Grand Opening Scheduled For February 4th, 2012!

     If you live in the area, be sure to stop in to our New, Bigger, Better Location at the other end of the Red Rock Shops in Southampton, Mass.  Our NEW location is more than twice the size of our old store.  We now have additional items and setups on display and well over 1000 products in-stock and ready to go!

Our Grand Opening event is on Saturday, February 4th between the hours of 10am and 6pm. We will be raffling over $1000 in prizes, including a Secret Garden Darkroom II PRO 120, a BloomBoss 300 watt LED Grow Light, a Quantum Bad Boy T5 High Output 4' x 4 Fluorescent Light and more!  In addition to the free raffle, there will be snacks and drinks and we will be handing out lots of free goodies, like t-shirts, nutrients and gardening accessories.  It's going to be a good time for all and we look forward to seeing you there. So come on by and check out our New Store and you could leave with some great FREE Hydroponics Gear!

Sincerely,

Ethan Holmes
Store Owner

Big Things Are Coming...

     That's right! Big things are coming here at neHydro! We are currently working on setting up a new retail store, in the same plaza as our existing store, to better serve the needs of our valued customers. Our new store will be double the size of our existing store. In addition to a whole lot more space, our new store will feature many new product displays, including functioning grow tent set-ups showcasing our favorite HID lights, LEDs, hydroponic systems, fans, filters and environmental controllers. We will also have an onsite diagnostic center where we can test bulbs, ballasts, pumps and fans much quicker and efficiently than before. Our new growroom design center will be a place where we can sit down with our customers and build indoor gardens from the ground up.

     We are working hard to be your one-stop growshop, and our expansion proves that serving our customers with the best products and best service is still our number one priority.

     Stay tuned!!! We will be announcing our Grand Re-Opening as we get closer to the move. We are all very excited, I hope you are too.

    

Special Deals on Our Discount Rack!

In preparation of the holiday season, we have added many new items to our Hydroponics Discount Rack. Be sure to check it out to score great deals on items that we have overstocked, discontinued or that we feel you just can't grow without. We've added bulbs, nutrients, ballasts, greenhouse controllers, CO2 equipment, pumps, accessories and more. Supplies are limited on all Discount Rack items, so don't wait until they're gone!!!

neHydro Announces the Arrival of Advanced Nutrients!

     We are excited to announce the arrival of Advanced Nutrients to our online and retail store. Bringing our customers the best selection of Hydroponics Supplies at the best prices has been our main goal since day one, and the addition of this superior line of plant nutrients for hydroponics and soil is right on track! Whether you are just starting out, or have hundreds of grows under your belt, you are sure to find a feeding regimen under Advanced Nutrients that will suit your needs.  From a simple 2-part SensiBloom & SensiGrow Fertilizer program to the advanced Connoiseur multi-part expert program, Advanced Nutrients offers a wide range of top quality plant nutrients, vitamins, beneficials and stimulators.  As always, we value your business and hope that you find just what you need!

 Posted by Kevin

 

 

No Need To Be Overwhelmed!!!

New England Hydroponics understands how confusing designing, building and maintaining an indoor garden can be. With over a thousand products in our inventory, it can often be difficult and overwhelming to decide exactly what you will need to get the most from your grow. That's where we come in.

     During our normal business hours, there is always someone available to speak with you directly, ready and willing to help make those difficult decisions easier. We know our products. We use our products. We stand behind our products.

     Maybe you need help selecting a grow media, maybe lighting gets confusing. Perhaps you are well in to the grow and your leaves are mottling and growth has slowed. We're not just gear heads, we understand plants and what they need to thrive, in addition to our vast knowledge of all things tech-related. Really guys, we want to help. The relationship we have with our customers doesn't end after the sale. In fact, that's where it begins.

     I've said it before, and I'll say it again. Call us. Please. The last thing we want is to have our valued customers shooting into the dark to decide what they need, only to find out the products they have purchased don't fit their needs. Sure, returns with us are painless, but why go through the hassle when a quick phone call could ensure you get it right, the first time.

     Don't be overwhelmed, just take the process one step at a time, with the first, and most important step being educating yourself. Read, read more, ask questions, read more, forget most of it, then give us a shout. Let's grow something together.

 

Posted by Kevin

   

 

   

New England Hydroponics featured in BusinessWest Journal

New England Hydroponics was recently featured as one of three businesses in an article entitled "Doing Business in: Southampton" in the October 14th 2011 edition of the BusinessWest news publication. 

