Cultivating plants requires time and energy. Naturally every new grower aims for the best results. However you may find out that there’s more to cultivation than just watering the plants!

Nothing could be simpler - take a pair of scissors, cut some tips off a plant, place the cut tips into the potting mix and away they go, right? Wrong.

Aquaponics is essentially organic cultivation of plants and animals together in a re-circulating closed system (water tank), using water instead of potting mixes.

Roots are one of the most important parts of the plant for taking up nutrients and water. For some growers, they are so important that they always check the root system before watering.

There are very many different types of coco medium available on the market today, from many different manufacturers, and that number is constantly growing.

To put it simply, a booster should help a plant take up nutrients. The uptake of nutrients depends on the plant's health and metabolic rate.

All over the world, questions pour in as to the distinctions between hard water and soft water and how these differences affect how and what plants are fed.

What exactly causes a plant to flower? We do not yet have a complete answer to that question, but we do know a great deal about the mechanisms that trigger the response.

Rockwool, a lightweight hydroponic substrate is made from spinning molten basaltic rock into fine fibers which are then formed into a range of cubes, blocks, growing slabs and granular products.