Macronutrients are the nutrients that plants require the most.  Plants require these elements in abundance throughout their life cycle if they are to thrive.  Macronutrients are broken up into three essential elements.

1.  Nitrogen (N) is essential to plant development and growth.  It is important for healthy leaf and stem growth and is needed in large amounts during the vegetative phase.  Nitrogen regulates the plant’s ability to make new protoplasm in the cells and is also necessary for the production of amino acids, enzymes, nucleic acids, chlorophyll and alkaloids.  Nitrogen is needed in smaller amounts during the fruit and flowering phase.  Too much nitrogen can ruin the fruit’s flavor but excess built-up deposits can be flushed out with pH balanced water or a salt clearing solution.

2. Phosphorous (P) is needed in large amounts during germination, cloning, flowering and fruiting phases.  Phosphorous is highly important to a plant’s ability to photosynthesize.  Plant without access to large amounts of phosphorous during the fruit and flowering phase will be stunted in growth and fruit production.

3.  Potassium (K) is used by plants throughout all stages of their development.  Potassium promotes strong root growth and increases a plant’s ability to resist bacteria, molds, pests and stress.  This mineral is also essential to the plant’s ability to regulate the opening of stomata which allows the plant to use light and air more efficiently.

Secondary Nutrients are also required by plants and most all-purpose fertilizers do not contain enough of these nutrients to satisfy the needs of fast growing plants so it is better to use high quality, multipart nutrient solutions.  Secondary nutrients include:

1. Magnesium (Mg) is the most common deficiencies in indoor gardens.  Magnesium is essential to the production of chlorophyll and the absorption of light photons.

2. Calcium (Ca) is require throughout all stages of growth.  Calcium is necessary for the manufacturing and growth of cells and it is essential that plants have calcium in the growing tip of each root for the roots to thrive.

3.  Sulfur (S) is essential in the production of proteins and vitamins.

Lastly, Micronutrients or Trace Elements are required throughout all stages of plant development but are required in small amounts to maintain health and vigor.  Most quality nutrient formulas will contain a full range of trace elements.  Trace Elements include: Zinc, Manganese, Iron, Boron, Chlorine, Cobalt, Molybdenum, Copper, and Silicon.

Just remember when choosing a nutrient line, be sure to use the manufacturer’s recommended guidelines.  Thank you to our friends at Maximum Yield for most of this great information.  Be sure to stop by one of our locations today to discuss any of our nutrient lines in more depth.  Hope to see you soon!

Hydroharrys-Walled Lake

1138 E. West Maple Road

Walled Lake, MI 48390

248-896-0099

Hydroharrys-Hazel Park

24047 Dequindre Road

Hazel Park, MI 48030

248-541-0099

• Liquid Lady Bug
• No Spider Mites
• Azomite
• Rasta Bob’s Death Mite
• Green Planet Nutrients
• Roots Organic 707 Potting Mix
• BadAss Fans
• Roots Organic Coco Palms
• Take Down Insect Spray
• Digilux and MaxiLume Bulbs
• Extraction and Drop Bags
• CAP Lighting and Controllers
• HydroLight Lighting
• ValueLine Inline Fans
• Humboldt County’s Crystal Burst
• And many more great products

Stop in to either one of our locations to learn more about these great products.  Also, don’t forget to check out coupons on our website, hydroharrys.com, weekly ads in the Metro Times, like us on facebook or follow us on twitter.  At any time if we can bring in a product for you just let us know and we will be sure to have it the next time that you come in.  We will continue to strive to be more customer friendly and are here for you and your gardening experience.

Hydroharrys - Walled Lake

Hydroharrys – Walled Lake

1138 E. West Maple

Walled Lake, MI 48390

248-896-0099

Hydroharrys - Hazel Park

Hydroharrys – Hazel Park

24047 Dequindre Road

Hazel Park, MI 48030

248-541-0099

Hazel Park

Happy New Year everybody.  What an exciting time at Hydroharrys.  With the the new year brings new beginnings.  We opened a brand-new store on Dequindre road in Hazel Park.  With this new store Hydroharry’s has new owners and management and promises to get back its roots of supplying the latest in hydroponic products, world-class customer service, largest selection possible at the best prices around.

We also will be holding monthly raffles, running unbelievable deals and coupons in the Metro Times, lowering prices, bringing in new product lines and just getting back to supplying the hydroponics community with friendly, knowledgeable customer service.  Please stop by either one of our locations today and give us another chance in the new year.

Walled Lake

+ BETTER VALUE, BETTER INGREDIENTS, AND 100% GUARANTEED!

SO WHY PAY MORE THAN YOU HAVE TO?

If you’re tired of over-paying for generic “Building Block Nutrient Systems” that are comparable to the little $3.50 bottles of granulated fertilizers the average homeowner uses on their garden flowers…

…AND… you’d rather invest your hard earned money in a Grow-Micro-Bloom Nutrient System made specifically for the types of plants we grow and the gardens we grow them in… then…
HERE’S THE GROW-MICRO-BLOOM BASE NUTRIENT BREAKTHROUGH YOU’VE BEEN WAITING FOR!

