Aussie Growers Thread

Chunky

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I could just be outta place saying this but to me it doesnt sound very wise to annouce places that get into Aus? All you need is a clever coppa to see that and make future purchases hard. As i said might be talking shit here but just mho.



Im assuming you mean for outdoor? If so yer the others answered it fairly well. If you mean indoors anytime really. I got mine smack bang middle of winter and they worked. Just make sure you keep heat up to them. Also the others suggested CFL but after using them for my veg then switching to HPS i could not disagree with CFL more!! I know im quite noob but i would highly recomend at least getting a decent light setup as for me at least that made a MASSIVE difference. It doesnt seem worth going to all the hassel of growing with all the risks and what not just to skimp on the basics. Yes im rambling a bit but this all said i guess if your using JUST for germinating and a few weeks CFL would work i guess. A fairly experienced mate told me i wouldnt wanna really veg with CFL for more than 2-3 weeks.
How would law enforcement stop them, I haven't given any real deatils of shipping addresses and short of sifting through all mail from Britain they would shit out of luck I know they are a little more careful with packages and letters from holland but to even consider cracking down on the sheer volume of mail from britain is rediculous especially when i get the package less than 2 days from them popping it in a post box.

Second I vegged 50 plants to 8-10 inches under flouro's (3 weeks old) just fine you could get them a little larger but fluoro's don't have the penetration so short of having lights on either side and the top they aren't really effective after week 3-4 however a month is still a huge advance on the growing season especially considering germ in early aug plant in early sept (don't switch to flower by mid sept when daylight hours are over 12) and they start to flower in late march early april thats 8 months of veg time which is more then enough to time to grow a monster. Have a look at Kangrativa's grows I became aquainted with him just this week he too grows in NSW and grows absolute F-ing monsters in 8 months.
 

skiz1989

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How would law enforcement stop them, I haven't given any real deatils of shipping addresses and short of sifting through all mail from Britain they would shit out of luck I know they are a little more careful with packages and letters from holland but to even consider cracking down on the sheer volume of mail from britain is rediculous especially when i get the package less than 2 days from them popping it in a post box.

Second I vegged 50 plants to 8-10 inches under flouro's (3 weeks old) just fine you could get them a little larger but fluoro's don't have the penetration so short of having lights on either side and the top they aren't really effective after week 3-4 however a month is still a huge advance on the growing season especially considering germ in early aug plant in early sept (don't switch to flower by mid sept when daylight hours are over 12) and they start to flower in late march early april thats 8 months of veg time which is more then enough to time to grow a monster. Have a look at Kangrativa's grows I became aquainted with him just this week he too grows in NSW and grows absolute F-ing monsters in 8 months.


lol relax mate, im in no way calling anyone out just raising a few concerns as i never ordered before so didnt no how it all works. As for the fluro yes you can get decent sized plants but the nodes will be so far apart as apposed to short lil fatties. I used CFL and they worked a treat but HPS smashed CFL with performance. I grew a 5' tall hermi under fluro and 3' tall hermi under HPS and the 3' yielded more in the end coz thier was more bang for your buck so to speak. Once again though this is only personal prefence and in no way saying its the be all or end all.
 

Chunky

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lol relax mate, im in no way calling anyone out just raising a few concerns as i never ordered before so didnt no how it all works. As for the fluro yes you can get decent sized plants but the nodes will be so far apart as apposed to short lil fatties. I used CFL and they worked a treat but HPS smashed CFL with performance. I grew a 5' tall hermi under fluro and 3' tall hermi under HPS and the 3' yielded more in the end coz thier was more bang for your buck so to speak. Once again though this is only personal prefence and in no way saying its the be all or end all.
Not having a go mate, did kinda sound angry didn't I no harm meant.

HPS is always going to be superior but for $120 i got 7 dual fluoro battens and ~ 45000 lumens and they worked a treat for prepping my outdoor crop. Vegging under fluoros is about all they really excel at not so good for flower ( though I do have a CFL grow going)

Nodes are closer as you can keep the light so close and a small plant needs less lumens (1-10 inches) all my plants had nodes that were barely half a centremetre apart thats with ~50 plants under 10 6500k 4 foot 36w tubes. All the people I have encountered on the internet and various other forums had the same issue and you cannot simply raise fluoro's because of the loss of lumens.
 

skiz1989

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Not having a go mate, did kinda sound angry didn't I no harm meant.

