Brrr…Is it cold in here or is it just the new Frostbox Industrial Air Conditioner with Quick Connects? Put your money on the latter, because this A/C unit comes with quick connects, making it super easy to keep your grow room as cool as a cucumber. The Frostbox A/C comes in two sizes, 3-Ton and 5-Ton, and both come with an outdoor condensing unit and indoor air handler, and did we mention they come with quick connects?

Question, what are quick connects? Answer, piping pre-charged with Freon making the unit Plug & Play, eliminating the need for an HVAC technician to perform the installation, while saving you hundreds of dollars.  Cha-ching!! These units come with top and bottom Plenums, which make for easy installation of ducting to the top and bottom of air handlers (Note: These are not usually included with other units like the Stealth ACs from Excel Air).

We don’t want to brag, but the Frostbox Industrial Air Conditioner with Quick Connects is AHRI certified, ETL listed, fully insulated in a steel cabinet with rust-resistant, galvanized, leather grain-embossed finish with painted front panels…we could go on…so we will! Direct drive, multi-speed motor, BAM! Brass, rust-free fittings, POW! Vertical OR horizontal mounting, ZING! Are you still not a fan? Here’s something extra, how about we throw in a coil with horizontal upflow and downflow drain pans and secondary drain connects, and we’ll also include a filter rack for a 1” filter? Oh, wait…those are already built-in!

Last but not least, Ba da da da, Frostbox can come equipped with a day/night thermostat, a check flowrater expansion device that provides cooling for 4 heat pump applications, and a damper control package; allowing you to control two rooms with one system, and also a UV air purifier; mountable inside the Top Plenum, which will kill harmful spores and bacteria in your grow area. Those are all add-ons that are guaranteed to make sure you and your grow room stays cooler than the other side of the pillow.

Summertime is around the corner, and temperatures are going to have adverse effects on your grow room. If you think you are going to keep your crops cool with a mini, battery-operated hand fan, you are surely in for a surprise. Instead, shell out the extra clams and get a Frostbox – your plants and your friends will appreciate you for it.

Visit FrostboxUSA.com for more information and a list of distributors in your area.

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Beginning Hydroponics – Soilless Gardening by Richard E. Nicholls

An updated edition of the classic guide to hydroponics, providing a thorough introduction to soilless gardening.  Hydroponics, a method of gardening without soil, has developed over the past fifty years.  While it has been proven both reliable and effective, and has received much attention in some quarters, it is still an unfamiliar practice to many gardeners.  This book is designed to introduce you to the principles and methods of hydroponic gardening.

Rodale’s All-New Encyclopedia of Organic Gardening – The Indispensable Resource for Every Gardener by Fern Marshall Bradley and Barbara W. Ellis

Over 400 entries of the most practical, up-to-date gardening information ever, collected from garden experts and writers nationwide!

“Gardens are places to renew yourself in mind and body, to reawaken to the truth and beauty of the natural world, and to feel the life force inside and around you. And the organic way to garden is safer, cheaper, and more satisfying. Organic gardeners have shown that it’s possible to have pleasant and productive gardens in every part of this country without using toxic chemicals. They make their home grounds an island of purity.” – Robert Rodale

Secrets of High Yield Plant Growth by Graham Reinders

An advanced guide that focuses on useful, practical techniques for producing high yields in both soil and any hydroponics growing media. With comprehensive features on how nutrient, light and PH levels will affect the yield of a plant. More advanced than most of the other books we offer, but not too technical to understand.

The Rodale Book of Composting – Easy Methods for Every Gardener by Grace Gershuny and Deborah L. Martin

The essential guide to composting for all gardeners and enviromentally conscious people. Composting is fast becoming a household word. Gardeners know it is the best way to feed the soil, while others look to composting as a way to dispose of grass clippings, autumn leaves, and tree trimmings.

The Rodale Book of Composting offers easy-to-follow instructions for making and using compost, helpful tips for apartment dwellers, suburbanites, farmers and community leaders and ecologically sound solutions to growing waste disposal problems.

Gardening Indoors with CO2 by George F. Van Patten

Plants can use up to five times more CO2 than naturally occurs in the air. CO2, essential to photosynthesis, is often the most overlooked element limiting plant growth. This book demonstrates how fertilizing the air with CO2 can shorten growing time and double your harvest.

Includes technical information on how to set up a CO2 emitter system or generator system and how to grow cuttings and seedlings with CO2. Packed with the most up-to-date facts and figures on CO2, Gardening Indoors With CO2 shows you how to put CO2 to work in your garden room or greenhouse for super results!

These are just some of the many book offered in igrowhydro.com. Please check out the site for even more reading for the beginning to the most advanced grower.

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Steve Encell and his 9-year-old son Pace planted their pumpkin seeds two months late, but they still managed to take home first and third places at the Third Annual San Luis Obispo County Great Pumpkin Contest held Thursday, Oct. 16, at the Farmers Market in downtown SLO.

“I try and find really interesting and fun projects for my son and I to do throughout the year, and it was really a great experience,” said Encell, a Ballard resident.

Encell and Pace planted “Godzilla,” their 790-pound award-winning pumpkin, in late May. Most pumpkin growers try to plant their seeds in mid-March, two months earlier in the growing season, Encell said.

“We pretty much have to defy nature constantly. There is nothing natural about growing large pumpkins,” Encell said.

“It was really fun. My friends were impressed with how big they got,” Pace added.

