Plant Gardens 101

Growing with hydroponics is easier than growing in the field

If you have decided grow your own plants, then you have a decision to make right now. Do you want to grow your plants indoors with hydroponics, or do you want to grow your plants outdoors in nature. There are many advantages and disadvantages to growing outdoors versus indoors with hydroponics. This article will discuss the differences between growing indoors with hydroponics and growing outdoors with soil, and the many advantages of growing indoors with hydroponics versus growing with soil.

Let’s begin by talking about gardening outdoors. Gardening outdoors has a lot to the advantages and disadvantages versus growing indoors with hydroponics. First we’ll talk about some of the advantages of growing outdoors. That’s the sun. This sun is the most powerful light bulb you will ever find. The amount of lumens of the sun puts out is not matched by any light bulb that man can manufacture. Meaning that plants grown in nature with direct sunlight will be able to grow like monsters. The sun doesn’t cost you anything. Light bulbs can get a little pricey versus this sun which is in a huge source of free energy, if you own a good piece of land that is. (more…)

Ionizers or carbon scrubbers; what is the best way to get rid of grow odors in hydroponics

If you have grown for any length of time indoors using hydroponics, you know that your plants can smell bad during the flowering cycle. When the plants are flowering you can smell a very distinct aroma that will fill your entire house or grow room. Many find the sent on a flowering plants to be unpleasant and would rather not smell it at all. You will need an effective way of dealing with that odor and eliminating it.

There are two fundamental ways to deal with the grow odors in a hydroponics application. That it is safe and effective carbon scrubber which would always be my first choice. And then there are the electronic and technical air ionizers. Both of these types of equipment used in your hydroponics applications will help you deal with that foul odor. A typical set up would run both with an ionizer and an active carbon scrubber simultaneously to get best results. However it is important to understand the difference between these pieces of equipment and how they should be applied to your hydroponics grow box application. (more…)