When you’re choosing a hydroponic tent there are a couple on the market.  This post will focus on the benefits of the BudBox.

Purpose built, highest quality grow rooms are designed to save time and money. Whether you’re a professional gardener or setting up for the first time, the BudBox provides the perfect growing environment allowing you to maximise your crops yield effectively and with ease.

Thanks to the BudBox’s revolutionary flame retardant and lightproof reflective inner coating you can relax in comfort leaving your plants to do the hard work for you.  There will be no chance of the material catching fire and every last bit of light will be reflected back on to your plants.

Part time gardeners can pack everything into the hold all bag and store it away for next time, so if space is an issue the Bud Box is the perfect hydroponics tent for you.

To help maintain a clean and tidy environment Velcro cable tidies and an inner pocket have been added as a result of valuable feedback from our customers.

The heavy duty, military grade zips, combined with exterior light baffles provide a secure, lightproof and lockable grow room that can be discreetly used.  Keeping your plants away from prying eyes.

The BudBox is very easy to set up all you need to do is erect the push fit frame making sure the poles are firmly pushed into the white connectors, slide the cover over the top and bottom, it will be tight because it needs to be, if its too tight push the poles in further. zip up the cover and your ready to start growing!

The Features of the BudBox include:

• Multi layer (triple) specially designed material
• The BudBox is presented neatly in its own holdall bag
• Light weight, quick and easy to assemble and re-pack
• Durable, flame retardant and lightproof woven cover
• Brilliant white, wipe clean reflective inner surface
• White powder coated poles and white connectors
• Adjustable intake and exhaust vents from 100mm to 200mm
• Velcro cable tidies and large lightproof electrical ports
• Strong support bar for hanging the grow light and filter
• Handy internal pocket for a log book, meters etc
• Military grade zips giving full, easy access to the crop
• Removable catchment tray to stop unwanted spillages
• Suitable for any style of indoor growing system
• Can suport up to 1000w lamps - MH or HPS
• Complete with easy to follow setup instructions

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As with any type of indoor gardening method, hydroponic gardening requires  grow lights is the plants can synthesize food and grow.  However if you’re new to hydroponics the information available on the internet may make choosing your lights for hydroponics difficult.  This blog post will give a brief overview of what lights are suitable for hydroponics.

High Density Discharge (HID) Grow Lights

Originally HID lights are were often used for this purpose and still are. HID, or high-intensity discharge lights, come in several varieties, including metal halide grow lights and HPS grow lights. All HID lights require a ballast in order to control electrical current through the light.  However these types of hydroponic lights get very hot and require a cooling system.  They need to be kept at a distance from your plants so they don’t burn them.  They are also very expensive to run but once you have a ballast, this type of hydroponic grow lights are quite cheap to replace.  Just take a look in the shop.

LED Grow lights

LED grow lights are becoming more and more popular. These grow lights, using light - emitting diodes, produce a lot of light in colors useful for plant growth, and are cost effective as well. They are more expensive at the outset but are very cheap to run and last for a very long time.  They are also a lot cooler so they can be placed within the plants to ensure that light gets into all the shaded places.

Compact Fluorescent Lights (CFL)

For those who have a very small budget and a small space, compact fluorescent lights (cfl) grow lights are probably the best choice for you.  These lights are also know as energy saving bulbs and you can get them in low wattage from your supermarket or DIY store.  You will need to get enough bulbs to create at least 90w of light to grow 1 plant.  It’s much more convenient to buy a specialist plug bulb holder (roughly about £6) and a cfl which is at least 125w.  These grow lights don’t get too hot, you should be able to handle the bulb without being burnt however they will burn the leaves on your plant if they touch it so you do need to ensure that they are moved with the plant growth.

If you’re new to hydroponics I would suggest using cfl for your grow lights, they’re cheap and don’t need any special equipment like ballasts.  If you’re an experienced hydroponic Gardner try out LED grow lights, you’ll save on enegy costs and they can just be plugged into the mains.