KHTS Radio Santa Clarita Radio – Santa Clarita News
Ready to plant your first hydroponics garden? Great! America’s Best Hydroponics and Garden Center — serving health-conscious residents in Santa Clarita, the Antelope Valley, Lancaster, Palmdale and Kern County – is a hydroponics superstore with everything you need to get started.
Sponsored Articles
One of the Hydroponics Unlimited family of companies, America’s Best Hydroponics provides the best quality tools, resources and support for Southern California residents who want to grow their own food and herbs indoors.
Whether you’re looking for specific hydroponics supplies and components like organic nutrients, additives, supplements, growing media, bulbs, lights, reflectors, meters or controllers on an a la carte basis, or would rather get a complete starter grow system in a box, America’s Best Hydroponics has everything you need to create and maintain your own hydroponic indoor garden or grow room.
The company’s knowledgeable staff members, led by Paul, who founded America’s Best Hydroponics in 2006 and has more than two decades’ experience in hydroponic gardening and retailing, all love to share their knowledge and expertise with their customers, who range from absolute beginners to longtime growers.
Related: How America’s Best Hydroponics Is Different From Other Hydroponics Businesses
If you’re just getting started, there are three basic types of systems to check out – wick, water culture, and ebb and flow. You can build any of these from separate components or find them in a starter kit at America’s Best Hydroponics.
The easiest starter kit is a wick system, because it has no moving parts. There’s one tank filled with water and nutrients, and a separate reservoir holding growing media and your plants. A wick connecting the two reservoirs sucks water and nutrients into the growing media, where your plants in turn absorb the “food.” A wick system works well for peppers, herbs and micro-greens, but is less effective with water-hungry plants like lettuce.
The water culture hydroponics system is about as uncomplicated. All you need is a reservoir, a piece of Styrofoam that floats on the surface and contains your plants, and an air pump to add oxygen to the plants’ roots. A water culture system is good for water-hungry plants like lettuce, but not so great for plants with longer growing cycles, like tomatoes.
The more complex of the three basic systems is the ebb and flow setup. You use a submergible pump with a timer to flood the growing medium with your solution of water and nutrients, and the solution then drains back into the reservoir between pumps. Using a trimer allows you to schedule your plant feeding based on the size and type of plant, the temperature and the humidity.
Not sure which way to grow?
Talk with Paul and the staff. They’ll help you choose a startup system that works best for you.
“The more people growing their own food, the healthier our population will be,” Paul said.
Find the America’s Best Hydroponics and Garden Center store at 641 West Palmdale Blvd., Unit D in Palmdale.
You can also visit America’s Best Hydroponics and Garden Center’s online store at http://hydroponicsunlimited.com.
Learn more about America’s Best Hydroponics and Garden Center and Hydroponics Unlimited at http://palmdalehydroponics.com and http://americasbesthydroponics.com, or call (661) 266-3906.
Hydroponics Unlimited has been serving the Antelope Valley, Santa Clarita and Kern County since 2006 as one of the leading hydroponics and gardening stores in Southern California. The company’s owners are hands-on experts, sharing their years of knowledge and expertise. Visit them in their Palmdale location at 641 West Palmdale Blvd., Unit D, Palmdale, CA 93551, or call Hydroponics Unlimited at (661) 266-3906. You may also visit their online store at www.hydroponicsunlimited.com.
Do you have a news tip? Call us at (661) 298-1220, or drop us a line at [email protected].
Are people really growing stuff besides weed hydroponically?