As summer fades and we move into September, many of us are preparing for cooler days ahead. While the outdoor garden may begin to slow down, the beauty of indoor horticulture is that the growing season never truly ends! As with everything, life goes on and there's always room for growth and improvement.
This month, we're excited to introduce a range of new growing products designed to help you optimise your indoor grow room. From advanced lighting solutions to innovative tools and accessories that help you make the most from your crop, these additions will take your indoor horticulture to the next level. Read on to discover what's new, and get tips on how to integrate these products into your indoor garden.
AC Infinity High Dome Propagators
Available in two versions - one with LED grow lights included, and one without - this innovative new product from AC Infinity offers the unrivalled build-quality that we expect from AC Infinity alongside a useful height extender for bigger cuttings and growing seedlings.
If you're starting from scratch and looking to hit the ground running, the LED included option is a must have. Featuring ten dimming levels, you'll have precise control over the light levels given to your cuttings/seedlings, ensuring that you're able to provide the absolute best environment for your particular strain or cultivar.
NEU Bag Flower Infusion Packs
NEU Bag Flower Infusion Packs are a new way to dramatically increase the appeal of your harvest when facing bland terpene profiles. These packs are designed to be placed directly into containers containing cured botanical material.
Once introduced, the terpenes begin to slowly diffuse from the mesh bags into the surrounding material through a controlled release mechanism. This gradual transfer ensures that the aromatic oils are evenly distributed, enhancing the overall scent, flavour, and quality of the cured product.
AC Infinity VPD Laser Thermometer
As the popularity of VPD (Vapour Pressure Deficit) monitoring increases, it's more important than ever to make sure accurate leaf temperatures are recorded, so that accurate calculations and adjustments are made.
This highly innovative laser thermometer gun by AC Infinity is designed to instantly measure leaf VPD, air VPD, ambient temperature, leaf temperature, and relative humidity to precisely calculate true VPD data. Using these environmental figures, you can calibrate your smart controller so it can accurately detect the climate and trigger your grow devices at precise times.
This is the first of its kind to track the VPD of your plants and the surrounding atmosphere, allowing you to make pinpoint adjustments for optimal nutrient uptake. It can also review past readings so you can closely monitor changes in your climate.
DLI Zenith Series TopLight
The DLI Zenith 900 is the ultimate full-spectrum 1000w HPS replacement fixture. Meticulous R&D and only the highest quality components ensure unbeatable longevity and reliability, making it a top choice for commercial applications.
Although primarily suited to high-ceiling rooms, the wider than usual Beam Angle of 140° also ensures an even spread over your canopy at a variety of hanging heights, removing hot and shaded spots to ensure homogeneity. Unrivalled thermal management also allows for greater heat transfer above and away from the light, supporting a cooler growing environment and longer diode lifespan. Backed up by a 5 year warranty.
Danish Irrigation Grow Trays
Automatic run-off management is a life saver for indoor horticulture, removing the time-consuming and laborious task of ensuring saturated plants don't sit in nutrient solution - something absolutely crucial for protecting against the anaerobic conditions that can lead to crop-destroying root borne pathogens.
Generally speaking, there have been two main options available to growers, either utilising single raised trays such as the Medusa Baseline or IWS AutoDrain Stand which require individual irrigation connections and limit flexibility with regards to pot sizes, numbers and configurations, or to build a large DIY drainage tray which are usually devoid of deep flow channels and the rigidity needed to ensure that all run off is evenly and effectively drained.
Thankfully, we now offer a tailor made solution to this dilemma - Danish Irrigation Grow Trays. Built with strong materials and featuring a sloped design and deep grooves for effective removal of run off, it's now possible to have the best of both worlds in terms of effectiveness and flexibility, catering to whatever pot types, sizes and layouts the grower chooses.
Grassroots Beds
The no-till / living soil revolution is well and truly here. Grassroots beds are specifically designed for living soil applications. Because standard fabric beds and pots have breathable fabric for air pruning and drainage, the sides can dry out which can pose an issue with live soil.
The drying out of soil quickly from the bottom and at the sides is generally great for hydroponic style irrigation, where you want quick drying and frequent watering. However, this quick drying at the sides creates a zone of soil that is not good at supporting soil microbial life. Here, the soil can get so dry the microbial communities go dormant or even die, and therefore cannot unlock nutrition from the soil and supply it to the plant. This zone around the edge of the pot is essentially wasted soil, however Grassroots beds ensure that it can be kept moist and allowed to flourish with microbial activity with the help of the MoistureLock Liner. Available in a wide variety of shapes and sizes.