I have been growing some Sugar Snap Peas on the porch here in Detroit for about a month. All the peas were started from seeds that I germinated in a cup of water and planted directly into ProMix with no cuts or additives. I decided I wanted to do a side by side with the [...]

There is a common motivational trope that the Chinese word for “crisis” is also “opportunity”. Well, boy did I have a crisitunity late last month. With the quick arrival of summer-y weather in Northern California, I thought I would give my basement WaterFarm tomato plant a relocation into the warm, sunny clime of my back [...]

General Hydroponics has been working with NYSunworks for a couple years now, sponsoring their efforts to implement hydroponic education in NYC public schools throughout the city. So many valuable math and science lessons can be used as learning tools for children (and adults!). Over the past year GH has donated nutrients and systems to various [...]

Do you have slimy primordial hydroton or green Secret-of-the-Ooze growing media? I have a cheap fix for you. CocoTek Mats!
Algae can form on media when a top drip system provides water and you or the sun provides the light. Throw in some delicious nutrients and you have a green goblin loose in your system.
Last summer [...]

Late last year, I received a call from a retail hydro store owner who had a customer interested in purchasing 100 of our 6′ AeroFlo chambers! I thought to myself, “Yeah right. This is a dead end. Nobody sets up 100 Aeroflo chambers.” I was wrong. Mark, owner of Tasty Tomato does.
Tasty Tomato is [...]

Horizen Hydroponics has four stores in Michigan, including Grower’s Outlet which acts as a central warehouse and order center in addition to being a full retail store. They requested samples for the Grand Rapids Museum exhibit Facing Mars. Horizen setup a station with a hydroponic growing system, LED grow lights and the most importantly, FloraDuo [...]

Though there is a close relationship between TDS and Electrical Conductivity, they are not the same thing. Total Dissolved Solids (TDS) and Electrical Conductivity (EC) are two separate parameters.
TDS, in layman’s terms, is the combined total of solids dissolved in water. EC is the ability of something to conduct electricity (in this case, [...]

I feel like a plant in transition this week. A simple spring forward of the clocks and I am wilting over searching for the morning light. Benjamin Franklin first proposed daylight savings time in 1784 but the U.S. did not adopt it until World War I. Most people have strong feelings about this mandatory switch [...]

Recently while stopped at a red light, I looked out my window and noticed a pick up truck with some leafy greens piled in the back of the truck. They looked a little too healthy and upright to be a pile of someones recent salad harvest and my curiosity was tickled so when the light [...]

As you may have gathered previously here on the GH blog, it’s unseasonably warm here in the Bay Area. So much so that I’ve decided to get cracking with garden preparations. This past weekend I broke out our heirloom seed stash and set some sugar peas into my RapidRooter tray with a bit of light [...]

I feel strange complaining while lounging around in my shorts and t-shirt in February, but if the rain clouds don’t come around soon it will be a bad harvest and fire season. Here in the Bay Area we have had only a handful of rainy days since last summer. This made me wonder just how [...]

While most of the country is waist deep in winter wonderland, we here in Northern California are eager to begin our outdoor spring crops. Technically Spring doesn’t arrive for another month, but around here, with the temperatures creeping up to the 60’s F we are already in our cool spring season. It’s not [...]

My Dad who lives in Southern New Mexico told me that a huge Algae production facility opened up in a town about 50 mile NE of him. It is producing large quantities of Algae for Bio fuel. High oil prices, competing demands between foods and other biofuel sources, and the world food crisis, have ignited [...]

While most of our happy clients love their General Hydroponics & General Organics products in quarts and gallons, many requests have come in over the years for larger sizes. The strangest request of all was from one gardener that owned an old milk tanker. He wanted to back his empty milk truck into our production [...]

I was visiting Mr. Green Thumbs new store in Bay City, MI and when I first walked in I noticed their extremely unique yet very cool way to display their nutrients. The store used to be an old gas station. It is on a very heavy traffic corner right off of the expressway in Bay [...]