How to Cool Down your Grow Room
The last time I covered hydroponics, I talked about general air circulation and how important it is to keep a breeze cycling through your grow room. With the sizzling hot month of August looming ahead and the summer heat adding up, the dangers of excess heat from lighting and improper ventilation in your grow room can become extremely dangerous to your plants. But can you actually do anything about the annual heat wave? Take a look below for some helpful tips on how to stay frosty and keep your plants cool.
read moreHow to Sprout Stubborn Seeds
After a month of waiting, none of your seeds have sprouted and you just don’t know what went wrong. In fact, the radicle (the root tip which appears first) hasn’t even shown and you’re starting to think all of your seeds have gone bad. While infertility is a possible reason, let’s hold to hope that it’s something else. Seeds can remain dormant for multiple reasons, but the typical cause is that conditions have either not made the outer shell permeable or the internal embryo hasn’t yet developed.
read moreHow to Promote Root Growth
Proper care for your plants is always the best method for root growth. Water and fertilizer in the right amounts after a transplant will help a plant overcome transplant shock smoothly and are essential whether you use a root booster or not. Most plants prefer to grow a strong root system before they put effort into growing above the crown roots (the thick roots just beneath the soil at the base of the stalk). Roots support the plant, uptake nutrients and water, and keep the plant from falling over. Sometimes you’ll end up with a plant that doesn’t have the root support it needs. This can be deliberate, such as during a transplant when roots have been severed during unearthing, or it can happen as part of disease, like root-death due to rot.
We’ve seen that proper nutrients can promote normal plant growth, but sometimes a root boost is needed to get back what’s been lost. Let’s take a look at the current options shall we?
How to Choose the Best Trim for Recessed Lighting
This is the second part of our write-up on recessed lighting fixtures. Be sure to read about selecting the right housing for your installation in Part One.
Housings and electronics are important, but they disappear from view after everything is said and done. What stays in sight are the trims and baffles or reflectors. These are the items you need to consider from a more aesthetic viewpoint.
read moreHow to Pick Recessed Lighting Housings
Initially designed in the 1930’s, recessed lighting continues to lead as stylish and contemporary out-of-sight lighting. Recessed lights sit flush with the ceiling and usually appear as little more than a round hole or square to permit light; the perfect design for keeping a smooth and neat ceiling. Over the past 80 years we’ve seen many revisions and advancements to the design and application of recessed lighting. Home lighting itself focuses on the smaller form factor of can lights (typically two to six inches in diameter) while commercial offices use larger fluorescent troffers for uniform lighting. It can be hard to decide on a proper installation, or retrofit as the case may be, with so many variables in play. Here are the important factors to consider the next time you’re looking at installing or improving recessed fixtures.
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