The UK Growers Thread!

[Lemon king]

Little update on the 600w cmh bulbs I switched too a few weeks back.....




Was absolutely loving them until this and more importantly the plants were also, going to try one more set (a fool and his money are easily parted) but seriously considering LED investment....

I can now never go back to the orange glow of HPS, being able to actually see real colour of the plants is game changing, I love my 315w cmh but these bring the power!

Also thank gawd that outer jacked didn't blow as well!

 

[budolskie]

Mine are just over 2 weeks since flip 2 side very tall under the 600 other side looking nice but need 1 door open on tent to keep temps down to 28-30c

Also @Lemon king wouldnt mind trying those bulbs myself. My plants seem to love the shogun calculator aswell

 

[WeedIsMySpinach]

LED has come along way, just make sure u go with a decent brand that gives u a decent ppfd coverage.
most will go into how many and what LEDs are used (warm white/cool white/far red/ir and UV. Samsung 301b etc)

 

[WeedIsMySpinach]

Theres a lot more videos too.

 

[conor c]

Little update on the 600w cmh bulbs I switched too a few weeks back.....


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Was absolutely loving them until this and more importantly the plants were also, going to try one more set (a fool and his money are easily parted) but seriously considering LED investment....

I can now never go back to the orange glow of HPS, being able to actually see real colour of the plants is game changing, I love my 315w cmh but these bring the power!

Also thank gawd that outer jacked didn't blow as well!

I still rock the 600 digital hps lamps the thing that puts me off cmh ones is you cant be in and around the plants for as much time safely due to higher uv and i like being around them a fair bit its the same reason i hand water still but other than that i have heard only good things about the ceramic metal halides mate lucky that bulb didnt completely pop tho

 

[WeedIsMySpinach]

I still rock the 600 digital hps lamps the thing that puts me off cmh ones is you cant be in and around the plants for as much time safely due to higher uv and i like being around them a fair bit its the same reason i hand water still but other than that i have heard only good things about the ceramic metal halides mate lucky that bulb didnt completely pop tho

Oh the days of climbing lampposts to get a hps for free lol

 

[conor c]

Oh the days of climbing lampposts to get a hps for free lol

Aye well that be only just before my time mate but i know plenty who did do just that i was taught by a older lot and when they started out growing em self thats what most of em started with minus the outdoor guys but there fewer and further between here ime and no wonder with our schizophrenic weather

 

[go go kid]

i have a mate who go's round testing HID'S at train stations, so i get all the free lighting units i need. and bulbs galore. but ive been up a few lamp posts myself, crazy times but great fun if you like hights

 

[conor c]

i have a mate who go's round testing HID'S at train stations, so i get all the free lighting units i need. and bulbs galore. but ive been up a few lamp posts myself, crazy times but great fun if you like hights

I done my first bit of free climbing/my first Munro when i was 7 i dont mind heights my dad and uncles were all into hillwalking and climbing so it rubbed off on me for sure ive worked doing ventilation and in other kinds of work with heights a lamposts fuckall to me lol it is pretty funny to me when you see folk working on sites in scissor lifts and stuff that are shit scared grabbing onto the sides and that

 

[WeedIsMySpinach]

I done my first bit of free climbing/my first Munro when i was 7 i dont mind heights my dad and uncles were all into hillwalking and climbing so it rubbed off on me for sure ive worked doing ventilation and in other kinds of work with heights a lamposts fuckall to me lol it is pretty funny to me when you see folk working on sites in scissor lifts and stuff that are shit scared grabbing onto the sides and that

Sounds like me as a kid looool
A bloke I worked with wouldn’t even sniff a scissor lift without hooking himself up lol I climbed the scissor lift 1 time Bcos the controls stopped working

 

[conor c]

Sounds like me as a kid looool
A bloke I worked with wouldn’t even sniff a scissor lift without hooking himself up lol I climbed the scissor lift 1 time Bcos the controls stopped working

Ive had a few die n have to climb up and down cos charging cables on sites get nicked left right n centre there gold dust ime so aye been there myself man luckily none of the huge outdoor ones have died on me so much thats funny hooking in i just tell em if there scared of heights this jobs no for you in the long run pal

 

[WeedIsMySpinach]

All the lampposts around me now are solar LED panels. I’ll get a pic 1 evening to show lol
Don’t know if they could be adapted looool

 

[budolskie]

Had a good strip off the bottoms staring there 4th week 12/12, all caned up now aswell

 

[budolskie]

Day 29 of 12/12, to me the look better then my usual so im happy, to you guys they probs look normal at this stage, they looking ok for day 29 yous think

 

[conor c]

Day 29 of 12/12, to me the look better then my usual so im happy, to you guys they probs look normal at this stage, they looking ok for day 29 yous think

Aye look fine man

 

[budolskie]

So this shogun calculator telling me to back down on the nutes week 5 of flower.
like from 1.8ec week 4 down to 1.2ec week 5 till there finished???

Is that not to soon to be dropping the nutes @Lemon king do you lower the ec like stated

 

[Liamp1603]

Any one had any success with revegging .... long story short plants were not ready to chop with the last crop when I encountered a mysterious virus problem fuck knows what it was plants were taken at 7 weeks instead of 10 - 11 I had two small plants stuck in the corner that smelt really gassy diesel and were unaffected by the problem so I carried them on in smaller tent and used the bigger one to dry .... I fucked the timer up and the lights were coming on for an hour of light halfway through the night cycle took me four weeks to realise they wasn't growing normal and had small dark leaves growing anyway I've revegged them and do I just let them grow now and continue them as vegging plants or take cuttings off them when I can and continue them that way ?? Not done it before so I wouldn't know

 

[budolskie]

Any one had any success with revegging .... long story short plants were not ready to chop with the last crop when I encountered a mysterious virus problem fuck knows what it was plants were taken at 7 weeks instead of 10 - 11 I had two small plants stuck in the corner that smelt really gassy diesel and were unaffected by the problem so I carried them on in smaller tent and used the bigger one to dry .... I fucked the timer up and the lights were coming on for an hour of light halfway through the night cycle took me four weeks to realise they wasn't growing normal and had small dark leaves growing anyway I've revegged them and do I just let them grow now and continue them as vegging plants or take cuttings off them when I can and continue them that way ?? Not done it before so I wouldn't know

I would take a clone soon as a decent enough one was there to take with 5 blade leafs, thats just me tho maybe not the best way

 

[Liamp1603]

I would take a clone soon as a decent enough one was there to take with 5 blade leafs, thats just me tho maybe not the best way

Have you done this yourself was it harder to root than usual ?

 

[budolskie]

Have you done this yourself was it harder to root than usual ?

I havnt done this so no experience, thats just what i think would be the best think to do