Says the guy who clearly aint had the displeasure of being on the recieving end of there bs your allowed your opinion just saying its not gonna be a popular one here at all plus i never seen em protecting shit ime
The UK Growers Thread!
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TheWholeTruth
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Fed alert
GreenestBasterd
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I smell bacon!!!
speedwell68
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Well that escalated quickly.
Anyway, lockdown is coming again. I am going to use the time to perfect my grow. I recently bought a new tent so now I have a pair of 1.2m x 0.6m x 0.9m propagating tents and my new 1.2m x 1.2m x 1.6m flowering tent. So I have to dial everything in again. I got a load of ratcheted light hangers from Amazon, so this coming week I am going to re-hang my lights to give the best spread of light I can get. Then I am going to spec up some extra lights as I have room for more.
After that I am going to invest in a Sonoff Zigbee Hub, some temp/humidity sensors and a small tube heater, to work in conjunction with my extractor and tent fans to keep temperature and humidity at a constant. It will give me full voice/remote control on everything. I am going to integrate it all with OpenHAB so even if my internet goes down I still have full control.
There is also have a new nutrient I want to try and I need to work out which is better fabric pots or airpots, as my current 2 gallon plastic pots aren't really working for me.
So before Thursday I have to stock up on the stuff I source locally, I am going to get 3x60L bags of Jack's Magic and a big bag of vermiculite. I already have enough clones and seedlings to do another full grow and enough seeds to last me at least a year. I got a load of plant pegs and zip ties today.
In my old tent I was getting 1oz a plant, but it was very small and less than ideal. My new tent is a country mile better and I am hoping with all of the improvements I am going to make I can increase that by at least 50%.
Once I have got all of that done I am going to design and build my own watering system, which will also be controlled automatically via my Google Home, OpenHab and Sonoff setup.
I also want to take a good look at improving my drying and curing process. My goal is to come out of this as a more skilled and accomplished Cannabis grower.
Anyway, lockdown is coming again. I am going to use the time to perfect my grow. I recently bought a new tent so now I have a pair of 1.2m x 0.6m x 0.9m propagating tents and my new 1.2m x 1.2m x 1.6m flowering tent. So I have to dial everything in again. I got a load of ratcheted light hangers from Amazon, so this coming week I am going to re-hang my lights to give the best spread of light I can get. Then I am going to spec up some extra lights as I have room for more.
After that I am going to invest in a Sonoff Zigbee Hub, some temp/humidity sensors and a small tube heater, to work in conjunction with my extractor and tent fans to keep temperature and humidity at a constant. It will give me full voice/remote control on everything. I am going to integrate it all with OpenHAB so even if my internet goes down I still have full control.
There is also have a new nutrient I want to try and I need to work out which is better fabric pots or airpots, as my current 2 gallon plastic pots aren't really working for me.
So before Thursday I have to stock up on the stuff I source locally, I am going to get 3x60L bags of Jack's Magic and a big bag of vermiculite. I already have enough clones and seedlings to do another full grow and enough seeds to last me at least a year. I got a load of plant pegs and zip ties today.
In my old tent I was getting 1oz a plant, but it was very small and less than ideal. My new tent is a country mile better and I am hoping with all of the improvements I am going to make I can increase that by at least 50%.
Once I have got all of that done I am going to design and build my own watering system, which will also be controlled automatically via my Google Home, OpenHab and Sonoff setup.
I also want to take a good look at improving my drying and curing process. My goal is to come out of this as a more skilled and accomplished Cannabis grower.
speedwell68
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I have lowered the lights to a sensible level tonight. I had them a bit far away, TBH I am more used to HPS I am had never used LEDs until April. I am going to add a couple of 100w panels next week. That'll take me up to 800w (at the wall, I am not into these "theoretical" wattages people seem to quote). I used to run 2 x 600w HPS. I did an ounce a plant under 400w of COBs in the summer.
speedwell68
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That is cheap. I can get an oz for £160 if I buy in bulk, but I'd rather have my own.
I have 6 French Macron seeds waiting to go on. But that won't be until the plants I have vegging go on to flower (2 x Critical, 2 x Bubblegum XL, 3 x Blue Dream, 2 x Orange Barb, 2 x Sweet Zombie, 1 x Serious Happiness), which won't be until mid-December when the ones I have flowering finish (3 x Banana Frosting, 4 x Blackberry Cake, 1 x Sweet Zombie, 4 x White Skunk Autos).
