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What is Vermiculture? Vermiculture is the raising of worms, usually for compost, bait or food for birds/fish.

Nate Johnson the former owner of ledgrowlightsreview.org is now a member of the GrowTutor team! Nate decided let us host his content rather than running his own server and we didn’t want all of the hard work that he did to just disappear; the information was just

A special thanks to one of my readers for asking this question. We know that traditional high-intensity discharge lights like high-pressure sodium lights lose their light intensity with time (most lose a significant amount of their intensity in 6-12 months if they are used regularly). This means

If you’ve been researching LED lighting long enough, then chances are you have heard someone say that lumens aren’t a good measurement of the amount of power a light is putting out. When people say this they don’t usually offer a better alternative, they simply mention that lumens

I recently had an interesting experience with one of my LED grow lights that I thought may benefit my readers and others interested in the technology. Right in the middle of my grow some of my diodes stopped working (see picture below). The two modules on the

LEDs are fascinating lights aren’t they? It’s pretty cool that scientists have found a way to mix semiconductors in a way that will produce light. In the previous section (part 1 of the how LED grow lights work series) we talked about semiconductors, free electrons, and diodes.

I’ve mentioned before that having tons of cords running all over the place drives me absolutely bonkers. My wife thinks I have some obsessive compulsive tendencies because I like things to be extremely simple and orderly. She often comes home to find that I have thrown away