The Telos Dynamic LED Grow Light Series – The Future of Horticultural Lighting?

The Telos Dynamic LED Grow...

The Telos Dynamic LED Grow Light Series – The Future of Horticultural Lighting? The Telos Dynamic LED Grow Light series is setting a new industry benchmark for horticulture, offering unrivalled efficiency, exceptional...
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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...

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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Top Tips For Growing In Cold Conditions

Top Tips For Growing In...

Expert Tips
Maintaining the right environmental conditions is the key to a successful grow; poor environments lead to a lower quality end-product and reduced yields. Keeping conditions within the correct ranges is one of the bigg...
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Setting up the Perfect Sealed...

Expert Tips
Apart from a few pots, media and plants, most indoor growers will start out with a grow-tent, a grow-light and an extraction system (as comes with one of our essential grow kits). The tent provides the grow-space, the...
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Push Plant Growth to New Levels with a Pro-Leaf CO2 Controller

Push Plant Growth to New...

Product Reviews
So, you’ve got everything nailed down – you’ve mastered your lighting, environment and feeding and you’re pulling in large quantities of high-grade produce. What next? Well, if this is you, the thing to investigate is...
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How to instantly remove Chlorine / Chloramine from your Water

How to instantly remove Chlorine...

Expert Tips
rganically growing using beneficial additives, like Mammoth P, Mykos and Biosys, fortify rootzones with colonies of fungi and bacteria; both increasing growth rates and helping to ward off pathogens, ultimately improv...
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How to Use the Gavita EL Master Controller

How to Use the Gavita...

Product Reviews
So today we’re going to be talking you through the Master Controller from Gavita.  This particular unit is the EL1, but the basic concept is the same for all of the different versions. The menu system is actually real...
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How to Deal with Powdery Mildew

How to Deal with Powdery...

Pest & Disease Guides
If you notice a white fungus on your plants' leaves, it's most likely powdery mildew. Powdery mildew is a fungal disease which affects a massive range of plants. It takes away the plant's nutrients to use itself, m...
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How to use the Dimlux Maxi Controller

How to use the Dimlux...

Product Reviews
The Maxi Controller is capable of operating and monitoring your Dimlux lighting and CO2 equipment straight out of the box. Add a Dimlux Auxbox and you can regulate fans and the switching of pretty much any piece of gr...
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Why Everyone's Talking About Emerald Harvest

Why Everyone's Talking About Emerald...

Product Reviews
The Fantastic New Range From Emerald Harvest Emerald Harvest is a Californian nutrient range that has proved to be a smash-hit on social networking platforms, generating an enormous buzz since its launch. Thi...
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VPD Control on a Budget...

Product Reviews
We have mentioned the importance of VPD, or Vapour Pressure Deficit, in a few of our blog articles previously. To be absolutely blunt, maintaining an optimal grow environment in terms of temperature and humidity is...
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