Q: Hey, really liking your new RAW! column. You have always told it like it is, but my friends and I are really appreciating your help as a grower with what goes on outside of the grow room too.

This one might be right up your alley:

How you choose hydroponics retail stores is absolutely crucial to your maximum yield success in your urban garden. Whether the hydroponics retail stores are  online or in a physical location, who you get your hydroponics gear from can make all the difference for you. Indeed, the quality, price and selection of hydroponics nutrients, hydroponics equipment and hydroponics supplies at hydroponics retail stores can provide you all the tools you need to ensure success in your urban garden, or they can limit your success and make life a lot harder for you.

A few years ago, professional state-legal California medical growers noticed their hydroponics crops were showing yellowing leaves, stunted growth, and poor yields. In some cases, entire crop cycles were wiped out. The growers lost huge amounts of sleep, money and valuable medical crops, nearly going crazy trying to understand what was killing their crops. They examined all the factors you’re supposed to examine when you have crop problems: pH, water quality, nutrients, climate control, pests, diseases, plant genetics. You name it, they looked at it.

In my first-ever article on RosebudMag.com, I issued an open challenge to hydroponics industry monopolists and hypocrites who are discriminating against Advanced Nutrients and harming growers by stifling the free flow of hydroponics information and the availability of the most effective hydroponics nutrients and gear.

First of all let me thank Advanced Nutrients for giving me the chance to have this published on the RosebudMag.com website. What I am writing here was originally sent in the form of an email questionnaire/statement to the owners of three hydroponics businesses: Sunlight Supply, Maximum Yield and Urban Garden. I received no reply from them, so I am writing it here.

As a hydroponics grower who loves wine, I was shocked to find out that something a hydroponics grower fears the most in his urban garden is something a wine grapes grower or wine producer loves and desires.

When I was tending a 2500 square foot hydroponics urban garden in beautiful Oak Bay, Victoria, BC, I often joined other hydroponics growers engaged in ethical hobbies such as bicycling, nature conservation and remote control (RC) gliding.

As a hydroponics gardener, you’re already in love with growing the highest quality flowers, fruits and nuts that are loaded with essential oils, potent flavors and delicious aromas that send you to heaven. But there’s one thing you might want to consider growing because it combines all the goodness of your current crops with nutritional and culinary benefits. What is it? Cacao Theobroma, an evergreen tree that produces cacao beans from which are derived the ingredients of chocolate.

By Dr. Ted Gambordella and Nigel Salazar

Maybe you watch UFC, MMA, boxing, karate, kung fu, kickboxing, Tae Kwan Do, Judo or other martial arts combat sports- but you want to be more than a spectator so you can protect yourself, your family and your hydroponics garden.

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.

Where do hydroponics nutrients come from and how are they made? Stop and think about it, and you realize the answers to these questions are important to you as a hydroponics grower seeking maximum yield from your hydroponics urban garden.

Most of us are growing indoors using root zone media such as rockwool, coco coir, hydroton, sphagnum and other materials that don’t inherently contain the nutrients our hydroponics urban garden plants need for maximum yield.

Your hydroponics roots are the foundation of your plants’ ability to intake water and nutrients, so it’s important for you to always have the latest information and best hydroponics nutrients products that take care of your roots so you get maximum yield in your urban garden.

Sometimes getting a new set of data can greatly improve a situation, and this is certainly the case in this letter forwarded to me by Michael Straumietis, the co-founder of Advanced Nutrients.

It’s exciting to see Rosebudders getting maximum yield in their hydroponics urban gardens indoors and outdoors using information you only get in Rosebud.

It’s nice for me because instead of having to write an entire article, I can share with you the very useful information that successful growers are sending me, such as this from a hydroponics gardener in South Florida:

There’s lots of discussion among hydroponics growers just like you and me about what are the best hydroponics nutrients. As you know, hydroponics growers have a lot of money and time invested in every plant and we insist on maximum yield from our hydroponics nutrients.

Organic hydroponics fertilizers and supplements are key to maximum yield, whether you grow outdoors or in an indoor urban garden.

If you’re planning an outdoor garden, it’s good to utilize the Heavy Harvest series of outdoor maximum yield fertilizers that are designed for once a season application. No more daily hikes through the thorns and swamps. Just one hike in spring, summer and fall is the ticket you’ll love.