Make sure you’re using the right tools if you want a grow room where plants grow bigger, better, and brim with higher quality yields. The right tools make cultivation easier and ensure your plants stay healthy. Here’s a guide to the basic tools every grow room needs. Add these six must-have tools and items for your grow room to enhance your plants’ health and increase their yield!
Grow Lights
You can’t have a grow room without grow lights. They’re the most critical component in any grow room without sun access. Grow lights perfectly mimic the sun’s healthful glow, promoting growth. Pick LED grow lights. They’re energy efficient and offer the full light spectrum. Unlike traditional lights, they also keep the heat down, so you won’t scorch your plants.
Ventilation System
Plants need to breathe just like we do. Control the ventilation in your grow room, and you’ll control the temperature, humidity, and gas levels, ensuring a more productive yield. Traditional intake and exhaust fans are good, but installing a mini split HVAC system in your grow room is a smarter, more space-saving choice. Mini splits help control the indoor climate, ensure better ventilation and purer air, and are programmable to ensure things never get too hot or too cool in the grow room.
Grow Tents
Keep your plants in grow tents to gain greater control over their surroundings. Grow tents come in all shapes and sizes, maximize light, aid in ventilation, and protect your plants from insects, fungus, and other outside vermin and contaminants.
pH and EC Meters
Monitor your plants, their water, and the soil quality they’re growing in with pH and electrical conductivity (EC) meters. PH meters monitor the acidity and alkalinity of the water, ensuring plants take in nutrients without impediment. EC meters measure nutrient concentration in the solution you deliver to your plants. Using theses meters prevents excessive fertilization and nutrient deficiency.
Thermometers and Hygrometers
PH and EC meters aren’t the only ones to keep handy in your grow room. Thermometers and hygrometers ensure your growing environment remains stable, ensuring temperatures are within acceptable parameters and humidity levels are low enough to prevent mold, mildew, and other detrimental elements from taking hold of your plant but not too low, leading to browning and other damage.
Timers
Timing is crucial, and grow rooms are no exception. Use timers to ensure your plants get enough light, air, water, and more. Monitoring the time reduces errors and over or underexposure, allowing your plants to flourish. Timers also help automate the process, so you won’t need to be present 24/7.
Those are just six must-have tools and items for your grow room. Visit the rest of our site for other suggestions on tools to help you work smarter, not harder!