Organic and Hydroponics Gardening Blog

Hi, my name is Jason. I have ten years experience growing indoors under lights. It is my goal to improve the results of every organic and hydroponics gardener through accurate, easy to understand information.

Indoor grow light selector tool

Indoor grow light selector tool helps you quickly select the best grow light for your indoor garden area.

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high pressure sodium grow lights page

All about high pressure sodium grow lights, how to choose one, and how to use them for flowering indoors. Very easy to understand how to.

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Using Indoor Grow Lights Properly

Easy advice for using indoor grow lights, including fluorescent, metal halide, and HPS grow lights

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Organic Hydroponics - Easy Home Method

Organic hydroponics basics, plus a great beginning feeding plan, plus learn the best systems to use with organic hydroponics.

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Easy Hydroponics Gardening at Home

Hydroponics gardening explained in simple, easy read fashion...Different hydroponics systems, homemade hydroponic systems, feeding tips, and more

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How to Grow Hydro is really about Feeding your Plants Right

How to grow hydro is really about feeding your plants right. This page also covers choosing a hydroponics system and keeping it all in the right environment.

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How to Use Hydroponic Nutrients with Success

Learn the different hydroponic nutrients your plants need to grow healthy and the general feeding practices that produce the best results

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Homemade Hydroponics System Construction Tips

Experience led to these homemade hydroponics construction tips. Learn what materials to use and the best way to build a hydroponic system that works.

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Easy Homemade Aeroponics System

This easy to make homemade aeroponics system is cheap to build and relatively trouble free to run.

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garden grow lights - tips designs and advice

The indoor garden grow lights page is a crash course of the basics to help do it right the first time. Covers garden grow light types, use and general tips and advice.

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Landscape Plants For Sale

Landscape plants for sale, including Oak trees and Maple trees

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Great soil mixes for organic and soilless for hydro

A few great organic soil mixes to fit any occasion, plus soiless mix recipes for hydroponics gardening

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Organic Garden Watering Tips

A list of DO's and DON'T's for organic garden watering...lists dry crops, thirsty crops, picky crops (like peas), and seedlings.

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Starting Seedlings for Organic Gardening

How to get seedlings started for organic gardening, step by step

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Seed Starting Cheat Sheet

This cheat sheet for seed starting lists when you should start various crops both indoors and out.

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Organic Gardening Cheat Sheet

Short and simple organic gardening secrets on starting seeds, preparing your garden bed, fertilizing, watering, and more!

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Organic Gardening Bed Preparation

Step by step guide to prepare the soil in your garden with simple organic gardening techniques

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indoor garden designs -help so short and simple you won't believe

Short garden designs page for indoor gardens is unbelievably easy and will leave you with the best design.

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Choosing a Homemade Hydroponics System Design

Not all homemade hydroponics systems are created equal- Some have obvious advantages, while other designs are temperamental, high maintenance, and a headache to use. Find out here which is which.

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Hydroponic Gardening Tips and Tricks

A hydroponic gardening crash course listing the most problem solving tips and lessons I've learned over the years

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Grow Lights FAQ

Indoor garden grow lights - frequent questions and easy to understand answers from an expert

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Timers on Fluorescent Grow Lights

For fluorescent grow lights, I've read that it is best to use mechanical timers as opposed to electronic ones. Supposedly, the electronic ones can sometimes

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Organic Hydroponic Nutrients - Canna Bio

I'm working with Boswyck Farms, a small research and design farm in Brooklyn, NY. We work with a variety of hydroponic systems including NFT, flood and

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Baking Soda and Vinegar for Hydroponic Nutrient pH Control

I've read that vinegar can be used to lower pH levels in a hydroponic nutrient solution, and baking soda can be used to raise them. do you recommend this

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Garage Grow Room CO2

My question is about adding CO2 to the grow room. I'm running your most successful homemade hydroponic system. I'm set up in a garage that is apx. 25 x

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My Most Successful Homemade Hydroponics System

I built three homemade hydroponics systems over five years, each time making improvements. This last system produced phenomenal results!

