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T5 vs T8 Grow Lights: Which is Better?

Choosing the right lighting source for your indoor grow can mean the difference between a successful veg, flower, and harvest, or an underwhelming yield. But how can you determine what sort of grow lights you need for your unique situation? While many lighting options aren’t too expensive, choosing the wrong type can mean a costly […]

How to Treat Over-Watered Cannabis Plants

You visit your beautiful plants and carefully tend them each day. You water them, provide nutrients, inspect them for pests and undesirables, and give them all the attention they deserve. But suddenly, it seems like their growth has halted and they’ve been the same size for too many days. Or maybe your plants have suddenly […]

Male vs. Female Cannabis: What’s the Difference?

Cannabis is what is known as dioecious, meaning it reproduces via a male and a female plant, and though they’re technically the same plant, the genders of cannabis are actually quite different from one another. Female cannabis flower by producing buds, which are highly sought after for their high THC and CBD content. Males do […]

LED vs CFL: Which Grow Lights Are Better?

As an indoor grower, the lights you use are arguably your most important investment. They will be providing the ‘sun’ your plants need for optimum growth. The lights you choose to invest in, will dramatically affect both yields, and electricity consumption. So the question every new grower wants to know is, which lights are the […]

Hemp vs Marijuana: What’s the Difference?

With increased legalization and public acceptance, you’ve probably heard the words marijuana, hemp, and cannabis quite a lot. But what exactly do these terms mean and how are they different from one another? While hemp and marijuana are both classifications of cannabis, they’re completely different variations. Unfortunately, the nomenclature used when discussing cannabis is often […]

Grow Bags vs Pots for Growing Cannabis: Which is Better?

It’s often overlooked, but there’s a large industry that focuses on making pots and bags for growing plants, specifically the cannabis industry has a ton of options for containers. When choosing which one to grow in, the benefits of each can get a bit confusing. It may seem like a silly thing to get hung […]

Best Grow Tent Kits 2020 – Reviews & Top Picks

Getting into the world of cannabis growing is a big step. It requires a pretty decent financial investment that gets compounded by a pretty big learning curve when trying to figure out what products to go for and what to avoid. Making the wrong choice furthers that financial investments and leads to frustration. Less obvious […]

Cannabis vs Marijuana: What’s the Difference?

What’s in a name? In the case of our favorite THC-rich plant, it turns out that the answer to that question is “a lot”. Perhaps owing to its status as a strictly regulated substance, the genus of flowering plants known botanically as cannabis has gathered a wide variety of names. Weed, dope, grass, pot, Mary […]

LED vs HPS Grow Lights: Which Is Better?

It wasn’t all that long ago that proponents for the use of LEDs for indoor grow lighting systems were being scoffed at by the old pros that lurk the forums. They were too expensive and gave sub-par results in a lot of cases when compared to the standard HPS (High Powered Sodium) lamps that were […]

LED vs HID Grow Lights: Which is Better?

There is a conversation among cannabis growers that continues day by day, and that is where and how their plants receive light. The market for grow lights has expanded and evolved with society as the bias towards cannabis has dwindled. With these changes have come trials and errors, resulting in two types of lighting that […]