Advantages of Cloning

A superior cultivated variety can be rapidly duplicated. For example, a cultivated variety that has greater yield can increase profits and food supply, disease or pest resistant clones can prevent crop failures and reduce pesticide use. Every homeowner can have a "copy" of a clone for the best type of flower, tree, shrub, houseplant, etc. Cloning is a way to keep a particular plant in existence basically forever.

Cloning is often much more rapid than normal sexual reproduction via seeds because a cloned plant is already an adult rather than a seedling. Cloning is often cheaper than normal reproduction via seeds, such as houseplants and fruit trees.

Plants that cannot produce seeds and otherwise could not reproduce themselves, such as seedless grapes and seedless navel oranges, and cultivated bananas, which would not survive unless cloned.

There are four main types of hydroponic grow lights: Incandescent, fluorescent, LED and high-intensity discharge (HID).

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Fluorescent Best for cloning and seedlings, and are not as affective in fruit or vegetable production as HID's due to there low lumen output. Works quite well with lettuce, cabbage, and other leaf vegetables.

These are ideal for the smaller seedlings. Fluorescent promote fast growth and increase sprouting success. Ordinary fluorescent (T12, T10, T8) don't provide the complete spectral quality and can make plants look off color. Compact fluorescent or a 12" fluorescent cabinet lights (T5) are the perfect choice for the clonebucket, because they provide low heat and a spectrum suitable for cloning.

MH/ HPS (HID) First choice for tomatoes, peppers, broccoli, cauliflower, and any other large fruited plant.

HID grow lights are more efficient and produce more light (up to 10x more lumens/watt than an incandescent light), but also produce more heat. Today's HID is specially designed for growing and provide growers with proper color spectrum for vegetative and flowering stages of growth. These are best for large grow areas where the heat from the bulb will not affect the grow room temp.

Incandescent Best used in cold climates for clonebuckets. These provide a little extra heat to ensure clone's and seedling get a head start.

Incandescent lights are generally a poor choice for garden grow lights due to their inefficiency and limited light spectrum.

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What is Aeroponic's?

Aeroponic's is the process of growing plants in an air or mist environment without the use of soil or an aggregate medium. Roots are suspended in a chamber of air and are sprayed with a nutrient rich solution (water and fertilizer).

Some growers favor aeroponic systems over other methods of hydroponics because the increased aeration of nutrient solution delivers more oxygen to plant roots. Hydroponic's by definition is the process delivering more oxygen to the root zone. To date aeroponic's is the most advanced form of hydroponic's because of it's ability to deliver more oxygen to the root zone than any other type of hydroponic's.

Aeroponic's conserves water and energy. When compared to other hydroponic systems, aeroponic's offers lower water and energy per sq foot of growing area.