The drought, extreme heat and fires of summer 2011 are creating crazy problems for hydroponics and remote outdoor gardeners. People try to argue about global warming and climate change, who or what is causing it…but who argues that this isn’t one hell of a hot summer? Let’s take a look at how to keep hydroponics and outdoor gardens healthy this sizzling summer…
By Chris Jefferson and SK
My buddy SK wrote me from his hydroponics garden in the North American hinterlands to tell of his adventures with hydroponics retailers. When SK gets to tap-tapping on his computer keyboard, he gives you a pretty good picture of what it feels like sometimes to be a hydroponics grower. Here’s his raw, uncensored report from the hydroponics equipment and supplies front lines…
In our previous discussion about winter hydroponics gardening we talked about your cold weather indoor gardening strategies…when interior garden heat is in some places a blessing rather than an expensive curse.
When you feast your eyes on big, bushy, mega-flower hydroponics plants, you might wonder if they naturally grow that way, or if a hydroponics gardening technique helped shape them. Here’s the answer: except in the rare cases when the strain’s genetics naturally tend towards bushiness, hydroponics plants go bushy because you prune them.
Several years ago I was talking with hydroponics pioneer Michael “Big Mike” Straumietis, the co-founder of Advanced Nutrients. More precisely, he was talking to me, and I was listening. That’s the smartest thing you can do when you’re with Big Mike. He’s a guy whose brain paces like a champion racehorse. He articulates more useful ideas per minute than anybody else I’ve ever met.
Your hydroponics urban garden benefits from added C02 to give you maximum yield, but many hydroponics growers don’t realize that C02 benefits hydroponic plants because it provides oxygen along with carbon for increased photosynthesis.
What’s more, your urban garden hydroponics plants need to intake significant quantities of oxygen through their roots.
If you’ve ever been frustrated by a lack of networking and information when you’re considering hydroponics nutrients, equipment, and hydroponics gardening techniques, I have good news for you.
When you’re looking to boost your hydroponics urban garden maximum yield, you definitely want to increase the amount of carbon dioxide (C02) that your plants take in from the atmosphere through their leaves.
And you want to do it safely, easily, and with the lowest cost possible.
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 need oxygen.