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6 EditorialThe End of An EraBy Vertuda Green

8 News from the IndustryBy Evan Folds, J. Caron & al.

14 2005: From Volume 1, Issue 0to Volume 1, Issue 4By V. Green & al.

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30 2007: From Volume 2, Issue 4to Volume 3, Special Issue 3By V. Green & al.






82 2013: From Volume 8, Issue 4to Volume 9, Special Issue 4 (Index)By V. Green & al.

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Over the last 10 years, we have published more than 120 combined issuesof both our indoor gardening magazines, The Indoor Gardener magazineand its French language sister publication, Le Jardinier d’intérieur.

We are sorry to announce that we are shutting down our main publication,The Indoor Gardener magazine, falling victim to weak advertising revenuesthat have plagued Canada’s print media and more specifically its indoorgardening community. There is increasing concern that most freepublications will not survive the current trend...

The Indoor Gardener magazine is ceasing publication with this last issue,a complete index of all the magazines we have produced over the last 10years. We are all sold out of most of those previous issues, but many ofthem are still available in digital copies at issuu.com. And we will bearchiving both magazines’ content on special pages on the Web in the nearfuture, as the French magazine will continue to propose new material everytwo month.

We would like to thank our vastly different and dedicated contributorsover the years (from Josh Morell to Jessy Caron, and from Bill Sutherlandto Paul Henderson, Pierre Bonnard, Jean-Pierre Daimé, and many more),who all put their own unique approach to compiling a huge amount ofinformation about indoor gardening, aeroponics, hydroponics, and thenecessary resources to succeed in your gardening project.

Let’s not forget a huge note of thanks to you, our readers, clients, andadvertisers for helping us reach this point. Without you, we couldn't havepossibly dreamt of growing this far and couldn’t been able of reachingmore than 10 years of an amazing era. We will be back in the near futurewith a new project still under wrap and confidential.

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(The Indoor Gardener magazine reserves the right to determine which press releases areappropriate for publication, and may edit for length, content, or style.)

NOTES & NEWSThe Vortex Brewer® Grows Life

Progress Earth’s Vortex Brewer®Revolutionizes Compost Tea

The unique Vortex Brewer® Compost Tea System design andproprietary organic and BioDynamic compost tea formulashelp farmers and gardeners grow nutrient dense vegetables,fruits, crops, plants, flowers and even lawns with amazingresults.

The Vortex Brewer is unlike any other compost tea brewingsystem on the market and is the single most potent tool forbuilding healthy soil and growing thriving plants. Brewingcompost tea is the act of growing beneficialmicroorganisms, or microbes, to extraordinaryconcentrations using premium compost, mineral catalysts,biological food sources and aeration. The air allows themicrobes to breathe and replicate, similar to how aerationworks in an aquarium.

Microbes bring balance to the soil food web and performmiraculous functions in the garden, including resistance tostress and draught, mitigating pests and disease andmaking perfect plant food. Not only is compost tea fromthe Vortex Brewer alive and an ideal fertilizer, but it createsliving, energized water and enhanced dissolved oxygenlevels using no air stones and no water pumps by allowingwater to move as it does in Nature. A meandering river, a

rolling wave or a whirlpool would be the most dramatic,visual examples.

“By energizing water and respecting it as a primarynutrient, and taking advantage of our biodynamic andorganic compost tea formulas, growers get so much moreusing so much less”, says Evan Folds, founder andPresident of Progress Earth, global distributor for the VortexBrewer. “Composting concentrates a natural process forhuman benefit, and we are taking that biological processto an entirely new level with living compost tea created bythe Vortex Brewer. Expect the most extraordinary resultsyou’ve ever seen.” Progress Earth formulates one of a kind,organic and biodynamic nutrient rich fertilizer products. Wehelp gardeners, professional growers and farmers to createliving, energized soil and grow the best gardens, crops,plants, trees and turf of their lives!

Whether you have abackyard garden,hydroponicgreenhouse,landscapebusiness,golf courseor a farm,we can helpyou attainsuperiorresults in all ofyour growingendeavors.Progress Earth isgrowing healthypeople, plants &planet! The VortexBrewer is arevolution incompost teabrewing.

For complete detailsvisit vortexbrewer.com, call 800-970-2864 oremail Evan Folds [email protected].

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The Classification of Plants

Tropical and exotic plants are exquisite, andthey require a lot of care. Indoors, we mustimitate nature, whether it is for pH, humidity,sun or artificial light, and even to develophorticultural techniques that are not easy toreproduce at home, at the office or in yourmother-in-law’s living room. Outdoors, thoseplants will delight residents from the USDAhardiness zones 9 to 12. To make it easier tofind the perfect plant for your garden,botanists have classified plants into groupsthat have similar characteristics. A plant’sscientific name is the key to finding out allsorts of information about that plant species.So, what’s in a name? A lot!

