It’s rare for a hydroponic nutrient to cause a real stir in the grower community. But Advanced Nutrients’ pH Perfect^®line has tongues wagging internationally. The nutrient breakthrough that eliminates the need for pH up or pH down, was named Best Product at the GROWMED: Fair for Medical Cannabis in Valencia, Spain this weekend. The award is certain to help convince even more growers,  to throw away their pH meters and pens, because the pH Perfect line of base nutrients locks down the pH into the sweet spot (pH 5.5–6.3), allowing medical marijuana crops to absorb the most nutrients, leading to bigger yields.

We interview Big Mike during Spannabis 2012…http://www.urbangroweronline.com/

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UW Ph.D. candidate Nate Storey describes his hydroponic tower system that uses fish to provide nutrients for his main product — vegetables. He tied for first in the 2011 Wyoming $10K Entrepreneurship Competition through the UW College of Business this past spring

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H2O FARM were very excited to be featured on Countryfile 15th January 2012. We had welcomed Adam Henson and the Countryfile team to our facility at the Spanish bit riding school in Dorney prior to Christmas to film the piece and the system looked fantastic on the TV. Adam took a keen interest in the concept of reliably producing tons of high quality fresh fodder every day and we explained the entire process along with actually showing him how we harvested and re-seeded the system.

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Went to a surprise party near Vancouver a few years ago. The surprise was this mysterious medical marijuana grower on the redwood deck outside the party house.

The guy was built like a tank but had a very friendly face. He was wearing sunglasses even though sun was nowhere to be seen. All the while, the dude was rolling Cheech and Chong joints crammed with a quarter ounce or more of freshly-ground BC marijuana each.

No sooner did he roll, lick, light and pass his marijuana phatties, but he’d reach into an industrial-size ziplock, yank out a handful of sticky, perfectly-manicured reddish-green buds, and start grinding more bud. This guy was a human machine, manufacturing huge blunts! Over the course of the party, his weed was responsible for rocketing dozens of brains into outer space.

He introduced himself to me as “Remo.” Was accompanied by his lovely wife Sandy.

His cigar joints tasted like candy and stayed lit easily, burning to white ash…a for-sure sign this guy was a skilled grower. All the other BC bud I’d been smoking was unflushed chemweed that made butane lighter companies rich because the stuff wouldn’t stay lit. That BC chemweed tore your lungs out.

Thank the gods that Remo’s medical marijuana had smoothness, kind flavor and THC punch like the finest outdoor organic bud…but he’d grown it indoors using synthetic hydroponics nutrients and a space age grow room.

One thing I noticed about him right away: no matter how much he smoked, he never got sloppy, brain-dead, or burnt out. And I just had to ask him how he was able to provide such copious amounts of medicine.

http://bigbudsmag.com/grow/article/urban-grower-medical-marijuana-heart-gold-january-2012

How To Grow Wheatgrass in a 5 gallon Hydroponics bucket. Wheatgrass contains so many nutrients, it’s often called, “Liquid Sunshine”. Just one 6-ounce glass can supply the the daily vitamins and mineral needs of an adult.

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If you’ve always wanted to grow wheatgrass, but didn’t know how, here’s a quick-and-easy way to do it.

Here’s what you do:
*Soak seeds overnight
*Spread thin layer of seeds on tray (less seeds is better)
*Spray them heavily 2-3x daily with cover on the tray
*Remove tray and rinse entire tray 2x daily

Make sure they’re in the sun after the shoot come up so
they get dark green and loaded with chlorophyll.

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Some medical marijuana users report intense, sudden, unjustified fear, verging on paranoia, after smoking strong marijuana, especially Sativa strains. I call this “maranoia,” and I’ve experienced it myself.

In a later article, we’ll explore how to recognize and banish maranoia. In today’s article I am also detailing another type of marijuana-related paranoia. This type of paranoia occurs in the hydroponics industry itself. Here’s the interesting situation…

We’ve all heard of Maximum Yield—an influential powerhouse in the hydroponics industry. For many years, Maximum Yield was the only glossy, non-marijuana hydroponics magazine.

Further, Maximum Yield organizes and hosts the only annual series of hydroponics “indoor gardening expo” events in North America. Maximum Yield expos provide unique opportunities for hydroponics companies and growers to network and view hydroponics merchandise.

Maximum Yield expos are as professionally run as any high-end trade show. It’s a perfect time for hydroponics businesspeople to catch up on international hydroponics industry news, and for thousands of growers to see a massive hall filled with wicked hydroponics gear and people who love hydroponics. The expos are fun…and good for business!

Dry Hydroponics Inc. from Holland demonstrate their Shallow Water Culture Hydroponic Lettuce Production System.

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Attended a 4 days training course between 4th to 8th October, 2010 in setting up an Aquaponics system in Hilo Island, Hawaii. It is organic certified process and very low cost to set up, scalable and use less than 1% of water and 40% energy compare to traditional commercial farming. The course is run by Tim Mann and Susan Friend, Friendly Aquaponics. Inc,

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