HPS is always going to be superior but for $120 i got 7 dual fluoro battens and ~ 45000 lumens and they worked a treat for prepping my outdoor crop. Vegging under fluoros is about all they really excel at not so good for flower ( though I do have a CFL grow going)

Nodes are closer as you can keep the light so close and a small plant needs less lumens (1-10 inches) all my plants had nodes that were barely half a centremetre apart thats with ~50 plants under 10 6500k 4 foot 36w tubes. All the people I have encountered on the internet and various other forums had the same issue and you cannot simply raise fluoro's because of the loss of lumens.
haha na all good man everyone has thier own pref and opinions on things and for everyone who says method "a" works will have someone else who says method "b" is better. As for your setup. Im not 100% sure about the lumens and all (i know the more the better) but for around $140 you can grab a nice 600w HPS with ballast and all the other bells and whistles. Im somewhat tempted to run parra tests with same system using CFL from start to finish and at the same time grow another with MH and HPS but i just dont have the room, time, experience to do it very scientiffically.

Well if you managed to get ur nodes to be so short you seem to be doing something right as while they were seedlings yer they were slow to grow (in comparison to mates who grew same strain but under MH) but i managed to get small nodes too. However the second they reached half a foot or so the nodes became really spaced out.

Meh after this grow im HOPEFULLY going to grow DWC under MH and HPS. But i might leave it a few months so i can let me nerves settle. Toking up (i get very paranoid when baked) and doing this type of stuff plays on the nerves alot everytime i see choppers fly overhead =P
 

Chunky

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haha na all good man everyone has thier own pref and opinions on things and for everyone who says method "a" works will have someone else who says method "b" is better. As for your setup. Im not 100% sure about the lumens and all (i know the more the better) but for around $140 you can grab a nice 600w HPS with ballast and all the other bells and whistles. Im somewhat tempted to run parra tests with same system using CFL from start to finish and at the same time grow another with MH and HPS but i just dont have the room, time, experience to do it very scientiffically.

Well if you managed to get ur nodes to be so short you seem to be doing something right as while they were seedlings yer they were slow to grow (in comparison to mates who grew same strain but under MH) but i managed to get small nodes too. However the second they reached half a foot or so the nodes became really spaced out.

Meh after this grow im HOPEFULLY going to grow DWC under MH and HPS. But i might leave it a few months so i can let me nerves settle. Toking up (i get very paranoid when baked) and doing this type of stuff plays on the nerves alot everytime i see choppers fly overhead =P
Opinions are like arseholes everyone has one.

$140 for a 600w HPS where cheapest I could find is ~$300 mark with a ballast and reflector, and DWC is the bomb. The reason for Fluoro tubes is ease of concealment and the little heat they put off, as well as cheap and easy to get bulbs.
 

dpmymrs

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Opinions are like arseholes everyone has one.

$140 for a 600w HPS where cheapest I could find is ~$300 mark with a ballast and reflector, and DWC is the bomb. The reason for Fluoro tubes is ease of concealment and the little heat they put off, as well as cheap and easy to get bulbs.
I MUST AGREE...I WOULD SO LOVE TO HAVE AN MH IN MY VEG ROOM...BUT AS IT IS,I HAVE 3 TWIN FIXTURE FLUOROS IN THE MINIMUM SPACE THEY COVER AND IT MAKES IT A LIL WARM IN THERE...GOOD WARM THO...NOT HOT
BUT IN SAYING THAT, THE TUBES ARE SO NOT HOT THAT I ACTUALLY HAVE THE TUBE MILLIMETRES AWAY FROM THE TOP OF THE PLANTS...

N DONT GET ME STARTED ON DWC...I ABSOLUTELY FUCKIN LOVE IT...CANT GET OVER HOW EASY IT IS
JUS CURRENTLY RESEARCHIN INTO RDWC FOR MY 4 BUCKET FLOWERING SYSTEM. IM BUILDING 2X 4 BUCKET SYSTEMS RUNNING OFF A RES EACH...THANKS TO BUDSLINGER ON GRASSCITY.COM, HIS IS THE BEST AND EASIEST IVE SEEN

http://forum.grasscity.com/do-yourself/600352-budslingers-recirculating-bubble-buckets.html

IF INTERESTED
 

odlaw

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Opinions are like arseholes everyone has one.