History and Origins

Everything began during the Renaissance, when explorersand sailors who discovered new lands brought plants backfrom one continent to another. Imported to Europe, theexotic plants were royal presents and adorned palacegardens. Because their number kept rising, botanists startedto distinguish them by naming them according to theircharacteristics. That led to names like “maple with five lobeslightly dentate leaves with fruit shaped like a horseshoe”(disamarous). The botanical nomenclature we use today isthe work of Swedish botanist Carolus Linnaeus, also knowas Carl von Linné (1707-1778). His reference work remainsBotanica Philosophica (1751). Linnaeus wanted to introducea classification system based on two names (genus andspecies), a little like our first names and last names. Aperfectionist, he developed, helped by a team of botanists,the genus and species concepts for plants. The maple givenas example above was then called Acre Saccharum or sugarmaple.

Linné, observing them through a magnifying glass,identified more than 7,000 species known in his time.Although his system was only taken seriously in the 19thCentury, he never stopped studying and classifying eachspecies with care. The subdivision into families only cameabout after the genus and species classification, to correctits flaws: plants from the same family were frequentlyclassified in totally different genus simply because they hada different number of distinct stamens or pistils. Usingfamilies allowed botanists to consider many other criteria,such as the flower, leaf and fruit, and not only reproductiveorgans. The standard was adopted internationally todistinguish between some 300,000 vegetal species, andLatin, the universal botanical language, was chosen toname them.

Still today, however, many botanists argue to move, renameor reclassify some plants from one family to another,because of the constant evolution of identification andanalysis methods.

In Our Magazine, A Beginner’s Guide That Started in 2005

At The Indoor Gardener Magazine, we started a series ofarticles on the “Classification of Plants” in our first issue,back in 2005, with the families Acanthaceae, Asparagaceaeand Araliaceae. We reviewed—in each of those families—alist of the main genera, each with its ideal cultivationmethods and reproduction technique.

The plants in this classification may be considered outdoorshrubs by our Southern readers (from Florida, Texas,California, etc.), but for the residents of northern climates,they simply are the most common indoor plants. In theseseries of articles, the reader learned to know exotic plantsbetter, and to place them in the proper family (genera aresubdivided in species—or informal taxonomic ranks—tofacilitate their classification). In doing so, we hope we havehelped the success of your indoor garden, whetherresidential or commercial, because those plants aredemanding and dear to our hearts.

To help the reader, we even created a code for eachcultivation requirements. The reader only needed to refer tothe legend at the end of each article to decipher the codesused for light, soil, climate, temperature or reproduction.

In the following issues of The Indoor Gardener, we cameback to one or two plant families per issue, to help you getfamiliar with their characteristics and the plants within thefamilies. We hope that, over the years following us, thisseries of articles allowed you to identify the needs of eachplant to extend your gardening adventures.

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A Future Vision For Hydroponics

Mars: A While Future World ForHydroponics?

When reading the science fiction masterpiece Martian Time-Slip (Philip K. Dick, 1964), one starts to dream of a not sofaraway time, when the red planet would become a greenplanet and the hero’s gardener wife, Sylvia Bohlen, living onMars with her husband Jack and her son David, would nolonger be an artist’s rendition. In this typical colonial family,the father works all week and comes home for theweekend; the son goes to school three or four days aweek; the wife and mother takes care of the house and theMartian garden, while managing their biweekly watersupply.

The time may not be so remote nor so utopian after all,when the first human colonists on Mars will grow tomatoesand lettuce in hydroponic greenhouses, using the Martiansun. We can dream of dinners served in Martian restaurants,with tomatoes and mushrooms on the menu that havenewly arrived, fresh from the colony’s hydroponic units,managed by an international team of farmers.

If our politicians go so far in their speeches, it is notbecause they have read too much science fiction, but ratherbecause providing food for astronauts in space is a realproblem. Think only of the astronauts of the Mir Russianspace station, who almost starved to death beforeChristmas in 2004, because the American space shuttle hadinterrupted its supply trips.

No human mission to Mars has yet been attempted, butwhen the time comes, which solution will be chosen to

supply food for such a long voyage? Are lyophilizedvegetables nutritious enough for the men and women whoattempt such a daring and physically challenging trip?Already, European chefs and scientists are working onsolving this major challenge.

According to Florence Cane, former development director ofthe famous culinary agency Chefs&Chefs owned byacclaimed French chef Alain Ducasse, “Diet is extremelyimportant for astronauts: preparing meals and eating areone of the most important times of the day on a spacestation.” Eating food congealed in an anti-gravity jelly maynot be the most appetizing prospect...

The space culinary questis only in its infancy. Willwe go so far as sending ateam of farmers ahead onMars, to grow the foodastronauts will need uponarrival? The mostsophisticated rotatinghydroponic wheel wasdesigned based onresearch by NASA onorbital cultivation: itseems we can have trustin the scientists’ andpoliticians’ belief, that wewill one day turn Marsinto a giant hydroponicgreenhouse.

Now, pour yourself a drinkand start enjoying themost exciting worlds...and gardens to come! Sci-fi fans and gardeners often sharethe same dreams!

