Happy Halloween everybody! I love Halloween for the costumes and candy but also for the pumpkins! People do some really incredible things with this versatile vegetable. They grow them to enormous, monstrous sizes, using all kinds of crazy methods including milk diets, heavy pruning and intense fertilization. People enter them in contests to try to [...]

We love to be involved in the gardening community, both hydroponic and soil-based. There are so many amazing programs going on all over the country to teach adults and children how to grow their own veggies, fruit and ornamentals. It’s so great to see people sharing the knowledge. New Urban Farmers, in Pawtucket, RI does [...]

 
We’ve been talking lately about our new root-enhancing product, RapidStart®. RapidStart® delivers a powerful blend of natural plant extracts, amino acids, and nutrients to generate prolific root growth. It stimulates abundant root branching and development of fine root hairs that enhance nutrient uptake. We’ve seen what it can do for bell peppers and lettuce. Now, [...]

Our friends in Michigan, Northern Lights Hydroponic and Garden Supply, had an awesome booth at the Arts, Beats and Eats festival this year! They were showing off all kinds of awesome plants and were giving away some choice GH and GO samples. Check out those fabulous GH banners on their booth!
 

 
Northern Lights is located in [...]

Today, Jesse walks us through how to properly mix our classic three-part Flora Series™ advanced nutrient system™. It’s the backbone of all hydroponic growing and serves as the starting place for just about any project. Flora Series™ is the most widely used hydroponic fertilizer for several reasons! It offers complete nutrition to all types of [...]

Edible Schoolyard is a wonderful project that first began in our neighborhood (in Berkeley, CA) teaching kids how to grow their own food. It has since grown enormously and many school gardens (and garden-based curriculum) can be found all over the country! Kids are learning to garden at a younger age; they are learning what [...]

Coco fiber is a truly great growing medium, effective, and environmentally friendly. It can be used on its own or mixed with clay pellets, perlite or topsoil to grow amazing plants! It’s nicer to the earth than sphagnum moss and has better water and oxygen retention than most other media. Coco coir works well for [...]

The retail stores that carry General Hydroponics products are really the backbone of our community. They provide a way for us to get all our amazing products to you, the gardeners! They offer education, instruction and even the occasional party! We are grateful for the continued support of all our retail locations.
Today, we want to [...]