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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Plants and Far-Red Light

Plants and Far-Red Light

Expert Tips
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...

Expert Tips
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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Growing your own Food

Growing your own Food

News
Imagine going into your garden, greenhouse or allotment and picking your own delicious, super-fresh food. Well, with a bit of time and effort you can! You can easily grow your own vegetables and salad greens but those...
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DWC - How Much Air Do I Need

DWC - How Much Air...

Expert Tips
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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The Best Nutrients for Beginners

The Best Nutrients for Beginners

Getting Started
The Best Nutrients for Beginners The amount of different brands of nutrients out there can be a bit bewildering for a beginner. How to decide which brand to go for is a difficult decision to make. They all cl...
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Budget Vs Pro HPS Lamps - Worth the Upgrade?

Budget Vs Pro HPS Lamps...

Getting Started
There's a lot of different brands of HPS lamps on the market. Some come from well known brands such as Philips. Some come from brands that have been around for a very long time, like Sylvania Grolux. Others come from ...
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Budget Vs Pro Reflectors - Worth the Upgrade?

Budget Vs Pro Reflectors -...

Getting Started
Thinking of Upgrading Your Reflector? A reflector is pretty much an essential part of an HID (High Intensity Discharge) grow light set up. It is true that some thrifty big American growers simply hang an HPS ...
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Thrips - How to deal with them

Thrips - How to deal...

Pest & Disease Guides
Thrips - How they can cause constant damage to your grow Thrips - these tiny little pests are usually less than a millimetre long and look like slender, elongated flies. Because they are so small they can be difficult...
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Providing Electrical Power to your Grow

Providing Electrical Power to your...

Getting Started
A Basic Guide to Electrical Terms, Calculations and Doing What You Can to Keep Things Safe    Indoor grow rooms can use a fair amount of electricity. Here, we look at how to make sure you don't overload breakers, s...
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Shogun Q&A

Shogun Q&A

Industry Expert Interviews
It’s great to have you guys back, how’s life been at Shogun over lockdown?  Lockdown for us has been packed with surprises that were very challenging, not least because we had most of our staff working from h...
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Introducing Shogun Zenzym With Dr Callie

Introducing Shogun Zenzym With Dr...

Industry Expert Interviews
Introduce us to Zenzym! What does it do and how does it do it? Zenzym is a unique blend of enzymes designed to help get the best out of your media time and time again. Enzymes are a unique type of protein whi...
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Introducing Shogun Zenzym With Dr Callie

Introducing Shogun Zenzym With Dr...

Industry Expert Interviews
Introduce us to Zenzym! What does it do and how does it do it? Shogun Zenzym from Shogun fertilisers is a unique blend of enzymes designed to help get the best out of your media time and time again. Enzymes a...
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Introducing the Telos 10 Pro

Introducing the Telos 10 Pro

Product Reviews
The new version’s even more efficient than the original model, which was impressive to begin with. Grow Northern have pulled this off by including some of the latest OSRAM LEDs, which produce an enormous 2.5 micro mol...
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All about Flushing

All about Flushing

Getting Started
Flushing – Do You Have Salty Balls? There’s a big debate among growers about the subject of flushing and whether it is important or not. This debate applies to both mineral feeds and (to a lesser extent) orga...
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Mineral VS Organic Feeds

Mineral VS Organic Feeds

Getting Started
What does "Organic" Mean? The word “organic”, when it comes to the fruit, veg and even meat, tends to conjure up the idea that the produce is superior in terms of flavour and nutrition. For those who know a l...
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Introducing Ecothrive Kits

Introducing Ecothrive Kits

Product Reviews
Introducing Ecothrive Kits Ecothrive kits are a great introduction to the world of organic additives, harnessing the power of beneficial microorganisms to push growth rates and plant health to new levels. The...
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5 Lockdown Essentials to Keep you Growing Sweetly!

5 Lockdown Essentials to Keep...

Expert Tips
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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Growing Organically with Soil and Beneficial Microbes

Growing Organically with Soil and...

Getting Started
Plain old soil  is amongst the most natural things on this planet. It's almost everywhere, with the only notable exceptions being deserts, the arctic regions, and the sea..
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All about Sulphur

All about Sulphur

The Science of Growing
Sulphur (S) (the American spelling is "sulfur") is a bright yellow element in abundance on earth. In its pure form it is a crystalline but rather powdery solid at normal temperatures. In ancient times it was called "b...
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All about Nitrogen

All about Nitrogen

The Science of Growing
Nitrogen (N) in it's normal state is a colourless and odourless gas. It is highly abundant and makes up a whopping 79% of the air that we breathe. It is relatively unreactive and the atoms happily exist in pairs as N2...
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All about Phosphorus

All about Phosphorus

The Science of Growing
Phosphorus is a fairly abundant element which is vital for life. It is highly reactive and quickly oxidises in the presence of oxygen and so it is usually found in the form of phosphate (P2O5). It's energetic reactivi...
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