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 [...]

Have you seen our new YouTube videos? Here at GH, we are working to develop new and interesting videos to help you succeed in hydroponic growing and to show you exactly how to use our products to their fullest potential. Our videos range from beginner skills to more advanced techniques. We’ll be making videos about [...]

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 [...]

The retail stores that carry General Hydroponics products are really the backbone of our community. They provide a way for us to get all our amazing products to you, the gardeners! They offer education, instruction and even the occasional party! We are grateful for the continued support of all our retail locations.
Today, we want to [...]

Atlantis Hydroponics just opened a brand new store in NorCross, Georgia (just outside of Atlanta). They had an AMAZING Grand Opening party and Customer Appreciation Day on August 28th!
Atlantis Hydroponics operates three stores in the Atlanta, GA area and one in Tennessee. Their mission is to make self-sustainable gardening an integral part of people’s home [...]

 
 
The Maximum Yield Indoor Gardening Expo is the largest and most attended indoor gardening show in the US. With over 150 exhibitors, there is something for everyone. Whether you are an indoor grower, outdoor grower, farmer, nursery person or just a weekend garden warrior, there is surely something for you at this event. General Hydroponics [...]

 
We are so lucky to work with so many great hydro stores around the country! We love to feature them in the blog once in a while. We’ve just been talking with Michael Taylor over at Horizen Hydroponics in Grand Rapids, MI. He has been using the GO line in his home garden and having [...]

Let’s talk for a moment about the real reasons why hydroponic gardening is important. Sure, it’s fun to grow an avocado tree in your house in the middle of winter but why do we really put forth all this effort? One company in New York has the answers: we grow hydroponically to get delicious, healthy [...]

Hey all! You may have noticed a new blogger on the GH blog, as of late. I’ve taken over the reins and am working with the rest of the Gen Hydro crew to bring you new content, interesting articles and more updates about the latest hydroponic technology. I’m Viridis Vixen, the green girl, always growing [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

Aquaponics is extremely popular in Hawaii. In fact, I’d say people are as aware of aquaponic methods as they are of hydroponic methods. One reason could be that the taro root is traditionally grown in water. Taro is a starchy root that thrives in water, and has long been eaten by island dwellers around the [...]

General Hydroponics is proud to congratulate Natural Heroes on their 2010 Emmy Award wins! Five seasons ago GH was the founding sponsor and executive producer of a little PBS show about regular people becoming heroes to the environment. We now can say that that little show is a very big deal, with a total of [...]

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 [...]