$140 for a 600w HPS where cheapest I could find is ~$300 mark with a ballast and reflector, and DWC is the bomb. The reason for Fluoro tubes is ease of concealment and the little heat they put off, as well as cheap and easy to get bulbs.
discount hydro on ebay have em for around that
 

MasterHemp

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i got this one pretty bushy just using a single 23watt cfl all my lights were being used by the plants that are flowering, i guess genetics play a roll in how close the nodes stay aswell because one of my sativas flowering now the nodes are way more far apart then this one in the pic it just started branching out few days ago, did a little lst too :joint:
 

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skiz1989

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FINALLY!!!! After today no more wankers shoving papers in my face at the station telling me to vote for some asshat :D

On a different note, in pharm the other day discussing weed and apparently a its only considered a chronic user if you have close to 20-30 cones a day!!!.....I donno bout you guys but after 5 good hits i would say im pretty much fused into the couch....even then getting to 5 cones is pretty hard for me lol.
 

Rusty Crutch

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FINALLY!!!! After today no more wankers shoving papers in my face at the station telling me to vote for some asshat :D

On a different note, in pharm the other day discussing weed and apparently a its only considered a chronic user if you have close to 20-30 cones a day!!!.....I donno bout you guys but after 5 good hits i would say im pretty much fused into the couch....even then getting to 5 cones is pretty hard for me lol.
I donkey voted. Fuck em....

They are all a bunch if lying, juvenile, soft cocks anyway. Fuck Liberal, Fuck labor, Fuck the greens, Fuck the nationals, Fuck the pinko commie fucks, Fuck old people, Fuck young people, Fuck boat people, Fuck the God botherers, Fuck the democrats, Fuck "Holden", Fuck "Dick Smith", Fuck the Indians that keep calling me to offer be a better deal on long distance calls, Fuck not having LSD in my commodore, Fuck fishing licenses, Fuck cyclists, Fuck singapore, Fuck "That time of the month", Fuck the cat leaving decapitated corpses on the back veranda, Fuck friends going home when my weed's all gone, Fuck dark chocolate, Fuck chlorinated tap water, Fuck the police that got me for not wearing my P plates the other day, Fuck "McDonalds", Fuck "Rivers" shoes, Fuck the 10L a day leaking out of my system that I can't find, Fuck screaming kids in the check out line, Fuck Australian beer, Fuck Snap-On tools, Fuck aliens, Fuck meeting chicks I could take home but are not able to because I'm "in a relationship already", Fuck people that travel 30kms under the speed limit until they get to overtaking lanes where they speed up to 10 k's over, Did I say Fuck cyclists? Fuck lesbians (I wish), Fuck Clones that take 3 weeks to shoot, Fuck fishing off the rocks and getting your tackle box full of water, Fuck rabbits that just manage to get off the road in time, Fuck "Pauly" from "Fat Pizza" (what a sell out), Fuck "Pearl Jam" and "Metallica" for turning gay, Fuck "Ravers" (for being able to get better drugs than me), Fuck the guy at the bottle-o last weekend that recommended a feral bottle of Shiraz (which ruined the whole evening...), Fuck transcendental hip-hop, Fuck Xavier Rudd, Fuck guys that wear girls jeans and pink t-shirts to pick up chicks, Fuck civilization 3 (for crashing my computer all the time), Fuck insurance companies, Fuck people that can play guitar really well, Fuck getting chafed nipples when I go surfing, Fuck going fishing, catching more birds, crabs and scuba divers than fish, Fuck Sydney roads, Fuck getting a parking ticket when I work in the building and have a fucking permit stuck to my windscreen (the sluts....), Fuck brunettes with long legs and nice boobs in those tight little power suits bongsmilie
 

skiz1989

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I donkey voted. Fuck em....

