How to Install a Grow Light

How to Install a Grow...

Getting Started
If the grow light is of the LED variety, then it will normally consist of just the LED unit and little else. However, if the grow light is an HPS or CDM then it will consist of a ballast, a reflector, and a lamp. With...
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Canna grow my own? Yes you can!

Canna grow my own? Yes...

Getting Started
Hydroponics is not a new thing. In fact, it has been around since the days of the hanging gardens of Babylon. However, it is only fairly recently that there has been an upsurge in people using the principals to grow t...
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Preparing Your Grow for the Warmer Weather

Preparing Your Grow for the...

Getting Started
Summer is a-coming! Indoor growing can be a very absorbing hobby. However, it does come with it's own fair share of obstacles that a grower will have to overcome in order to have a successful crop. One of the...
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Using a silicon additive in your grow

Using a silicon additive in...

Getting Started
Silicon additives, like Shogun Fertilisers Silicon have been around for quite a while now, and the benefits they bring are pretty much indisputable: stronger stems and branches, better resistance to dry conditions, pl...
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Seeds or Cuttings? Which is Best?

Seeds or Cuttings? Which is...

Getting Started
One of the first decisions to make before setting up One of the first things you'll need to decide on when starting out is where to get your plants from. You can either start off from seed or you can obtain c...
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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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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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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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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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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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Hydroponics Systems vs Pot-Culture

Hydroponics Systems vs Pot-Culture

Getting Started
Choosing whether to go down the route of hydroponics or go with pot-culture is an important decision to make and is one that needs to be made before any spending takes place. Pot culture involves growing plants in nor...
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Hydroponics as a Hobby

Hydroponics as a Hobby

Getting Started
Hydroponics is a term used to describe growing plants which are rooted in an artificial medium as opposed to soil. Over the past few decades, gardeners at both commercial and amateur levels have become interested in u...
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