The UK Growers Thread!

[zeddd]

Not rocket science, but I'd go with a loupe/microscope to check your trichomes since you're just starting, I got myself a £10 Carson microscope off amazon, it's a bit fiddly but you can check them on the plant rather than cutting a sample off.

I see experienced growers saying it's easy to tell from the hairs/bud appearance, but the keyword is 'experienced'. Trichomes are easy to check as a beginner, £10 is well worth it to get your harvest right. Once you've got a few grows done, you might not need to use it anymore, but I'd rather make sure my first crops are done right than screw up and adjust next time.
Same with drying/curing, it's only a couple of quid each for some little hydrometers to stick in your jars, don't have to be mega-accurate you can check them against your growroom hydrometer.

I have a friend who's grown for over 15 years and he harvests, dries and cures by eye. I have some of his weed now in a jar, I bought a hydrometer and dropped it in the jar and his is 69% and not moving, most trichomes cloudy with a few amber under my microscope.

With experience, you don't need the tools, but the tools can help you avoid newbie errors before you have that experience.

£10 vs harvesting a little early or late, £4-8 on a few hydrometers vs losing full harvest to mould/getting a harsh smoke.

Who the fuk are you?

 

[waynethenewbie]

Not rocket science, but I'd go with a loupe/microscope to check your trichomes since you're just starting, I got myself a £10 Carson microscope off amazon, it's a bit fiddly but you can check them on the plant rather than cutting a sample off.

I see experienced growers saying it's easy to tell from the hairs/bud appearance, but the keyword is 'experienced'. Trichomes are easy to check as a beginner, £10 is well worth it to get your harvest right. Once you've got a few grows done, you might not need to use it anymore, but I'd rather make sure my first crops are done right than screw up and adjust next time.
Same with drying/curing, it's only a couple of quid each for some little hydrometers to stick in your jars, don't have to be mega-accurate you can check them against your growroom hydrometer.

I have a friend who's grown for over 15 years and he harvests, dries and cures by eye. I have some of his weed now in a jar, I bought a hydrometer and dropped it in the jar and his is 69% and not moving, most trichomes cloudy with a few amber under my microscope.

With experience, you don't need the tools, but the tools can help you avoid newbie errors before you have that experience.

£10 vs harvesting a little early or late, £4-8 on a few hydrometers vs losing full harvest to mould/getting a harsh smoke.

thankyou for the input its all appreciated

 

[medicropper07]

Don't over complicate things for wayne the noob

Go off 8 weeks from the start of flower, the weed will be good enough for a first grow and a lot of the trichome colour is more stoner science

After this grow get your enviro dialled in
28 lights on
23 lights off and total darkness

 

[medicropper07]

And where's head grower?

 

[Don Gin and Ton]

I'm having an e while playing with rabbits and a volcano, watching the footy half-heartedly. Adulting like boss.

 

[Don Gin and Ton]

 

[waynethenewbie]

Don't over complicate things for wayne the noob

Go off 8 weeks from the start of flower, the weed will be good enough for a first grow and a lot of the trichome colour is more stoner science

After this grow get your enviro dialled in
28 lights on
23 lights off and total darkness

ye i got a bit of diary

Don't over complicate things for wayne the noob

Go off 8 weeks from the start of flower, the weed will be good enough for a first grow and a lot of the trichome colour is more stoner science

After this grow get your enviro dialled in
28 lights on
23 lights off and total darkness

ye got some thing dialled in but gota long way to go i reck till am pulling them 20s in lol

 

[medicropper07]

Watch some vids on the tube wayne
The game's addictive, first rule I got taught was don't over water, wet/dry, and second was don't get greedy

 

[waynethenewbie]

Watch some vids on the tube wayne
The game's addictive, first rule I got taught was don't over water, wet/dry, and second was don't get greedy

am greedy lol but gona stick with 4 plants a time i think plus i got a mad idea what i i wona try half soil half dwp i think ppl call it..

well heres pics for day 42 had to tie sum up aswell

 