You can check out the whole article online at BusinessWest.com

Posted by Ethan

neHydro's Ever-Expanding Inventory

I wanted to take a quick minute to let all of our customers know that our commitment to excellence doesn't just end with our customer service. We are constantly on the lookout for new products to add to our ever-growing inventory, with new items being added every week. We take our customer requests seriously, if we don't have it, we will try our hardest to get it. If the requested item is something we think you all will benefit from, it gets added to our shelves.

    Our home page features all of our newest items, to make browsing for this stuff much easier. Be sure to check in periodically to stay on top of this rapidly expanding industry, and to get the best deals.

    Every month we feature Monthly Specials, some of which are exciting new products, some may be items we have overstocked, others may be older products that deserve a second look.

    Did you know that every month we e-mail money-saving coupons to all of our customers who have created an account with us? If you haven't, you are missing out! Go ahead and sign up, it's free, fast and easy!

 

Posted by Kevin

Fall is Right Around the Corner...

    With the summers' heat behind us, it's time to start planning that new indoor garden. This is the perfect time of year to get set-up. Temperatures are easier to control, humidity is much more manageable, and the days are getting shorter, prompting us to find new hobbies to occupy our time during the long, dark winter months. Let's face it: unless we've got our own indoor garden, our produce is coming from the grocery store.

 

     The joy of eating snow peas while snow is on the ground, snipping cilantro for homemade pico-de-gallo on Christmas Eve, or crusting the outside of that big juicy Thanksgiving bird with fresh thyme and rosemary, is unbeatable. There is something so soothing in the fact that you get to say “I grew this”. It really is empowering.

 

     Maybe you already have an indoor garden? Now is the time to test your equipment, replace your tired old bulbs with new ones, refresh your fertilizers, maybe upgrade to that quiet digital ballast you've been pining over, or that environmental controller that keeps your temps and humidity in check without all the headaches you experienced last winter. It's time to calibrate your meters, clean the glass on those reflectors, blow out your ducting and sterilize the room. It is much easier to get everything dialed in BEFORE plants are growing, your plants will thank you for getting their environment perfect prior to germinating your seeds, rather than waiting to see signs of stress before making the necessary changes.

 

     There are a lot of decisions to be made, and special considerations must be taken to be sure your garden is going to work for you. How much room do you have to dedicate to the garden? How much time will you be able to devote to it? Where will it be located, somewhere warm? Somewhere cold? Will there be access to fresh air, or will you need supplemental CO2? What type of lighting will you need, and how much? Are you going to benefit from the added warmth of HID's, or the lack of heat that is available with LED's? Maybe fluorescent lights will suit you if your garden falls in between...

     What are you going to grow, and how do you plan to grow it? Soil? Hydro? Maybe a little of both? The more time spent planning is going to equal less time spent making changes and more time enjoying your new garden.

 

     New England Hydroponics not only supplies gardeners with all the gear they need, but we also have the knowledge and experience to make sure they get the most out their gardens. Feel free to give us a call or shoot us an email, getting started can be an involved and intimidating process, we understand this. That's why we are here to help.

 

-posted by kevin

Massachusetts Tax Free Weekend - August 13th & 14th

Massachusetts Tax Free Weekend - August 13th & 14th -  All online sales that are placed on August 13th & 14th will be exempt from MA Sales Tax.  In addition our retail store is open on Saturday the 13th from 10am to 6pm for Tax Free Sales.  So come on in or place an online order and save a little money this weekend only!

Posted by Ethan

Have You Visited Our Retail Store Yet?

New England Hydroponics welcomes you to come in and check out our retail store on Route 10, in Southampton, Massachusetts. In addition to the huge inventory of items on our website, our store features many hydroponic systems, soil plants, lighting, grow tents, and more on display for you to see in action. Not sure what system is right for you? No problem. Our experienced staff is always available to help with setting up your garden right, the first time. We don't just sell products, we are here to make sure you bring home just what you need and nothing you don't.

Do you have questions about which inline ventilation fan is the quietest, which bulb is the brightest, or which hydroponic nutrient is right for you? How about proper pH and PPM levels? Do you want to know the advantages and disadvantages of coco coir- versus peat-based soils? Come on in and we will do our best to answer all of your questions and help trouble-shoot any problems that may occur with your plants or equipment.

If you live in the Northeast, stop on in, I think you'll find the trip to be enjoyable and enlightening.

Posted by Kevin

Cyco Nutrients Tomato Grow Conclusion

So, it's been a couple of months now, and our first CYCO Flower Nutrients tomato grow is nearing completion. The plants have each yielded a bunch of nice, healthy red tomatoes, and still have dozens more green ones that should ripen up by the end of next week. The crazy upward growth has slowed down significantly, and I can stop snapping suckers off on a near-daily basis.