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Measuring the Nutrient Solution pH

Nutrient solution pH can be tested in two ways- either by using pH test strips, or by using a pH meter. Both ways have certain advantages....

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Homemade Hydroponic System Feedback

Every homemade hydroponic system needs to supply three things: water, nutrients, and oxygen at the root level. Here I give some helpful advice on achieving this.

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Ask the Hydroponic Gardening Expert at Jason's Indoor Guide

Have your hydroponic gardening and other indoor gardening questions answered within 48 hours by the resident expert, Jason

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Miscalaneous Hydroponic Gardening FAQ

Have your hydroponic gardening questions answered within 48 hours by the indoor gardening expert

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Grow Room CO2 Setup

How to set up CO2 in your grow room. Step by step instructions on how to get the CO2 levels just right

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Maximizing Your Plant Growth With CO2

Plant growth proceeds as quickly as the limiting growth factor allows. With 9 other factors ideal CO2 becomes the limiting factor, and 50% increases in yield can be had adding it to your garden area.

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Hydroponic Gardening with Deep Water Culture

First of all, I would like to congratulate you on your website! I spent several hours trawling the net for clear and concise information on hydroponic

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Outdoor Hydroponic and Aeroponic Systems

I don't know much about aeroponics, but I do understand how the systems work. I wanted to know how effective aeroponic systems would be outdoors. I have

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Advice on Building a Grow Room

I have an indoor area that is in a room that is never in use ... totally dark. I am building an area inside this room 39 wide x 49 deep x 84 high. One

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Aeroponics Pump and Timer

I'm in the process of installing a greenhouse (30 x 72) in which to grow vegetables for sale (tomatoes, cucumbers, and squash), particularly in the winter

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Hydroponics FAQ

Easy to read hydroponics FAQ with hundreds of garden questions answered and organized by category

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Recirculating Hydroponic System with No Water Change

I am going to try DWC for the first time, but with Zilli Tilapia's and bioballs, which is use to convert ammonia to nitrates. Basically, it is an aquaponic

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Hydroponic Nutrient Buildup in the Grow Media

I recently started growing radishes, salad greens, etc. indoors. I use T5 grow lights. Presently, I use regular rubbermaid kitchen sink tubs as the containers.

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Preventing Plants from Sitting in the Hydroponic System Water

I have a NFT hydroponic system. I can't seem to find away to stop the plug (in which I started the seed off in) from sitting in the flow of water. Please

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Grow Room CO2 on a Timer

Using the timer method with CO2 tanks, what is the recommended cycle for boosting the levels? 4 times a day? 5 times a day? I have a 5x5 grow tent. Answer:

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Window Tomatoes 7 or 8 Inches

I planted tomato seeds. They are now 7-8. When or what should I look for (or do) besides watering and feeding them? They look healthy. I used an electric

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Hydroponic Grow Lights in the Far North

Jason - coming to you with my problems I feel like your my shrink. Perhaps you could start a whole new field & call it plant psychology. Anyway doc, I

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Hydroponic Root Pest Problem

I have noticed some mite like bugs on my DWC roots. The look dark to the naked eye, and under the 30x the appear to be green with redish dark behinds.

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Just Beginning with Hydroponics

As a beginner, from one to ten (ten being very, very difficult) how hard is it to grow peas and carrots and tomatoes with hydroponics? Also, how much should

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Hydroponic Nutrients in Undeveloped Countries

I am introducing the hydroponics growing method to under privileged countries through my non-profit organization. What I need your help with is an issue

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Grow Room Humidity Issues?

I already know how to successfully combat excessive heat and humidity in a closed sealed system with C02 injection and AC cooling. However, I wish to

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Tomato Root Growth Plugging Hydroponic Drain

Currently my hydroponic tomatoes are doing fine. Yet, the growth of the root system from the tomatoes have extended down into the trough. The plant closest

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Hydroponic Flood and Drain Question

I have searched all over the internet and still have not found a good answer to my question about flood and drain hydroponic system water level. I'll give

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Hydroponic Ivy Growth Encouragement

I am about to build a restaurant in downtown Los Angeles. Part of my design calls for an indoor brick wall 16' high, receiving no sun at all, where I would

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