By the way, gardeners of the future and new explorers canlearn more about Philip K. Dick and his most captivatingscience fiction story, VALIS.

— [email protected]

3 Facts About One of theBiggest Global Killers: Pollution

1. Dying Seas

The Baltic and the Mediterranean are slowly dying. Why?What sort of things pollute the sea? High levels of nutritionpollution have turned much of the Baltic’s shallow watersinto eutrophied dead seas. In such murky waters, swarmsof algae feed on nitrogen and phosphorus compounds,turning waters the color of broccoli. As the algae die anddecay they consume oxygen.

In 2000, 700,000 tons of nitrogen and 28,000 tons of (Sources: Agence France-Presse and The Hindoustan Times) —

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phosphorus entered the sea through river systems, the bulkof it coming from just four heavily polluted rivers: the Neva,in Russia; the Nemunas in Lithuania; and the Vistula andOder Rivers in Poland. In that year, more than half of thetotal waterborne phosphorus load and nearly one third of thetotal nitrogen load originated from Poland. Pollution fromnutrients and chemicals form a toxic cocktail that snuffs outphytoplankton as well as rockweed and bladder wrackcommunities, the basis of the Baltics marine food chain. As aresult, fish and shellfish stocks have been dramaticallyreduced in many coastal areas and in the Gulf of Riga andGulf of Finland. Fish found in such polluted areas often lackscales or fins, while others are covered in tumors.

— Source: redorbit.com

2. Recycling and Waste Reduction

Some people throw away more than a ton of rubbish everyyear—bottles, tins, plastic containers and packaging. Overrecent years there has been much discussion across theworld about the recycling industry. Household rubbish thathas been sorted by families for recycling is often beingdumped in landfill sites across the world. In the UK, forexample, more than 12 million tons of carefully sorted wasteis being dumped in foreign landfill sites, mainly in Asia(China, India and Indonesia). It's what someenvironmentalists call "the great recycling con trick".Recycling has rarely been so critical. There are so manyquestions that arise when you're thinking you're doing agreat job of recycling… "How does all this make you feel?Why is this a problem? Do we have to throw so much away?What could be used again?" Recycling helps, but it's not allyou can do for the environment... Maybe the utimaterecycling job would be buying nothing new for one year? Youcan purchase secondhand goods or borrow everything youneed, except for food and essentials like toiletries andmedicine of course. Visit sfcompact.blogspot.ca for more tips.

3. Noise Is Pollution

An old man of seventy who lives in a quiet part of Africacan hear better than a young man of thirty who lives in our

modern world. Noise is pollution! As the world becomesmore advanced, noise increases. And there’s too manythings that make our world noisy and affect our health...

— Source: smartplanet.fr

Outdoor Trend: PE Rattan Wicker

A Good Choice for Outdoor Furniture

Wicker is the term used for the process of weaving, and notthe name of any single material. It can be made of anynatural or man-made material. Woven fibres have anappealing style that has been used throughout history. Thereare four major types of organic materials used for indoorwicker furniture: rattan, reed, willow and bamboo, withrattan being the most popular for indoor use. Natural wickeris indeed made from vine like plants like rattan due to theirpliable and strong characteristics. Even though it has a greatlook and feel, it is reasonably high maintenance when usedoutdoors to keep its fresh appearance and prevent dryingout, mould appearing, fading, cracking and breaking.

Most recent offerings include PE wicker, also known as PErattan wicker or resin wicker, which is made out of syntheticmaterials like Polyethylene or Polypropylene resin fibres. Ithas a great supple feel and look, and in comparison to thenatural wicker has proved to be very durable and really lowmaintenance which is of major appeal especially with today’sbusy lifestyle. It has its own unique classy styling whichcompliments the classical or modern decor. The furniture’sframe is often made of powder coated aluminium weldedtubing which stands the test of time and makes the furnituresturdy to use while being really light to move around.Cleaning of these synthetic materials is really simple: wipewith mild soapy water and rinse off. All-weather resin wickerwas designed predominantly for use in outdoor furniture.

In a nutshell, you can now enjoy synthetic wicker furnituredue to its modern yet timeless styling, its durability, UV andwater resistence. It won't give you any surprise splinters,doesn't readily fade or deteriorate while keeping its supplefeel. The strong frame won't rust making this an idealcombination to use outside. It also works very well in mostindoor settings making it very versatile.

The synthetic rattan is 100% recyclable and most of theproducts actually already contain recycled material.

— Sources: webandwarehouse.com & myownbali.comPhotos : © 2013, Bota Sot & D.R.

