Introducing the Telos Growcast

Introducing the Telos Growcast

 Invest in a Telos Growcast and you can regulate the lighting patterns of almost any grow light with your Bluetooth enabled smartphone or tablet. If your grow light has a controller port then it's almost guaranteed to...
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What is Organic Gardening?

What is Organic Gardening?

Getting Started
We've all heard about organic gardening and the crops it produces such as organic vegetables and fruit. We're told that it is more natural and healthier for us to eat as much of our food that has been grown organicall...
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CO2 Supplementation Equipment and How to Use It

CO2 Supplementation Equipment and How...

Expert Tips
In our last article to do with CO2 supplementation, we concluded that it definitely made a significant difference to plant growth. In this post, we go into the nitty-gritty of what equipment is involved and how to use...
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Keeping your grow going sweetly during cold weather

Keeping your grow going sweetly...

Expert Tips
Plants thrive in the right environment. As the colder weather begins to draw in, it can be difficult to keep the environment in the sweet spot of 24°C – 28°C (28°C being the maximum temperature that plants can thrive ...
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The Tomato Growers Savings Club

The Tomato Growers Savings Club

News
Christmas is an expensive time for all of us and a helping hand towards the end of the year is not something many of us would turn away.   Forget catalogues and Love2Shop vouchers, the Tomato Growers Savings Club is a...
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CO2 supplementation. Is it worth it?

CO2 supplementation. Is it worth...

Expert Tips
So, you’ve got your grow system sorted, you’ve done two or three successful grows and you’ve learned how to nurture a plant from a baby all the way through to being a huge flower or fruit laden beauty. Now you are loo...
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The Character Traits of a Good Hydroponic Grower

The Character Traits of a...

News
An image depicting how to grow indoors - https://www.advancednutrients.com/articles/easy-hydroponics-beginners-guide/ Every single hobby or endeavour has a wide variety of people taking part and whilst it’s i...
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Hydroponics vs Pot Culture

Hydroponics vs Pot Culture

Product Reviews
One of the first things that a grower new to the whole indoor gardening scene, or looking into starting, always needs to decide is whether to go with pot-culture or to go with a hydroponics set-up.
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LED Grow Lamps ? A Breakthrough or a Gimmick? Part 4

LED Grow Lamps ? A...

Product Reviews
Human hand and mesh network - https://www.lightrail3.com/media/ After a bit of a break from our LED experiment, we are now back with some results of our test with the Prakasa 300 Watt LED grow light. An overv...
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Are You Smarter Than a Tomato Plant?

Are You Smarter Than a...

News
If you really put a lot of thought into it and consider what a plant must do in its struggle to survive, you may find yourself thinking about how much more intelligent a plant is than yourself or your friends.
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The Best Way to Get Started is to Get Started

The Best Way to Get...

Getting Started
There is little so satisfying as seeing crops you started from tiny cuttings blossom into delicious, fresh produce. Instead of sowing your plants from seed, cloning cuttings from a mother plant will yield quicker resu...
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pH Control in Hydroponics

pH Control in Hydroponics

Expert Tips
Following on from our article about controlling nutrient solution strength in your hydroponics system, this part will deal with the other main aspect of nutrient solution creation and maintenance i.e. pH.
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Hydroponics for healthy eating

Hydroponics for healthy eating

Getting Started
It is generally accepted that for good human health, it is a wise idea to include lots of fruit and vegetables in our diet. Fruit and vegetables contain natural anti-oxidants, vitamins and micronutrients that are hard...
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Flexi Tanks ? are they any good?

Flexi Tanks ? are they...

Product Reviews
Most types of hydroponics system are based around a tank, reservoir or container which holds an amount of nutrient feed which is then distributed to plants via a dripper system, flood and drain or nutrient film (NFT)....
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Starting Out in Hydroponics

Starting Out in Hydroponics

Getting Started
Getting Growing Beginning any new hobby involves steep learning curves and periods of trial and error and the same is certainly true of hydroponics. If you’re thinking about dipping your toe in the water a...
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Fan Controllers ? Why are there different types?

Fan Controllers ? Why are...

Getting Started
As it was mentioned a few weeks ago, it is important to have an effective extraction system in your grow room in order to keep temperatures in the right region and to replenish the CO2 in the air around your plants.
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The Four Common Character Traits of a Hydroponic Grower

The Four Common Character Traits...

News
What Makes a Good Grower? Every single hobby or endeavor has a wide variety of people taking part and whilst it’s impossible to put people into clean, well defined boxes, we can always look at those common tr...
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Garden Space

Garden Space

Getting Started
Every new gardener must decide exactly how much space he is willing to dedicate to his new hobby or business. Some gardeners will have vast amounts of space to play with and others will have much less available space,...
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Garden Space

Garden Space

Getting Started
Every new gardener must decide exactly how much space he is willing to dedicate to his new hobby or business. Some gardeners will have vast amounts of space to play with and others will have much less available space,...
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How Quality Equipment Can Mean Everything

How Quality Equipment Can Mean...

Getting Started
In an ideal world, the highest quality products would be available to everybody and there would be no reason for anybody to purchase items lower in quality than the very best. However, we must live in the rea...
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Warm Weather and Choosing an Extraction System

Warm Weather and Choosing an...

Getting Started
Plants absorb carbon dioxide (CO2) from the surrounding air and then use it in the process of photosynthesis. When the levels of carbon dioxide in the surrounding air begin to drop, so does the rate of photosynthes...
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Summer and the Scourge of Pythium!

Summer and the Scourge of...

Pest & Disease Guides
As we enter the summer, the mere mention of the word 'pythium' is all takes to generate serious anxiety, especially among growers running active hydroponic systems. The long, hot days are great for beer gardens, but n...
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