Recent content by longdog1433

I've always used run off rainwater, collected in a water butt, and have never had any problems. I was talking to a guy in my local shop and he reckons I have been incredibly lucky because contamination caused by bird droppings and dirt in the gutter could give me all sorts of problems. Any...

Re: Floering light on too l;ong Thanks folks. I hope to keep them going for another month so hopefully all will be well. As I say, they look ok, doubled in size in a month. Warning, invest in a heavy duty timer for anything over 400 watts!

Hi folks. When I started my girls off in my flowering tent I upgraded to 600 from 400 watts. Stupidly I didn't realise I should have upgraded my timer because some time in the first day or two the ballast fused the timer contacts together and the light was on for at least 24, possibly 36 hours...

My vegging/ seedling grow room is in my loft. Although its well insulated I find I need 3 greenhouse heaters on to keep the temperature up in the Winter. A central heating pipe in the loft runs right by the grow room and it occured to me that I could tap into the pipe and connect a small...

Thanks folks. Will certainly make sure I get ventilation sorted. Have had the dehumidifyer working for a day now and humidity has dropped from 95% to 80% so hopefully things will be ok.

Hi folks, first post from a beginner. For various reasons I can only grow using a grow tent in my summer house. The outside humidity is close to 100% and whilst I can put a dehumidifyer in the summer house (2 metres by 2 metres) I'm concerned that it will still be too high. Because of possible...