WHEW! WHEN WE DISCONTINUED PUBLISHING ROSEBUD, I WAS TOTALLY UNPREPARED FOR THE REACTION.
Yes it’s true. This is the final edition of Rosebud Magazine. It is with a heavy heart and great sadness that I have to say this. First, the entire Rosebud & Advanced Nutrients team would like to thank every one of you who have and continue to support us.
Straight to the point . . . the cold hard reality is Rosebud Magazine has operated at a significant loss since the first issue, and it has put a HUGE financial strain on Advanced Nutrients, the parent company which funds Rosebud. I don’t have to tell you, high-level quality costs a lot of money, and the magazine was the proverbial straw that broke the camel’s financial back.
In our previous article, we talked about how the hydroponics industry has changed from old school days and is starting to catch up with the 21st century.
Have you ever wondered how hydroponics nutrients first came into existence? It’s not just a question of history, it’s very relevant for you today in your hydroponics grow room, and here’s why:
Tens of thousands of hydroponics growers are concerned about what they learned in the “You’re Being Robbed” article detailing how hydroponics nutrients label police and hydroponics industry monopolists are harming growers. I’ve been contacted by people who want more information about why the article boldly calls out General Hydroponics, Sunlight Supply and their allies such as Hydrofarm. I think the article explains itself well, but here’s even more information that helps you save money, and your hydroponics crops.
Growers often ask about basic general hydroponics equipment and indoor gardening tactics that are guaranteed to create healthier, faster-growing plants that give you more flower per watt and put smiles on your face every harvest.
If you’re a hydroponics grower with an indoor urban garden using rockwool, aeroponics, NFT, hydroton, sphagnum, Sunshine Mix, Pro-Mix, coco coir and other types of materials or systems, you’re almost certainly using hydroponics nutrients.
In 99% of all indoor hydroponics urban garden situations, you just flat out won’t get good growth or maximum yield unless you add nutrients to your plants’ water.
When you’re a hobbyist or expert hydroponics gardener, perhaps running a hydroponics urban garden in a small room but still wanting to get maximum yield, you might sometimes be puzzled by general hydroponics terminology that you hear growers use or see in magazines.
So I decided to provide a general hydroponics guide to some of the more frequently used words and phrases that have special meaning in the hydroponics urban garden world:
With more and more general hydroponics growers using cloning and the sea of green method to get maximum yield in their hydroponics urban garden, it’s useful for us to look at root shooters, rooting plugs, rapid rooter, and other products used to stick cuttings in for hydroponics urban garden root development.
Editor’s Note: The enclosed comment came in as a response to the Hydroponics Hijacking article written by Big Mike Straumietis, the co-founder of Advanced Nutrients, and posted on the Rosebudmag.com website. The grower’s text was too long to post as a comment, but we at Rosebud felt it worth posting on its own as a guest article…
In his 1980 album Double Fantasy, John Lennon famously observed that “Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.” The most controversial ex-Beatle was a very wise man. He was also unknowingly prophetic about the strange and predatory behavior of the “Good Ol’ Boys” network that constitutes what can only be called the rear guard of the American hydroponics industry.