[THE KONASSURE]

Its traditional to troll the odd thread or two, here's my current recommendation, don't spare the horses tell em what you think of autos ...
3 gallon or 5 gallon soil containers for Autos?

a fucking flower bed full of dirt from an old grow 10 to 100 auto seeds and smack them down right at the start of summer so there getting 16+ hour days

They normally flower easy, I can`t be fooked covering my plants every fooking day is there a photo strain via seed that loves the uk summer time ? I`ve only run a few regs outside but they never want to flower before september sometimes november........... so your there in Jan trying to cut buds off a fucking ice cube that was a plant, lol

 

[Ghettogrower187]

Whos on the fight tonight? GGG v brook...gonna be a banger man...my moneys on golovkin the mans a little beast...the undercard is pretty good too fuck mma lol

 

[Ghettogrower187]

I'm having an e while playing with rabbits and a volcano, watching the footy half-heartedly. Adulting like boss.

Man after my own heart lol, u would make a good night out man, if im ever up your way i wanna get hold.of ya lol nothing like a good bit of banter and a laugh

 

[Don Gin and Ton]

Easy ghetts. Just having fun man. Gotta make most of the good times. You good man?

 

[oscaroscar]

I'm having an e while playing with rabbits and a volcano, watching the footy half-heartedly. Adulting like boss.

Do you need change of a fiver for the vending machine? Lol
Do you remember those keyrings that if you whistled they'd beep so you could find them?
Bloody good idea that and would have saved me getting tutted at ffs lol

 

[dazzyballz]

a fucking flower bed full of dirt from an old grow 10 to 100 auto seeds and smack them down right at the start of summer so there getting 16+ hour days

They normally flower easy, I can`t be fooked covering my plants every fooking day is there a photo strain via seed that loves the uk summer time ? I`ve only run a few regs outside but they never want to flower before september sometimes november........... so your there in Jan trying to cut buds off a fucking ice cube that was a plant, lol

had some Autos outdoor have been pretty shit this year all strains i done .weather and some got crushed.
ive got purple#1 flowering outdoor north w uk.its freezing, gale force and been pissing down for a few days heavy every week.
i dont know anyone whose done this strain to ask it says there a hardy plant can take our climate but its nearly %70 humidity at night.
ive never done this strain and know its a pretty old 1 by dutch passion so bit stuck on the harvest time in the u.k

 

[Ghettogrower187]

Easy ghetts. Just having fun man. Gotta make most of the good times. You good man?

Aye we're only here once man gotta have a good time aint we mate, yeh im alright.mate hanging in there yano. Im about 8 cans and 6 lines in feeling charged lol at work in tje morning too gonna be a messy morning lol, hows u man hope alls well man what u running atm?

 

[THE KONASSURE]

had some Autos outdoor have been pretty shit this year all strains i done .weather and some got crushed.
ive got purple#1 flowering outdoor north w uk.its freezing, gale force and been pissing down for a few days heavy every week.
i dont know anyone whose done this strain to ask it says there a hardy plant can take our climate but its nearly %70 humidity at night.
ive never done this strain and know its a pretty old 1 by dutch passion so bit stuck on the harvest time in the u.k

I spray with some anti fungal before it buds up heavy or use bud rot stop

Them green plastic tents or polytunnels are a good idea

they can take a bit of cold but if you have frost for over a couple of days it`ll probably kill them, green house heater in a green plastic tent can help over winter but mould can be an issue

Like I spent £15 on a green tent had 4 or 5 autos in that they more than paid for the tent and the nutes

got a 2nd much bigger green tent for £25 its got 2 big big c99`s in it now

With autos when outside is over 14 hours put them right into the flower bed, when its less veg them inside at 16+ hour days, but you can`t let the tap roots hit the bottom of the pot or they`ll be tiny

