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The Equipment section grows: testers, growing media and containers
Three new guides to help you buy the right gear: pH and EC testers (and the ppm trap), growing media compared, and food-safe tubs, reservoirs and tubing.
The Equipment section goes from three to six guides. The goal stays the same: buy what is useful, reliability before looks.
pH and EC testers
Pen, combo meter or meter with a replaceable probe? How to do a two-point calibration, why a pH probe should never be stored in distilled water, and the “ppm” trap, which can show two different numbers for the same solution. Read the guide.
Growing media
Rockwool, coco coir, perlite, vermiculite, clay pebbles, peat, foams, gravel: how much water and air each one holds, how to prepare it and whether it can be reused. Read the guide.
Tubs, reservoirs and tubing
The glass-and-fork food-contact symbol, opacity against algae, the right volume and its weight, drilling holes for net pots, draining, the drip tray. Read the guide.
