The UK Growers Thread!

DST said:
So reading through it seems as though not many UK'ers cure their bud. I have to say, I couldn't put it out the door without a cure. 1/ Better taste, 2/ Better High 3/ Stronger and 4/ Better reuptation for your gear......

I understand peoples theories about getting in the dinero asap, but I would have thought you could increase this by putting out increased quality? (perhaps the additional weeks just do not compensate for the additional revenue)......

One of the best growers I know in Scotland grows weed that you would struggle to find a sugar leaf on when you bought it, it has been so well cured and manicured. So it can be done me thinks.
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im sorry DST but there is not one commercial grower who cure's there buds to sell on...its all high risk and needs to be gone as soon as its dry, i can get shut of mine as soon as its down(not dry) yes less money but its gone....

your right in saying it smokes better and taste better, but commercial growers don't grow for connoisseurs fact, thats left to the one's who have small grows on the go and don't have k's just sitting in jarrs ;-)
 
kanx said:
Totally see your point , however I would imagine cured bud goes for alot more £ than non cured, at the very least it gets more noticed than other stuff .

Or so i would imagine.
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I'm growing out the clone only's mate, once they come off the drying rack they get weighed into oz's and put into glass jars. Once that is done I get on the blower and arrange for them to be picked up usually an hour or 2 later, If it's any longer than that I'll open the jars for 5mins to let them breath but they already stink to high heaven by then as I like to dry slow and they beat any of the crap that goes for high grade around here, they stink and taste very strong straight off the bat so haven't ever needed to cure them.
When I grew out serious seeds chronic I left them jarred up from early morning and bumped them in the afternoon and it flew out the door, It deffo would have been better to cure it but it could have taken weeks and I bumped it out at £170 a piece, the time taken wouldn't have been worth the wait as I would have only made a few hundred extra and I want to be focusing on the next batch and not worrying about thousands of pounds worth of weed I'm holding onto for an extra few quid.
I like to think of it as cost vs worth, the cost of holding onto thousands of pounds worth of gear isn't worth the risk if anything were to happen for a few hundred quid if that makes sense mate
 
W Dragon said:
I'm growing out the clone only's mate, once they come off the drying rack they get weighed into oz's and put into glass jars. Once that is done I get on the blower and arrange for them to be picked up usually an hour or 2 later, If it's any longer than that I'll open the jars for 5mins to let them breath but they already stink to high heaven by then as I like to dry slow and they beat any of the crap that goes for high grade around here, they stink and taste very strong straight off the bat so haven't ever needed to cure them.
When I grew out serious seeds chronic I left them jarred up from early morning and bumped them in the afternoon and it flew out the door, It deffo would have been better to cure it but it could have taken weeks and I bumped it out at £170 a piece, the time taken wouldn't have been worth the wait as I would have only made a few hundred extra and I want to be focusing on the next batch and not worrying about thousands of pounds worth of weed I'm holding onto for an extra few quid.
I like to think of it as cost vs worth, the cost of holding onto thousands of pounds worth of gear isn't worth the risk if anything were to happen for a few hundred quid if that makes sense mate
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i will 2nd this ^^^^^^ .

going back to wat you was saying over the wr, you said its a regular plant, am i right in thinking if i grow say 10 thay will very much look the same plant as if ive grown them from cuttings, or am i missing the point ? by the way hello you ;-)
 
unlucky said:
i will 2nd this ^^^^^^ .

going back to wat you was saying over the wr, you said its a regular plant, am i right in thinking if i grow say 10 thay will very much look the same plant as if ive grown them from cuttings, or am i missing the point ? by the way hello you ;-)
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lol hello to you to love, I've only grown their fem versions but yeah they looked like they came from cuttings, they all grew the same looking identical until they were flipped into flower and even then they all stayed the same height and width the only differences were that some yielded bigger than others, all of them with the exception of one did great and even the poor one out of the pack would have made many growers happy as still did well in the yield and smoke department but it didn't look like it was growing a baseball bat like the others, one was so big I couldn't fit my fingers and thumbs around it using 2 hands and was about as long as my forearm including the length of my hand but I did lose most of the cola to bud rot as it was just too big and I was growing in a shed at the time with very high humidity, all bar the one dodgy plant put out big fat heavy colas that looked a little like IC3's but thicker, they weren't the densest of buds but they weren't airy either.
I just germed some seeds pretty much for the sake of it as I had them lieing around positronics AK47 X Critical mass and sensi seeds super skunk and can say with certainty that unless something special comes out of them that yields well I'll be buying more serious seeds white russian just for the extra cash love

oh yeah the white russian is quiet a light feeder love and has more of a sativia appearance but is a fairly fast finisher about the 9 week mark
 