I`d plant 10 autos and focus on the 3 or so that get big

autos are always like that some can get 4ft some may even go to 2m but then you get some that will always be tiny no matter what, seems to be what happens if ruderalis is involved you get around 1 to 8 out of 10 that are runts more so if they get root bound, or fed high levels of pk too early

Indica dom autos there`s a risk they`ll all go dwaf

I`ve been thinking of getting some sativa dom autos for next summer but still got some NL auto seeds

 

[dazzyballz]

I spray with some anti fungal before it buds up heavy or use bud rot stop

Them green plastic tents or polytunnels are a good idea

they can take a bit of cold but if you have frost for over a couple of days it`ll probably kill them, green house heater in a green plastic tent can help over winter but mould can be an issue

Like I spent £15 on a green tent had 4 or 5 autos in that they more than paid for the tent and the nutes

got a 2nd much bigger green tent for £25 its got 2 big big c99`s in it now

With autos when outside is over 14 hours put them right into the flower bed, when its less veg them inside at 16+ hour days, but you can`t let the tap roots hit the bottom of the pot or they`ll be tiny

I`d plant 10 autos and focus on the 3 or so that get big

autos are always like that some can get 4ft some may even go to 2m but then you get some that will always be tiny no matter what, seems to be what happens if ruderalis is involved you get around 1 to 8 out of 10 that are runts more so if they get root bound, or fed high levels of pk too early

Indica dom autos there`s a risk they`ll all go dwaf

I`ve been thinking of getting some sativa dom autos for next summer but still got some NL auto seeds

Yea autos are fiddly i dont think they like our climate,my autos had a bad time they got crushed under 6ft of pine tree the neighbor dropped.
they were the best looking ones i did look after they sensi seeds super skunk give em bat guano etc. ill put them out earlier next year there less chance of rot and the trees are down now.
id love to put some sort of cover over but Putting a tarp over is a no no as neighbours would see them,were building a big block shed down bottom of garden so we can plant 50 odd and no one can see for next year.
have u done these purple#1 before i cant find much info on them??

 

[THE KONASSURE]

Yea autos are fiddly i dont think they like our climate,my autos had a bad time they got crushed under 6ft of pine tree the neighbor dropped.
they were the best looking ones i did look after they sensi seeds super skunk give em bat guano etc. ill put them out earlier next year there less chance of rot and the trees are down now.
id love to put some sort of cover over but Putting a tarp over is a no no as neighbours would see them,were building a big block shed down bottom of garden so we can plant 50 odd and no one can see for next year.
have u done these purple#1 before i cant find much info on them??

I`ve done cotton candy, that has lavender one of the mums from that is a purple skunk#1, lets see I put a clone that was already in flower outside before it got cold a few years back and by xmas is was smelling nice, Jan would have been crop time but it got rot and was small

I mostly put that one outside for the smell

but a purple indica I would expect is a 6 to 8 weeker, so uk sun probably be 8 to 12 weeks

I`d check the old cataloges you`ll probably find it was an old strain from before dutch seeds or whatever split up into green house and soma and dutch passion, use seedfinder.eu

 

[THE KONASSURE]

A strong plant (50% Indica, 50% Sativa), easy to grow. Purple Afghan seeds have been crossed in Holland with Indica and Sativa varieties since 1983. The plants are fully adapted to the Dutch climate and have a respectable yield. This variety has calyxes that turn purple, starting at the beginning of flowering. Up to 90% of the plants turn purple. Has a rough, but subtle aroma and a very good high.

flowering period: 8 weeks
harvest time outdoor: 2nd half of Sept., 1st week of Oct

http://en.seedfinder.eu/strain-info/Purple_Nr1/Dutch_Passion/

how`s she looking outside ?

Probably be ok till you get 1st frost

Them fabric bags or fleeces they put other plants could keep the frost off a bit longer, in cyprus in the winter my grandad just covers his plants with clear plastic on the nights he thinks it`ll get cold

if he gets it wrong he has to pay for fruit and veg and he`s a tight old bastard up on the old mountains of cyprus it gets pretty cold in the winter a lot like the north of the uk