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26 Growing Experiment by Two DedicatedIndoor Gardeners from B.C."We Did it to a Radish!": A Re-Conversion to Aero/Hydroponics

30 How to Eliminate Pests from Plants ComingIn from Outdoors

38 Gallery: Water Gardening Indoors

52 "Big Mike" Is Speaking Out Interview with Mike Straumietis, co-founder ofAdvanced Nutrients

“Two weeks before theharvest, we started cleaningout the systems, removing

yellowing leaves and any excessfoliage that was preventing theproper development of the

flowering crop. It's essential toundertake a rinsing stage at

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CONTENTS 7 Editorial: Discover A Brand New And Unique Indoor Gardening Media... (By Bruno Bredoux) / 9 Advertise With Us!Finally, An Advertising Campaign that Will Generate Results! (By Stan Daimon) / 10 Introduction: It’s Harvest Time Again! Late SeasonHarvest: Last Minute Tips (By Émile L’Estrange) / 14 Notes & News / 20 Culinary Plants: Crocus Sativus; Saffron, or 100,000 Crocus Flowers(By Ch. Rémy) 22 Tips & Tricks: Choosing Seeds in Catalogs; A Few Things to Consider (By Jeff Turcotte, Hydrotimes) / 26 Hydroponics: WeDid It To A Radish! Bob & Ted’s Excellent Adventure in Indoor Gardening (By Bob T. & Ted B., with the collaboration of Loup-ClaudeLeblanc) / 30 Pest Control: How to Eliminate Pest from Plants Coming In from Outdoors (By Doktor Doom) / 34 The S.O.G. Experiment:The Sea of Green Method in A Perpetual Garden (By Paul Henderson) 38 Gallery: Water Gardening Indoors; Our Best Shots for YourViewing Pleasure (By Bruno Bredoux, Exalted Fountains & Scott D. Appell) / 48 Technique: pH Measurement Methods; An Overview ofCurrent pH-measuring Instruments (By Loup-Claude LeBlanc, with the collaboration of W. Sutherland) / 52 Actor in the Industry: ‘BigMike’ Is Speaking Out; Interview with Mike Straumietis, Co-founder of Advanced Nutrients (By Fred Leduc) / 56 A Few Common Plants

and Their Amazing Properties; Useful, Powerful and Miraculous Herbs or Spices (By M. Phobos) / 60 Growing Experiment: Echinocactuswilliamsii, Cultivation and Philosophy. Echinocactus Williamsii is Very Easy to Grow: Just Follow our Master Gardener Lesson (By Soma) /62 A Little Bit of Cactus History: Heading Out The Huichol Way (By Drew Fergusson) / 66 Agriculture: The Woolly Times ...And Now WoolGrowers Have Their Own Magazine! (By AP) / 68 Synchronicity: The Dark Side of Oz (By Gino Lechasseur) / 72 Music: Kaliroots; A ShortHistory of Kébec Iconic Reggae Band (Courtesy of www.kaliroots.com) / 74 Shopping: Horticultural Novelties (By Jessy Caron, L. Charnet,Vertuda Green, Loup-Claude LeBlanc and B.B.) / 80 Q & A: Our Indoor Gardening and Hydroponics Experts Are Here To Help! (By Gerald‘JR’ Hannafin)

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26 Indoor Reproduction: Safe Sex for Plants Discover three basic methods for indoor plantreproduction: seed germination, cloning (from aparent plant) and tissue culture (dedifferentia-tion), an advanced form of cloning obtained bydividing cells.

32 How to Take Cuttings Preserve a Plant You Love for Years to Come!

34 How to Transplant Rooted Aero Clones to Soil

“The reason people gethooked on gardening is thatthe plant kingdom offers an

endless variety ofpossibilities for anyone tofind a plant to fall in lovewith! Whether it is the

foliage, the flowers or anexotic unique form, there issomething that can attracteveryone to gardening.”

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CONTENTS 7 Editorial: A refreshing look at hydroponics (By Bruno Bredoux) / 8 Op-ed: Indoor Gardening for Everyone and Anyone(By Fred Leduc) / 10 Introduction to Hydroponics (By Paul Henderson) / 14 Notes & News / 20 Using Gibberellic Acid to ManipulatePlants (By Fred Leduc) / 22 Have Willow, Will Root; Making Your Own Natural Rooting Agent (By Helene Jutras) / 24 Tips & Tricks / 26Indoor Reproduction: Safe Sex for Plants (By O. Richard Jr.) / 32 How to Take Cuttings (By William Sutherland) / 34 How to TransplantRooted Aero Clones to Soil (By Gerald ‘J.R.’ Hannafin) / 36 Gallery: Our Best Shots for Your Viewing Pleasure (By Jessy Caron, vieux ban-dit and Josh Morell) / 46 Hydroponic Tomatoes Grown in a Greenhouse at a Collegial Institute Specialized in Horticulture (By Jessy Caron,ITA St-Hyacinthe) / 50 Scientific Factors and Measuring Instruments in Hydroponics (By Brian Brisk, with the collaboration of JoshMorell) / 54 Recommended Measuring Instruments (By Brian Brisk, with the collaboration of Josh Morell) / 56 Compost andComposting: Why Would You Compost When You Are Cultivating in Hydroponics? (By Bruno Bredoux, with the collaboration of JessyCaron) / 60 Classification of Indoor Plants: 1 – Acanthaceae (By Jessy Caron, ITA St-Hyacinthe) / 64 Morphological Change, Physiological

