Welcome to Growers Hydroponics: Quality Indoor Garden and Grow Supplies.

Growers Hydroponics is your best source for quality and affordable garden supply. We offer a wide selection of growing equipment for your indoor garden. Everything you need to get started can be found here: grow lights, hydroponic systems, co2 and environment controls, growing pots and soil, fans and ventilation, nutrients, and fertilizers.

Get the best grow lights for your garden: Fluorescent lighting, fixtures and bulbs and HID Lighting lamps, reflectors, sodium ballasts, two-way ballasts, digital ballasts.

First Time Gardener? Getting Started with your Indoor Garden:
New growers have a lot of choices in supplies when deciding what gardening equipment to go with. When growing indoors, you will need to choose the right type of lighting for your plants, usually either fluorescent or HID. Deciding on the right grow medium, either hydroponics or soil, can depend on personal preferences, such as space, budget, time, expectations and experience. More items to consider for your garden include fans, ventilation, nutrients and fertilizers.


Growing Medium: Hydroponics or Soil?
One of the most important things to consider is what growing medium you will be using. The two main grow mediums are hydroponics and soil. Soil is the easier of the two to maintain, requiring less monitoring and is less expensive to set up. The chief advantage around hydroponics is a faster growth rate. Your plants will get bigger, quicker.
                         

Grow Lighting: Fluorescent, High-Intensity Discharge (HID), Incandescent, or LED?
Without the sun to rely on, you must make sure you provide your plants with the necessary color spectrum for optimal growth.

HID lighting provides brighter light and is more efficient at converting electricity to light than fluorescent lighting. HID lights use more wattage, and therefore get hotter than fluorescent bulbs. Usually some type of cooling, whether it be water cooling or air cooling is necessary with high-wattage HID lights. There are two main types of HID lighting: Metal Halide (MH) and High Pressure Sodium (HPS).
                                                 
Metal Halide (MH) omit light mainly in the blue spectrum.

High Pressure Sodium (HPS) lights omit yellow lighting (2200 K). HPS lighting is generally used for the flowering/blooming or reproductive stage of plant growth. They can be used during the vegetative stage, but usually leads to tall, leggier plants.

Fluorescent lights are available in any color temperature ranging from 2700 K to 7800 K. Fluorescents are not as bright as HID's but they are cheaper and give off less heat. Fluorescent grow lights are commonly used for growing vegetables and herbs indoors, starting seedlings and promoting green plant growth. They can be used in combination with HID lights during bloom and flowering. Since fluorescent lights are cooler than HID's, they can be replaced within inches of the plants, minimizing lumen loss from the bulb.
                               
Incandescent lights are the least expensive lights, but also the least efficient and a poor source of lights for plants.

LED lights are relatively inexpensive, bright, long-lasting and don't produce a lot of heat. However, they do not seem to outperform cheaper fluorescent grow lights.