Gorilla Gardener Hydroponics Supply San Diego & Colfax, CA

Resinator Rock Premium Products Now Available – Test Run of Rock Resinator Heavy Yields

gorillagardener — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 22:15:40 +0000

Rock Resinator has arrived straight from Adelaide, Australia to Gorilla Gardener Hydroponics in San Diego!

from Australia to San Diego - Rock Resinator

I have begun testing the Rock Resinator Heavy Yields after seeing two other beta test gardeners results. I was actually astounded by the resin production this supplement created. This is a competitor product to something like Snow Storm Ultra or Bloombastic -and from what I have seen- the clear winner. The crystal production in oil bearing crops in jaw dropping!

Supercharge Rock Resinator

This will be my very first test run with Resinator but I am confident with the results I have seen thus far to move forward. One thing I really like is the idea that I can keep my reservoir aerated without potentially building up bad bacteria. If you have any experience with Resinator please post your findings!

Below you will find the Rock Nutrients information sheet and feed chart. Click the image for high-res image clear to read =]

Rock Premium Products available in San Diego at Gorilla Gardener Supply Hydroponics store Resinater

Resinator from Rock Nutrients feed chart

I’m excited to report back on our first trial run in bloom. Anyone tried Resinator from Rock Nutrients? Let us know! Hydrofarm has begun importing and distributing Rock Nutrients, below is a snap of the catalog listing.

Rock Supercharge and Rock Resinator

Garden love,

Gorilla Gardener Supply
Chula Vista San Diego, CA
Hydroponics, Nutrients, Soil, Organics & Synthetic

http://www.gorillagardener.com

619.423.2367

North Dakota Hydroponics – Williston Hydroponics in North Dakota – Our Newest Expansion

gorillagardener — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 01:25:11 +0000

Greetings!

With more than 25 years’ experience we are ready to bring our industry knowledge to North Dakota. In the Hydro retail business for more than three years, we have access to everything a North Dakota Hydroponoics farmer may require for a bountiful harvest. We are joining our family in Williston, ND to bring industry equipment leaders to the city. Featuring distributors and manufacturers like Hydrofarm, Sunlight Supply – Sun System, Custom Automated Products, and many others.

Starting simply, we plan to host a free workshop at a local hotel in the area of Williston, ND. In this three hour class we will lay out in simple terms, everything needed to grow indoors. We have advanced experience with Greenhouse management, indoor gardening, and outdoor conventional and organic farming. We are experts in growing superior fruits and vegetables.

We plan to offer a turn-key solution for gardens small to large and will offer direct delivery to our workshop class or to your home.

Starting with this ad, we are simply looking to build a list of people interested in attending a free complete grow class as well as get access to direct-delivery hydroponics equipment and nutrients available to purchase at the time of our workshop. If this experiment works well we plan to open a small store in Williston to serve the North Dakota indoor growing community.

Take a look at our website and blog. If you are interested in learning everything you need to know to grow exceptional plants, just email us or give us a call to get on the class roster. We will follow up with a few emails over the next two months as we survey the interest in the community and hopefully build a nice attendance list.

- Gorilla Gardener
619.423.23667
sales@gorillagardener.com

Website – http://gorillagardener.com/

Craigslist ad – http://nd.craigslist.org/grd/2750118010.html

Article on the free weekly grow classes we have been offering for more than two years straight in San Diego:

http://gorillagardener.wordpress.com/2011/02/20/free-weekly-grow-classes-every-thursday-night-at-gorilla-gardener-supply-in-san-diego

Take a tour of our San Diego location!

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Cutting Edge Solutions G-Rex & T-Rex New Rooting Beneficial Inoculants

gorillagardener — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 00:39:09 +0000

Greetings Gorilla Gardeners!

We wanted to share some info with you about the incredible new ‘root boosting’ products from Cutting Edge Solutions. The team at C.E.S. has spent the last fifteen years collecting, cultivating and testing beneficial bacteria and fungi from all over California and the rest of the United States. They have always focused on harvesting the most advantageous bacteria and fungi possible to create explosive and robust growth of your beloved plants, and the results are outstanding. These beneficial organisms are proprietary blends and you will not find anything like these strains in any other products.

Introducing G-Rex & T-Rex biological stimulators!

G-rex & T-rex root boosters

As a big fan of the CES standard 3-part synthetic nutrient line, we were happy to receive some samples of their new proprietary beneficial Fungi & Trichoderma inoculants. Both can be used in a variety of applications and so far we have seen incredible results.

