FloraMicro is, of course, the foundation of the Flora Series 3-Part Building-Block Nutrient System. It is part of the backbone of any hydroponic setup. It’s made from premium grade minerals and provides Nitrogen, Potassium, Calcium and Micronutrients. 
However, because not everyone can start out with soft and/or purified water, our expert team developed FloraMicro Hardwater, which [...]

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 [...]

 
We’ve been talking lately about our new root-enhancing product, RapidStart®. RapidStart® delivers a powerful blend of natural plant extracts, amino acids, and nutrients to generate prolific root growth. It stimulates abundant root branching and development of fine root hairs that enhance nutrient uptake. We’ve seen what it can do for bell peppers and lettuce. Now, [...]

Coco fiber is a truly great growing medium, effective, and environmentally friendly. It can be used on its own or mixed with clay pellets, perlite or topsoil to grow amazing plants! It’s nicer to the earth than sphagnum moss and has better water and oxygen retention than most other media. Coco coir works well for [...]

October 22-23, 2011
Long Beach Convention Center
Long Beach, California

General Hydroponics will be exhibiting at the 2nd Annual Maximum Yield Long Beach Indoor Gardening Expo on October 22nd and 23rd. They’ve got exhibitors from all around the world to showcase the latest indoor gardening innovations and products!
We’ll be there with several booths filled with all your [...]

We love to see our products in action! Many stores across the country use GH nutrients and systems to show customers exactly how and why they work. Zach, at Grace’s Hydro-Organic Garden Center in Tampa Florida, has been experimenting with RapidStart® that Randall (his GH rep) gave him on his last store visit. 
Zach tried RapidStart® [...]

Our scientists at General Hydroponics headquarters have formulated yet another wonderful new nutrient product to maximize and enhance hydroponic gardening! In the never-ending quest to improve flavor and yield, they have developed this latest innovation. We are proud to announce the hottest new member of the FloraNectar™ family: FloraNectar™ Grape Expectations!

                                                               
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
FloraNectar™ Grape Expectations helps [...]

We love to see success stories from hydroponic growers and stores. It makes all our hard work worth the effort. Recently, we got some great photos of a lettuce-growing project in North Carolina. Fifth Season Gardening Co. Raleigh is growing some amazing lettuce under LED lights, using GH FloraDuo® nutrients and GO DiamondBlack™ Liquid humic [...]

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 [...]

We are very excited to announce the release of our brand-new product catalog! This is the most all-inclusive catalog we’ve ever produced!
It provides the most current information on our nutrients, supplements and even all of our systems. It’s great to flip through and see our entire line of products in one place. This easy reference [...]

Welcome to the 5th installment of our system blog series! We are breaking down each of the GH systems, to give you the real low-down on how they all work and tell you the advantages of each one. In the first installment, we discussed the WaterFarm®, our durable, compact, best-selling model. The second blog detailed [...]

                                     
At General Hydroponics headquarters in Sebastopol, CA, we are always working to provide growers with value driven solutions to enhance flavor and yield as well as vitamin and mineral content for the healthiest food crops. We are constantly testing, experimenting and growing to create the perfect nutrients for hydroponic growers everywhere.
It is from this [...]

Sometimes, we get some great blog comments that really warrant sharing with our readers. Last week, Mullins Farm left a comment on the algae bloom blog that I thought raised a really interesting question. It addressed a common concern with hydroponic gardening and its environmental footprint. I posed it to Pennywize and I thought his [...]

Get a sneak peek into the General Hydroponics factory, where we develop, test and manufacture all our products ourselves. Lawrence Brooke, founder of GH, will walk you through the process and talk more about the history and benefits of our patented techniques. Enjoy the video!