Growing Media
Whilst we cater for soil growers with quality products provided from Bio-Biz, for example, we earnestly encourage you to try the hydro alternative. It produces better plants, and a lot faster! If you're already growing in pots of soil, you don't need to change your routine too much, just purchase a hydroponic fertiliser and ph test kit. It's easy, and we promise you'll never look back!
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Bio Bizz Light Mix
Bio Bizz Light Mix compost is specially designed for organic growers who wish to use additional liquid fertiliser during the life of the crop. It contains enough food for the first week, and has a good 'crumb' quality (good air/water ratio). |
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Bio Bizz All Mix
Bio Bizz is an extremely high quality fermented organic compost for growers who don’t want to mess about adding loads of liquid fertilisers - it’s all inside the compost, just add water for fantastic results. Follow Bio-Bizz feeding schedule when plants show signs of heavy flowering. Contains a careful blend of perlite, worm castings, peat, top soil and organic fertilizer. |
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Diahydro
Plants grow faster in Diahydro - fact! A 100% natural, pH neutral, high silica content (87–94%), high CEC, super absorbent growing media for use in containers or flood and drain tables. Optimal thermal conditioning at the root level means swings in temperature won't upset your plants so badly. It also provides protection from crawling insects! New pricing structure makes it even more competitive. Make the change today! |
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Loose Mediums
For cheap, passive pot culture you’ll need an inert loose medium mix such as perlite (fast draining) and vermiculite (nutrient holding). Cellmax is another alternative; made from small cubes of rockwool it offers excellent aeration and nutrient holding capabilities. |
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Coco Fibre
Coco Fibre offers hydro growers the chance to go organic, and organic growers the chance to go hydro. This wonderful medium has excellent air and water holding properties. It contains no nutrition so apply a specialist fertiliser such as Coco AB. All our customers have found they get better results using this medium than compared to rockwool. Do yourself a favour - don't get mugged by 'certain unscrupulous retailers'; all our coco is quality branded - no moody 'exclusive' bootlegs here! Plus, beneficial Trichoderma Hazarium fungus already added to our loose medium. SPECIAL OFFER on Coco Fibre bricks - Buy 10 and get 12! |
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Clay Pebbles
Clay pebbles offer excellent drainage and can be used in flood and drain systems or mixed with other slower draining mediums. Pebble size ranges from 8-16mm. |
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Mapito
Mapito is very popular with Dutch container growers due to its' excellent aeration and nutrient retention. The mix of polyurethane foam and rockwool flock ensures the medium never compacts. By the way, the dutch re-use and re-package Mapito - it gets better with age, so don't be suprised by it's earthy smell. |
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Rockwool
Rockwool is a popular medium that comes in many sizes. It has a very good air to water ratio and is the choice of top Dutch growers. Begin your seeds or cuttings in the SBS starter plugs. When the roots are showing, pot on into 3\", 4\", or the new 6” square Hugo blocks, and grow them on. Your plant is then ready to go onto a rockwool slab or other hydroponic system. |
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Fleximix
An amazing new media for soil and hydroponic growers made from coir, peat, bark, and a bio-degradable polymer. Retains just the right amount of moisture without causing material compression, and insulates against heat and cold. In our own trials, cuttings rooted 2 days faster - no joke! The pre-treated, ready to use plugs measure 38x38x44mm (same size as SBS77 rockwool), and come in a tray with reservoir; alternatively just buy as many loose cubes as required. Use with Gel 4 Plugs for best results. |
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Flexi Courier Pack
Sends cutting through the post with these mini propagators containing pre-soaked Fleximix plugs. There's room for five cuttings inside, and the strong case protects against crushing. |
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Jiffy
Jiffy pellets are a really easy way of starting seeds and cuttings. Just soak the 38mm plugs in water, give them a gentle squeeze and put them in a propagator. They contain a balanced nutrition so no need to add anything. They are great for soil growers, and also fit into rockwool blocks. The coco pellets are faster draining than the peat - you choose. Jiffy Pots are made from a mixture of biodegradeable paper, peat and starter nutrient. Just fill with Bio-Biz Lightmix soil. When it's time to transplant, the pot and plant go into the soil together meaning no disturbance to the root system. |
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NFT Spreader Mat
Tissue film used to spread the nutrient evenly in NFT systems. Also useful for lining the bottom of pots to stop media leakage. |
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