Looking for a way to get bigger hydroponics yields? Then give your plants extra carbon dioxide (C02) safely and efficiently. It’s that simple. In most grow rooms that are properly vented and aerated, your ambient C02 concentration is 300-400 parts per million (ppm). Your plants need C02 the way we…
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You’ve probably heard the saying, “the proof is in the pudding,” and although few of us have made pudding, we can certainly agree that when it comes to how hydroponics nutrients and hydroponics systems affect your plants, the proof is often right there in front of your eyes…especially if you…
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A friend of mine conducted an interesting experiment in his hydroponics garden- he created a customized soil mix and grew his plants without using any nutrients additives. Everything his plants needed to eat, they would have to get from the soil.
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Harvesting your hydroponics plants can be a lot more fun and beneficial than the traditional method that has you waiting until the very end of bloom phase, flushing your plants, and then chopping them all down at once. That simple method is the traditional and dominant hydroponics harvest tactic, and…
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Our first in a series of articles about hydroponics growers considering hydroponics retailing as a career generated lots of interest…and rightly so. As we noted in that first article, the hydroponics industry is growing at a time other industries are wilting. When you love hydroponics gardening, you want to share…
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The role of women in hydroponics gardening and the hydroponics industry is changing fast. In the distant past, women were relegated to the realm of being post-harvest trimmers or behind the scenes assistants. The vast majority of growers were males, as were the vast majority of hydroponics entrepreneurs, retail storeowners…
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Hydroponics gardening is fun and rewarding, but sometimes you might feel like your plants are asking too much of you. It seems like you have to be in your hydroponics garden every day, or have someone to stand in for you, if you want assurance of hydroponics success. And one…
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In our last episode, we talked about a grower who set up a comparison experiment in his hydroponics garden. He engaged the proper scientific methodological steps to determine how six clones grown in rich custom-mixed soil with no water-added nutrients would perform in comparison with six clones grown in rockwool…
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When I first started hydroponics gardening, I grew from seed using peat pots. I had a 50% success rate, which wasn’t good enough. When I started hydroponics cloning, I had about a 60% success rate. Again…not good enough. I got some hydroponics books, and asked questions at the local grow…
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Harvesting your indoor hydroponics garden or your outdoor crops requires a lot more skill and knowledge than most growers realize…if you want to get the maximum taste, aroma, quality, value and size from your crops. There’s a complex interplay of factors that determine the precise harvest timing for your crops,…
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