The UK Growers Thread!

DST

DST

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yup, it's IE explorer that is the problem. I just tried and same thing, the descriptions do not expand in the Seed section. Don's man was having problem with IE so I'll let him know. Cheers and sorry on behalf of BB for the pants usability .
 
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mad dog bark

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i managed get on it now. was the section on right on seed section. couldnt click on it to get the details, but its fine now for me.
no need for sorry i just thought wood let u no,may slow down few orders for the bb collective.
wow the cherrrys seem very different, think the sour is for me. has alot nice strains in it, am suprised with all them tasty strains its descibed as a day time smoke hahah, bet wood rip my head off hahahaha
and the cheery assasin in the stinky cherry? never heard that before.
many more new ones on way out soon?
 
DST

DST

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I actually think the non coloured Sour Cherry pheno has a bit more power to it, and the Redish one as well. But I chopped the purple one a bit earlier.

There are always new things happening.....I got a Kush x Exo Cheese just popped out of the ground. Maybe do something with that if it turns out to be something nice. The lads at Devils Harvest have done well with their Kuchi, which is a SFV og kush x exo.
 
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mad dog bark

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devils harvest? this another seed company or another part bb? wots sfv?
cool nice no the menu is ever expanding. u must spend alot time day dreaming up new strains. must b a great.
right cant put it off any longer i need a full english.
hahah oh yeah dst wot is it with the dutch having chicken sausages with a fry up??
was 1st thing i did wen i got back was cook a pork sausage sandwich. god how i missed them.
spicy chicken sausage wen u not expecting really makes ya breaky taste crap.
my hotel did a all u can eat type thing, had fry ups,cerials,pancakes,fruits,youghurts,cold meats and cheeses,muffins and loads more and it was good food bar the chicken sausages.
also next time u have a meeting at the hotel i was at u wanna try the lamb if u havent already. comes in balls on a skewer. some most tender and tasty lamb ive had
 
The Yorkshireman

The Yorkshireman

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Ey up lads,
I've no Friday porn but you can see how the girls are coming on after The Lab's been moved 3 times in the past 2 months.

Just a little veg cupboard until I build the big tent some time next week.
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And check out the dirty ashtray bagseed, coming along nicely!
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(Then)


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(Now)

And I found these in Homebase so I had to have some.
Purple Haze Carrots!
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delvite

delvite

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nice pics m8y......... are they the f1 carrots i was gonna get them.....................have you thought of purchasing a tent 1 x 1 x 2 is only £50;)
 
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mad dog bark

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i always thought carrots wasnt that colour originally. thought they was breed or modified to b orange to b more pleasing on the eyes. that or was some crap i heard many moons ago
 
DST

DST

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carrots had something added to them eons ago, I am sure it was the Dutch for the bloody Royal family, who are the Oranje....I may just be talking shite,
 
delvite

delvite

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DST said:
carrots had something added to them eons ago, I am sure it was the Dutch for the bloody Royal family, who are the Oranje....I may just be talking shite,
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[h=1]Carrots Used to Be Purple Before the 17th Century[/h]fivebunch1.jpg

Today I found out, before the 17th century, almost all carrots cultivated were purple. The modern day orange carrot wasn’t cultivated until Dutch growers in the late 16th century took mutant strains of the purple carrot, including yellow and white carrots and gradually developed them into the sweet, plump, orange variety we have today. Before this, pretty much all carrots were purple with mutated versions occasionally popping up including the yellow and white carrots. These however were rarely cultivated and lacked the purple pigment anthocyanin, which gave carrots back then their distinctive purple color.
It is thought that the modern day orange carrot was developed by crossing the mutated yellow and white rooted carrots as well as varieties of wild carrots, which are quite distinct from cultivated carrots.
Some think that the reason the orange carrot became so popular in the Netherlands was in tribute to the emblem of the House of Orange and the struggle for Dutch independence. This could be, but it also might just be that the orange carrots that the Dutch developed were sweeter tasting and more fleshy than their purple counterparts, thus providing more food per plant and being better tasting.


Bonus Factoids:

  • It is actually possible to turn your skin a shade of orange by massively over consuming orange carrots.
  • Orange carrots get their bright orange color from beta-carotene. Beta-carotene metabolizes in the human gut from bile salts into Vitamin A.
  • The origins of the cultivated carrot is rooted in the purple carrot in the region around modern day Afghanistan.
  • When cultivation of the garden style orange carrot lapses for a few generations, the carrots revert back to their ancestral carrot types, which are very different from the current garden variety.
  • In ancient times, the root part of the carrot plant that we eat today was not typically used. The carrot plant however was highly valued due to the medicinal value of its seeds and leaves. For instance, Mithridates VI, King of Pontius (around 100BC) had a recipe for counteracting certain poisons with the principle ingredient being carrot seeds. It has since been proven that this concoction actually works.
  • The Romans believed carrots and their seeds were aphrodisiacs. As such, carrots were a common plant found in Roman gardens. After the fall of Rome however, carrot cultivation in Europe more or less stopped until around the 10th century when Arabs reintroduced them to Europe.
  • British gunners in WWII were able to locate and shoot down German planes at night due to the invention of radar, which the Germans knew nothing about. To cover up the invention and extreme effectiveness of radar, the British spread about an urban legend that said that they massively increased the night vision of their pilots by having them consume large amounts of carrots. This lie not only convinced the Germans, but also had a bonus effect of causing many British people to start planting their own vegetable gardens, including planting carrots. This urban legend has persisted even to this day.
  • The largest carrot every grown was 19 pounds; grown by John Evans in 1998 in Palmer, Alaska.
  • The Vegetable Improvement Center at Texas A&M recently developed a purple-skinned, orange fleshed carrot called the Beta Sweet. This carrot is specialized to include substances that prevent cancer. It also has extremely high beta-carotene content.
  • Almost one third of all carrots distributed throughout the world come from China, which is the largest distributor of carrots in the world. Following them on gross production is Russia and then the United States.
  • Although the orange carrot was not cultivated before the 16th and 17th centuries, there is a reference in a Byzantine manuscript around 512AD which depicts an orange rooted carrot, suggesting that at least this mutant variety of carrot could be found at this time......................woohoo ;)

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The Yorkshireman

The Yorkshireman

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delvite said:
nice pics m8y......... are they the f1 carrots i was gonna get them.....................have you thought of purchasing a tent 1 x 1 x 2 is only £50;)
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I have a 1.2m square Hydrogarden but it's for kids really, I'm not fucking around with change this time.
I need 4 square metres, They'll be trees in 15L pots by the time they flower.

The pheno with more Cheese in it is viney as fuck, It'll be a challenge keeping up with them when they get big
 
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