They are all a bunch if lying, juvenile, soft cocks anyway. Fuck Liberal, Fuck labor, Fuck the greens, Fuck the nationals, Fuck the pinko commie fucks, Fuck old people, Fuck young people, Fuck boat people, Fuck the God botherers, Fuck the democrats, Fuck "Holden", Fuck "Dick Smith", Fuck the Indians that keep calling me to offer be a better deal on long distance calls, Fuck not having LSD in my commodore, Fuck fishing licenses, Fuck cyclists, Fuck singapore, Fuck "That time of the month", Fuck the cat leaving decapitated corpses on the back veranda, Fuck friends going home when my weed's all gone, Fuck dark chocolate, Fuck chlorinated tap water, Fuck the police that got me for not wearing my P plates the other day, Fuck "McDonalds", Fuck "Rivers" shoes, Fuck the 10L a day leaking out of my system that I can't find, Fuck screaming kids in the check out line, Fuck Australian beer, Fuck Snap-On tools, Fuck aliens, Fuck meeting chicks I could take home but are not able to because I'm "in a relationship already", Fuck people that travel 30kms under the speed limit until they get to overtaking lanes where they speed up to 10 k's over, Did I say Fuck cyclists? Fuck lesbians (I wish), Fuck Clones that take 3 weeks to shoot, Fuck fishing off the rocks and getting your tackle box full of water, Fuck rabbits that just manage to get off the road in time, Fuck "Pauly" from "Fat Pizza" (what a sell out), Fuck "Pearl Jam" and "Metallica" for turning gay, Fuck "Ravers" (for being able to get better drugs than me), Fuck the guy at the bottle-o last weekend that recommended a feral bottle of Shiraz (which ruined the whole evening...), Fuck transcendental hip-hop, Fuck Xavier Rudd, Fuck guys that wear girls jeans and pink t-shirts to pick up chicks, Fuck civilization 3 (for crashing my computer all the time), Fuck insurance companies, Fuck people that can play guitar really well, Fuck getting chafed nipples when I go surfing, Fuck going fishing, catching more birds, crabs and scuba divers than fish, Fuck Sydney roads, Fuck getting a parking ticket when I work in the building and have a fucking permit stuck to my windscreen (the sluts....), Fuck brunettes with long legs and nice boobs in those tight little power suits bongsmilie
hahahahah i prefer blondes :P


I was tempted to donkey it but if Tony gets it i think ill just slit the wrists now :)
 

Rusty Crutch

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Does anyone think the LED's on the fogger may effect root growth? I would cover them up but it looks cool.


I managed to throw together a good adaption for the 140mm orchid nets into the 10L 330mm base pots. I'm hoping to rotate 3 plants a fortnight in the nets instead of the 400mm top pots full of hydroton. Should eliminate a bit of messing around.

 

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the seedman

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fuck rusty, you got outa the wrong side today, voting must sure piss u off, but i pretty much agree, with every thing,

especally the fishing licence stuff, i feel sorry for you guys in sydney, fishing's better here, on the west coast, we land monsters

on the floros, i use a 40what power glo, and the 40w aqua glo,(an aquarium, light) the two different light spectrums, combine in the twin battern holder, and hood, to give me better growth and requires less watering than a hps, which can cook a seedlin

after about 2 or3 weeks, they ready for business, and saved you a hunj on you next power bill
 

skiz1989

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Cant help sorry rusty as i got no fkn clue mate lol.

However i too have a question :D

Bout to finish up the grow (white rhino) at 8 weeks and starting to flush them all now. Thing is different sources say flush for X days and everyone seems to change the value of X. In your opinion how long should i flush for? Also do i use plain water or molasses? Also seems how Heat is an enemy of our good friend THC is it better to water them less and turn my heater off so that the grow starts to get quite cool or should i leave the tempts up where they have been? Last thing is do you guys worry about a 24hour dark period before cut? Some sources say a 24hour period works GREAT on the whites?
 

teknoboi

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update on my cannababies :) when should i harvest? is it when all pistils are brown? sorry about the quality of pics, shitty camera!
 

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skiz1989

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update on my cannababies :) when should i harvest? is it when all pistils are brown? sorry about the quality of pics, shitty camera!
wait for someone with more knowledge to confirm but they dont look too ready? Not very frosty and buds still small. To assist in when to harvest why not post the strain and how long you have had them in flower :)

Also as for hairs i have HEARD that hair colour isnt a good indication as a shit plant could be turning brown because its got a problem and not because its ready.
 
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