Hi, growers. Welcome to the third installment of our series on pests and diseases. Set backs can be discouraging for new growers, but don’t sweat it - pests and disease come with the territory, whether you’re a rookie indoor grower or a grand master hydroponics gardener. Huge yields is the name of the game when it comes to cultivation, so we’ll talk about some of the bugs that can ruin your crop. From white flies, aphids, thrips, and fungus gnats to the worst of all - spider mites!

Last week I introduced you to some of the basics of battling pests & disease in your hydroponics indoor garden. We focused on methods of eliminating diseases like powdery mildew. This week, we’re going to look at some other factors hydroponics growers need to think about, like humidity and air flow in your indoor grow room.

One of the most difficult things for beginning growers to grapple with is pests & disease in your hydroponics indoor garden. But it’s not just a problem of the novice grower. No matter how experienced a hydroponics grower you are, sooner or later you will encounter some form of plant disease, mildew or fungus. Pests are another crop killer, but in the first installment of my three-part series we’ll look at disease.

It's bloom time! Personally, the bloom phase is my favorite part of hydroponics indoor growing. This is the stage where all the hard work you have put in during pre-veg and vegetative phases will pay off, which is why we love hydroponics gardening in the first place. Last time, we talked about pre-veg and veg phase. But there are a few things you will have to do differently than you did during the vegetative stage. Bloom phase (sometimes called “flower” phase) requires an adjustment to your indoor grow room’s lighting, humidity and nutrients.

Want to get growing and think about CEA further down the road? Here’s how to get up and running on a budget. Following these few simple, yet very important, steps and tips on proper air circulation will keep you and your garden very happy. At any local hydroponics retail stores, you should purchase:

Spider mites. Powdery mildew. Aphids. Root rot. All can quickly destroy the utopia you’ve created for a healthy and productive community of plants. But each of these blights can be avoided or, if they’ve already taken hold, eradicated. Let’s take a look.