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Watering Plants 101: Expert Tips

While it sounds so simple, there are certain things you need to know about how to properly water plants.

Your watering schedule needs to be dialed in for great yields.

Two of the most common mistakes new growers make are over watering and under watering. These issues can not only prevent you from achieving your desired yield. They can honestly ruin your grow.

We're going to teach you best practices for providing your plants the perfect amount of water, every time.

We want to explain the problems that can arise when you water too much or too little. This will help you understand the gravity of this task.

How To Amend Soil For Healthy, Organic Gardening

As you finish up your grow, you are likely wondering how to amend your soil for the next growing season.

Or, maybe your plants are just about ready for flower, and want to add some organic amendments to the top of your soil to supercharge bud development.

There are plenty of reasons to consistently improve the conditions in your soil because poor soil means poor plants.

We are going to cover why, when, and how you should amend your soil. But first, let’s cover some quick definitions.

How To Transplant A Plant

Learning how to transplant a plant is a vital step in becoming a serious grower. Transplanting is a necessity if you want your plants to reach their full potential. 

You want your plants roots to have all the room they need, as they directly influence how your plant grows above soil. We will go in depth on when and how to transplant, but first, let’s talk about why this is so important.

Garden Soil and Nutrient Solution Testing - pH, TDS, and More!

Garden soil and nutrient testing will be your biggest responsibility on a day-to-day basis while growing. Plants are generally pretty resilient, but they can develop some pretty nasty issues if certain aspects of their nutrition are out of whack. 

Some of the most common things you’ll need to test include pH, PPM, TDS, EC, Temperature, and moisture. You won’t need to test all of these, but there are a few that are definitely important to measure regularly.

We’ll break this post into two sections - testing your garden soil and testing your nutrient solution. If you’re growing hydroponically, you’ll just need to worry about testing your hydroponic reservoir.

But if you grow in soil, you may need to test not just your nutrients, but your soil, and sometimes even your runoff.

In this post, we are going to teach you everything you need to know about soil and nutrient testing!

Plant Training - The Definitive Guide To Getting Bigger Yields

As you become a more serious grower, the bulk of your work will be on plant training.

Whether you are simply topping your plants, or bending and tying branches down, you need to do more than just feed your plants and let them grow if you want impressive yields.

Training your plants leads to more explosive growth, heavier yields, and the ability to dictate the manner in which your plants grow. 

This is really important for indoor growing, where height may be limited, and you need to grow short, bushy plants.

Before we start covering all the different methods of plant training, let’s cover some basic information on it!