Each week I hope to post a HYDRO store write up… But sometimes it feels like this industry is on Island Time. And so I am waiting to compile some more responses… hint hint hydro stores! If you want to make it on the blog, just send me an email and we will make it [...]

Yesterday’s FloraBlend post started some conversations around the office, and Jessica went on the server and found some amazing photos. They represent the results of a test that was done in our experiment greenhouse using a RainForest System . The first photo shows the roots of a tomato plant without FloraBlend. The second photo shows the roots [...]

At GH, we are all loving the results we see from FloraBlend, but What Does It Do? I’ve got a Q&A covering all the details with Jessica Lilga. And below is a photo from Darrick at Hydro Depot. He did a side by side comparison, and the results are fantastic. The plants on the right [...]

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Wintertime is no excuse to stop growing. Green Horizon has continued to post more photos of his gardening projects, including his winter crops and a sweet tutorial on how to build an inexpensive air powered system. Click here to check out his homebuilts, and here to see his winter crops.

General Hydroponics products are found around the globe, in every kind of growing situation you can imagine. Today I want to share a testmonial from Jenn Nelkin, the greenhouse director of NY Sun Works. She writes to us about the use of Flora Series in the greenhouses at the McMurdo Station in Antarctica.
“The Antarctic Treaty states [...]

It’s December 9, and I have cold weather on my mind. It finally frosted over here in NorCal, and this morning everything was covered with beautiful white ice. But where is the snow??? Only one Tahoe resort has opened a run on man made snow so far this year. And last year the conditions weren’t great either. [...]

Luc is our first featured employee, and one of my dear friends.
Age: 30
Birthplace: Beauvais, France
Family: 4 brothers. Everyone lives in France
Hobbies: Traveling, reading, museums, different kind of sports, community events etc.
Favorite food: Depends  on the mood. I love meat. Nothing better than a good steak.
Favorite music: I really like electronica DJs, especially from England. They [...]

Here’s a neat flash site that I found on the web designed to teach the basics of hydroponics. This is perfect for the lay-person looking for some simple explanations. Click here to check out HydroSchool.

Today’s featured store is owned by extended members of the Gen Hydro family, Nick Beaudoin and his wife Ashley. Nick worked for GH for several years, and can be given credit for the amazing idea of our festival sponsorships at Earthdance and Reggae Rising. He currently rocks the central Oregon market with a friendly and [...]

I thought today I would share a video from the archives at Maximum Yield. It’s an interview with the founder of General Hydroponics, Lawrence Brooke, conducted at an industry trade show.

Thought I would share a quick picture of some of the bulbs that I planted in CocoTek a couple weeks ago. I made a small planting and it’s been in an office here, decorating a desk. It has two healthy looking sprouts, and roots are starting to show through the bottom of the pot. It [...]

Most hydro growers and stores know that General Hydroponics Flora Series is the industry standard for nutrients. It is the original three part liquid nutrient: FloraGro, FloraBloom and FloraMicro. We love this product because it is customizable, well buffered, and free of heavy metals.

To get to the heart of what it does for plants, and [...]

There are several fantastic industry magazines that I regularly read. One of these is Growing Edge. Their website has a question and answer section, grower’s gardening journals, and a store where you can purchase back issues and even compilations of the best articles from over the years. Gain more knowledge by reading from the excellent articles they have published [...]

One of the crops that we experiment with frequently here in the greenhouses and in the FarmLab are all varieties of peppers. GH is always striving for improvements in flavor, color, yield and essential oil production. Besides the fact that they grow quickly and look beautiful, they are great eating!

Peppers have quite a list of medicinal benefits. The active component [...]