The UK Growers Thread!

Yaaaldi

Member
can anyone recommend a good place to get some lights for indoor growing in the UK?

I'm doing a closet grow and I plan on using fluorescent lights. The closet is 160x90x45 cm.

What size and wattage fluoro lights should I be looking at?

Also how do I go about getting these things plugged into a conventional socket?

Thanks
 

tip top toker

Well-Known Member
There are no situations when police can come into your home without a warrant (unless you invite them in).
Whoever was on the end of that phone must have given enough information so that when presented to a judge the possibility of wrong doing was beyond reasonable doubt.
It sounds like you got grassed up.
Cries for help or distress. It's a lot more vague than you think.
 

Matchbox

Well-Known Member
can anyone recommend a good place to get some lights for indoor growing in the UK?

I'm doing a closet grow and I plan on using fluorescent lights. The closet is 160x90x45 cm.

What size and wattage fluoro lights should I be looking at?

Also how do I go about getting these things plugged into a conventional socket?

Thanks
Be Careful with a closet :) heat is a big issue if you can't vent it properly like me, cooking my bloody plants :(

I just went to the aquarium got 2, 45 watt plant growth blue'ish fluoro's but I've found a good place on the net, Greenshorticulture.co.uk they do pretty much everything, reasonably priced, I didn't shop around too much so you can probably get em cheaper elsewhere.

They also delivered next day 'cause I ordered before 4pm the day before which was mental quick,

And theres always B&Q for all your nute's mediums etc (I've found B&Q cheaper than hoebase, for stuff like that)

You may also want to think about a HPS or MH down the line when it comes for flowering.

And most lights you buy come with all the fittings and standard UK plug sockets connected to the ballasts.


before I started I just read... and read... and read and then didn't plan, then started growing.. and it went downhill from there lol back on track now tho.

hope that was useful :)
 

weedsmoka

Active Member
What are people views on the police helicopter and its thermol imaging camera????

how can you be sure your set up isnt giving off hot spots to them??? anyone have any good info on this?
 

Matchbox

Well-Known Member
What are people views on the police helicopter and its thermol imaging camera????

how can you be sure your set up isnt giving off hot spots to them??? anyone have any good info on this?

theres been talking about this a bit earlier in this thread, try from about page 800, maybe before...

Don't think you can actually get done for just thermal the police need way more than that for a warrant... if they do ask just say you have an aquarium and your growing corals/reef stuff 'cause you need r8 high power lights for that.
 

weedsmoka

Active Member
theres been talking about this a bit earlier in this thread, try from about page 800, maybe before...

Don't think you can actually get done for just thermal the police need way more than that for a warrant... if they do ask just say you have an aquarium and your growing corals/reef stuff 'cause you need r8 high power lights for that.
hey thanks or that. never thought of that. ur info could be priceless :)
 

Matchbox

Well-Known Member
no worries! XD

I just remembered a story one of my mates told me, goes a little summin like this:

"ooh i saw so and so the other day an he told me he was growin an dealin an stuff, he was like 'I make £24,000 per month' off of one plant', I was like wow really"
just made me laugh, maybe cos she has a really essex kinda voice...

I swear even a Tree couldn't make that much doob :| thats like a good 10lbs every month lol
 

Yaaaldi

Member
can anyone reccomend some good soil for my first indoor grow? A lot of the threads I see mentioned brands we cant get here in the UK.

Also I'm a bit of a lost when it comes to nutrients. Not really sure what my plant needs and when. I'm only gonna be growing one plant to start so I don't wanna go crazy and invest in a ton of different nutrients. Is there a do it all nutrient throughout the whole grow cycle I can use?
 

kershivo

Active Member
2 of my plants are using bio-bizz soil (uk) and 2 of my other plants are using canna coco mix (uk), the 2 plants using the bio are outdoing the others by FAR.

bio-bizz do a range of nutrients for the soil aswell.

bio-grow (for vegging and flowering)
bio-bloom (for flowering)

everything is completley organic and seems to be working wonders for me so far.

the bio-bizz soil cost me £10 for 50litres.

bio grow and bloom are £10 each.
 

Yaaaldi

Member
should I mix the soil with anything first or is it pretty much good to go?

What about a soil I can pick up from homebase/B&Q? The delivery on the soil costs just as much as the soil itself which is a bit of a bummer.
 

padster

Well-Known Member
can anyone reccomend some good soil for my first indoor grow? A lot of the threads I see mentioned brands we cant get here in the UK.

Also I'm a bit of a lost when it comes to nutrients. Not really sure what my plant needs and when. I'm only gonna be growing one plant to start so I don't wanna go crazy and invest in a ton of different nutrients. Is there a do it all nutrient throughout the whole grow cycle I can use?
How about considering an alternative to soil?

I'd recommend reading up on a Hempy style grow using a medium of perlite and vermiculite at a 3/1 ratio. These can be bought real cheap in most wilkos(though i only found this out after paying a lot more in B&Q!). I'm trying this method for my first grow and both the plants and me are loving it!

As for nutes, GHE 3 part flora series work great if you don't mind mixing them up, think they were about £7 each of ebay plus postage. Plus whatever nutes you get you'll usually find plenty of tried and tested ratios for them on RIU...
 

bouche753

Active Member
im using miracle gro moisture control soil (B&Q) with about 25% perlite(Homebase) and for nutes i started with bio bizz grow and bloom but now iv got top max and big bud 2 (all from ebay)

 

Nocturn3

Well-Known Member
I've had no problems with homebase multipurpose compost. Does the job nicely.

As for nutes, biobizz grow and bloom is all you really need to get you started. Search for the feed schedule online, and you're good to go.
 
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