We here at GH receive lots of questions regarding the use of organic nutrients in a hydroponic setting. Bioponics is just that, a marriage of organic cultivation with hydroponic cultivation. To visit this very important topic I’ve included a link to our sister company, GHE’s blog. Read through as Noucetta describes 3 [...]

In our continuing effort to support educating children about growing their own food, GH donated materials to Chase Avenue Elementary in El Cajon, CA.
As we all know, kids love to be outside and play in the dirt. They also glean valuable insight into the importance of caring for living things and cultivating healthy food. GH [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Written by GH’s South Western Sales Rep, Nels Hansen:
After the sun began to set on this record-breaking hot day, I figured it was the perfect time to start teaching my boy about the growing and feeding of plants. What better way than to introduce him to General Organics™?
Living in a city with nothing more than [...]

July 16-17, 2011
Fort Mason Center
San Francisco, California
Next weekend is the 8th Annual Maximum Yield San Francisco Indoor Garden Expo at the Fort Mason Center and we will be there! Will you? There is quite the line-up, with over 200 exhibitors showing a huge range of indoor gardening products, techniques and technologies from plants to pots, [...]

My good friend Mark sent me this excellent video of his sister-in-law Gail brewing up a nice batch of compost tea. Instead of keeping a giant pile of rotting compost, she uses our Ancient Forest and Floralicious Plus and a few other select ingredients. Her instructions are simple, and her results are amazing- tomato plants [...]

VGANIC is the latest addition to General Hydroponics’ portfolio of trademarks. It’s our unique way of letting every consumer know which of our products are made without any animal ingredients.
We are proud to provide fertilizer to growers with the highest of standards, and that means producing plant-based plant food. All but one product in [...]

The tiny honeybee can often be overlooked as an essential part of gardening. This was highlighted to me recently when my friend was discussing the giant avocado tree that has grown in her neighbor’s yard for decades. It never produced even one avocado until another neighbor on their block started keeping bees. The humble bees [...]

I’ve got a Japanese Maple outside my bedroom window. This time of year the leaves are usually changing from lush, bright green to dark, fall reds. But I noticed yesterday that the leaves were more brown and yellow than red, and in fact, my beautiful tree is infested with some seriously nasty bugs. Click the [...]

I’ve been pretty obsessed with watching the San Francisco Giants this year. Lincecum is a total freak, and watching Wilson pitch is beyond suspenseful. The word torture describes things perfectly. Since I don’t have a television, and it’s impossible to watch the games for free online, I’ve be checking out the games at all my [...]

There’s been a great conversation happening in the comments lately. The topic is Actively Aerated Compost Tea. AACT is a great way to create microbial colonies that thrive on oxygen and deliver many benefits to the root zone.
Red Myst writes:
I am growing in a home-mixed organic soil that’s based on 50/50 mix of cocotek/sunshine peat [...]

Hydrogen peroxide is my favorite tool for sterilizing my ebb and flow trays. I’ve also heard that it can be used to add oxygen to over watered roots. But I didn’t know that I was using the wrong kind of peroxide! This article from Jason’s Indoor Guide to Organic and Hydroponics Gardening is filled with [...]

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