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 [...]

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 [...]

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 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 [...]

It is only February but with the lack of rain here in the Bay Area I am starting to gear up and prep my hydro systems for deck duty in the spring. I scoured my WaterFarm & PowerGrower, swabbed my pumping columns and scrubbed my drip rings. Then it came time for the soaking of [...]

The Marin Agricultural Land Trust is a member supported non-profit organization of farmers, ranchers & environmentalists that work to permanently preserve farmland for agricultural use in Marin County. Since 1980 MALT has protected more than 44,000 acres on 68 family farms.
Across the country many other similar organizations such as the Sonoma County Agricultural Preserve are [...]

The view surrounding GH Sebastopol changes month by month as the once prominent apple orchards yield to the ever expanding vines of progress. Western Sonoma was once renowned for its Gravenstein apples. Today when people think of Sonoma County I am confident that the first thing that tickles the brain is the melody of flavorful [...]

Everything was frozen over this morning when I hopped in the car to go to work. All of the leaves have fallen off my mulberry and apple tree, and my tomatoes are wilting and dead in the frost. So in the dark of the morning I tried to look around and see which trees & [...]

On April 23rd, General Hydroponics attended Earth Day San Francisco, an Earth-focused festival with music, speakers and workshops centered on sustainability and eco-responsibility. It all took place in the scenic and historic Civic Center Plaza, nestled in the heart of San Francisco’s financial district. We were proud to exhibit alongside other environmentally conscious groups, which [...]