The most successful and productive indoor gardeners all have one thing in common—they love cuttings! Talk to any serious grower and you’ll hear the same story. Consistently high quality and regular crops depend on a steady flow of healthy, vigorous cuttings. So it makes sense to give cuttings the best start in life possible. Too often when we visit indoor gardens we find trays of neglected cuttings, just managing to survive, relegated to a shelf in a dusty corner of the veg room. That just ain’t right! Merely keeping cuttings alive is not the aim of the game. Think of it like this … if we cause our new recruits undue stress when they are still young, fresh and fragile, it’s the botanical equivalent of dropping our babies down the stairs! Ouch! Even if they survive, they could be traumatized for the rest of their lives!
Our main man Hydroguy is back with the next installment of his guide to finding your way around a grow store. This time he’s casting his critical eye over bloom boosters and stimulants. This is going to be interesting reading! As always, Hydroguy is not shy about expressing his opinions – and who are we to cramp his style?
My fellow strangers, the human mind (i.e. my mind) appears to be trapped in infinite space. Alas, I doubt that any revolting words will help us any more than they will hinder. Who among us can possibly fathom “infinite space,” for example, and yet here I am prating on about it as if it were [...]
What’s the big deal with carbohydrate and amino acid products these days? Are they being used or misused by growers? We asked Steve Berlow, a research consultant for Florigen Laboratories in BC, Canada to give us his insider perspective on the rise of carbohydrate and amino acid based products in the marketplace in recent years…
It’s all too easy to focus on the end result of your labors – the glorious fruits and flowers! However, all too often the importance of the vegetative period, when your plants are building structure and leaf mass, is overlooked. We asked Bryce Patterson from Field 16, a hydroponic nutrient manufacturer, to share his tips on creating the perfect veg period indoors.
Every issue we track down an experienced indoor gardener and ask them a question. If it’s the right question, it gets them talking, and we listen. If what they say makes a modicum of sense, you end up reading it. So here we are! Being talkative this time is Chris Sanderson from Chico, California. Chris has an 8-light sealed room, cooled with regular AC and supplemented with CO2. He’s only been growing for five years but he’s already known as ‘the doc’ to his friends. But how will he stand up to a grilling from the UGM team?
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