Where did you get those seeds from?
Geordie_John
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Just come across this thread being fairly new to the site and hobby
Interesting to say the least !
Interesting to say the least !
Accidental cross be careful with the French macrons as they apparently have a chance of being Hermie keep an eye out 4-6 weeks in to flower and pick any nanna sacks off if they do Hermie I am hoping that the cross has stopped the Hermie tendancy.
speedwell68
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Welcome!
speedwell68
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Thanks for the tip. I once had a entire crop ruined by a Hermie. TBH I have a detailed look of every plant every day, on the basis that it is easy to stop minor issues early on, before they become a major problem.
Not all but alot of these new crosses have em its all down to people breeding with bagseed for years during prohibition i suspect thats why all the herms that and people test less ig plus alot of the big name modern strains all have bagseed origins hopefully your grow goes ok just be aware of it when flowering out if possible do it isolated from the rest of ur grow first few runs till you know how a new strains gonna run idk if u got that space but if you do i advise it mate
I have nothing but same cross strain in at mo so if it Hermies it won't affect anything else the macron never Hermies on me it was the Louis that got stressed and seeded macrons fingers crossed, only vegging for two or three weeks will take cuttings from them before I flick them. If none Hermie wicked if some do will separate them.
speedwell68
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I wish I did have the space to do that, but I don't, which is why I check daily. I thought that all Cannabis strains have the genetics to go Hermaphrodite and that it is a defence mechanism against high stresses. Last time it happened to me must have been about 15 years ago and it was caused by a iffy timer turning the lights on and off at random. It took me a while to work out something was wrong as the lights were always as they should be when I checked. Every day I thank the Universe for the invention of switches that can be controlled over Wifi.
I use Sonoff these days, although I do keep some spare mechanical time switches along with a couple of 400w HPS lights, just in case. But I haven't had any timer issues since I installed them in April and I can check them just by looking at an app on my phone. At the moment they are controlled via a cloud server, but I am slowly setting up my own OpenHAB server so my whole system can be controlled locally even if the internet goes down.
Hummm I've seen these WiFi smart plug thingys and they really really intrest me.. the main thing that puts me off is the very thing that's makes them amazing. Do you not feel a little paranoid having it all linked up to smart devices? Like Alexa turn my grow on
speedwell68
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No. Firstly you don't have to connect them to Alexa or Google. They run on an app called Ewe-link, which you can connect to Google or Amazon if you wish. If you don't want to use that app you can run them locally, using open source projects like Home Assistant or OpenHAB. At the moment I am running them through Google Assistant because Google's timing routines are very reliable. I am working on using OpenHAB so I can take them off grid, but that takes time as I have dozens of smart devices all over the house.Hummm I've seen these WiFi smart plug thingys and they really really intrest me.. the main thing that puts me off is the very thing that's makes them amazing. Do you not feel a little paranoid having it all linked up to smart devices? Like Alexa turn my grow on
You can name them whatever you like, so I have created a room called Conservatory, you could call it anything you like such as Garden Shed or Spare Room. As I hardly use my Conservatory I figured that would be good. In my conservatory I have a Heater (Flower tent) and a Dehumidifier (Veg Tent). I don't control them via voice on Google, because there is no point. I have just setup a routine that turns the heater off at 5am and on again at 5pm. The accuracy is superb, they haven't gone wrong once since April and they auto adjust when the clocks change. I have also taken the precaution of having a guest network so any guests don't have access to my smart devices which reside on my personal network. They are perfectly safe IMHO.
Sonoff stuff is top quality. I am going to invest in one of their Zigbee hubs. Zigbee allows you to connect various sensors to you smart home. They do a temp/humidity sensor. It is my plan to install one in each of my tents and when the temp or humidity reaches certain thresholds it will be able to turn on or off heaters, fans, exhaust fans and so on. But again you don't have to use Google, Amazon or their app, it is your choice how it works. Obviously, the more off grid you want to make it the more technical skills you require.
Ewe-link also do an app called Ewe-link Camera. You can install it on an old phone for free and it will use the camera as a small CCTV camera, so you can connect to it over Wifi and see what is going on in your grow room.
What a brilliant response thank you. Lots and lots to research and learn about. After all some new technology really can go a long way to making our lives easier. Thanks again
