Welcome to another week of Hydro 101, where indoor growing newbie’s can get a handle on the art of growing that we love so much. Something all beginner growers need to get a handle on is transplanting. If you’re growing in soil, which is the best medium for rookies to cut their teeth, you’re going to need to move your plants from one container to the next as they get bigger. You want to give your crop the chance to thrive, and avoid having them get rootbound.

Imagine going to a hydroponics store and happily buying supplies for your perfectly legal hydroponics garden in which you grow only gourmet, organic herbs and vegetables. You don’t know that someone is watching the parking lot, and has copied down your license plate number.

Hydroponics growers are moving to the forefront of sustainable agriculture. Our versatility and economic use of resources for cultivation will help to feed more and more people. The tricks of our trade also allow hydroponics farmers and gardeners to be resilient; we can carve out new niches in the marketplace when faced with competition from mega-farms.

Hydroponics indoor gardeners have a few enemies to worry about, and one of the most disgusting of these enemies is Botrytis Cinerea, otherwise known as gray mold. Interesting to note that this “mold” is caused by a fungus. But whatever you call it, the sight of your beautiful flowers rotting from inside is one of the truly horrific nightmares that I hope you never experience as a hydroponics grower. How can you make sure to be stopping gray mold before it starts, and what can you do if it shows up in your hydroponics grow room?