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    It’s All About The Veg!

    By Urban Garden Magazine ⋅ July 12, 2010 ⋅ One comment

    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.

    Pruning Technique: Catnip Topping – Day 32

    By Grubbycup ⋅ March 17, 2010 ⋅ One comment

    Grubbycup shows the benefits of his topping pruning technique when it comes to plant shape and lighting effectiveness.

    Pruning Technique: Catnip Topping – Day 14

    By Grubbycup ⋅ February 1, 2010 ⋅ One comment

    Grubbycup updates us on the results of his topping/pinching experiment, with his catnip control plant now in the flowering stage.

    Pruning Technique: Catnip Topping – Day 7

    By Grubbycup ⋅ January 22, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

    Grubbycup continues his explanation of topping as a pruning technique.

    Pruning Technique: Catnip Topping

    By Grubbycup ⋅ January 14, 2010 ⋅ 14 comments

    Grubbycup demonstrates how to use a “topping” technique to prune catnip in order to avoid the less productive tall, narrow shape it naturally grows into.

    The Sweet Zone: Pruning Indoor Plants For Larger Yields

    By Urban Garden Magazine ⋅ December 17, 2009 ⋅ 3 comments

    Novice growers are notoriously wary about pruning. Maybe it’s because it seems wrong to hack away at a perfectly healthy plant – or perhaps pruning is mistakenly associated with pure aesthetics? Whatever the reason, pruning is arguably more important indoors than anywhere else. So we asked Kevin Anderson, a hobby grower in British Columbia, Canada, to share his wisdom on the art of manipulating light-loving plants indoors.

    Crop Killers

    By Everest ⋅ November 10, 2009 ⋅ 6 comments

    The Top 10 Mistakes That Drag Your Yields Down: Everest shares some time-honored heuristics to help beginner growers increase the productivity of their indoor gardens.

    Let’s Grow Outdoor Organic Monster Plants!

    By Urban Garden Magazine ⋅ June 4, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

    Hooray for the outdoor growing season! It’s the time when many of us urban gardeners grow a whole host of annual plants under the big halide in the sky! We all have our personal favorites, from chunky cucumbers and egg plants to the tangiest, juiciest tomatoes. But how do you grow your outdoor plants big? Really big! Absolutely huge!

    How to Create Power Plants Using Air-Pruning!

    By UGM - UK Edition ⋅ May 10, 2009 ⋅ One comment

    Gareth Hopcroft explains how to develop super vigorous root systems for high yielding plants.

    Beginner’s Corner: Keeping a Happy Mother Plant

    By Everest ⋅ October 1, 2008 ⋅ 2 comments

    Everest takes a look at keeping a healthy mother plant and why she’s worthy of a lot more time, care and investment than many growers appear to realize.

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