By using these products your plant will host millions of tiny feeder roots that work like the millions of tiny channels in our lungs. The more lung volume, the more oxygen you can hold. The more root volume, the more food you can hold. Your roots are the soul of your plant! Pure healthy happy roots bear massive fruit! G-Rex can be used at every stage of your plants life. Soak your fresh cut clones and place straight into rockwool, foliar apply, add directly to your reservoir, or hand-water into soil and coco based mediums.

Take a look at some great roots we popped up with a recent batch of clones. We soaked Grodan 1.5″ cubes and G.H. Rapid Rooter plugs in pure Reverse Osmosis water that has been off-gased for 48 hours. We used 10 ml / gallon and pH balanced the water to 5.5 for hydroponics application. Also a quick note we suggest that you NEVER use Hydrogen Peroxide (H2O2) in your reservoir or even as a cleaning product. Hydrogen Peroxide KILLS all these beautiful beneficial organisms you are introducing into your grow medium! Leave the bleach for Kelly Bundy’s platinum hair, not your roots.

Beneficial Fungi and Trichoderma create monstrous roots!

Fuzzy white fat healthy roots with millions of feeder hairs.

As you can see the G-Rex beneficial organisms have created a web of microscopic tentacles that increase the root systems ability to uptake nutrients. Beneficial fungi & Trichoderma also work to break down and recycle organic material to keep the roots healthy white and robust. The beneficial fungus works in a symbiotic relationship with the plant and the medium it is growing in. Various species of Endomycorrhizal Fungi (Mycorrhizae), Trichoderma, & Bacillus species are precisely blended to colonize the largest possible root mass, maximizing the harvest production of your plants.

The microscopic fungi receive sugar from the roots, in exchange they penetrate far deeper into the soil to absorb and send nutrients back to the plant. When those nutrients are depleted, the beneficial organisms simply reach further into the soil for more. Farmers using aggressive amounts of beneficial bacillus and fungi have found up to a 20% increase in fruit yield when used with normal nutrient schedules, at the same time saving money by using up to 20% less nutrients.

17 days after transplanting rooted plugs into 4″ Grodan Rockwool cubes

Fuzzy white roots busting out of a 4" Grodan rockwool cube with G-rex & T-rex

The organisms create life in otherwise lifeless mediums like Rockwool, Hydroton (expanded clay), old depleted ‘dead’ potting soil or store-bought pasteurized soils. The medium you buy is lifeless, no beneficial bacteria and fungus to break down and use the decaying roots. Using beneficial organisms provides a great tactic to avoid Pythium Disease aka ‘Root Rot.’

It’s up to you the farmer to provide where mother nature is not available, these beneficials are found throughout the Earth’s Rhizosphere. The worlds largest living organism is a huge fungus that is believed to be approximately 8,500 years old and covers nearly four square miles (10 Km) of forest floor!

Information sheets on G-Rex & T-Rex

CES G-Rex Beneficial Booster

G-Rex & T-Rex roots after transplant into 4" Rockwool cubes - 5ml / gal each

Hydroponics growers in San Diego dream about it!

I haven’t had a chance to use the G-Rex as a clone rooting gel, but they claim you can skip using something like Clonex Cloning Gel, Dip n Grow, or Olivia’s Organic Cloning Gel. The next time I am taking clones I will label a special section that will only be soaked in G-Rex and no cloning hormones and see what happens, I’ll post up the results when I get to it! One customer said he tried it with Rapid Rooter plugs and every single one rooted healthy and fuzzy.

T-Rex is only used for rooted clones, vegging plants and regenerating a tired mother plant. Do not use in flower or your plants will never stop stretching! Our recently transplanted new generation of Mother plants have exploded with growth after a few treatments.

Excluse strains of Fungi & Trichoderma

T-Rex Label

Of course both of these root boosters are designed to be used with the Organic line from Cutting Edge Solutions but can be used with their conventional nutrient line (best results of my life) or any other manufacturers nutrient lines. Below you will see the complete feed chart for the Cutting Edge Organic line that includes Sonoma Gold Grow & Sonoma Gold Bloom, Solar Gia & Sugaree & Sour-Dee. You can also use this product right along with Hum-Tea from Cutting Edge Solutions, their breakthrough Biological super-tea adds even more vibrant Protozoa life and beneficial bacteria sources to colonize your root zone along with Humic Acid, worm castings, seaweed & molasses.

