The UK Growers Thread!

[trichome 1]

He's probably just telling you that because he believes it mate, the problem is that what works for one person won't necessarily work for the other, I stand by my statement that soil will taste better than coco in a side by side but he may have grew in soil with something he didn't like the taste of then went coco with another strain that he prefered and made his decision based on that, everybody has different opinions and sometimes you have to weigh up the options and just decide to go with what you think is best for you and your situation, YMAN nails it above when he said each grow should be planned accordingly and not just copied from the next guy.
Don't worry though mate you will be fine and luckily it's not the summer so that parabolic shouldn't cause you too many headaches if any if it were the summer though I would be saying otherwise, I use power plant air cooled hoods and love them but started out with a euro wing and upgraded as I went, you will be doing the same soon enough mate and making your own decisions like the majority of us here do just got to get a little trial and error in first, eitherway though mate don't worry you'll be fine and it only gets easier as you go along, also you have all of us here for help if you need it.

your right coz my friend was just telling what he thought was best for him,if i researched more i would of used my loft and used 2 600w cooltubes as the space is soo big and i could of grow my 6 to be massive and not worried about space,i suppose my cupboard is massive for what it is,some people grow in much smaller and are happy with the result,this grow for me is my first serious grow,ive also got about 20 bag seeds(cheese,diesel,and other high grade weed)but i bought fems as an easy option lol,but if some of my fems dont make the 1st week or two then i may have to germ them also

 

[Closetgardner]

He's probably just telling you that because he believes it mate, the problem is that what works for one person won't necessarily work for the other, I stand by my statement that soil will taste better than coco in a side by side but he may have grew in soil with something he didn't like the taste of then went coco with another strain that he prefered and made his decision based on that, everybody has different opinions and sometimes you have to weigh up the options and just decide to go with what you think is best for you and your situation, YMAN nails it above when he said each grow should be planned accordingly and not just copied from the next guy.
Don't worry though mate you will be fine and luckily it's not the summer so that parabolic shouldn't cause you too many headaches if any if it were the summer though I would be saying otherwise, I use power plant air cooled hoods and love them but started out with a euro wing and upgraded as I went, you will be doing the same soon enough mate and making your own decisions like the majority of us here do just got to get a little trial and error in first, eitherway though mate don't worry you'll be fine and it only gets easier as you go along, also you have all of us here for help if you need it.

I feel the same, soil and organic for taste. The only time i didn't like the taste of sol grown weed was when i used blood/bone meal mix. Still dunno why but that was the only thing that was new to the grow, the smoke left a metallic taste in the back of my throat. Needless to say the box of meal got chucked lol

 

[trichome 1]

Thing is dude from what I can gather everyone has their own way of dealing with growing. You will ask someone one thing and then get told the "definitive" answer by some other cat. I'm sure you will still get on fine with your parabolic reflector As far as what your growing in you either you want to go the soil route or hydro. It isn't iron law but soil = less bud but a nicer taste etc and hydro if you want a bigger yield. Take your pick man! People told me not to grow hydro for my first grow because I would fuck it up. How wrong they were.

i dont mind how i grow aslong as it stops me paying £10 a g lol,back when i started smokin weed it was only £120-£140 an oz!,now some dealers sell for £300 oz,which to me is a rip off,ive payed £200 recently and that was considered a bargain,and it was in 2days market,i aint growing to make money though i just want to grow every year or maybe every 6 months,im sure you could leave dry weed in a cure jar for a year without it degrading too much,but then im not too sure on that so i may have to grow every 6 months instead

 

[Closetgardner]

There are folks that have cured their weed in jars for years mate so you'll be cool

 

[IC3M4L3]

exaktly myt thought dragon,, what works for the enxt man wont work for his pal,, its what your comfortable with,, but lol on the recomendation for a parabolic,,may as well just hang your bulb and do vert

 

[Closetgardner]

Yh i was under the impression that parabolic's are good for light spread but they waste a lot of light as they don't direct the light downwards well at all

 

[W Dragon]

your right coz my friend was just telling what he thought was best for him,if i researched more i would of used my loft and used 2 600w cooltubes as the space is soo big and i could of grow my 6 to be massive and not worried about space,i suppose my cupboard is massive for what it is,some people grow in much smaller and are happy with the result,this grow for me is my first serious grow,ive also got about 20 bag seeds(cheese,diesel,and other high grade weed)but i bought fems as an easy option lol,but if some of my fems dont make the 1st week or two then i may have to germ them also

That's it mate he probably thought he was doing you a favour giving you directions and at the end of the day he hasn't steered you in the wrong direction but could have helped a little better if he were to look at where you were planning to grow mate, eitherway though a parabolic will probably come in handy down the line when you grow in your attic during the colder times of the year, if you have to raise temps slightly it's always nice to have the option to add more light rather than a heater that will probably cost more to run than the light, the seeds you have are probably worth a run aslong as the product they came from was half decent, if your unsure of them though I'd veg them up take a cut and run the cutting just to be safe rather than risking a large chunk of your grow, after this grow I'm thinking of downsizing and just running a load of clones on a perpetual under a single light and mix up some strains, at the mo when the lights are on in the evening I have to have my spare bedroom door open and you can hear it at the front door so thinking maybe time to down size and do away with the parra altogether, another setup change on the horizon lol

 

[W Dragon]

I feel the same, soil and organic for taste. The only time i didn't like the taste of sol grown weed was when i used blood/bone meal mix. Still dunno why but that was the only thing that was new to the grow, the smoke left a metallic taste in the back of my throat. Needless to say the box of meal got chucked lol

Live and learn mate sadly experimenting for yourself is the only way to be 100% sure, bio-bizz is cheap and worth a look mate cheap,easy and a great taste from it, when I first started I wasn't computer savvy quit the opposite to tell you the truth and I planned on growing with nothing but pellets but luckily stumbled across this forum whilst doing some homework and am glad I did, newuser pointed me in the right direction with bio-bizz and I never looked back, I've experimented a little with coco and some different nutes but will more than likely go back to soil and bio-bizz I just haven't found anything that compares yet, experimenting with canna coco pro and canna A n B at the mo so should see if it's worth it in about 8wks as I'm a week into flower at the mo.

