Michael Straumietis
Articles by Michael Straumietis
November 20, 2008
There is nothing worse than a hydroponically grown flower that doesn't have a good scent. A bloom can have a gorgeous color and look healthy and plump, but it still won't have much of a personality of it doesn't have that perfume infused aroma.
October 22, 2008
Hydroponics is all about making a series of decisions that ultimately affects the fate of your garden. One of the most vital decisions that you will have to make is what growing medium you will use to grow your plants. While each has their upsides and downsides, and every grower has their own preferences based upon personal experiences, you should seriously consider using hydroton.
Hydroton is a kind of expanded clay pebble which is typically manufactured in Germany. While it is usually used as a growing medium for flowers and larger vegetables plants like peppers, growers of all stripes have found fantastic success from using hydroton.
October 22, 2008
When selecting a hydroponic medium, most growers gloss over sphagnum moss. This is because most people usually think of this medium as just as a way to properly condition soil.
October 16, 2008
If you have had trouble with cloning in your hydroponics garden, you are not alone. Cloning is one of the most challenging tasks that hydroponic growers have to accomplish and it is very common for even experienced hydroponic growers to have trouble achieving a one hundred percent success rate for their stems.
October 16, 2008
There is no single big secret to getting your hydroponically grown plants to grow more. As much as people try to find it, there is not a single act that will have your plants shoot up to the ceiling of your grow room.
October 16, 2008
No hydroponic grower should take the decision of his or her growing medium lightly. Because, while one could argue that every choice you make in regards to you hydroponic garden will have a profound impact on the success of your garden, the growing medium is arguably one of the most important. Choose a growing medium that is well suited to both you and your plants, and your growing experience can be both high yielding and fairly easy. Choose one that does not suit your needs well, and you can find yourself wasting a lot of time and not enjoying the full benefit of your hydroponic garden. This is why you should consider hydroton as a growing medium.
October 07, 2008
One of the best and easiest ways to take your garden to the next level is just by giving your plants some beneficial microbes. Beneficial microbes, besides, helping protect your plants from harmful micro organisms, actually help your plants use your nutrient solution, particularly nitrogen, more effectively.
October 03, 2008
If you really want to make the most of your hydroponic garden, you should think outside the box, or at least outside of just the basic nutrients and supplements. There are a lot of tools available to hydroponic growers that can help them experience the rapid growth, bigger yields, and healthier plants that they crave. But you won't enjoy any of these benefits if you don't educate yourself on some of the most potent organic means to give your plants all of the nutrients that they need.
September 17, 2008
Entering the world of hydroponics is very fun and fulfilling, but it can also be somewhat intimidating. There are so many options for purchasing your hydroponics equipment that it can feel overwhelming. While it can be tempting to purchase the first system that looks cheap and easy to use to you, you don't want to wind up with equipment that doesn't match your needs.
September 11, 2008
The NFT technique in hydroponics is a very common and easy method of growing your garden. It involves using a constant flow of nutrient solution that cycles through the roots of your plants via a pump. Once this flow moves through your garden, it returns back to the pump to be sent out again after being replenished. There is no growing medium and the results are excellent. It is used commonly for tomatoes and various herbs.
September 05, 2008
Most people choose to go into hydroponics because it has a lot of advantages over soil. Soil gardening often creates smaller yields, weaker plants that are more prone to disease, and is much more labor intensive than hydroponics. But for all the downsides of soil, it does have some environmental factors that are beneficial to plants, and that hydroponic growers should work to imitate. That ultimate goal is to use hydroponic gardening as a means to create all of the benefits of soil, but none of the downsides.
August 22, 2008
Perhaps you're looking at your harvest yields and wondering how you can make them way bigger. Your yields are smaller than you want them to be, and it's costing you time and money. You hear about hydroponics flower stimulators and wonder if they're right for you. The biggest factor in how your flowers grow is what you feed them. Therefore, the right mix is vital to your gardens' development.
August 21, 2008
How can you make your indoor gardening produce more and better harvests? Savvy gardeners are using humic acids to increase their indoor gardening harvest yield and quality. Humic acids are powerful natural compounds that work wonders in your plants' root zone and inside plants. Yes, humic acids are an all-organic plant tonic that provide a wide range of benefits to your crops
August 20, 2008
Yellow leaves on your hydroponics plants! Oh no, that´s definitely not a good thing to see. Probably you´ve seen them and put them out of your mind, not wanting to think about what they could really mean or what to do about them. But the truth is after all it´s a deep, lime green color you want to see on your leaves. When you see yellow or some other color, it means your plants are having nutrient problems.
July 18, 2008
Hydroponics growers in the twenty first century have several more options than hydroponics growers had a generation ago. One of the newest and most exciting developments is the advancement of LED grow lights for hydroponics. These lights have the promise to not just provide bigger yields and faster harvests, but also cause less heat related damage and bring some relief to growers electricity bills. But if you decide to make the jump to this newer method of growing, you simply can't use all of the same techniques you used while growing with metal halide and high-pressure sodium lights. While most of the skills you have picked up as a hydroponic grower are transferable, growing with LED lights still has some unique conditions that require special instructions. If you follow these simple steps, you can be assured that you will get the most from your LED grow lights.
