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When should you add a CO2 booster to your grow room?Ask five different growers, and you'll get five different answers. This isn't something that really has a convenient and easy explanation. It's one of those controversial elements of growing that people work through as they go through the trial and error process of building better plant cycles. But with that in mind, here are some basic thoughts on adding a CO2 booster for hydroponics.Get the basics right first!In general, a CO2 booster is …

Here's a big question -- what do you use for sterile plant media? What do your plants grow in?Growers have their opinions based on their own types of projects and what they consider to be the optimal grow medium. But there are also some pretty common and opinions with the industry.One general feeling that a lot of growers have is that there are several ‘top grow media’ to be used according to drainage needs and other factors. In general, growers use items like rockwool, coco coir, clay pell …

More than a few beginners are confused about lumens. This term has just recently started to become used for different types of light, and it's still a little bit mysterious to most of us. Sort of like the English versus metric system, these types of changes in units of measurement take a while to get used to. Here are some of the basic truths about lumens that help explain why they are used so much in hydroponics.A Unit of LightOne of the fundamentals of the “lumen” is that it's a measurem …

Lots of beginning growers who come to us with questions about the process are concerned about one thing -- taste.Some have heard about the ways that plants develop aromas and flavors due to their growing material and the environment that they mature in. So does hydroponics change taste? The short answer is ‘yes.’Many factors change the taste of the plant, especially ‘suggestible’ mild green plants like lettuce and other similar types of greens. Plants that don't have their own genetically i …

So you've gotten good at nourishing plants all the way through a grow cycle -- but how do you know about the endgame? How do you figure out when it's time to harvest plants and how to pursue this final step?Every plant is different, but here are some of the general ways that growers figure out harvesting times and how to go ahead with reaping their rewards from the plants that they have grown from seeds or seedlings.Use CalendarsPlants always have a grow calendar that growers can look up to …