Hydroponic Gardening Hydroponics is simply soilless gardening. Imagine growing a beautiful garden inside your home with fragrant flowers and fresh vegetables. Even during the coldest winter months, you can have a continual reminder of spring and summer inside your home. And, with the change in seasons to warmer weather, you will be able to transplant your favorite homegrown plants outdoors sooner. Hydroponic gardening is a year-round joy no matter what the weather conditions are. There are several advantages to hydroponic gardening versus traditional soil gardening: • Greener and healthier plants • Faster plant growth rate • Increased yield • Optimum nutrient intake which results in healthier plants • Less mess…

1) The right environment Having the right environment is critical for Gardening. Key elements to a successful garden room include relative humidity, temperature, CO2 (Carbon Dioxide), and air circulation/exchange. The ideal humidity for a garden room falls between 40 & 60 percent. Some plants like higher humidity, but know that higher humidity can lead to problems with fungus and disease. Temperatures in your grow room should be between 68 – 75 F degrees. Temperature changes will lead to variations in humidity levels. Avoid drastic temperature changes over a short period of time. Your plants need CO2 to grow. Assuming you have good air circulation/exchange, your garden room will naturally have…

Organic Growing Organic Growing and “green” have become hot topics as of late in the media. What does this mean? Why would I be interested? Well, the organic movement has been around on a large scale for the last half of the 20th century. This is, most basically, a movement away from the use of man-made chemicals for purposes of fertilizing plants, fighting pest attacks, cleaning, producing clothing – the list goes on! Why Change, What Works? But why would we move away from man-made chemicals which appear to be doing the trick? Most people who use artificial lawn services have very nice, green lawns, for example. Well, in the…

Lighting Your Hydroponic Garden There are four basic building blocks on which plant life is based: light, water, nutrition, and climate. Light is one of the most important factors to consider in the care of plants, especially in an indoor hydroponic garden. The most common factor that limits the growth of plants is the indoor grow lights source. All plants require light for photosynthesis. This is the way plants manufacture food. Without adequate light, food supplies dwindle and plants die. Mother nature has seen fit to create just the right light for plants to grow in an outdoor garden. The responsibility for proper lighting for an indoor hydroponic garden falls…

HID Indoor Garden Lighting HID Indoor Garden lighting has become a great tool for gardeners all over the world. These high-pressure sodium and metal halide set-ups closely mimic natural sunlight with one important distinction: we have control over the intensity, color, and photoperiod. This means that you can control the entire life cycle of your plants– no matter what the season! Grow Lights All of our grow Indoor Garden lighting comes complete with bulb, ballast, and reflector. The ballast is needed to transform the electricity so that the gas in the bulbs can ignite and glow for your plants. Each of these ballasts will plug into a 3 pronged, 120v…

What is hydroponic gardening? The dictionary’s definition of hydroponics is; “cultivating plants in water.” But a more practical definition is: “growing plants in a water and nutrient solution, without soil.” Hydroponics allows a gardener to grow plants, fruits and vegetables in a more efficient and productive manner… and with less labor, time and gardening area needed. Hydroponics is the term used to describe any way in which plants can be grown without soil. These methods include growing plants in containers of water or other soil-less mediums, including sand, crushed rock, gravel, and vermiculite. The advantages of hydroponic gardening Hydroponic gardening is simple, NO WEED PULLING! Hydroponic gardening uses two-thirds less…

Air Purification / Ventilation: Ewww – what’s that smell? Many people today are finding that they have scent allergies and having a grow room in the house can make this more obvious. Also, many people would agree that the smell put off by nutrient lines is not exactly what they had in mind for the aroma of their home. We have the products you need to neutralize the smells in the air! Gels and Oils Many gels (which are really liquid in suspension) and natural oils are also used as a way to combat unwanted odors. The benefit of a good grow room to these is that they are non-toxic…