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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 […]

Hydroponics Lighting Glossary of Terms

We can all use a reference guide and so here for your pleasure is a glossary of hydroponics lighting terms.  Print it out, bookmark it, write em down — this should cover any terms you stumble across while walking down the path to growing godliness.  If you ever have any questions on anything hydroponics, shoot […]

Types of Hydroponics Systems

There are variety of hydroponics systems and choosing which is best comes down to personal choice, well at least to a certain regard. The four main systems are the drip/sprinkler system, the flood and drain or ebb and flow system, the nutrient film technique, and aeroponics. But there is yet another that is little discussed or promoted, but from our experience has the best results while saving money and being more conscious of the environment—Top Feed Systems.