The Power of Trace Elements in Intensive Cultivation Environments
Why Should You Care About Trace Elements? Trace elements are essential for synthesising many enzymes and supporting core photosynthetic processes. Without sufficient amounts of micronutrients, plan...
Insect Frass as a Fertiliser and Crop Quality Enhancer
What Exactly is Insect Frass? Okay, deep breath: insect crap, insect dung, insect excrement, insect exudate, insect faeces, insect guano, insect manure, insect poo, insect poop, insect scat, insect...
Seaweed Extract: An Age-Old Solution to a Modern Growing Problem
Leaves clawing downwards, burnt tips and margins, necrotic spots, interveinal chlorosis and stunted growth—it only takes a ten-minute tour of social media these days to discover ample evidence of s...
Unearthing the Hidden World of ‘Soil Fuzz’: Your Guide to Beneficial Actinomycetes Organic growers and living soil enthusiasts understand that healthy, fertile soil is alive, teeming with billions ...
Cultivating Light-Loving Plants Indoors with LED Grow Lights
More and more indoor growers are choosing to cultivate their plants under LED grow lights. Here at Ecothrive, we’re the first to celebrate the myriad benefits that this new generation of horticultu...
Living Soil: Is it Just an Organic Potting Mix Product or is it a Process?
Let’s dive deep into the fascinating world of organic living soil! This beginners’ guide will help you to realise the full potential of an indoor living soil ecosystem, even if you’ve never grown w...
How Organic Growing Techniques Produced a Record-Breaking Onion
Here at Ecothrive, we’re still buzzing with excitement. Firstly, we’d like to heartily congratulate Gareth on this incredible achievement. We are delighted and proud that one of our esteemed custom...
Let me take you back to a rainy Tuesday morning in February when I was working my way through our info@ecothrive.co.uk inbox. It was full of the usual emails asking advice about using our products,...
How To Make Living Soil At Home
As passionate growers, we want to be able to share our knowledge about growing the living soil way. You may know already that Eco-Life is our premium ready-to-use living soil, we have worked extens...
Depressed? Go play in the dirt.
Research has shown that soil bacteria could improve mood by boosting the immune system just as effectively as antidepressant drugs. Is growing your own organic food and spending more time in green ...
VPD is an abbreviation for Vapour Pressure Deficit. VPD is a measurement of how much more “room” there is for humidity (water vapour) in the air at the current temperature. This is important becaus...
Was it ludicrous of me to dig out my skateboard after all these years? I didn’t know it at the time, but the universe was about to answer. While I’d taken the first critical step of unearthing my o...
Why is soil testing essential?
We do this to eliminate the risk of deficiencies or excesses in macronutrients and micronutrients. Which can easily happen if you are blindly amending for many cycles without testing. Everyone’s st...