Organic Nutrient line from Cutting Edge Solutions

If you have problems finding these boosters at your local hydroponics store, we are happy to ship anywhere in the United States. We will be keeping this item in stock for all of our local San Diego hydroponics and soil growers, as well as our Colfax outdoor growers. Give us a call if you have any questions!

- Gorilla Gardener

http://gorillagardener.com/

Gorilla Gardener Supply Releases Two New T-Shirt Designs – Glow in the Dark Hydroponics

gorillagardener — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 21:11:25 +0000

Gorilla Gardener Hydroponics of San Diego & Colfax, CA are proud to release our newest designs for our line of T-shirts!

Mens and Ladies sizes - Small to XXXL

Zapata Gorilla

This time we have debuted a new design featuring the Zapata Gorilla as well as a larger Che Gorilla, and they both GLOW-IN-THE-DARK! All designs are printed on pre-shrunk high-quality t-shirts and professionally printed for long term durability.

Che Gorilla

Design Release #3

Che Gorilla Profile – Glow in the Dark

Gorilla Gardener's newest T-shirt designs

Design Release #4

Zapata Gorilla – Glow in the Dark

Design Release #4

We have shirts in all sizes: Small, Medium, Large, XL, XXL, & XXXL

San Diego hydroponics growers

Logo also glows in the dark!

http://www.gorillagardener.com

We also have a limited supply of the new designs in Olive, and even one set of Olive Che Gorilla shirts in LONG-SLEEVE!

Prices for all designs in either color are $10 each for small, medium, large & extra large. The larger sizes for all designs are $13 and the long-sleeve Olive color are $15 (XXL only)

We can ship these anywhere in the United States for a small $5 shipping and handling fee.

Give us a call if you live far away and your interested in ordering a shirt, if we have the size in stock we can mail it out to you via USPS right away!

http://www.gorillagardener.com

http://gorillagardener.com/contactus.php

Gorilla Gardener Hydroponics in San Diego Celebrates Our Three Year Anniversary

gorillagardener — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 21:51:54 +0000

Greetings Garden Buddies!

We just wanted to take a quick moment to thank all of our loyal clients over the last three years that have kept our business thriving. We have expanded four times since we opened our doors and now have a location in Colfax, CA. Hundreds of students have attended our complete series of free weekly grow classes over the last year and a half; learning everything about growing from starting seeds, cutting clones to harvest day!

It has carrots in it... so it's healthy... we swear!

We look forward to many more years of bountiful harvests with our friends and family in South Bay San Diego. Gorilla Gardener always strives to be your number one source for knowledge and Hydroponics equipment in San Diego County!

Praying Mantis Army Has Arrived – Organic Pest Control for Hydroponics & Soil

gorillagardener — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 21:07:59 +0000

San Diego County hydroponics & soil growers now have another extremely effective organic weapon to fight bug infestations in you garden! Praying Mantises will kill all your insect pests! Don’t make the mistake of ordering un-hatched eggs on the internet. The rate of Mantises that actually hatch is extremely low. We have them fully hatched and alive, ready to do battle with your spider mites.

"I'll eat all your bugs..."

The Praying Mantis is a Spider Mite’s worst nightmare, even a small size praying mantis will eat about six spider mites a day. The larger sizes we have can eat up to ten or more spider mites each day. If your garden is infested with fungus gnats, thrips, caterpillars, moths, spider mites, white flies, aphids, spiders or almost any other pest, a team of predator Praying Mantises is your answer.

Praying Mantis will devour your spider mites, thrips, whiteflies and more!

What can I use to kill spider mites when I am in flower? The ONLY answer I give is “Praying Mantis”

Small Praying Mantises will eat 5 or 6 spider mites a day

What can I spray to stop spider mites? fungus gnats? NOTHING. Don’t spray chemicals (organic or synthetic) on your flowers! You can leave horrible flavors and aromas, stunt growth, hear popping and cracking toxic vapors, and give sources for mold when you spray a flowering plant. DON’T SPRAY CHEMICALS! DON’T USE PYRETHRIN BOMB FOGGERS! Use nature’s finest bug assassin, the Praying Mantis.

Kill spider mites organically in flower

The standard soldier to obliterate the bugs in your garden is the “Small Chinese Praying Mantis.” We sell them for $1 each. They are small but will eat and eat and eat until every last bug is gone from your garden. You can them even collect them and feed them yourself, keep them until needed again. They will grow bigger and bigger the more they eat over time. Most Praying Mantis species will live about 18 months, some up to two years. If you have already sprayed bug sprays, wait a least a week until you introduce your Mantis enforcers!