It has been a chore to keep the height of these plants down, but it made the store smell great and kept our worms happy. I was pruning off five to fifteen pounds of vegetation weekly, I can't imagine how huge these plants would be if I just let them grow.

Throughout this grow, I had been changing the res weekly, adding full-strength nutes and adjusting the pH. When I switched to the bloom formula, I noticed I no longer needed to adjust the pH, as the nutrients dropped my water right down to perfect. I haven't touched a pH pen in five weeks.

 

I am impressed with the line of CYCO Flower Nutrients. My res is super clean, my plants are super healthy, and the system maintenance was a dream. I initially thought that I wasn't going to like mixing all those nutrients together every week, but for the return, the input was totally worth it. I have always stood by one-part and two-part nutrients, but I really don't think the results I yielded with CYCO could have been matched by a universal formula.

 

As an introduction to CYCO nutrients, we are offering a complete Cyco Platinum Starter Kit. It comes with 32 ounce bottles of their ten bases, and 100 mL of CYCO XL, their ultimate bloom booster. The bottles in the kit are color coded to a corresponding feed chart, making it pretty hard to mix it up wrong. Really guys, it's a very easy schedule that helps beginners grow like the pros. Go ahead, try it out. I'm a believer...

Posted by Kevin

Product Feature - C.A.P. 150 watt hps Mini Sun Light

Hey there, Kevin again, writing today to showcase one of our favorite items, the Custom Automated Products 150-Watt High-Pressure-Sodium Mini Sun Light.

     This little light is pretty slick, it's a ballast and reflector in one simple unit. The reflector is powder coated on the outside, and the interior features the same Alumabrite insert that is found in C.A.P.'s larger reflectors, which disperses the light really well, eliminating hot-spots in your garden.

    The ballast is a 150 watt magnetic high pressure sodium, which fires the included bulb. This little workhorse pumps out 16,500 lumens in the red-orange spectrum, and will effectively cover a 1.5 by 1.5 foot area. It comes with an eight foot grounded power cord as well as A-hooks to hang the light from a chain or light lifts.

    I used one of these babies to start a bunch of seedlings this spring, and it worked great. It gets warm enough to boost temps for a warmer micro-climate, without getting too hot. This light will work great in small tents where heat output of your lights is a major concern. Because of the low heat output, you can keep the light closer to the canopy, effectively eliminating the legginess that typically occurs when vegging under HPS lighting.

   I dig this light, and I think you will too, so we are offering these units to our customers for only $74.95. It's a great price on a great light.

 

 

Posted by Kevin - Jun 7th 2011

Cyco Nutrients Grow Diary Update

          Hey guys, Kevin here with an update on our first Cyco Nutrient Tomato grow...

     It's been a little over three months, and our plants are going crazy. On 5 plants, there are about 50 little green tomatoes forming, and at least twice that many flowers yet to open. The plants are 4 ½ feet tall and some of the stalks are three inches in diameter. I had to hang a horizontal pole from the ceiling to tie the plants up to, as they started to sag under the weight of all our little fruits.

     The leaves and stalks of each plant are incredibly resilient, probably due to the large amount of silica in the regime. Lush is probably the best word to describe this grow. There have been no hiccups, no deficiencies, no pests. The plants have kept a very steady pace during the generative phase, and as reproduction comes underway, there is little sign of them slowing down.

     I do believe that something in the mix is keeping internodal spacing relatively short, as these plants were vegged under a 600 watt  HPS light. Normally tomatoes can tend to be a little leggy; healthy, but leggy, under HPS lighting. It could be the nutes, it could be the particular cultivar, I'm not sure yet. I'll probably try a different type next time to see if the results are the same.

     There is a small bunch of Brown-Eyed Susans in the AeroFlo with the tomatoes, overflow from an ebb and flood system, that are looking great as well. They did stretch a bit, but it was due to the larger plants shading them out. I was a little concerned that I would fry the delicate plants by feeding them the same schedule that the much larger, heartier plants were being given, but even at 1600 ppm, they haven't so much as lost a single leaf.

     Cyco nutrients have earned the neHydro Seal of Approval, an accolade that certainly doesn't get handed out to just any bottle.

 

Posted by Kevin

Complete HID Lighting Systems – New Options Available

We are pleased to announce a recent addition to our new website.  We now offer our Complete HID Light Systems in the Indoor Lighting category of our website with many New Options.  You can choose the brand and the wattage of the light package from the available products.  All lights are offered with a Ballast of your choice, a Plantmax HPS Bulb and either a standard open CAP LumeWing Reflector or a sealed Air-Cooled CAP LumenAire 6 Reflector.  Once you have selected a light kit, you will be able to make changes and upgrades on the individual product page by picking from the options that are listed.  The new options are shown below the price and they include the following choices: upgrading the HPS Bulb that is included with the light kit, adding an MH Bulb, adding a Timer and adding a Hanging Kit.  For every change that is made in the options, the price on the page will update to show the total package price.  We hope this new change will make it easier for our customers to choose just the right light kit for their specific needs. Remember, all of our Complete HID Light Kits are price $20 less than buying the individual components, so this is a great way to save a little money while buying your new Grow Light.

