the waste rez? just tip it out, id rig that on the pipes to suk the waste, also ul need the trays to be higher than the waterlevel in the waste res too no?