The UK Growers Thread!

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jimmygreenfingers

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Gavstar76 said:
Hey Robbie here are the pics I said i would take the other day. As you can see i have some salt buid up which i am gonna sort out today after the girls go home but that seems easy enough from what i have read. Just empty tank, a quick flush for 24 hours of PH correct water then empty tank again and half nutes. If by any chance this is wrong please someone let me know lol. Apart from that it has been quite an easy grow. Will take a few more pics if you want anything specific but tried to show fans, filter,tray, pump end, roots, rockwool etc. Silly noob mistake put pump too near to the end so when i flush later i will put it nearer the middle of the tank :)

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Do you not use a correx cover on that NFT setup.
 
Gavstar76

Gavstar76

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RobbieP said:
those pics are cool mate , did u have to tie the plants up , those stems look thick for those cubes lol .... so do the roots grow into the trays then ? (think thats what i can see on 6th pic).

I spoke to sambo last night and he's fine... dont think theres any particular reason he left the board just think he got bored lol
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Cheers mate I used yoyos as they got very top heavy by the end of 1st-2nd week of flowering or so but they are doing the job well (phew lol), I was so surprised to see how thick the stem grew to be honest lol, i had heard that if you have a low fan it blows the plants like the wind would outside making for thicker stronger stems (seems to have worked eh lol). yep you lay down a sheet on top of the tray(cant think what its called will look when taken girls home :)) and then put rock wool cubes on top of the sheeting, the roots then grow through sheet and spread between the tray and sheet, they are quite long and thick roots on them now which is cool and i havnt had a problem with them growing up the pump tube (as i heard that can be a problem with NFT) i think because i have the tray at an angle.

Fair play about Sambo glad he is ok and that he didnt feel forced to leave you know, he was good bloke and helpful shame to see him go and i didnt really know him that well :)
 
ukbudman

ukbudman

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hey guys im paying 20 for a eighth and about 180 a oz but its absolutly dry blues stincky as hell its nice dnt get anything else but blues
 
Gavstar76

Gavstar76

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jimmygreenfingers said:
Do you not use a correx cover on that NFT setup.
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yeah i was going to, its to stop mould on the roots i think from the light but as it was first grow and we had a lot of plants in there which blocked most of light to roots it didnt really matter. we want to grow less plant in same area next time so i will use it then but i am glad i didnt cut it and then find i was putting in less plants. The guy i brought set up from said if i was growing 10-12 plants in it dont bother on that grow. Havnt had any problems with the roots they are very healthy and plants have done great so yes i was supposed to in a smaller grow i think. If i am wrong i have just been very lucky lmfao and i will be using it in the next grow when we have 6 plants instead of the 9 this time ( 1 baby didnt make it was suposed to be 10)

EDIT: if you look in one of the pics it is under the tray lmao :)
 
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jimmygreenfingers

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Yeah the correx cover stops light getting on the roots as you dont really want this, also youll find you will have less of a salt build up if you use it. Is that the 604 system?, i started off in the 424 i think its called i moved onto the large 6ft multi duct but im restricted space wise so cant use it atm, NFT rocks man very simple system but works well. Your grow looks good mate, nice one i like seeing nft grows more people should have a bash at this system i think.
 
Gavstar76

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thanks Jimmy i tried to do lots of research online before i went and brought my set up and that helped a lot although NFT didnt have a huge amount of info. Thanks for the salt info hopefully next grow we will have a lot less with the cover on although i only have about 2 weeks left i hope so its maybe not as much salt build up as it could have been D'oh. Yeah its 604 they suggested 10-12 plants but they are very crouded and i only have 9 in there lmao thats why the change to 6 plants next time but we are thinking of adding another tray for the next grow if we can and grow 12 across the 2. I have found it so easy just check on it every day or two, add nutes, PH test, adjust and leave for another day or two lmao. More people should try it sounds so much easier than soil. Buds a plenty at the mo which is fantastic but just waiting for them to plump but should be starting now as brown hairs have started and think only about 2 weeks left before harvest. :clap:
 
Gavstar76

Gavstar76

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Don Gin and Ton said:
give the lad a break man, he's read the first post and responded. there's always a new member posting the same shiz every now n then in here.
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Thats how i started on here with weights and cost in the area although sounds a good deal he getting compared to most areas lol. hope you growing something different dude maybe your village/town/city will thank you if you can only get blues there lmao :weed:
 
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jimmygreenfingers

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I dont really veg when i run nft i tend to keep em small, its a great system for a sog grow. I know alot of people dont like running lots of plants incase the plod come a knocking but i found small plants but more of them gave me a better yeild, but you can just as well grow trees in them things if you want to. Wish i could run my tables as my fucking back is killing me as i keep bending down to hand water my coco grow now, teach me to ave too many plants on the go.
 
Gavstar76

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I was looking into scroging and sogging, might try it but i just wanted to make sure i could grow good bud on first grow before i changed how i grow too much, if this grow goes ok i will move on to try cloning and then when i have a good grow method and clone method i think i will try a different grow method to increase my yield. Not sure what i will get over all from this grow yet but it looks good for bud right now. I removed a lot of foliage in 2nd week of flower to get more light to all the buds as plants so squashed and my buds exploded. Think buds have stopped popping up so just waiting for the plump explosion now :)

EDIT: vegged for 4 weeks this grow but i think if i veg at all i will only veg 2 weeks as my ladys quite close to light now. Topped 4 as well to see difference :)
 
Don Gin and Ton

Don Gin and Ton

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Gavstar76 said:
Thats how i started on here with weights and cost in the area although sounds a good deal he getting compared to most areas lol. hope you growing something different dude maybe your village/town/city will thank you if you can only get blues there lmao :weed:
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its weird I live in a predominantly asian area and all they want is blues. tell them there's better and cheaper than 200 an oz for normal blues but they just don't want it. its mental. i picked up some blues x blueberry. i'm gonna skin em for 250 haha. if they want it that is.....

to be fair though id be happy just toking blues, its killer smoke
 
Gavstar76

Gavstar76

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it is a nice smoke thats true but its nice to swap strains from time to time or you sort of fell a bit immune to it but if thats all that was about im pretty sure i wouldnt moan too much about it lmao :)
 
RobbieP

RobbieP

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Don Gin and Ton said:
give the lad a break man, he's read the first post and responded. there's always a new member posting the same shiz every now n then in here.
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why respond to posts from 2009 , is it that hard to read the latest pages! most people who talk about blues are talking about blue cheese and dont even know what the strain blues is!
 
RobbieP

RobbieP

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and like i say blues to most ppl is blue cheese ... if i was to sell clone only proper blues ppl would argue it isnt blues as there expecting barneys blue cheese
 
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RobbieP

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Don Gin and Ton said:
Just trying to lookout for the newbs, we were them at one point.
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i agree we where them at one point but when i was them i was able to say hello and introduce myself not just walk in like some bad man ...

this isnt aimed at that 1 person at all and indeed not just aimed at this forum, its just the last one of many iv seen recently n it annoys me .... how hard to say hello ?!
 
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