W Dragon said:
lol hello to you to love, I've only grown their fem versions but yeah they looked like they came from cuttings, they all grew the same looking identical until they were flipped into flower and even then they all stayed the same height and width the only differences were that some yielded bigger than others, all of them with the exception of one did great and even the poor one out of the pack would have made many growers happy as still did well in the yield and smoke department but it didn't look like it was growing a baseball bat like the others, one was so big I couldn't fit my fingers and thumbs around it using 2 hands and was about as long as my forearm including the length of my hand but I did lose most of the cola to bud rot as it was just too big and I was growing in a shed at the time with very high humidity, all bar the one dodgy plant put out big fat heavy colas that looked a little like IC3's but thicker, they weren't the densest of buds but they weren't airy either.
I just germed some seeds pretty much for the sake of it as I had them lieing around positronics AK47 X Critical mass and sensi seeds super skunk and can say with certainty that unless something special comes out of them that yields well I'll be buying more serious seeds white russian just for the extra cash love

oh yeah the white russian is quiet a light feeder love and has more of a sativia appearance but is a fairly fast finisher about the 9 week mark
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cool all sounds good, will be about ?£800 to fill the room and get shut of any slow one's but defo going to give them a go, hhhmm light feeder...... oh dear..... that i do struggle with but think im starting to get a grip of it as ive only over fed the thc bomb one's. with the thc bomb it looks like 3 different plants in the room....some short some medium and some tall. ive doing some reading on the wr and its defo sounding good, what was the hight of your tallest plant of wr and are thay ok to lollipop and super crop and all that shizz
 
unlucky said:
cool all sounds good, will be about ?£800 to fill the room and get shut of any slow one's but defo going to give them a go, hhhmm light feeder...... oh dear..... that i do struggle with but think im starting to get a grip of it as ive only over fed the thc bomb one's. with the thc bomb it looks like 3 different plants in the room....some short some medium and some tall. ive doing some reading on the wr and its defo sounding good, what was the hight of your tallest plant of wr and are thay ok to lollipop and super crop and all that shizz
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If you have your next round sorted love? I'd just buy a couple of packs and start them off alongside what you already have that way you won't end up with thousands of cuttings and can focus on your favourite few.
I didn't train or top them just left them to do their thing and they grew out the same, If anybody would have seen the canopy they would have thought I'd been training them but I didn't do fuck all to them, they're strong plants that have some strong branching that doesn't need supporting, I trimmed the bottom weaker branches off and only left the thicker branches that circled the main cola and put out what I think of as a crown around the main cola and then the next set of nodes put out aswell producing chunky buds, they weren't the bushy scraggly type of plants they stood up not taking up alot of floor space and all looked the same.
I grew them in 3gal pots with bio-bizz soil and nutes, grow, bloom and topmax and nothing else and they produced like monsters even in crappy conditions. Once flipped they doubled in size max there wasn't alot of stretching with them and I even made some mistakes at the beginning as my ph meter was out and they were being fed with a much lower ph than they should have had and it didn't even seem to slow them down, I realised the prob with my ph meter early so they were still in veg but they really were troopers love
 
IC3M4L3 said:
WR u doing any cuttings of the ak47x critical mass??
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I'll be taking cuttings off everything mate, I always do that's why I don't bother buying too many seeds at a time, the year before last I grew out thseeds heavy duty fruity and serious seeds chronic and ended up with over 100 clones, I had plants in the tent clones all over the place and a greenhouse full of plants that were visible to all the neighbours prob about 12 households all together so now I'm trying to keep the numbers down and just take a couple of each, the reason I had so many was the serious seeds chronic didn't like to be clones some would root fine and others would take forever after all that I ended up with one keeper. I am fucking ruthless when it comes to pheno hunting any doubts and it gets chopped and binned.
 
W Dragon said:
If you have your next round sorted love? I'd just buy a couple of packs and start them off alongside what you already have that way you won't end up with thousands of cuttings and can focus on your favourite few.
I didn't train or top them just left them to do their thing and they grew out the same, If anybody would have seen the canopy they would have thought I'd been training them but I didn't do fuck all to them, they're strong plants that have some strong branching that doesn't need supporting, I trimmed the bottom weaker branches off and only left the thicker branches that circled the main cola and put out what I think of as a crown around the main cola and then the next set of nodes put out aswell producing chunky buds, they weren't the bushy scraggly type of plants they stood up not taking up alot of floor space and all looked the same.
I grew them in 3gal pots with bio-bizz soil and nutes, grow, bloom and topmax and nothing else and they produced like monsters even in crappy conditions. Once flipped they doubled in size max there wasn't alot of stretching with them and I even made some mistakes at the beginning as my ph meter was out and they were being fed with a much lower ph than they should have had and it didn't even seem to slow them down, I realised the prob with my ph meter early so they were still in veg but they really were troopers love
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ye think your right, i will do a tray of them with the thc bomb and see how i get on...thankyou ;-)
 