Pace’s favorite part of growing the pumpkins, he said, was getting to sit on top of them and take pictures with his pets.

The two kept a diary of their experience on www.bigpumpkins.com, a forum for people trying to grow the largest pumpkin and learn from those who have learned the tricks of the trade.

“We really received great advice from the growers online. They are the ones who taught Pace and I that putting sand under the pumpkin prevents rot, and to turn the pumpkin sideways so the vine doesn’t break when it gets large,” Encell said.

Encell and Pace also put chicken wire underneath the pumpkin to prevent gophers from digging underneath and destroying it.

In mid-August, according to Encell’s diary, Godzilla was growing 14 pounds per day. By the end of that month the pumpkin was growing 35 pounds overnight.

“Green Coast Hydroponics in Santa Barbara ordered us special fertilizer and they were all excited about our project. They decided to help us out for next year’s competition as well,” Encell said.

A week before the contest, Godzilla was taken off the vine and weighed just over 800 pounds. Since the pumpkin wasn’t receiving any nutrients, it shrunk to 790 pounds by the time the judges weighed it.

Godzilla’s victory won $750 for the father and son, who also $250 for their other pumpkin, “PeeWee,” which took third place at 589 pounds. They also beat last year’s record by 75 pounds.

“We are definitely going to make this a yearly tradition. We videotaped the contest this year and we are going to make a documentary from planting to next year’s contest as well,” Encell said.

See how Encell and his son are doing this year with the pumkin diary

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Tested in Humboldt County, California, one of the largest agricultural states in the world. California’s farms, gardens and greenhouses are responsible for the cultivation of a variety of plants that help feed the stomachs and minds of people all over the world. Accompanying this variety of crop production is the extensive research in plant science, soil biology, chemistry, and many other fields related to crop production. Humboldt Nutrients has harnessed the best of our home grown scientists to develop cutting edge plant nutrients. We employed leading experts in the fields of chemistry, mycology, and agronomy to assist in the formulation of Humboldt’s hydroponic nutrients.

Humboldt Hydroponic Nutrients Products

Humboldt Nutrients was designed in Humboldt County to be part of a complete  three part growing nutrient system for hydroponics and all growing mediums. Through extensive research and testing we have formulated an easy to use, highly effective fertilizing program. Humboldt Nutrients  three part nutrients can be utilized for any types of vegetables, flowers, or herbs. In conjunction with our high powered hydroponic additives, Humboldt Nutrients gives growers maximum flower production coupled with heavy fruit yields.

Humboldt Master is a premium two part amino acid based fertilizer program designed for flowering plants. The amino acids and organic acid complexes set the Master A&B series apart from your standard base plant nutrient making all the macro and micro nutrients more available.

Big Up Powder (0-33-23) provides energy that your plants need to finish blooming with the largest flowers possible. Big Up Powder contains a diverse amount of proprietary ingredients that many competing products simply don’t offer and is free of all unnecessary artificial colors and dyes. Designed specifically for the final weeks of the flowering period, Big Up Powder provides the final boost of energy that your plants need to finish the bloom cycle with the largest flowers you have ever seen.

FlavorFul is an 8% liquid fulvic acid concentrate. Fulvic acid is comprised of a long chain of organic carboxyl and polyhydroxide acids. This organic complex molecule is very active with many open rings, giving it a large capacity to hold and exchange nutritive cations and anions. FlavorFul will enhance cell wall permeability through the root and leaf systems increasing negatively charged colloidal particles that are capable of holding and exchanging cations.

Humboldt Honey ES is an excellent source of carbohydrates for all plants.  Humboldt Honey ES also helps promote and facilitate the growth of beneficial bacteria and fungi in your soil or soil-less media.

Humboldt Roots is a highly concentrated organic root stimulant that expands the root zone during the critical growth stage. Many growers neglect the fact that the soul of every plant resides in the roots and concentrate on the visual aspects of their plants. A large yield is directly related to a plants metabolism rates and plant metabolism rates are directly related to the root zones capabilities to uptake plant nutrients and fertilizers. Humboldt Roots was specifically designed to expand the root zone which results in larger yields.

Hum-Bolt promotes the conversion of elements into forms more readily available to the plants. Hum-Bolt humic acid promotes high ion exchange capabilities, stimulates plant enzymes, beneficial organisms and acts as an organic catalyst.

Click to see Humboldt all in one nutrient page.

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An angry Mother Nature and increasing urbanization have led Columbia’s Dickson Despommier to urge agriculturalists to consider tilling high-rises.

Using grow lights and conveyor belts powered by renewable energy sources, Despommier and his students came up with an outline (www.verticalfarm.com ) in which approximately 100 kinds of fruits and vegetables would grow on upper floors with lower floors housing chickens and fish subsisting on the plant waste.

This may all sound like pie in the sky, but Despommier says his skyscraper farm has aroused the interest of scientists and investors around the world. And though the project is still in the blueprint phase, if it pans out, not only will large numbers of individuals be able to source their food locally, but ecosystems destroyed by years of exposure to toxic pesticides will also be restored.

Our farming technology includes hydroponics, which uses 70 percent less water than normal agriculture. We also use aeroponics, which uses 70 percent less water than hydroponics. Indoors, we can control everything including temperature and humidity as well as nutrition.

Proposed vertical farming designs presented in “The Living Landscape: Farming the Urban Skyline” by Blake Kurasek

The original article and interview are from http://www.miller-mccune.com by Arnie Cooper and can be found here.

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