Packaging is good for a few months until Mantises grow large

We also sell “Large Chinese Praying Mantis” they consume about twice the amount of bugs each day as their smaller brothers. All orders come packed in cases with moisture and food, usually delivered next day when in stock. For the standard small Chinese Praying Mantis we need a minimum order of 30 for the manufacturer to deliver next day. If you need less than 30 we would have to wait a couple days for another additional order to get over the minimum.

Spider mites stand no chance

We also sell some exotic pet Praying Mantises, Ghost Mantis, Thai Flower Mantis, Stick Mantis and Carolina Praying Mantis are the types we specialize in selling. We even have custom built praying mantis cages available if you need one!

Predators or Pets, we sell a large variety of Praying Mantis

After your Praying Mantises eat all your spider mites and other bugs, collect them for next time!

Most species are delivered next day direct from the breeder “Mantis To Go” and are delivered hungry ready to annihilate those spider mites from hell! This is by far the best way to organically control pests in the garden. Whether you grow indoors, in a greenhouse, or in the fields, an army of Mantises is all the protection your harvest needs.

Hydroponics San Diego South Bay Area – Chula Vista, CA – Gorilla Gardener S.D. Walkthrough

gorillagardener — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 18:51:14 +0000

Our Hydroponics garden is in full swing and it’s a beautiful summer day. We just wanted to give you a quick tour of the store so you can see everything we have to offer to Hydroponics gardeners in San Diego.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7ywuBIyblY

We have been in business for 3 years now and welcome the most entry level beginner to the most advanced growers. We strive to be your one stop shop for all the knowledge and products you need. Every Thursday night we offer free Hydroponics and Soil growing courses, give us a call or email us for the class subject of the week!

http://www.gorillagardener.com/storelocations.php

A little more than two weeks later and check out the massive growth under the 100 watt Induction grow-light in the tent!

A little over 2 weeks after the video above was shot.

Summer Garden Starts Available Now in Colfax, California Gorilla Gardener Supply – Heirloom & Organic Varieties

gorillagardener — Mon, 09 May 2011 19:48:41 +0000

Hello Garden buddy!

We wanted to share some exciting news about all the wonderful Heirloom, Hybrid & Organic seeds and plant starters available now at our Colfax, CA garden supply store. We have stocked up on a large variety of seeds from Peaceful Valley Organic, Bentley Seeds, & High Mowing Organic Seeds. We have at least one dozen of many of our most popular varieties already planted and vegging out ready for a new loving home! Plant starts as well as their seeds are ready NOW for your shopping enjoyment and will allow you to see each strain or variety in living color. All of our seeds are organically grown and of the heirloom NON-GMO variety.

Non-GMO Watermelon and NON-GMO Tomato plants starts

Here at Gorilla Gardener we are adamantly against the procurement of genetically modified food and flowers. Mother Earth has provided Mankind with a staggering variety of strains and phenotypes of all our favorite foods, sourced from all over the globe by seed dealers, for thousands of years. In our modern era we have at our fingertips -all the choices of disease and pest resistance to suit any gardener- growing anywhere in the world. Any color of the rainbow, any size, aroma, flavor, harvest cycle and frequency you desire is available across the board for nearly anything you want to grow. If you want a dwarf size orange tomato or a massive sized pink beefsteak tomato, it’s all available from nature and heirloom hybrids. If you are looking for some honest non-fussed with non nuclear-radioactive-cancer fruit and veggie seeds, we are your garden store!

Take a look at some of the tasty varieties we have to choose from:

Lemon Cucumber, Zucchini, Green Finger Cucumber, Beefsteak tomato, Brandywine tomatoes, Moon & Stars Red Watermelon

Non GMO seeds - non genetically modified seed starts - NO GMO

At least a dozen of each plant type ready right now with the seeds they started from to read about. NON-GMO, we have NO genetically modified plants here. We sell Heirloom seeds, Organic seeds, Organic Hybrid seeds and non-gmo seeds.

Cross-pollinating Organic Heirloom plants gives you a simply Heirloom Hybrid

Ready to take home and plant in your garden

Drop by our Hydroponics supply store in Northern California located in Colfax, CA. Visit soon, these are priced at only $2 each and will fly off our shelves as everyone is gearing up for our summer FREEDOM GARDENS.

http://www.gorillagardener.com/contactus.php

Grow beautiful, and harvest always!