Well the misses has gone to work and I'm all on me own with nothing to do, I've put the hoover around, ran the dogs out on the field checked their food and water and now I'm bored!!! I usually like being left with just me and the pups but today it's doing my head in Ive got nothing to watch and nothing to do til about 7ish, checked to see if there's any movies worth watching and nadda, looks like a wankathon for me unless any of you guys or girls got any better ideas?????????
Oh yeah had some vals delivered yesterday not my thing taking tabs but might take a few and see how the day progresses now the misses isn't here to give me shit about it (she's anti-drugs) but the moaning makes for some entertainment and keeps me on the straight and narrow, I used to be out on the piss 7days a week and getting into trouble alot so can't blame her as all I used to do was work and party..............feeling like an old codger and only 29 just got into my pj's and slippers time for a short afternoon nap I think lmao
 
W Dragon said:
I'm growing out the clone only's mate, once they come off the drying rack they get weighed into oz's and put into glass jars. Once that is done I get on the blower and arrange for them to be picked up usually an hour or 2 later, If it's any longer than that I'll open the jars for 5mins to let them breath but they already stink to high heaven by then as I like to dry slow and they beat any of the crap that goes for high grade around here, they stink and taste very strong straight off the bat so haven't ever needed to cure them.
When I grew out serious seeds chronic I left them jarred up from early morning and bumped them in the afternoon and it flew out the door, It deffo would have been better to cure it but it could have taken weeks and I bumped it out at £170 a piece, the time taken wouldn't have been worth the wait as I would have only made a few hundred extra and I want to be focusing on the next batch and not worrying about thousands of pounds worth of weed I'm holding onto for an extra few quid.
I like to think of it as cost vs worth, the cost of holding onto thousands of pounds worth of gear isn't worth the risk if anything were to happen for a few hundred quid if that makes sense mate
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As I said can totaly understand where your comming from , everything has to be worth while . Just as an example tho well cured bud can potentially go for £250+ an oz up my woods(has to be crem dela crem, and requirres a certain type of clientel), thats a fair bit extra , when you talk pounds.

However other than financial gain , i'm a slight perfectionist , so I do everything to the best of my ability's ,theres a chance it could bite you in the ass , however theres a chance i could get struck by lighting ^^, gotta be in it to win it :P

Cant win if you dont play.
 
W Dragon said:
Well the misses has gone to work and I'm all on me own with nothing to do, I've put the hoover around, ran the dogs out on the field checked their food and water and now I'm bored!!! I usually like being left with just me and the pups but today it's doing my head in Ive got nothing to watch and nothing to do til about 7ish, checked to see if there's any movies worth watching and nadda, looks like a wankathon for me unless any of you guys or girls got any better ideas?????????
Oh yeah had some vals delivered yesterday not my thing taking tabs but might take a few and see how the day progresses now the misses isn't here to give me shit about it (she's anti-drugs) but the moaning makes for some entertainment and keeps me on the straight and narrow, I used to be out on the piss 7days a week and getting into trouble alot so can't blame her as all I used to do was work and party..............feeling like an old codger and only 29 just got into my pj's and slippers time for a short afternoon nap I think lmao
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she will not be happy when she is back home and your out of it on ya pills ;-)
 
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unlucky said:
she will not be happy when she is back home and your out of it on ya pills ;-)
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She's not back til about midnight love and I'll only take a couple, I got some work to do about 7 so was just thinking a couple to pass some time and see what happens. getting smashed on tabs everyday isn't an option for me, I used to smoke, drink and the odd bit of sniff here and there and that was more than she could handle, we were friends for about a year before we got together and she was a barmaid in my local so she know's how I used to be and how bad my behaviour was at times, never naughty with women (cheating etc) was always a gentleman but wasn't very patient when it came to arseholes and my locals used to be full of them, hence me not going out on the beer much anymore because it usually ends up with fistycuffs and she really doesn't approve of that kind of behaviour lol. Now I'm a stay at home couch potato that spends most of my time curled up with my puppies.
 
kanx said:
As I said can totaly understand where your comming from , everything has to be worth while . Just as an example tho well cured bud can potentially go for £250+ an oz up my woods(has to be crem dela crem, and requirres a certain type of clientel), thats a fair bit extra , when you talk pounds.

However other than financial gain , i'm a slight perfectionist , so I do everything to the best of my ability's ,theres a chance it could bite you in the ass , however theres a chance i could get struck by lighting ^^, gotta be in it to win it :P

Cant win if you dont play.
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I come from a city that has plenty of drugs about mate, the people I bump mine on to would look at me stupid if I said £250 a piece as they aren't even selling it on for that themselves, maybe if I had a few percy smokers to move it on then it would be worth it but I don't the peeps I move it onto wants it gone the same as me and most of the time don't give a shit as long as they can move it on without any probs which the clone onlys do with ease, at best with a long cure on a standard seed strain I'd prob make an extra tenner or so on each and for that it really isn't even worth the time to think about it.
 
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