Development: Variegated Plants and Their Care (By Louis-Philippe Rodier, ITA St-Hyacinthe) / 66 The Pros and Cons of Two RotatingGarden Systems (By L.-C. LeBlanc, with the collaboration of Helene Jutras) / 68 Lights! Action! Grow! You Want a Cost Effective LightingSystem? Look Beyond Sticker Price. (By Gerald ‘J.R.’ Hannafin) / 70 May 1st Lilly of the Valley Ritual in France (By Bruno Bredoux) / 73 TheStinky Flower (By Vertuda Green) / 74 It’s Time to Hurry to Seed Catalogs and Nurseries – So…What’s New? (By Marie Roy) / 76Shopping: Horticultural Novelties / 80 Q & A – Ask Fred 1: Cactus and Aeroponics (By Fred Leduc)

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7 Feeding the World: A Hydroponic Dream?

28 Natural Fertilization and Integrated PestManagement According to Biobest

32 Preparing a Summer Growing Space forCarnivorous Plants and Orchids

54 Classification of Indoor Plants: 2 – Agavaceae

60 Coco Coir: Natural Growing Medium

64 The Hydroponic Tomato Experiment;Searching for Varieties Suitable for Hydroponic Growing

68 Fertilizing… The Atmosphere!

“The worst thing to doonce you notice signs ofan infestation is to waitand see. What happensthen, and quickly, is that

the spider mites eateverything in your garden.They reproduce so quicklythat in less than a week themost luxuriant garden will

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CONTENTS 7 Editorial: Feeding the World: A Hydroponic Dream? (By Bruno Bredoux) / 8 Introduction: Healing With Plants…Through Gardening (By Helene Jutras) / 12 Notes & News / 18 Tips & Tricks: Fighting Spider Mites Organically (By Gerald ‘J.R.’ Hannafin)/ 20 Tips & Tricks: The Nettle, Unloved Yet Full of Surprises (By Bruno Bredoux) 22 Tips & Tricks: Odor Versus Aroma; How to Get Rid of theFirst Without Losing the Other (By Gerald ‘J.R.’ Hannafin) / 24 Seeing Life in Pink; An Escapade at Rose Drummond (By Jessy Caron, ITASt-Hyacinthe) / 28 Natural Fertilization and Integrated Pest Management According to Biobest (By Jessy Caron, ITA St-Hyacinthe) / 32Preparing a Summer Growing Space for Carnivorous Plants and Orchids (By James Vicari) / 36 Light, Grow! Let's shed some light on light!The joke is easy, but the subject is serious: light is the master of ceremonies, the first link in the chain, the CEO of plants. (By PaulHenderson) / 42 Ventilation: An Essential Tool for the Indoor Gardener (By Jessy Caron, ITA St-Hyacinthe) / 44 Gallery (By Jessy Caron,vieux bandit and Bruno Bredoux) / 54 Classification of Indoor Plants: 2 – Agavaceae, a.k.a. Subfamily Agavoideae (By Jessy Caron, ITASt-Hyacinthe) / 58 Morphological Change, Physiological Development Cactaceae and Succulents Everywhere! Modified Leaves, Myth or

Reality? (By Louis-Philippe Rodier, ITA St-Hyacinthe) / 60 Coco Coir: Natural Growing Medium (By Bruno Bredoux) / 64 The HydroponicTomato Experiment; Searching for Varieties Suitable for Hydroponic Growing (By Josh Morell) / 68 Fertilizing… The Atmosphere! (BySimon ‘Red’ Gareau, Hydro Sciences) / 70 Where Do the Colors of Flower Come From? (By Bruno Bredoux) / 74 Shopping: HorticulturalNovelties (By Jessy Caron, William Sutherland, Laura P. & B.B.) / 77 The Hydroponic World of North America / 80 Q & A – Ask Fred 2: FromClones to the Cheapest Hydro Set-up (By Fred Leduc)

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7 Hydroponic Cultivation: Exact Science or Empirical Activity?

18 Organic, Home-made Growing Beds: Two Methods

24 Growing Substrates and Their Use in Hydroponics

32 Growing Mediums: Characteristics and Recipes

52 Root Diseases

64 Pets and Plants: A Tricky Combination

68 Morels: A Holy Grail for Mycologists

“Nature's biological cycleregenerates the soil. Humus,a very fertile soil, is mainlymade up of decomposingplants and insects that willprovide roots with nutritiveelements required for their

development. The life withinaerates the soil and allows theroots to get the oxygen theyrequire to function properly.”

