For those who don’t know, the Electric Forest Festival is a spectacular electronic music festival in the heart of the beautiful woods in Rotherbury, Michigan. A fantastic festival with camping, lake swimming, golf, horseback riding and much much more! Of course, most people are there for the awesome music which is headlined by the String [...]

Created in 2004 to raise funds for charity and recognize talented, local, up-and-coming musical acts, The 2010 Muddy River Jam Festival was a 2-day festival where over 80 bands and electronic acts performed. Beyond just music, the event creates a family-like community by encouraging overnight camping onsite at the Salem County Fairgrounds outside of [...]

The SF TradeShow Shirt is insane. Super. Fresh. View it larger here.

The biggest event is growing is happening this weekend in San Francisco. The Maximum Yield Indoor Gardening Expo will be returning to the Fort Mason Center in SF. It really is the best show in the world. The expo space is packed with manufactures, distributors, stores, inventors and more. The giveaways are out of control, [...]

For many summers, General Hydroponics has been a major sponsor of the world’s largest reggae festival, in Humboldt, California. In the beginning, it was known as Reggae on the River, and in recent years was called Reggae Rising. The festival was the highlight of our events calendar. “Reggae” was the perfect party. Endless music and [...]

GH sent a great team to Maker Faire Bay area, headed by Luke Silverman. Karlo, our engineering assistant, also came and he took the shots I’m posting today.

They spent the weekend at our booth, which was filled with lush plants and examples of hydro systems. But my favorite part was the cush leather sofa with [...]

Maker Faire is an event unlike any other. It is a weekend long exhibition with 90,000 visitors that is at its core, a spectacle of scientists, DIY enthusiasts, crafters and artists. They come together to share their inventions and celebrate their unique alternative culture. This year General Hydroponics is a sponsor of the Maker Faire [...]

Recently, Zac and the knowledgeable staff over at Rocky Mountain Hydroponics and Organics in Golden, CO sponsored the Boulder Earth Day Festival.

The festival sounded like a fantastic success, with a lot of people learning about a variety of gardening practices. At GH, we love helping stores connect with their community through local events, activities [...]

The team behind Urban Garden Magazine has been working hard to create a new hydro event called Grow 2010. They just wrapped up their show in Manchester, UK, and sent the video above as a nice overview. If you don’t live in the UK, no worries. They will be hosting a second event in the [...]

This year at Earthdance, we collected $5 donations for our General Hydroponic T-Shirts and General Organics Sample Packs. All the proceeds are being given to the Redwood Forest Foundation. In total, we raised $1,110.00! The foundation is a Mendocino County organization dedicated to sustaining the stunning and unique ecology of the redwood forests. Often when [...]

Adam sent in some shots of the Gen Hydro setup at Earthdance. Everything looks amazing, I really wish I had been there! The festival is held on a stunning ranch in Northern California, with thousands of happy people camping and dancing. GH is there to promote the ecology of hydroponics. Many people still don’t know [...]

“Not just a festival focused on music, but rather a festival of spiritual consciousness, environmental and political activism and awareness…” – Jambase.com
The 13th annual Earthdance Festival will take place at the renowned Black Oak Ranch off HWY 101 in Laytonville, CA on September 25th, 26th, 27th. The ranch is also home to many well known [...]

Here is an Arugula plant loving MaxiGro nutrients.  It is growing at 400 ppm and is only about a week and a half old under T5 lights with pH 6.0.  The leaves are peppery and make a great addition to any leafy salad.

Gen Hydro sold this year’s Reggae Rising t-shirts with the new General Organics art.  They were in hot demand, and the proceeds went to a great cause.  Kiva makes microloans for entrepreneurs around the world.

According to their website, “Kiva is the world’s first person-to-person micro-lending website, empowering individuals to lend directly to unique entrepreneurs around [...]

Free swag is a massive part of the Indoor Gardening Trade Show. The giveaways are always epic.
We gave out sample packs with 6 of the products from the General Organics Line. And free T-shirts with the GO Bio Root art. 

I grabbed a shot of one girl who had so much loot she and her friends [...]