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Bloody hell, that's a fair amount of experience!

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Hey man, have you ever done DWC? I would like to hear your thoughts on if you have. I'm toying with the idea of setting it up. Would you think copper pipe would be a good idea? Obviously keeping the feed tank around 5.5 ph.. Or just stick with plastic? If you have any links to a set up i could take a look at?

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Hey bud how’s you? I never went the full DWC method but messed about with a few Aeropots which are pretty much a stand-alone version, they work very well with great results and because the roots hang in water if your pump gives in your plants aren’t going to die right away. I wouldn’t recommend copper or metal pipe as it’s actually harder to put together and it’s gonna leech a little as all metal do, ecc level are hard enough to keep right without the added headache of minerals leeching from pipe. I would recommend looking into NFT tanks as this is what I eventually settled on each tank held 6 plants, I had 5 lined up in a space about 2.5x2x3mtrs and could pull about 20 or more ounces every week and a half, kept a small mother room and a tiny clone area for a propagator. flowered plants after a week of showing roots they just exploded into little 2ft tall buds very little leaf. I used metrop nutrients exclusively at the end and the full range sets you back about 150 for a couple of crops. It’s not the easiest setup to run as with all hydro setups and if you pump jams your gonna lose the plants within a hour or two if lights are on. Just a note I always kept a few in soil and I still think these were always my best tasting, hitting plants.

Brilliant, this is what I'm looking for, I'm a bit too baked to absorb it right now, but this will be good read for the morning. I was thinking about modifying a cold water storage tank, or a feed and expansion tank (used for central heating) but the NFT pots might just save a bit of time. Would you say the NFT pots are sturdy like the CWS and F&E tanks are? I read that you are a tradesman, so i'm going to assume you have seen the tanks I'm on about.

Thanks for getting back to me!

Thanks dude!

Honestly for all the price mate your better just buying a premade setup, it will pay for itself after the first crop. The 6 plant NFT kits can be bought for leas than £100 and everything’s ready to go, would recommend clones for either setup as you want uniform plants that all react the same to the nutes they are receiving. If you mix strains or even phenos of the same strain each plant is going to require different levels and it turns into a real headache trying to keep them all healthy. Sharks breath from greenhouse seeds was my go to for the NFT they were little bulky monsters that nearly turned white with the amount of thc. I had so many photos of my setup but the cops took my computer and printouts and I never saw them again. Would love a look back through them now.

Sorry meant to say the nfts are made out of fibreglass so are real sturdy, have seen pvc ones which are more like the water tanks your thinking of. I’m trying to find a picture of the guy that put a pool in his attic and did a massive DWC setup with hundreds of plants it looks insane but it’s an old photo, if I find it I’ll stick it up

Any thoughts on LED lights? Cheaper to run and not as hot? Growing my first plant under LED and it seems a little small/short.

LEDs are great for growing weed because they run a lot cooler you can get your light a lot closer to the plant without getting plant burn,damage. They are a lot cheaper to run in the last 2 to 3 weeks of flower use a uvb light known to increase THC by a least 10% .

I’m still undecided on the subject. I’m actually an electrician so i install both types regular, and recently more and more led installs. LEDs are right up there in terms of lumens and the spectrum can be variable to quite a degree. But unless your willing to spend a couple of grand on a led grow light your not going to get anything on par with hps. You do save a little on electric but because of lower temps with leds I’ve heard of some local growers here having to run heaters in grow rooms(cold climate here) which defeats the saving on electric. Long term for pro with good setups LEDs are prob best way to go if your put some good money into it initially. Will save over long term. But if your doing a small grow 1 plant I”d stick to a cheap hps 250 or 400 would be fine and only about £80.

I use LED's for veg, and good old Sunmaster Super Deluxe HPS for flower.

Tried a full grow with LEDs once, not happy. But the LEDs do keep the plant short and stumpy in veg if you've got the right wattage per square ft. (From memory this should be about 50w per sq ft actual draw from the plug)

I like the stumpy, short, bushy plants so that the stretch doesn't mean i'm having to scrog (which is a ball-ache)

I'm with you though, not totally sold on LED yet.

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Hey buddy, yeah they are getting a lot better these days and the technology is improving so much so fast. Every new job we do they are the next step up and the new floods I’ve seen are awesome. Just installed a full 4g stadium pitch with led floods, they were all designed specifically for the size of pitch for maximum lumens and came with laser pointers built in to line them all up, really was next level stuff. Mounted in 60ft poles The light was unreal. Not going to be long before they overtake the hps and with price of leccy these days they are going to fly off shelves. I said it years ago and never listened, invest in led lighting companies. Even at this late stage there is money to be made.

That's a good bit of advice. Any particular companies you recommend? I'm no Warren Buffet but I'd stick a couple of quid into an LED company if the Mrs doesn't find out!

Sounds like you've got a really interesting job mate. Technology moves so fast these days that if you're on the cutting edge it must keep you interested every day.

Good for you mate.

Cheers BB

Thanks, pretty much confirms what I thought, I’ve just picked up an hps light so I’ll swap over to that. It’s my first go at growing so it’s interesting finding the best techniques.

No problem, anytime. Let me know how it turns out.

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Truely honest, never. It’s great not feeling like a criminal anymore, buying meds from dodgy characters, putting money into terrorist hands, just to get high. Now it feels so normal, just like eBay. Long live L.B

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The rating system is ok but I wish there were rankings. The voting system or algo that appoints these loud mouthed twats you always see as the voice of the community is what needs an overhaul.

there are more vendors and better prices than a few months ago do you realise this?

More vendors yes, as good vendors no, charging $7 to ship $55 8ths lolol, yeah fantastic mate, more vendors means better weed to you?! Clever guy and I get downvoted by you, a fool is easily parted with his money, you’re one of those 10/10 to everything you buy I presume... go to Dam smoke hundreds of strains over 20 years and then give an opinion mate cos that’s what I’ve done.

Do you not see that prices are steadily decreasing? I've downvoted you not for your opinion but that you are using one datapoint to generalise.

Of course more options makes things more competitive that's a foundation of economics.

Nope I don’t see that at all... where? Where are these price drops? Cali maybe but they were being priced too high originally anyways so they had to drop. Prices are the same generally but now they are charging for shipping, that means it’s more expensive now doesn’t it... New vendor with zero history charging $18 a gram lol, firstly who wants a gram of weed? It’d be gone before the postman’s left the street. Then another new vendor charging $7 to ship 2g of herb. Some of the weeds a bit cheaper cos it’s shit weed, people getting mouldy organic crap that smokes like air.

And yeah I totally agree with you on the last comment, but I’m not personally seeing this come into any fruition on here at all especially from the new vendors, they’re coming in with ridiculously high prices with zero groundwork or proof they even know what they’re doing or the quality of their product.

Never a truer word said bro

There is a lot you can do, that's the point of this community. Why not take this to escrow and make a dispute?

If you weren't full of shit you would just contact escrow and get your money back instead of making fud.

You’re the only person singing that song here, what’s happened? Did you ask vendors what’s going on

Yeah I asked the vendors feel like I’m getting a run a round
I now have no weed and no money so thanks for that
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It’s not the money it’s the fact that I am now in pain and can’t afford any medical herbs until I get paid end of March so what the fuck do I do now?

On this point mate I think you’ve just been very very unlucky, there are some really good vendors on here and some lovely bud available so stick with it find a good vendor and enjoy, I’ve had some banging gear from here and some real real disappointments but overall it’s a great resource and a really fantastic community, I just feel recently quality is slipping, reports of mouldy bud, police visits, average at best smokes, non receipt of good etc is not good.

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