CONTENTS 7 Editorial: Exact Science or Empirical Activity? (By Bruno Bredoux) / 8 Introduction: Building a Greenhouse in the Gardenor The Advantages of Sheltered Production (By Paul Henderson) / 12 Notes & News / 18 Tips & tricks: Organic, Home-made GrowingBeds; Two Methods: 1 – Watertight plywood boxes; 2 - Aluminum-covered irrigation table (By Soma) / 22 Tips & Tricks: H2O Stories orHow to Adjust a Nutritive Solution’s pH Without Chemicals (By Gerald ‘J.R.” Hannafin) / 23 Germination Tips and Tricks (By Jeff Turcotte) /24 Growing Substrates and Their Use in Hydroponics (By Jean-Pierre Daimé and Pierre Bonnard) / 32 Growing Mediums: Characteristicsand Recipes (By William Sutherland) / 38 Home-made Substrate: A D.I.Y. Experience (By Jessy Caron, ITA St-Hyacinthe) / 40 Gallery (ByMarco Deux, Martha S., vieux bandit and Bruno Bredoux) / 46 From Soil to Hydroponics (By Richard G.) / 48 It’s that Time of Year Again!Bring your botanical friends back indoors for the winter (By Fred Leduc) / 52 Root Diseases: Roots are subject to numerous attacks fromthe growing environment, whether it be an overdose of nutritive solution, over-watering or even diseases transmitted by the soil itselflike pythium, fusarium or infestations by parasites like root lice and root scales. (By O. Richard Jr.) / 56 Indoor Gardening and Fungus

Disease (By Paul Henderson) / 58 Botrytis Blight or Gray Mold (By Fred Leduc) / 60 Humic and Fulvic Acids Natural Organic Biostimulants(By Bruno Bredoux) / 62 Bang! Possibly the Best Organic Pesticide Available (By Josh Morell) / 64 Pets and Plants: A Tricky Combination(By Helene Jutras) / 66 Cooking: Five Secrets for a Successful Tian (By Bruno Bredoux) / 68 Morels (By Marco Deux) / 70 Juan Valdez: YourPapers! Investigation in the country of the most famous coffee harvester (By Rose Laforêt) / 73 The hydroponic world of North America/ 76 Shopping: Norticultural Novelties (By Jessy Caron, Laura and B. Bredoux) / 80 Q & A – Ask Fred 3: From burnt leaves to the controlof temperature (By Fred Leduc)

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10 Plant Physiology: What Goes On Inside A Plant?

20 The Moon’s Influence on Seedlings

24 A Short Guide to Easy Cloning

28 Grow Your Own Gourmet Mushrooms

32 Light Equipment and Reflectors

40 Compost Tea In Hydroponics

54 Classification of Indoor Plants: 3 - Ariliaceae

58 Fertilizer Delivery

60 Starting Cacti From Seed

“The plant kingdom may notbe as diversified as the animalkingdom, but it contains over400,000 species if we includefungi (although fungi is now

considered as its own kingdom,distinct from plants and

animals). This plant kingdom istraditionally subdivided into

two main groups, based on theplant's structural organization.”

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Shots for Your Viewing Pleasure (By Jessy Caron, Plasmaponix & vieux bandit) / 52 Indoor Plants Predatory Insects and Their Life Cycle(By Paul Henderson) / 54 Classification of Indoor Plants: 3 – Ariliaceae, Indoor and Outdoor Plants (By Jessy Caron) / 58 Fertilizer Delivery(By William Sutherland) / 59 Opinion: Is Globalization a Good Thing? (By Roxanne LaBelle) / 60 Starting Cacti From Seed: How to startan amazing cacti collection (By Fred Leduc) / 62 Words Used in Hydroponic Gardening That Could Lead to Confusion (By Jessy Caron) /65 Cooking: Vegetable Garden Jams (By Bruno Bredoux) / 66 Short Glossary of Aphrodisiac Plants; Plants can sometimes bring a certainkind of happiness... (By Mimsy Phoebus, with Bruno Bredoux) / 72 Blue Magic: Improved Formula Nutrients (By G. Nietz) / 74 Shopping:Horticultural Novelties (By Helene Jutras, Paul Henderson, H.F. and B.B.) / 77 The Hydroponic World of North America / 80 Q & A (By FredLeduc)

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“Best of 2005”

A Collection of Our Best Articles From the PastYear Plus Some Previously Unpublished NewMaterial

“Each article in this “Best of2005” Special Issue could joina top 10 list of the material wepublished last year (it's possiblethat, another-year on, we'd putthem in a different pile and

even change and edit some ofthe content, but we wanted topreserve the original pieces and

feelings untouched as far aspossible for future reference).”