July 18, 2008
Anyone that has used a flowering enhancer from a reputable company can tell you how potent these products can be. They can increase the size and weight of flowers, increase the number of flowers per plant, and even improve the quality, aroma, and color of flowers. Many people that reap the rewards of these kinds of hydroponics products become curious as to what it is exactly that they give their plants to produce such huge advantages over those that don't use flowering enhancers. It isn't really anything nefarious or diabolical. Typically, it is simply a combination of nutrients and resources that make these nutrients more available to the plant that help harvest time become a much happier time for the grower.
July 18, 2008
On the seabed off the Pacific Coast of North America lies one of the most dynamic and complex ecosystems that you will find anywhere. Though they are often compared to land based plants, kelp is actually a kind of algae. What is extraordinary about seaweed is its ability to survive even in extremely turbulent conditions. Despite the strong currents that constantly tug at it and storms that threaten to rip them up entirely, kelp has the amazing ability to not only survive in harsh conditions, but thrive. It is able to achieve this because they contain a potent combination of hormones, enzymes and nutrients that make them extremely rugged and grow extremely fast. Smart hydroponics growers take advantage of these physiological traits by using kelp-based fertilizer in their nutrient solution.
July 18, 2008
If you have ever taken a close look at fertile soil, you have probably noticed that it is very dark and deep in color. The reason fertile soil is dark is because it is very rich in humic and fulvic acid. These humates help break down the nutrients in the soil and make them much more available to the plant. As a hydroponics grower, you probably want to enjoy all of the benefits of fertile soil, without having to suffer the many downsides that come associated with traditional gardening, such as increased likelihood of disease and smaller yields. The best way to achieve this is by adding a product that contains fulvic acid directly into your reservoir. But to get the most out of this substance, you should also pay attention to how you adjust other factors in your reservoir and growing room.
July 17, 2008
Every experienced hydroponics grower already knows the wonders that trichoderma can work in a hydroponic system. To have beneficial bacteria is wonderful, but if you want to truly retain and help those beneficial bacteria thrive, you need to make sure that you create a highly favorable environment in your reservoir. There are lots of way to do this. But one of the most important ways is by adding a product that contains trichoderma to your hydroponic system. Trichoderma will increase root mass, help boost your plants immunity and has a lot of other impressive benefits as well.
July 17, 2008
Many hydroponics growers, during some point in their growing career, become interested in using more or even using strictly organic materials. Some evidence exists to support the notion that organic vegetables are healthier, better tasting and have more nutrients than their chemically assisted counterparts. But many growers have reservations about making the jump because they fear that organic nutrients and fertilizers will not be as effective as chemically derived ones, and that may lead to a smaller yields. While this is a valid concern, the best way to overcome this issue is by using a quality organic plant tea.
July 17, 2008
Coco coir is making big waves in the world of hydroponics. Slowly but surely, grow rooms the world over are converting to one of the few completely organic growing media available to hydroponic growers. It may even soon surpass rockwool as the most popular medium used by hydroponic growers because of its higher environmental friendliness and excellent water and oxygen retention.
July 17, 2008
Deep in the bed of virtually every ocean and sea, there lies a large plant-like organism that survives incredibly harsh conditions through the sheer power of its natural vitamins, nutrients and hormones. The turbulent waves and swarms of kelp eating animals mean that in order to survive, it has to propagate easier and grow much faster than your average plant. Hydroponics supply companies harness everything that makes kelp such a powerful, fast growing and disease resistant plant by distilling it into seaweed plant food. Seaweed plant food can make a fantastic addition to your overall nutrient and supplement strategy, especially if you are growing organically, but only if you know how to do it correctly.
June 17, 2008
Generally speaking, there is no quick fix in the world of hydroponic gardening. Growing a successful garden requires a lot of dedication, hard work and a desire to make all the elements of your nutrient solution benefit your plants as much as possible. However, there is one additive that is about as close to as quick fix as you could hope for. Humic Acid is a material that is found naturally in fertile soil and it can do wonders when added to a nutrient solution.
June 17, 2008
Before your plants enter into the flowering stage, you need to take the necessary steps towards ensuring that they receive everything that they need to create large, heavy blooms.
One of the best ways of doing this is by adding a quality bloom booster to your hydroponic system. But before you do, it is imperative that you educate yourself on the ingredients in this hydroponic product so that you properly understand how it works.
June 17, 2008
There are few things worse to a hydroponic gardener than to step into your grow room and see burnt tips, yellowing, and curled edges on your leaves. These are all signs that your plants are not getting the appropriate amount of the nutrients that they need to thrive. Plant deficiency can strike even when your nutrient solution is well balanced because some factors may be preventing sufficient uptake.
