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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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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Avoid the Top 10 Mistakes That Growers Make

Avoid the Top 10 Mistakes...

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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 happens when you dim your grow lights?

What happens when you dim...

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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 Grow with a Load of Brix

How to Grow with a...

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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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Top Tips For Growing In Cold Conditions

Top Tips For Growing In...

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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...

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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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How to instantly remove Chlorine / Chloramine from your Water

How to instantly remove Chlorine...

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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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Choosing the Right Digital Fan...

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Choosing the Right Digital Fan Cables - Technical Info Digital fans are a huge improvement over old-school AC fans - they're more powerful, they consume less energy, and they can be controlled silently and wi...
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Automatically Regulate Your Nutrients and...

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When it comes to pH levels, it's best to be in the know at all times, because pH issues can often devastate plants, making nutrients unavailable, causing deficiencies and stress. With the Bluelab pH Controller Connect...
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How to Get the Most From Your Euro Reflector

How to Get the Most...

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Although the differences between the wing positions are fairly small, they are still significant. For a single light grow, the most even footprint is definitely achieved with the wings bent down. For a multi-light ...
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Trimming, Drying and Curing ?...

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Though it may be tempting to get stuck in straight after harvest, you’re going to need to hang-on a little longer until your plant materials are ready to consume. Luckily, it’s well worth the wait: getting the trimmin...
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Create the Perfect Growroom Environment with the Dimlux Maxi Controller

Create the Perfect Growroom Environment...

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With a fully automated Dimlux lighting system, you can let the Maxi Controller take care of regulating up to 160 lighting fixtures (and practically every other piece of equipment in your grow room) all from a central ...
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Silver Bullet Mist and Roots...

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Coming from the creators of Shogun Fertilisers, Silver Bullet 'Mist' and 'Roots' have already built up a great reputation with everyone who has tried them. Mist is perfect for disinfecting, cleaning and removing bio-f...
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Ecothrive Biosys and the secret life of Mycorrhizal Fungi

Ecothrive Biosys and the secret...

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Most organic growers will have heard of mycorrhizal fungi. They work unseen in the root zone, attaching themselves to the roots in a sort of partnership relationship where the fungi pass water and nutrients to the ...
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The Ecothrive Range? Secret Weapon of Prize Winning Growers

The Ecothrive Range? Secret Weapon...

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Two fantastic new products have just arrived from Ecothrive, the team behind 'Charge' - the insect frass powder that delivers a source of slow-release nutrition, beneficial microorganisms and potent growth stimulants,...
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Vapour Pressure Deficit (VPD) Video...

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For those who were struggling to take in all of the information, here's a copy of the script from our recent YouTube video on vapour pressure deficit!
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CO2 Supplementation Equipment and How to Use It

CO2 Supplementation Equipment and How...

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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...

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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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Tomato Horticulture

CO2 supplementation. Is it worth...

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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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pH Control in Hydroponics

pH Control in Hydroponics

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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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