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CONTENTS 6 Editorial: Best of 2005, With 2006 Upon Us… (By S. Daimon) / 10 What They Said About Indoor Gardening, Aeroponicsand Hydroponics : Get the latest gardening news from around the Web. (By Vertuda Green) / 11 Mexico’s Floating Aztec Gardens : DidMexican Scientists Finally Find the Ruins of a Brilliant Aquaponic Past? / 12 Fighting Round Up: A Small Association Resists GiantMonsanto or How a French environmental association has been attempting since November 2004 to bring to term a law suit againstthe agro-chemical company Monsanto France. / 14 Using Gibberellic Acid to Manipulate Plants: Discover how gibberellic acid is used toimprove seed germination, produce bigger plants and flowers and to manipulate the gender of flowers. (By Fred Leduc) / 16 A ShortGuide to Easy Cloning : Our indoor gardening expert is sharing 2 years of experimentation with cloning to find the fastest and best meth-ods. (By Christopher Pythoff) / 18 Have Willow, Will Root: Learn How to Make Your Own Natural Rooting Agent (By Helene Jutras) / 20How to Transplant Rooted Aero Clones to Soil... Prepare your clones for soil... or hydro! (By Loup-Claude LeBlanc) / 22 The Benefits ofGrowing Produce Sheltered From the Outside Environment: Building A Greenhouse In The Garden or The Advantages of ShelteredProduction (By Paul Henderson) / 26 A Summer Growroom for Carnivorous Plants and Orchids : Our indoor gardener is preparing andcaring for a summer grow room designed especially for carnivorous plants and orchids. (By James Vicari) / 30 The Hydroponic TomatoExperiment: Searching for Tomato Varieties Suitable for Hydroponic Growing. (By Josh Morell) / 34 The Sea of Green Method In APerpetual Garden: The “Sea of Green” method was developed in the Netherlands to save electricity; it leads to a higher yield and to abalanced production in indoor gardening. (By Paul Henderson) / 36 Growing Without Soil Growing Substrates and Their Use inHydroponics. (By Jean-Pierre Daimé & Pierre Bonnard) / 44 Home-made Substrate (By Jessy Caron) / 46 Fertilizer Delivery: It’s one thingto use the best nutrients and fertilizers on the market, but you have to know how to use them properly. (By Bill Sutherland) / 48 Natural

Fertilization and Integrated Pest Management According to BioBest: More and more people are turning to organic cultivation methods,both for fertilization and pest control, which is why many gardeners are now interested in biological warfare among insects. (By JessyCaron) / 52 BANG! The Best Organic Pesticide? (By Josh Morell) / 54 Peyote Button! Growing Your Own Food of the Gods. (By Soma) / 56A Short Glossary of Aphrodisiac Plants and Their Derivatives: Discover our miniature non-exhaustive glossary of plants known to bringabout a certain kind of happiness... (Part 1: From A to L) (By Mimsy Phoebus) / 62 Green Tea Time, It’s Time For Camellia Sinensis! (By R.Varkony) / 64 Hair Testing’s Colourblind: Controversial New Drug Detection Method Is Said To Be Racially Biased. (By L. Kean & D.Bernstein) / 68 New Radicals: So You Want Another 60s? (By P. DeRienzo) / 72 Eclipse 2005 (By Dj Rikam).

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8 H2O = Water = Life

An Element To Master For Indoor Gardeners

14 A Rose Is Not Simply A Rose

16 In New Orleans: A Hydroponic Store Before And After Katrina

20 Spring Production Calendar: Cucumbers

32 Special Q & A : Rotative Gardens AndHydroponic Systems

46 Strawberry Fields Forever: Fruit All Year Round?

56 Ballast Noise Reduction

62 Classification of Indoor Plants: 4 – Araceae

66 The EcoSystem: A New Efficient Hydroponic System

“When gardening indoors, it isimportant to have your wateringwater analyzed at least once a yearto ensure a stable basis for yourwatering program. You can ask

your neighborhood's waterdistribution company for the

published data on its water analysis—the analysis are performed

regularly and the company has anobligation to share the results withany consumer who requests it.”

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CONTENTS 7 Editorial: Less Water, Fewer Pesticides; An Effort Away (By Bruno Bredoux) / 8 Introduction: H2O = Water = Life; AnElement To Master For Indoor Gardeners (By Créa-Lise) / 14 Notes & News: A Rose Is Not Simply A Rose (By Helene Jutras) / 16 NewOrleans News: A Hydroponic Store During And After Katrina (By Hedi Green) / 20 Tips & Tricks: Spring Production Calendar for Cucumbers,Inside and Out; An Experience Of An Inside Grow Operation Going Outdoors (By George Benz) / 22 Flowers and Their Perfume (By MarieRoy) / 24 Flowers To Heal Our Souls: How To Make Your Own Bach Flowers (By Helene Jutras) / 26 Plant Foods – Part 1: Notes for thePerfect Application + pH and the Nutritive Solution (By William Sutherland) / 32 Special Q & A : Rotative Gardens & Cheap HydroponicSystems; More About the Systems We Talked About In Our First Issue (By Loup-Claude LeBlanc & Petite Graine) / 38 Vitamin C: APanacea? (By Georges Nietz) / 40 Gallery (By Jessy Caron, Patrice Baudat and Bruno Bredoux) / 46 Strawberry Fields Forever: A GrowingExperience in Pictures (By Plasmaponix, Canna Hydroponics & K and S Greenhouse) / 50 Morphological Change, PhysiologicalDevelopment: Carnivorous Plants, A Clever Adaptation! (By Dave Guillemette) / 52 Ballasts: All About the Electrical Set-ups in an Indoor