Until now, growers who were looking for an inexpensive, 3-part base nutrient formula had to settle for the industry’s common brand. They had to suffer because:

Most 3-part formulas are NOT made specifically for the demands of high-profit hydroponics plant growers like us…

Many include artificial dyes of an unknown amount and a molecular structure which could harm plants like ours (compared to harmless, organic dyes)…

And when you use these common brands your plants are not getting fed the right mixture of nutrients they desperately need for vigorous growth and impressive blooms!

But now, all that is about to change…
THE ANSWER IS ADVANCED NUTRIENTS’ JUNGLE JUICE™!

After thousands of man-hours and hundreds of laboratory experiments, Advanced Nutrients has just released their newest 3-part base nutrient formula for growers of all levels called JUNGLE JUICE™.

With this breakthrough formula, your plants get all the nutrients they need, exactly when they need them…

• JUNGLE JUICE™ MICRO: starts your plants off right and gives them the foundation they need by feeding them high-quality Nitrogen, Iron, Calcium, and other trace elements in the precise amounts our high-profit plants demand…
• JUNGLE JUICE™ GROW: provides the Nitrogen, Phosphorous, Potassium, and secondary minerals necessary for the types of plants we grow to THRIVE during the all-important vegetative phase… and…
• JUNGLE JUICE™ BLOOM: gives your plants the Phosphorous, Potassium, Magnesium, and Sulfur they need to bloom big and juicy buds and give you the maximum yield!

HERE’S 5 REASONS WHY YOU SHOULD PUT JUNGLE JUICE™ TO THE ULTIMATE IN-HOME TEST WITH YOUR PLANTS, TODAY!

1. You’ll find you save money when you compare JUNGLE JUICE™ to the industries common brand…
2. JUNGLE JUICE™ was designed from the ground up for growers like us and is guaranteed to meet your very specific demands and expectations for hydroponics nutrients…
3. JUNGLE JUICE™ is guaranteed to feed your plants the specific types of nutrients they need at every stage of their start, growth, and bloom phases…
4. JUNGLE JUICE™ is guaranteed to mix easily and quickly in your reservoirs…
5. JUNGLE JUICE™ is guaranteed to work for you… and… perform better than the industries common brand… OR… you get all your money back!

Hydroharry’s, metro Detroit’s oldest full scale indoor and outdoor Hydroponics garden center is happy to announce the opening of our third store in beautiful downtown Walled Lake.  The store is set to open the second week of April and will be packed with traditional gardening, organic and hydroponics products from some of the largest garden suppliers from around the world.

Featuring Sunlight Supply brand lighting systems and with over 4000 square feet of retail space, Hydroharry’s of Walled Lake promises to service the area with a large amount of products, a wealth of knowledge and the friendly staff.

Lady Bugs will fly away from plants for two main reasons, if either their food or water supply is depleted they will take wing.  First, give Lady Bugs a water supply by misting your plants down with plain water.  And second, a neat way to keep them from flying away, is to lightly mist the Lady Bugs with a water and soda mixture before you release them into your garden.  We recommend a 3 to 1 ratio of water to soda.  This mixture will make their wings sticky and unable to open all the way, preventing them from flying.  After misting, place the Lady Bugs directly on the infected plants and they will have no choice but to take care of your pest problem.

Use these tricks with beneficial insects and you will be able to get rid of your pest problem quickly and naturally without the use of chemical pesticides.  And remember, never use pesticides with beneficial insects; you don’t want to kill off the beneficials before they do their job!

Some of you older customers will remember Sledgehammer was on Fox Farm’s original feeding schedule.  The way the story goes was that Fox Farm could not get it registered years ago so they just dropped it.  Well now it is registered and ready to go.  Basically, Sledgehammer is a nutrient rinsing solution to remove excess fertilizer build up.  This is a great product when you add two tablespoons of fertilizer when the directions called for two teaspoons.  It is also helpful at the end of your plant’s production when you want to draw out the stored up fertilizer in the plant or soil to get a cleaner taste to you finish product.

The Microbe Brew is specially formulated to help plants achieve optimum microbial habitats at the root zone, bla, bla, bla…….  In a nut shell, by adding this to your nutrient feed schedule it will insure that your root system stays healthy, grows outward and insure good nutrient uptake for the plants.  The roots are the starting block for a healthy plant.  If your roots are strong and healthy then your plants will be strong and healthy.  The activity that happens in your root zone area is just as important as what happens above the soil.

Lastly is the Kangaroots.  This is a cool product that blasts your roots to encourage mass development.  The more roots that you have and the larger that they are the more nutrients that the plant can take in thus resulting in bigger and stronger plants!  We will have updated feeding schedules with these new products that can be used in conjunction with the original Fox Farm products.  All of these new products will be available in Quart and Gallon sizes and can be used with soil or hydroponics.  Remember, Fox Farm is a small, family-run business dedicated to producing the finest quality garden products available anywhere just like Harry’s!

