Indoor Gardening & Hydroponics Blog
Timing is everything
May 22nd, 2011
Titan Controls' Apollo 6 timer
24 hour plug-in timers, a staple for the indoor gardener. Your lights work on them, your pumps need them, your fans are likely hooked up to one -yet we rarely put much research or thought into the timer we buy. See one on the shelf at your friendly, local hydro shop and, without hesitation, you’ve purchased a crucial piece of your electrical backbone. But take a second and look at what this indoor grower has had the best results with – the Apollo line by Titan Controls. With 120Volt and 240Volt models running 15amps and 10 amps respectively, total wattage management up to 1800 Watts and 2400 Watts, a 1 year warranty and heavy-duty construction, Titan Controls’ Apollo line are solid timers that I trust to manage my expensive electronic equipment and prized horticulture.
Clone lighting and supplimental florescents
May 8th, 2011
Art of Hydro
carries an array of Sun Blaze T5 fixtures for every need. The Thousand Oaks and online shops stock everything from single-bulb 2-foot fixtures for seed germinating to 8-lamp 4-foot fixtures for cloning or a cool-running supplemental vegetative or flower light. Sun BlazeT5 fixtures are super energy efficient, throw very little heat, and have a highly reflective backing to maximize the amount of light that reaches your plants!
Hortilux HPS Bulb
March 26th, 2011
EYE Hortilux 600W HPS
Looking for a top-tier High Pressure Sodium Bulb to amp up your plant’s growth? Art of Hydro carries 250,400, 600 and 1,000 WATT EYE Super HPS bulbs to make best use of your lighting setup. Providing 17% more available energy over a standard HPS and a Kelvin range tailored to flowering growth, it’s hard to find a more powerful grow light.
Clone your plants the right way
March 12th, 2011
Aeroponic EZ-Clone 30 clone box
You’re looking for the quickest, easiest, and most efficient way to clone your plants. This blogger happens to whole-heartedly believe that aeroponics is the best way to go. Whether you’re using plain old fashioned water, or a mild rooting hormone solution, aeroponices gets the job done every time (I’d even recommend aeroponics beyond cloning). Exposure to oxygen kills many bacteria and harmfull biologicals that would otherwise stunt or kill fresh clones. By spraying an oxygen-rich solution and allowing plants maximum exposure to the air, aeroponics helps keep clones sanitary and healthy.
One of the easiest aeroponics solutions comes from the EZ-Clone brand. Art of Hydro carries 30, 60, and 120-site cloning boxes for everyone’s needs. Fill the EZ-Clone up, plug it in, pop in clones, and watch the magic happen!
KISS Sun Hut Enclosed Greenhouse
March 10th, 2011
Simple indoor growing solution
Looking for a Short and Simple solution to indoor growing?-Look no further than Sun Hut’s Enclosed Greenhouses! With a durable steel structure, thick black canvas exterior, highly reflective (up to 30% more reflective than white plastic) silver interior, vent fan flanges, hanging brackets, and easy-access heavy-duty zippers, it’s an all-in-one growing environment! Not only that, but they come in 2×4, 4×4, and 4×8 sizes to fit all of your indoor growing needs! Got closet?
P.S. I’m no architect but it only took me 10 minutes to assemble a Sun Hut 2×4 Enclosed Greenhouse!
Levitate your lights with ProGrip
March 6th, 2011
ProGrip Light Fixture Hangersmake hanging and adjusting the level of your lights a breeze! You want to make best use of your expensive light setup, but you don’t want to roast the tops of your plants. Rather than constantly fiddling with knots, or pulling out the pliers to adjust annoying chains, simply pull the loose end of a ProGrip to raise your lights, or push a button to lower them. Made from composite materials that won’t break, rust or slip, ProGrip works great for hanging carbon filters and ventilation equipment also!
Root stimulant
February 20th, 2011
Mykos Root Stimulant
Looking for a new way to explode your plants and make better use of your expensive nutrients? Try an organic approach with Xtreme Gardening Mykos and Azos beneficial biologicals. Mykos fungus (mycorrhizae) are go-go-gadget root extenders, expanding the surface area of your plant’s roots by up to 30% and facilitating the break-down and transportation of nutrients. Azosis a nitrogen fixing beneficial microbe that converts atmospheric nitrogen into a plant-available form driving chlorophyll production and keeping growth efficient. On top of this, Azos acts as a root growth stimulant, catalyzing the release of a natural growth hormone (Indole-3 Acetic Acid). This hormone boosts root development and works symbiotically with Mykos to increase your yields and get the most out of your setup.
Stealth Grow LED Lights – More bang for the buck
February 12th, 2011
Stealth Grow LED Light - SG 1250 HO
Stealth Grow LED grow lights are the future of indoor garden lighting. With 2 Watt and 3 Watt LEDs targeted at the Photosynthetic Active Radiation (PAR) zone, you get an efficient, focused light perfect for vegetative and flowering growth. -It’s everything your plants need and nothing they don’t.
With efficiency comes a cost – to the power companies. Running at 18 hours, the SG 602 High Power LED can save upwards of $496.68 a year per light when compared to traditional 1,000 Watt HPS bulbs. On top of this, you’ll be able to kiss your heat problems goodbye as LEDs run touchably cool in the low-to-mid 90′s. The kicker? They last upwards of 100,000 hours (that’s 15 years at 18hours/day!) and are as bright the day they die as the day you plugged them in.