June 11, 2008
To have a really successful hydroponics system, growers need to start with the basics. They need to make sure that their plants are receiving adequate lighting, that their nutrient solution is well balanced and has the proper pH balance, that their grow room temperature is optimized, and every other variable is sufficiently adjusted. But once you understand and master the basics of hydroponic growing, how do you take the next step? If you truly want to give your plants that extra edge in flowering, you should seriously consider investing in an organic bloom enhancer or organic compost tea.
June 11, 2008
Plants need correct ratios and levels of properly-configured nutrients if they are to eagerly grow, bloom and yield.During a plant's life cycle, it needs different types and ratios of nutrients. If you are growing indoors using hydroponics techniques, it is especially important to provide proper nutrients in correct ratios at the right time.
That's because hydroponics gardens do not use soil (which contains nutrients) but instead use sterile root zone media that needs all nutrients added to it so plants can uptake nutrients needed for growth. Plants suffer when they are fed the wrong kind of nutrients, when they are fed nutrients at the wrong time, when they are fed too much nutrients, or when they are not fed enough nutrients. They also suffer if nutrients are fed, but are not biologically available for uptake into the plant.
June 11, 2008
Plants receive the overwhelmingly large majority of nutrients from their roots. But in the 1950s, scientists working at Michigan State University discovered that plants could effectively absorb nutrients through their leaves and foliage. Since then, horticulturalists have taken advantage of foliar feeding as a means of providing nutrients that their plants might not be able to otherwise receive.
June 10, 2008
When organic growers think of hydroponics, they mostly assume that organic principles and organic growing are totally incompatible. Really, nothing could be further from the truth. Just because you choose not to use soil, that doesn't mean that you can't grow vegetables and other plants using strictly organic materials. And like with traditional gardening, organic gardening provides for even greater challenges - especially when dealing with pests.
June 10, 2008
Even though bacteria are often associated with disease, the number of species of bacteria that are either benign or helpful far out number those that can cause illness. In nature, most plants often rely on several species of beneficial microbes to increase the availability of nutrients and protect them from disease.
May 13, 2008
Rooting gels and other cloning solutions are used to encourage plant cuttings to form roots in short time periods in order to successfully propagate plants, flowers and fruits or vegetables. The faster the roots form, the stronger the plant clone success. In order to effectively use these gels and maximize results, following a few key steps can ensure success.
May 13, 2008
Rockwool is an ideal medium for inexperienced hydroponic growing because it can leave a grower with a considerable margin of error as it provides some major benefits including water retention, oxygen preservation and diverse application. Use rockwool if you are new to hydroponic gardening.
May 13, 2008
Root boosters are gels and solutions that help the plant's root system with the uptake of key nutrients from the soil such as phosphorus. In addition, these special boosters also help promote growth and increase cellular activity by reducing stress and preventing attacks from pests and heat or cold temperatures. They can also assist with reducing fertilizer as the plant grows stronger and matures.
April 30, 2008
Cloning is the process of making an identical copy of something. In plant propagation, cloning is a way to asexually reproduce a plant. Plants produced in this way are genetically identical to the parent plant. Plant cells exhibit a trait known as totipotency, meaning they all have the ability to divide and make another plant.
May 02, 2008
As most expert gardeners know, there is a huge variety of pests and diseases ready to dine on your plants. There are also a few specific problems that are particular to effecting indoor growing.
May 02, 2008
Hydroponics is the science of growing without soil. But it can be a tricky endeavor to partake especially if you are a beginner. Keep in mind these tips and tricks to help you create the best hydroponic garden and be the best hydroponic grower you can be!
May 02, 2008
Aeroponics is an advanced process of growing plants in an air or mist environment without the use of soil medium. Aeroponic growing differs from hydroponics growing, which uses water as a growing medium and essential minerals to sustain plant growth.
May 02, 2008
Plants naturally clone themselves to reproduce.
People can clone plants by simply taking a cutting of the plant such as a twig or stem and planting it. This is called vegetative propagation, a technique used by horticulturists to produce the best plants for flower, fruits and vegetables.
May 02, 2008
One the most critical aspects of successful hydroponic growing is monitoring and regulating pH level. But many gardeners do not have a firm grasp of why this is important or even what pH means.
May 02, 2008
The process of artificially or naturally distributing plants is known as "propagation." The purpose of this is to increase the number of plants whether through sexual reproduction, or seeding, and asexual reproduction, or cloning.
May 01, 2008
Hydroponics can be a difficult and confusing subject. The more information you can obtain, the easier it will be for you to begin your hydroponics project and sustain its productivity.
April 30, 2008
The use of genetically modified food has increased due to the global demands being placed on food producers. Genetically modified fruits and vegetables, while larger and more resistant to pests, don't always taste as fresh and flavorful. Hydroponic gardening has provided an alternative to growing your own fresh, flavorful produce.
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