We were wondering if Bloombastic was really all that it was talked up to what it claims to be.  What better way than to test it out ourselves.  So when used in conjunction with our regular fertilizer program on our tomato plants at Hydroharrys we noticed a 40% increase in flower sites and tomato size production.  With the testing done it can be said that Bloombastic is the most complete Bloom Stimulator on the market today.  This one bottle wonder will transform your garden by elevating it’s overall quality and yield.  Bloombastic is a highly concentrated pure mineral PK boost as well as a cutting edge plant metabolic booster.

Used by millions of gardeners worldwide, Bloombastic is a booster, accelerator, top hardener, quality improver and essential oils increasing product.  Bloombastic is an organic based product containing sea kelp and clay minerals.  Bloombastic is a European product formulated in Holland and reflects an NPK of (0-14-15).  Being an organic based product, we like that this can be used safely with all types of fertilizers and that we do not need to use 4 or 5 blooming additive products at one time saving us a lot of money.

Bloombastic is engineered to stimulate enzymatice processes on several levels increasing your plant’s resistance to stress factors sun as: heat, dry air, high light intensity, disease and nutrient deficiencies.  Bloombastic will elevate the performance of ANY brand of base nutrient transforming you into a Master Gardener.

Start using Bloombastic when flower buds first appear, mixing approximately 2 ml per gallon of nutrient solution.  This will usually occur during the last 4 to 6 weeks of the blooming and ripening stages of plant growth.  Typically, you will see results within the first 2 – 4 days.  As you increase Bloombastic’s dosage up to a maximum of 4 ml per gallon in the last weeks of blooming, you will see an even more dramatic effect from the PK boost and when the metabolic enhancers kick in.

Bloombastic can be used with all growing media and in combination with all feeding methods.  Keep using your base nutrients as normal while you add Bloombastic during the flowering cycle.  We found that less is more with Bloombastic keeping the dosage at 2 ml per gallon produced enough tomatoes to have many left over to give our customers on the counter our store.  We would highly recommend this product to any serious grower that wants to push the flowering and fruiting cycle to the limits.  In our next go around with Bloombastic, we plan our feeding our squash that we have started for our new grow room at our Warren store.  Be sure to stop by and check out the progress of the new state-of-the art grow area.

Bloombastic Key Points:

• Highly concentrated
• Stretches the flower cell, increasing intake capacity of potassium
• Triggers the sugar and bloom production
• Creates more compact and heavier looms
• Increases essential oils
• Ensures shorter flowering stage
• Contains 50% more phosphorus than competitive bio-stimulants
• Suitable to use in hydroponics, soil, coco and all growing media
  

Light Warrior is specially designed to enhance root development and encourage greater nutrient update by the plants. It is packed with beneficial microbes to stimulate root growth and enhance fertilizer uptake, humic acid to help in seed germination, and earthworm castings to help plants thrive. Light Warrior is the perfect fast-draining, lightweight seed germinator for your indoor jungle.

FoxFarm Ocean Forest is a powerhouse blend of premium earthworm castings, bat guano, and Pacific Northwest sea-going fish and crab meal. Composted forest humus, sandy loam, and sphagnum peat moss give Ocean Forest its light, aerated texture. Ocean Forest is pH adjusted at 6.3 – 6.8 to allow for optimum fertilizer uptake. There is no need for nitrogen fertilizers at first; instead try an organic blend like FoxFarm Big Bloom Liquid Plant Food to encourage strong branching and a sturdy, healthy growth habit.

FoxFarm Planting Mix is designed to be worked into the soil every time you plant. It has everything you need to get your garden off to a good start: earthworm castings, bat guano, Norwegian kelp meal, composted forest humus, sphagnum peat moss, and more. FoxFarm carefully adjusts the pH to make sure that your plants can take up the nutrients they need. The special, organic mix also helps hold moisture in the soil, which keeps plants hydrated and growing.

FoxFarm’s Happy Frog Potting Soil is alive with beneficial microbes and fungi that help break down organic matter and feed the plant roots. Between the earthworm castings, the bat guano, and the composted forest humus, your container plants have never felt so good.

Just Right Xtra All Organic Potting Mix was developed micro-biologically. Through extensive microscopic exploration and the development of micro and macro porosity; which is conducive to healthy beneficial bacteria, and fungi; Just Right Xtra ensures the delivery of available nutrition to your plants. Healthly, soils sponsor a symbiotic relationship with their photosynthesizing green plant partners; and together they become one with Nature.

Pro-Mix BX is a general purpose peat-based professional growing medium for the cultivation of horticultural greenhouse plants. It is lightweight, uniform, and blended to the highest degree of consistency to provide the necessary conditions for establishing plant growth. Pro-Mix BX is suitable for a wide variety of plant species and greenhouse conditions.