The UK Growers Thread!

[The Yorkshireman]

Utilising the vertical space of your grow area to create a canopy based on the wall dimensions and not the floor foot print.
In your first post you just mentioned hanging the bulbs vertically. Hence why I clarified what I was talking about.
Having multiple shelves as you go on to mention in your following post is vertical growing in my eyes as well. Just my opinion though.

Exactly the same principle I'm using mate, I just have 1 row of plants.

My bulbs are hanging so low they are lighting the bottom half of my plants in the bottom 3rd of my tent.

All colas are growing above the bulbs, I have no down light at all.

The now big empty expanse of tent space I now have above the plants I want to fill with more plants cos the space left is slightly more than half, I could put the same in again is what I'm thinking.

I'll draw a pic.

 

[The Yorkshireman]

Been meaning to try a pair of these shades.
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https://www.methodseven.com

Bugger those prices Abe.

Generics are about £10 on Ebay and just about any grow shop over here.

My local has a box full of them on the counter always.

 

[DST]

Exactly the same principle I'm using mate, I just have 1 row of plants.

My bulbs are hanging so low they are lighting the bottom half of my plants in the bottom 3rd of my tent.

All colas are growing above the bulbs, I have no down light at all.

The now big empty expanse of tent space I now have above the plants I want to fill with more plants cos the space left is slightly more than half, I could put the same in again is what I'm thinking.

I'll draw a pic.

I am growing 4 or 5 at a push. They get splayed out and then continually tied back to a net. I have not been on the ball this round and my grow has gone a bit bushy lol. Not ideal since the closer the plants get the smaller the canopy.

 

[The Yorkshireman]

Can even get generic anti UV sunglasses for like £5 or even some clip on ones for spectacle wearers that around £3.


Do the same job.

 

[The Yorkshireman]

Not ideal since the closer the plants get the smaller the canopy.

Yeah I've just noticed that as I chucked some more in when the first lot were at 6 weeks.

Now the first lot are 10 weeks and the second lot are topped and wide at 4 weeks the space round the bulbs is getting smaller and smaller.


Have to watch for the singe and just take the odd inch or two off the occasional fan leaf.

First lot are nearly done mind, few weeks left.
It's gonna be a sqeeze late on.

 

[The Yorkshireman]

I turn my plants 90 degrees every day too so they get lit from all sides equally, in effect.

 

[The Yorkshireman]

@DST

So at the moment it looks something like this.....





And I'm thinking about something like this.....




With the big 3L single cola Jack Frost, sort of making a big coliseum.

 

[LOFT]

basement lighting/hydro hobby or norfolk lights i think best shops for equipment in uk

I know this is an early post in this thread but i live close to Norfolk Lights and some of their stuff seems expensive to me but i have a garden centre close to me that sells hydro stuff, so i tend to go between them and norfolk lights
I found that small garden centres are now stocking indoor growing gear as they seem to realise it sells well lol

 

[LOFT]

Is anyone attempting to grow in their shed in the Norfolk Suffolk area of the U.K?
If so what you using to insulate walls etc.. I want to use my shed as its 14x8 foot and built with 2x3 timber and well solid
The problem is it gets proper cold this time of year! lol

 

[TopDogTHC]

Shits got Ketty

 

[LOFT]

Shits got Ketty[/QUOTE
lol whats ketty mean?

 

[R1b3n4]

 

[Liamp1603]

Any one in here grown steel city blues before ? And what average per plant did u get ? I have ten in a tent under two 600w hps lights and the difference between smallest and largest plant is unreal ... I think it's cause I attempted to take cuttings off her and then flicked into flower a few weeks later ???

 

[TopDogTHC]

Ketamine my friend, try it.

 

[Ghettogrower187]

Really liking these disco biscuits 1 week on the 9/18 and theyve swollen ta fuck

#1#2and #3

 

[DST]

@DST

So at the moment it looks something like this.....

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And I'm thinking about something like this.....

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With the big 3L single cola Jack Frost, sort of making a big coliseum.

That will work. Only issue you will need to deal with is the pots on the upper levels getting a bit hot from the glare of the vertical bulb. I use to put lengths of white planks or black and white sheeting wrapped in cardboard in front of them to reflect the light back from the pots. They still got warmer than the lower pots. That and numbers made me reduce to just having the 4 on the ground instead of doing the shelf thing. I went from having like 30 plants on average to 4. But the veg time is way longer as the only downfall.

 

[Pompeygrow]

Yo guys how's it going still recovering for Saturday it was my wife's surprised 30th birthday party hired a hall with dj ect then a after party bk at mine till half 7 ppl left

 

[R1b3n4]

Yo guys how's it going still recovering for Saturday it was my wife's surprised 30th birthday party hired a hall with dj ect then a after party bk at mine till half 7 ppl left

 

[TopDogTHC]

Roughhh

 

[makka]

Forgot how nice scissor hash tastes in a j