Growshop: Grow Tents, Lights and Growing Equipment

Most first grow rooms in the UK fail on the same two things: not enough extraction, and a light that does not cover the tent. Both are cheap to get right at the start and expensive to fix halfway through a run.

What Is a Growshop and What Do We Stock

Our growshop carries the full chain: propagation and germination kits, grow tents, lighting, ventilation, nutrients, substrate, and the trimming shears and drying gear you reach for at the end. Stocking it as one range is the point, because the failure mode we see most is a light bought without reference to the tent it has to cover.

Grow Tents, Complete Kits and Tent Sizes

Our grow tents run from 60x60x180 to 120x120x200, and the same footprints exist as complete kits with the light and ventilation matched for you. A 60x60 suits a spare-room corner and two plants. A 120x120 needs a dedicated room, because you will be running ducting out of it.

Grow Lights: LED vs HPS, Wattage and PAR

Reckon on about 120 W of LED for a 60x60, 320 W for a 100x100 and 480 W for a 120x120; our grow lights are stocked in those steps. LED has largely replaced HPS for home growing because it draws less power and throws less heat, and PAR output tells you how much of that light the plant can actually use. Run 18 hours on in veg and 12 in bloom for photoperiod plants. Ventilation is the other half: extractor, ducting and a 150 mm carbon filter, with a controller from climate control to hold humidity where you want it.

Nutrients and Feeding by Stage

Feeding splits cleanly in two. Through veg the plant wants nitrogen to build leaf and stem; through bloom it shifts to phosphorus and potassium to fill out the flowers. Buy a base pair rather than a shelf of bottles, start at half the stated dose, and add a pH meter before you add anything else. Harvest and curing gear is the other end of the same job, and drying too fast is the one mistake you cannot undo.

Grow Room Setup Checklist

1. Measure the space, then pick the tent one size down from what you think fits.
2. Match LED wattage to the tent footprint.
3. Fit an extractor fan and carbon filter before your first seed.
4. Choose hydroponics or a soil substrate: soil is forgiving, hydro is faster and less patient.
5. Add pH and EC meters, then veg and bloom nutrients from the nutrient range at half strength.
6. Start seeds with a propagation and germination kit.
7. Have trimming shears and drying gear from harvest, dry and cure ready before harvest week.

Outdoors costs almost nothing and gives one harvest a year, weather permitting, which in the UK is a real caveat. The nutrients and pots carry over if you move inside later, so nothing is wasted. The rest sits in accessories and grow supplies, and orders leave in plain packaging.