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31. Creating A Seasonal Shift During Late Bloom

This shift will help plants understand that their time is coming to an end. Your plants will move all remaining sugars from all other parts of the plant to the fruit / flowers that they have been working on creating. They will ripen all fruit...

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32. Nutrient Feeding Chart/Graph

Learning to read one of these graphs is a very important step towards becoming a successful grower. The overall TDS numbers for each week of the Bloom phase (and Veg. phase - depending on what graph you are looking at) are indicated on the chart...

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33. A Healthy Reservoir Should Bring The TDS Down Every Day

The total concentration of nutrient should always be relatively stable within your reservoir. Ideally plants should take up an even amount of nutrients and water. In reality, this rarely happens. Plants will take up either more nutrients or more...

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34. Reduce the concentration of additives

With so many additives available today, and so many new ones coming on the market every month, it is extremely tempting to use an ever-growing amount of them. This can be catastrophic to your plants’ root systems as well as your plants’ overall...

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35. Hierarchy of Factors Contributing to a Larger Yield

There are many environmental factors that contribute to healthy plant growth. In general if you take care of your garden and dial in your environment and your nutrient scheduling, your plants will flourish. And if your plants flourish and remain...

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36. Advanced Growing Methods

The advanced grower can employ certain methods which will greatly increase yield and quality. Indoor gardening is ALL about emulating the perfect outdoor environment, day and night, for the plants. Light will ALWAYS be the limiting factor...

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37. General Remedies and Environmental Control

Temperature above 80 degrees F. will ward off powdery mildew. If using CO2 you can take your plants from their ideal 86 degrees F. to upwards of 90-92 degrees F, at the plant level, which will deter the growth of this mold. Humidity below 45%...

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38. How to Handle Powdery Mildew

Powdery mildew is a fungal disease that affects a wide range of plants. Powdery mildew diseases are caused by many different species of fungi in the order Erysiphales. This is one of the easier diseases to spot, as the symptoms are quite...

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39. Beneficial Insects or Predators

The initial cost of beneficial insects is almost always higher than a can of insecticide and initially, you might be tempted to use a spray, especially as you watch your plants being besieged by ravenous bugs. Over the long term however,...

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40. Insecticidal Soap

Soaps, which are sodium or potassium salts combined with fish or vegetable oil, have been used as insecticides for hundreds of years. Soaps are virtually nontoxic to animals, however they basically suck the life right out of bugs by causing...

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