- Gorilla Gardener

Supernatural Nutrients Available Now – Gro Aqua & Gro Terra : Bud Blaster : Superlicious : Excellofizz : Bloom Aqua & Bloom Terra : Ultimate Thrive

gorillagardener — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 01:47:16 +0000

San Diego Gardeners we are happy to announce the newest high-quality nutrient line to be stocked on our shelves here at Gorilla Gardener.

SuperNatural High Quality Plant Food designed and formulated in Canada

Terra Gro & Terra Bloom from SuperNatural

SuperNatural is considered to be one of the originators of high quality, fully refined and easy to use nutrients for indoor gardeners and greenhouses alike. Due to massive customer demand we have done some research and asked what experienced gardeners that use the product line think of it. After numerous very heartfelt approvals from our customers we have decided to bring the complete SuperNatural brand Nutrient and Supplement line to our shelves. We have ourselves begun testing the lines on our own gardens and are looking forward to seeing the results. Formulas for Hydroponics and Soil Growing are specified by the name “Terra” for soil or soiless coco and “Aqua” for Hydroponics or Aeroponics, or even N.F.T. or dripper emitter systems.

Bud Blaster & Super Boost

Many customers like the fact that SuperNatural products are all powder based rather than liquids. Nutrients and supplements are FAR MORE CONCENTRATED than your typical liquid style nutrient line. Many customers with large gardens understand the tedious act of carrying around 5 gallon nutrient jugs and attempt to pour from them into measuring cups. If you are going outdoors and need to carry your nutrients long distances, the powders will be a life saver! You also don’t need to shake the bottles up before you start using the products. The fact that the powders rapidly dissolve and stay dissolved in reservoirs and feeding containers makes this line highly acclaimed.

Superlicious Elemental Compounds

SuperNatural is produced by RapidGrow Industries Inc, an environmentally aware Canadian company and is the largest plant food producer in the province of British Columbia. Featuring two separate manufacturing and packaging facilities producing products exclusively distributed by one of North America’s leading distributors, Sure Growth Distributing.

More than 20 years of research and development experience has allowed SuperNatural to provide the garden enthusiast with a new revolutionary way to achieve high performance results with minimal effort. Bringing together innovative concepts and formulation techniques handed down from a family of master formulators; integrated with the science of plant biology, physiology, and chemistry. SuperNatural Brand claim to bring customers to a new level in their horticultural experience leaving conventional gardening methods a thing of the past. Terra Gro & Terra Bloom are pH buffered for soil and soiless mixes, claiming that there is no need to test or pH balance your feed water.

Product List:

Gro Aqua
Gro Bloom
Super Boost
Super Soak
Bud Blaster Bloom Booster
Quality Cure
GreenStay
Super Leach
Root Burst Powder
Excellofizz CO2 Tablets
Ultimate Thrive
Soya’nara
Superlicious

CO2 Excellofizz

Quality Cure & Super Leach

Supernatural Nutrients for Hydroponics

Free Weekly Hydroponics Grow Classes Every Thursday Night at Gorilla Gardener Supply in San Diego

gorillagardener — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 22:07:28 +0000

Much love going out to the San Diego Growing community!

As part of our quest to make you the best grower in the business we are now offering free weekly hydroponics and soil gardening classes. Each week we will cover a different major subject of indoor gardening. In every session we will discuss the variances between running hydroponics versus growing in coco or soil. Example class subjects include:

Cloning Plants from Cut to Rooted Transplant

Introduction to Hydroponics 101

Flushing and Harvesting Techniques

Drying and Curing Your Harvest

Selecting a Nutrient Line & Nutrient Mixing

Feed Schedules and Supplements

Super cropping or ‘Supercropping’ techniques

CO2 Garden Enrichment & Perfect Growroom Setup

Indoor grow lighting technologies (HPS / MH / LED / Induction)

Advanced Hydroponics 201

Advanced Growing 301 – Aeroponics, Dripper Systems, Nutrient Film

Free Growing Class - Just bring a chair

Classes are complete lessons so if you miss a class, it will be repeated and you wont be behind the curve. As there are only 15 or so major subjects we cover, eventually all subjects will be repeated. If you are interested in coming to a class just show up on Thursday night around 7:PM and bring a chair along. If you would prefer to be added first to our weekly class subject reminder email list, feel free to send us your email address. You can reach the list at growclass@gorillagardener.com

Total beginner to advanced gardeners, all are welcome! Our goal is to teach the world how to grow their own fruits, vegetables and flowers, freedom from hunger.

Best wishes greenthumb!

- Gorilla Gardener
http://www.gorillagardener.com
619.423.2367
growclass@gorillagardener.com