Check out all of the new Complete HID Light Kits on neHydro.com

Posted by Ethan

Announcing the Arrival of the CYCO Line of Nutrients!

Hi guys! This is Kevin from neHydro.com, and I'm writing today to inform our customers how excited we are to announce the arrival of the new CYCO line of nutrients!

     To start, I'd like to let you all know that I've been involved in indoor gardening, in soil and hydroponics, for over fifteen years. I've seen a lot of products come and go, and being involved in the industry, I've had the opportunity to use just about every nutrient available. No matter how many new nutrient lines come out, no matter how many claims of "Bigger, Stronger, Faster" they promise, I always find myself falling back on my tried-and-true nutrient line.

     It takes a lot to turn my head.

    One of our suppliers sent us a sample case of a new nutrient line from Australia called CYCO nutrients. The box it came in was more akin to something an expensive pair of designer shoes might be purchased in, far from the usual brown box with a stick-on label. Never judging a book by its' cover, I have to admit I wasn't immediately impressed. I spoke with a representative for said supplier, and he said "Dude, this stuff is AWESOME." He went on to explain an experiment at his office that involved a secretary who couldn't keep a spider-plant alive, a hydroponic system, a measuring cup, and a shiny new box of CYCO nutrients. Three months later, after never having adjusted pH, never fully draining the reservoir, and topping off with full-strength nutes when needed, her garden was taking names...

     OK, I'm listening.

     We have an AeroFlo 20 Site hydroponics system set up in our store, and being the dreary New England winter, I decided to add some color to the store by growing Lupines. "What nutrients will I use this time?" I thought to myself. Oh yeah, that's right, I've got that big box of new stuff from Down Under. I'll give it a whirl, my skepticism aside.

     2 months later, I was proudly showing off an incredible display of the most beautiful, thickest, strongest flower spikes I have ever seen!

     So we come to the present. I was so impressed by the quality of flowers I had produced that I was sure I would use these nutrients again. I dug into the seed stash, and found some Large Red Tomato seeds purchased from the Shaker village in the north-western part of the state. I sprouted the seeds in Rapid-Rooters (always Rapid-Rooters), and put the five strongest plants into the Aeroflo hydroponic system. Mixing in my nutes at full strength, (which, by the way, is 1000 ppm for week 1!!!) I was off and running. I left for the weekend, and while approaching the storefront on Tuesday morning, I could already see the plants grew to over 7 inches tall in less than 3 days!

    These plants were planted on February 19th, and yesterday (April 28th) I gave them the first dose of "Bloom A and B". The plants are 28 inches tall, with stalks half the size of my wrist.

     If just one observation could be made of the quality and health of these plants grown with this nutrient-line, I would have to point out that the cotyledons, the seed-leaves, ARE STILL GREEN!!!!  2 Months old and these guys haven't even considered yellowing or falling off. The CYCO nutrients are providing everything that the plant needs, with no burning, no deficiencies, and almost no maintenance.

     I am using tap water as my source water, changing the res every two weeks, adjusting the pH to 5.8 (manufacturer recommended) and topping off with fresh water as needed. There is virtually no salt build-up, the reservoir is as clear as weak filtered tea, and the tomatoes are growing like there's no tomorrow.

     I'm sold. This line works like a dream.

     I posted 2 photos of this grow so you can see for yourself. You don't have to take my word for it, but you probably should.

Posted by Kevin

Welcome to the ALL NEW neHydro.com Online Store!

Welcome to our new online store.  We have upgraded our website to better serve our customers. The new website has many improved features to make browsing and shopping both easier and more informative.  Since the site is now on a new platform and old accounts have not been migrated from the old system, current customers will be able to create a new account at checkout.  The new site will also let customers have the option to checkout as guests without creating an account.  We will continue to make changes to the site and to implement new features.  Please send a message if you have any comments about the new design or if you find any errors or problems that you would like to bring to our attention.  

Sincerely,

Ethan Holmes
Store Owner

New England Hydroponics featured in the Daily Hampshire Gazette

New England Hydroponics was recently featured in an article entitled "Hydro honchos: Local businesses cater to water-based gardeners" in the December 20th 2010 edition of the Daily Hampshire Gazette. 

You can check out the whole article online at GazetteNet.com

Posted by Ethan