The dates have been announced for the 2010 Indoor Gardening Expos. Start making plans now to visit us in Montreal- June 5th and 6th and San Francisco- July 24th and 25th. These industry trade show events are the best place to learn about new products and recent innovations. And after hours, they are some of [...]

Telluride Hydroponics and Organics in Colorado is growing enough basil to feed the whole state. It looks like they’ve got a great thing going on! Any readers from ‘Rado shop there? I’d love to hear about it in the comments!

Andy Troutman, Sales
Hometown: Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania
Dog: Oscar, an Olde English Bulldog
Favorite Food: Supplication, a brew by Russian River

I’m very happy to introduce you to my new friend and the newest addition to the General Hydroponics sales team at our headquarters in Sebastopol, California: Andy. He works every day taking tech calls, responding to emails, and placing [...]

40 miles from Port au Prince Hans Geissler has established an aquaponic farm to help feed orphans at an orphanage. Now it is feeding victims of the earthquake. Visit the farm with a news crew and learn about his goals for producing foodby clicking this link and choosing to watch the video story.

Via Hydroponics Aquaponics [...]

CVG is having a seed swap! Get in on that people!
These are seeds I saved from my garden last year… Gonna go outside right now and sow them in the ground!

Windowfarms is one of the coolest hydroponic projects that I’ve seen in a long time. It’s a simple DIY drip system that is made from recycled materials, specifically built for placement in a window. The garden has a flexible design but is generally uses plastic waterbottles, with plants growing in hydroton or other lightweight soilless [...]

In case you haven’t heard, an earthquake measuring 6.5 on the Richter scale struck Northern California this weekend. The epicenter was 25 miles off the coast of Arcata, just 225 miles north of the offices here at General Hydroponics. The quake did much damage, but thankfully there were minimal major injuries. Since then, aftershocks as [...]

Cheers! It’s the start of a brand new year, and its a time for a fresh outlook on indoor gardening. GH is back from the holidays, and the office is beyond busy catching up ( I personally have 400 messages in my inbox to work through!) I’ll be replying to emails and comments as the [...]

Everyone is in town right now for the General Hydroponics holiday party, and the flurry of team meetings for the end of the year. Our banquet was held last night at the Hop Monk Brewery in Sebastopol. All the employees from the offices, warehouse, and even the Canadian sales staff were here. Even Shawn, still [...]

Visit GrowingEdge.Com for a chance to win the Master Gardener Iphone App. They have a great review of the tool, which is designed to be a comprehensive assistant. Add plants and search their database of over 40,000 plants. All you have to do to qualify to win is add a comment! Easy!

Everest just sent me a link to this UrbanGardenMagazine.com post about Rapid Rooters. It’s a nice testament to how simple and successful our plugs and trays are.
GH’s Rapid Rooter medium plugs are “a unique matrix of composted organic materials bonded together with plant-derived polymers.” They’re infused with GH’s magic micro nutrient recipe. The plugs come [...]

Meet Nath, of Babylone Hydro-Organique, in Montreal, Canada. His shop is a great place to visit for equipment and knowledge of all things hydro. He shared some great photos of wheat germination trials that he’s been running with our new General Organics Bio Root. The sprouts have really healthy roots, and very vibrant shoots. Nath [...]

I recently had the opportunity to talk about food with a food and lifestyle editor here in Honolulu, and when I asked about local agriculture as it relates to fine dining, I was very surprised with what I learned. Hawaii has to import 80% of its food, and reportedly only has enough food to last [...]

Here’s an old-school article, from the Hydro Farm website, written in 1998, by Gordon Creaser for the Aquaponics Journal. It talks about a Hawaiian family getting set up with a large scale lettuce operation. Does anyone out there know if they are still growing?

When Jessica left for Thailand, a massive search was launched to find someone living in the local area to take over her duties as a sales rep. Adam, our head of sales, literally received hundreds and hundreds of resumes, and I’d like you to meet the hire, Luke Silverman.

Luke is a veteran grower, who spent [...]

I just love this window garden, created by San Francisco blogger Gomistyle. From his blog:
Let me begin with a simple admission. I don’t know much about gardening. Until a few weeks ago, I had never planted a seed, or maintained houseplants. My thumbs weren’t green, they were red and swollen from playing [...]

I have only one blurry photo to share from Lawrence Brooke’s talk at the Science Cafe, but I’m going to share it anyways!

Larry talked all about hydro, aeroponics, and the science of testing formulas. There were 30 or so people in the audience, and I think it’s safe to say that no everyone there was [...]

I am so excited to see our founder speak about water, aeroponics and hydroponics tomorrow night at an ongoing local community science salon. I promise a full report!

Adam, our head of sales, visits stores constantly. He recently visited Green Earth Garden Supplies in Surrey, British Colombia, and got some great information about their shop for our blog. I love how even though I’ve never been there, I can tell I would love the store by the massive ammounts of thriving and beautiful [...]

This is Mr. Icculus dropping in as a guest blogger on the GenHydro blog.  I use General Hydroponics products, particularly Flora Nova, to grow my Bhut Jolokia peppers that clock in at a scorching 1 million scoville units.    I want to spread the wealth around, so I have several extra Bhut Jolokia peppers with [...]