Tyler has been part of the Hydrobuilder team for 6 years, specializing in product data and catalog operations. A mushroom cultivation enthusiast, he brings genuine hands-on interest to the fungi and specialty growing content he contributes to the Learning Center.
Can you grow mushrooms with hydroponics? Absolutely. Although mushrooms don’t form roots, like most plants, mushroom cultivation is. Growing mushrooms in a soilless setup will enable…
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Whether you grow indoors or grow outdoors, you need to learn how to identify and treat heat stress in plants. When warm weather hits, you might…
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Container gardening is just as simple as it sounds – it’s growing plants in containers! This is something that you can do inside or outside. You…
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A greenhouse is a building composed of windows and a frame, which allows sunlight to enter through. This sunlight provides light energy to your plants, but…
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What are worm castings, and why should you care? You may have heard of growers amending their soil with harvested worm castings, but did you know…
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June bugs might look harmless, but both their adult and grub stages can wreak havoc on your plants. While the adults chew ragged holes in leaves…
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Heat stress is par for the course when growing outdoors. The outdoor growing calendar has you planting in April, harvesting around October. This means you’ll be…
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Tobacco Mosaic Virus is one of the plant illnesses that most growers never have to worry about depending on what they’re growing. But, for those who…
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Leafhoppers are small insects, and both the nymph and adult stages can do serious damage to your plants. There are several species of leafhoppers in North…
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Watering your plants without thought can lead to serious issues in your garden or grow room. Over watering is more common since new growers tend to…
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Beneficial insects are organisms — predators, parasitoids, or parasites — that reduce pest populations by feeding on them or interrupting their reproductive cycle.
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Damping off disease is a general, somewhat broad term used for the sudden death of new plant seedlings. It can be caused by a wide array…
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