Triacontanol – A huge move forward for plant growth

Triacontanol – A huge move...

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What is Triacontanol? Almost all nutrient manufacturers include a booster or stimulator of one sort or another among their bottle line-up. They often contain humic acid, fulvic acid, sugars (carbohydrates), amino acid...
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Athena - How to Use Powdered Nutrients

Athena - How to Use...

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These days, most plant nutrients are bottled liquids. This makes them heavy and bulky for the amount of nutrients that they contain. Being pre-mixed with water also reduces their shelf life.
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Summer and Pest Problems

Summer and Pest Problems

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How to Deal with Pests During the Summer The main thing to remember when thinking about pest management is prevention! Prevention is always better than cure because you're tackling the issue before it ever be...
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Setting Up An Aeroponic Propagator

Setting Up An Aeroponic Propagator

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In this video, we show you how to put together an aeroponic propagator. Aeroponic props keep roots super-oxygenated, which speeds up turnaround times massively. They’re easy to use and take minutes to set up.
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A Rough Guide to Using CO2

A Rough Guide to Using...

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Once you’ve got everything else in your grow room nailed down, adding extra carbon dioxide (CO2) will push things to the next level. CO2 is essential to the process of photosynthesis, which is the main driver for plan...
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How to Manage the Humidity in Your Grow Room

How to Manage the Humidity...

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How to Manage the Humidity in Your Grow Room Getting your environment correct is the key to successful growing, and humidity is easily one of the biggest factors. Perfect it and you'll see a huge impact on ov...
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Keeping Your Grow Room Temperatures Down Over Summer

Keeping Your Grow Room Temperatures...

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Make Sure your Grow Over Summer is a Success It is that time of year again, and outdoor temperatures are starting to rise. The sunny weather is something we all look forward to, but unfortunately, it’s not al...
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Vapour Pressure Deficit - Understanding How Temperature and Humidity Affect Plant Growth

Vapour Pressure Deficit - Understanding...

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During the course of learning to grow, almost every gardener will discover that air temperature and humidity can have quite an effect on their plants. In this article, we will be taking a good look at this very intere...
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How To Set Up Your Medusa Dripper Feed System

How To Set Up Your...

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We get asked a lot about how to set up the feed side of the Medusa system. So today were going to take you through the process. If you haven’t already seen them we have full instructions on how to setup the run to was...
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Recirculating vs Run-to-Waste Hydroponic Systems

Recirculating vs Run-to-Waste Hydroponic Systems

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No matter whether you hand water or use a hydroponics system, and no matter what medium you grow in, all methods of plant growing fall into one of 2 basic categories - either recirculating, or run-to waste (RTW).
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Budget vs Pro Carbon Filters - Which should I go for?

Budget vs Pro Carbon Filters...

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An adequate extraction system is pretty much essential for an indoor grow setup and a carbon filter is an important part of it, as we will explain below. Grow lights produce heat which, if allowed to build up...
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Plants and Far-Red Light

Plants and Far-Red Light

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What us humans call "light" is actually just a part of the electromagnetic radiation spectrum that our eyes can sense. If electromagnetic radiation bounces off a surface and our eyes can "perceive" it then we call it ...
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How to Increase Your Plant Yield

How to Increase Your Plant...

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How To Increase Your Plant Yield Once you have learned to grow and have your environment fully dialed in (you can learn more about perfecting your environment here), you will probably become interested in how...
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DWC - How Much Air Do I Need

DWC - How Much Air...

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DWC (Deep Water Culture) is a simple but high yielding type of hydroponics. Another advantage is that because the roots grow directly into nutrient solution it means there is very little medium to dispose of after the...
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5 Lockdown Essentials to Keep you Growing Sweetly!

5 Lockdown Essentials to Keep...

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Lockdown has been extended (no shock there), but don’t worry, we’ve got everything you need to keep growing sweetly through the remainder of your isolation period.
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How to Connect G.A.S EC Fans to Controllers

How to Connect G.A.S EC...

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How to Connect G.A.S EC Fans to Controllers Choosing the correct cables for a Revolution Vector EC fan setup can seem a little tricky, but it's actually very simple. Our experts are always on hand to help, bu...
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How to Commission an Opticlimate

How to Commission an Opticlimate

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How to Commission an Opticlimate Did you know that, when you buy an Opticlimate from us, we add in a three-month technical support and commissioning package, free of charge? Typically, when you order an Opti ...
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How to use Plagron Bat...

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Plagron Nutrients Bat Guano: A Natural Solution for Plant Growth! If you're a gardener, you know that providing the right nutrients to your plants is crucial for their growth and development. While there are many synt...
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Negative Air Pressure in your...

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Keep Odours from Getting Out Grow lights produce heat, and plants use up the carbon dioxide (CO2) in the air. For that reason, the air inside a grow tent or grow room should be changed out via an extrac...
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How to Spec a Dehumidifier

How to Spec a Dehumidifier

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How to Spec a Dehumidifier When you're looking to grow the biggest and best crops, environment is 90% of the battle - and humidity is one of the most important factors. As the name suggests, dehumidifiers reduce th...
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Christmas Cropping Guide

Christmas Cropping Guide

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Christmas Cropping Guide It's that time of year again, and everybody's pulling down their Christmas crops! If you've been following our advice and investing in the latest nutrients and grow gear, then you'll ...
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How to Train Your Plants for Increased Yield

How to Train Your Plants...

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There are all sorts of products out there that can help to increase your crop size, but one of the biggest yield increases isn't a liquid or powder, it's shaping your plants to make the most of the light from your gro...
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