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March Madness Welcomes Spring

March Madness, St. Patrick’s Day, the first day of spring and one busy month! Regardless of your March plans and celebrations, we hope you are enjoying the nice weather and getting excited for the planting options that come with spring! Besides the prettier weather and blooming gardens, the first day of spring also reminds of […]

Talking Shop – Maximum Yield – June 2011

“Our goal is our name,” owner and founder Paul Antriasian said. The number of hydroponics stores that have opened over the last five years has almost doubled. With an increase in competition, the spotlight has been put on “store survival.”   As Sir Francis Bacon said, “knowledge is power” and nothing is truer for survival […]

Cloning Gel and Solution

Here is a great article I stumbled across. It covers cloning gels and solutions. Brought to you by http://growhydroponix.com.   Check out the full article at http://growhydroponix.com/. From Hydroponix: What makes a good Cloning Gel or Solution? There are four main ingredients in a cloning solution: water or dry base, the active ingredient, vitamins/minerals, and antibacterial/antifungal […]

Benefits of Hydroponics

Hydroponics comes from Latin and means working water. In its simpliest of terms it is growing plants without water, but in reality it is a lot more.  We won’t go into the many methods of hydroponics here — we’ll save that for a later post — but below we’ll take a look at a laundry […]

Hydroponics Grow Bulbs, HID Lamps and T5

Lighting systems for growing indoors and hydroponics have grown intensively more in tune with the needs of hydroponic growers and gone are the days of lighting your garden with standard bulbs. Available now are a range of bulbs to use depending on your needs for intensity of output and spectrum of light.  Light intensity is […]