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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Christmas Cropping Guide

Christmas Cropping Guide

Expert Tips
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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Hydroponics Stocking Fillers for Christmas

Hydroponics Stocking Fillers for Christmas

News
Hydroponics Stocking FIllers for Christmas Fill that hydro toolbox for Christmas It's that time of year again when everybody is scrambling for gifts in our high street stores and it's utter chaos. Well,...
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When Should You Change your Grow Room Lamp?

When Should You Change your...

Getting Started
Virtually all grow shops and hydroponics manufacturers will recommend that HPS (and other HID) lamps are changed out on a regular basis. But does this belief have its roots based in fact? And, actually after how long ...
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How to Fit a Single-Ended HPS Lamp

How to Fit a Single-Ended...

Getting Started
How to Fit a Single-Ended HPS Lamp In this guide, we talk about the key things to bear in mind when you fit a typical HPS lamp. Before you do anything, make sure that the wattage of your ballast matches...
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How to Fit a Double-Ended HPS Lamp

How to Fit a Double-Ended...

Getting Started
In this guide, we talk about the key things to bear in mind when you fit a double-ended HPS lamp. Before you do anything, make sure that the wattage of your ballast matches the wattage of the lamp you are usi...
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How to Train Your Plants for Increased Yield

How to Train Your Plants...

Expert Tips
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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HPS vs LED Grow Lights

HPS vs LED Grow Lights

Getting Started
Looking back in time LED grow lights have been improving steadily for years. Early models from years ago made some ridiculous claims about their performance. For example, that a 90 watt LED unit was equal in ...
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How to Choose Your Grow System

How to Choose Your Grow...

Getting Started
How to Choose Your Grow System There are a few different systems that you can grow your plants in. For a beginner, we highly recommend that you learn the basics of growing plants indoors by starting off with ...
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Which is the Best Hydroponics System for Me?

Which is the Best Hydroponics...

Getting Started
Choosing a Hydroponics System The word "hydroponics" is a word with Greek origins that literally means "working water". It is where (strictly speaking) plants are grown without soil and are fed via nutrients ...
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When is it Time to Upgrade your Extraction

When is it Time to...

Expert Tips
Is it time for a breath of fresh air? In recent years, many new options have arrived on the extraction system market. There are now choices of super-quiet or super-powerful duct fans, quieter and tougher duct...
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Glossary of Terms and Abbreviations Used in Hydroponics

Glossary of Terms and Abbreviations...

Getting Started
It can be quite baffling sometimes these days when reading about some subjects because they frequently use technical terms, abbreviations and acronyms. Here is a list of the ones often used in hydroponics, al...
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Avoid the Top 10 Mistakes That Growers Make

Avoid the Top 10 Mistakes...

Expert Tips
Learning to grow Ok, no one is going to dispute this. Learning to grow has a very steep initial learning curve. There's all sorts of things that a newbie needs to learn during his/her first grow. Here is a list of the...
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What do the different Macro and Micro Nutrients Do?

What do the different Macro...

The Science of Growing
What do the different Macro and Micro Nutrients Do? Every grower knows that plants need nutrients. A rich soil may be able to supply everything that a plant needs. Otherwise, the nutrients will need to be pro...
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What happens when you dim your grow lights?

What happens when you dim...

Expert Tips
What happens when you dim your grow lights? These days, there are many brands and models of HID (HPS and CDM / CMH) grow lights that have the facility to be dimmed. It tends to be only the cheap ones (with ma...
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How to set up Grow Tent Ventilation

How to set up Grow...

Getting Started
How to set up Grow Tent Ventilation A grow tent extraction system consists of 3 main parts - the carbon filter, the duct fan and the ducting, although duct clips and/or a fast clamp are also necessary.
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Control of nutrient strength levels in hydroponics

Control of nutrient strength levels...

Getting Started
Growing in hydroponics generally involves the use of a reservoir of water into which plant food has been added. The water is then fed periodically or constantly to the plants and then returned to the reservoir to be r...
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How to Start Growing from Cuttings

How to Start Growing from...

Getting Started
The idea behind taking cuttings is that we take an adult plant (called a mother plant) that has particular characteristics that we like, such as growth pattern, vigor, taste, yield, hardiness and disease resistance. W...
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How to Grow with a Load of Brix

How to Grow with a...

Expert Tips
A good Brix level is very important for optimum growth & abundant flowering/fruiting, as well as pest & disease resistance. Along with environmental conditions (light, humidity, temperature, vapour pressure de...
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An Interview with Dan Gulliver of BioBizz

An Interview with Dan Gulliver...

Industry Expert Interviews
One Stop and BioBizz go back years and it’s been a staple organic range which customers come back for time and time again, thanks for taking the time out to talk about it Dan, can you tell us where it all started a...
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How to Set Up a Grow Tent

How to Set Up a...

Getting Started
How to Set Up a Grow Tent Getting Set Up Part 1: Putting up a Grow Tent   So you've chosen and bought your grow kit, now where to start? The first thing to do is to put up the grow tent. This is a lot sim...
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How to Set Up a Grow Tent

How to Set Up a...

Getting Started
How to Set Up a Grow Tent Getting Set Up Part 1: Putting up a Grow Tent   So you've chosen and bought your grow kit, now where to start? The first thing to do is to put up the grow tent. This is a lot sim...
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