Hi guys, been meaning to introduce myself on here for a while, but with 996 pages I was put off with the lack of time on line recently, anyway. I’m from the uk, and in the Northwest, I’m not a manc nor a scouser or plastic either. I have recently started growing due to the crap 2.2g £20 bags and also sick of the “heavy shit” sellers market.
So I have decided to grow my own, which are the tastier, uplifting and energizing affects (more on the strains another time). I don’t consider myself a beginner or an expert though I did have some fun when I was younger (17 years ago). I do have a few friends that grow on a regular basis were we like to do swaps, lends etc.
I’m currently growing Autos with a couple of photoperiod types due to freebie and seed company mix ups. I’m using a 400w Sunmaster in a low bay industrial hood in a small door less closet painted white, using soil|Diahydro mix while I finnish building my homemade stealth grow box.
I would like to point out a few things so that other people can steer clear of the problems I’ve ran into, which are the following
1: Westland compost with added John Innes and +west, 2 for 1 at B+Q. DO NOT USE (5.5ph soil that burns and locks up nutes)
2: Magic Grow general compost EVEN WORSE (ph 4.7 runoff with same ph 7.2 water)
3. Cheap PH meters on ebay don’t last a week (square yellow ones!)
4: Samsara Kiss Dragon On The attitude, Isn’t Autoflowering
5: Nirvana auto seeds have been pulled from there website, but not from other seed banks
6. Ionic nuts are very confusing as bottle, website and chart have all different values
7. Don’t use to much Diahydro on the surface of the soil as it soaks up your water and nutes to only then let it evaporate back out the pot
Kindest regards
Mr Tweed