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  Controlling grow room odours: the key role of the carbon filter

  Posted in: Climate Management, Ventilation and Air Extraction

  How to neutralise grow room odours in summer by correctly choosing, fitting and maintaining a carbon filter.

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  Automating your grow tent: timers, thermostats and hygrostats

  Posted in: Indoor growing guide, Fans, Climate Management

  A well tuned tent doesn't need watching by the hour, it runs itself. Timer, thermostat, hygrostat: three families of automation which, put end to end, turn a grow you constantly correct into one that regulates itself while you sleep, work or are away.

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  Back-to-grow checklist: the complete guide to restarting your grow in September

  Posted in: Indoor growing guide, Ultimate Growshop Guide to understand the different products

  Joseph's complete checklist to clean, repot, ventilate and relaunch your grow in September.

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  Perlite, coco and clay pebbles: improving the structure of your growing medium

  Posted in: Indoor growing guide

  A growing medium that breathes gives you a root system that asks for nothing more than to thrive. Perlite, coco, clay pebbles: I'll show you how and why blending these three amendments makes a real, tangible difference to how your plants behave, from the very first watering right through to harvest.

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  Ideal grow tent temperature: the trio of heat, light and ventilation

  Posted in: Indoor growing guide, Climate Management, Temperature and Humidity Control

  In a grow tent, temperature is never a figure that stands on its own: it comes from a constant balance between the heat given off by the lighting, the speed at which the air circulates and the structure's ability to expel the surplus. Joseph, expert grower at GrowLED, explains how to measure, regulate and correct that trio.

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  Going on holiday stress-free: securing your grow tent's climate

  Posted in: Climate Management, Temperature and Humidity Control

  How to automate your grow tent's extraction, ventilation and humidity before you leave on holiday, without false promises about watering.

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  Heatwave in the Tent: 5 Reflexes to Protect Your Plants from the Heat

  Posted in: Indoor growing guide, Climate Management, Temperature and Humidity Control

  High heat? Joseph, GrowLED grower, shares his 5 field-tested reflexes to keep your tent's temperature in check and protect your harvest.

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  The clip fan: why it's the first climate buy every one of our customers makes

  Posted in: Fans, Climate Management, Ventilation and Air Extraction

  Small, discreet, essential: Joseph explains why the clip fan is the first climate accessory to install, and how to choose the right one.

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  Training, LST and SCROG: more yield without more light

  Posted in: Indoor growing guide

  A yield ceiling isn't always a question of lighting power. Most of the time, it's a question of distribution: a single big top that captures everything, while the branches below languish in the shade. Training fixes that without adding a single watt, by forcing the plant to spread the light it already has.

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  Spider mites, thrips and aphids: identifying and treating pests

  Posted in: Indoor growing guide, Identifying and Treating Pests

  A leaf marbling with yellow, a fine veil beneath the leaflets, ants running up a stem: these are often the first signs of an invasion that started several days before you noticed it. In this article, I explain how to recognise the three most common grow-room pests (spider mites, thrips, aphids), why they settle in, and how to build a prevention routine.

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  Sizing your extractor fan properly: the calculation that avoids mistakes

  Posted in: Indoor growing guide, Climate Management, Ventilation and Air Extraction

  Undersize your extractor fan and heat builds up; oversize it and humidity collapses. Joseph shows you the exact calculation he uses in the field, volume by volume, plus the three traps that skew the result.

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  Watering water: reverse osmosis, hardness and temperature, what really counts

  Posted in: Indoor growing guide

  As soon as watering comes up, the talk turns to reverse osmosis units, TDS meters and thermometers. After years fixing watering routines in the field, Joseph shifts the question: once the water is prepared, how do you get it to the root without spoiling it, and at the right moment?

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