 

[W Dragon]

exaktly myt thought dragon,, what works for the enxt man wont work for his pal,, its what your comfortable with,, but lol on the recomendation for a parabolic,,may as well just hang your bulb and do vert

That's generally how it goes mate we all find our own way in the end, I would like it if I were in your shoes though to have someone help me out to get started on the right path, get the basics of watering/feeding down and then ya can move on from there. I would advise anybody though to get the basics down before experimenting too much as it will probably end up getting too confusing trying too much too soon, once you got the basics locked down and can keep them healthy it takes half the worry away with experimenting as you'll know what to do if they start looking unhappy and know what to go back to so you don't have to worry about putting your grow at risk.

 

[IC3M4L3]

That's generally how it goes mate we all find our own way in the end, I would like it if I were in your shoes though to have someone help me out to get started on the right path, get the basics of watering/feeding down and then ya can move on from there. I would advise anybody though to get the basics down before experimenting too much as it will probably end up getting too confusing trying too much too soon, once you got the basics locked down and can keep them healthy it takes half the worry away with experimenting as you'll know what to do if they start looking unhappy and know what to go back to so you don't have to worry about putting your grow at risk.

ive got it down m8, im just trying new things, even got sum beans to grow in them root riot thingies, SUCCESS last time i started with 32 ended up with 2 so this is a propper touch!! well happy

 

[Closetgardner]

I use biobizz nutes drags, I only use grow,bloom and top max tho, i also use all mix soil. I really don't know why i decided to use the blood/bone meal. I stupidly thought i could stop using grow if i mixed the meal with the soil. Lesson well and truly learned lmao. I really like the ease of use with with biobizz and the fact that u don't need loads of it and its hard to burn your bitches with it. Though i do fancy giving canna a shot, but man they are expensive

 

[IC3M4L3]

I use biobizz nutes drags, I only use grow,bloom and top max tho, i also use all mix soil. I really don't know why i decided to use the blood/bone meal. I stupidly thought i could stop using grow if i mixed the meal with the soil. Lesson well and truly learned lmao. I really like the ease of use with with biobizz and the fact that u don't need loads of it and its hard to burn your bitches with it. Though i do fancy giving canna a shot, but man they are expensive

na A and B are only 15 qwid for the pair,,

 

[tibilicus]

Sorry to divert to the original topic but whats everyone now paying for weed nowdays?
I pay £20 for around 1.8 - 2 Gs of nice bud. Still i think I'm getting slightly ripped off!!!
Anyways i have wised up and now have my own grow, please check it out and advise!

 

[davesmith]

Sorry to divert to the original topic but whats everyone now paying for weed nowdays?
I pay £20 for around 1.8 - 2 Gs of nice bud. Still i think I'm getting slightly ripped off!!!
Anyways i have wised up and now have my own grow, please check it out and advise!

The prices have def gone up. most of the kids round me do 0.8 - 1g for a tenner, its not unusual. I pay 25 for an eighth though and fell a bit skanked paying any more

 

[IC3M4L3]

25 for a eigth and your paying 10er a 0.8? u mean they say ther eighths but infact ther lik 2.5

 

[Closetgardner]

I thought the same thing ic3 lololol

 

[Don Gin and Ton]

Looks canny tasty that yorkie. I've just put mine into flower, and another 3 into coco yesterday. Really looking forward to seeing what else comes out. Probably cross it back to the smelly cherry and the kush used in the dog.

The frost on the 2toke I've just taken is cracking.

 

[davesmith]

25 for a eigth and your paying 10er a 0.8? u mean they say ther eighths but infact ther lik 2.5

no i mean MOST people (the younger lot) are selling 10 quid a g but i get it 3.5 for 25 because you can still get it cheaper if you know the right person

 

[IC3M4L3]

WOOHOO, dropped my light and started the plants on half strength AnB,,
checked me littlens under the blue spec and looks like im nrly ther for 100% germination!! 5 out of 6 are standing up now, 2 are like cm tall the others bowt a inch, just shedding ther shell,,,
il sya it again WOOHOO!! we all know my bean track record but i got it sussed now thanx to u guys (not the strangers)

put a sock over a small platpot with bottom cut out for my inlet hole, no more beam of light across the bedroom

so don u thik im pretty safe with that room,? once the bedrooms done to be a kiddies room youl never tell,?? but i did it so i would think that,, and taking the rvk apart and greasing it up as really quetined it down
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no i mean MOST people (the younger lot) are selling 10 quid a g but i get it 3.5 for 25 because you can still get it cheaper if you know the right person

yeh the kids round here say u wanna buy a 15 qwid eigth,, its only 1.5 i say no u meen a teenth then they go nuts NO its a eigth

but these same kids are paying 2+ for ther ounces

 

[Mastergrow]

the latest round here now is 1,4g for 25 quid or 2.8 for 50 lol. so that means now most of the guys selling at 3g for 50 who wer considerd tight arsed cunts are now pretty cheap lol