Garden (By Simon Garneau) / 56 Ballast Noise Reduction (By Fred Leduc) / 58 Plant Physiology – Part 2: Cell—Tissue—Parenchyma—Meristem (By S. Ste-Anne) / 62 Classification of Indoor Plants – Part 4: Araceae (By Jessy Caron) / 66 The EcoSystem: A Cheap AndEfficient Hydroponic System (By Daniel) / 67 Cooking: Danièle’s Zucchini Loaf (By Danièle Montrouge) / 68 A Visit of Niagara Parks Schoolof Horticulture And Botanical Gardens (By Jessy Caron, text and photos) / 70 Aphrodisiac Plants – Part 2: From M to Z (By MimsyPhoebus) / 77 The Hydroponic World of North America / 80 Shopping : Horticultural Novelties (By Helene Jutras, B.B. & Kari Bayne)

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14 Peru: At The Source Of Hydroponics, A History And A New Beginning

20 Build Your Own Flood Table To Start Cuttings

32 Carbon Dioxide And Plants

34 Morphological Change, PhysiologicalDevelopment: Phototropism, An Explanation

36 Help Your Lophophora Diffusa Cacti! How ToMake A Successful Cactus Graft

60 Plant Foods – Part 2: Total Plant Maintenance – Harness The Power!

“Moving your plants from theshelter and shade of your

living room to the bright hotsun of your balcony, withoutacclimatizing your plants to

their new surroundings, wouldseverely damage most plantsand kill many. Just like you,

your plants can get a sunburn;unlike you, they can’t move

into the shade.”

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CONTENTS 6 Editorial: Gardening, Publishing (By Bruno Bredoux) / 8 Introduction: Moving Your Plants Outside For The Summer (ByFred Leduc) / 12 Homage to Christopher Lloyd (By Hedi Green) / 14 Notes & News, Peru: At The Source Of Hydroponics, A History And ANew Beginning (By Rose Laforêt) / GMOs And Americans: A Few Numbers / 20 Tips & Tricks: Build Your Own Flood Table To Start Cuttings(By Loup-Claude LeBlanc) / Pricing Policy (By Bruno Bredoux) / How Do You Light A Plant, Flower Or Gardening Store? (By Vertuda Green) /26 Plant Physiology – Part 3: The Functions Of Vegetative Organs (By S. Ste-Anne) / 30 Spider-Mites, Spider-Mites, Do Whatever You CanTo Destroy Them! (By J.R. Hannafin) / 32 Carbon Dioxide And Plants (By Jessy Caron) / 34 Phototropism: An Explanation (By DaveGuillemette) / 36 Help Your Lophophora Diffusa Cacti! How To Make A Successful Cactus Graft. (By Fred Leduc) / 38 Which EnzymeProducts Do Work? (By D. Kroeze, B Sc., CannaResearch) / 42 Gallery: Our Best Pictures! (By Marco Deux, vieux bandit, Jessy Caron & al.) /54 Interview With An Apiarist: A Dream Made Reality (By Jessy Caron) / 56 Want To Grow? You Need To Rotogro / 58 Five Steps For AStable Product: The Unique Manufacturing Process Of E.Z. Green Nutrients (By Bruno Bredoux) / 60 Plant Foods – Part 2: Total Plant

Maintenance – Harness The Power! (By William Sutherland, from B & B Hydroponic Gardens) / 64 Atami's New B'cuzz Bio-NRG Products(By Helene Jutras) / 66 Plant Groove! GrÜv Bio-Stimulants (By Oshun Boilard) / 67 Hydroponics Classics (By Meikhi Parent) / 68 Shopping:Garden Novelties (By Bill Sutherland) / 72 Cooking: Carrot Orange Cup Custard (By Danièle Montrouge) / 74 Q & A: Our Garden ExpertsAre Here to Help! (By Fred Leduc & al.) / 78 The Hydroponic World of North America.

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8 Going Outdoors: Choosing A Site To Transplant Your PlantsOutdoors & Choosing A Soil: A Few Types Of Soil

14 Industry: Dr. John A.A. Thomson Of The VitaminInstitute Receives Lifetime Achievement Award

30 Indoor Water Features: Tips And Tricks To Succeed In Adding A WaterElement To Your Indoor Garden

38 Plant Foods – Part 3: Choosing A NutritiveSolution: Using A Complete Line Of Products FromThe Same Brand Or Combining Many?

46 Para Lumen Paradigm Shift: High IntensityFluorescent Plant Growth Side by side Trial:Satellite Fluorescent Light II vs Metal Halide Light

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“Through time, humanity onoccasion has come up with

quantum leaps in technology.Hydroponics, the printing press,

electricity, the light bulb, the radio,the TV, HID lighting, the Internet,and, yes, high intensity fluorescent

indoor grow lights. They are acomplete paradigm shift, a new

way of looking at things. ”

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CONTENTS 6 Editorial: The Farmer In The Dell (By Bruno Bredoux) / 7 The Eyes of a Rabbit (By Helene Jutras) / 8 Introduction:Choosing A Site To Transplant Your Plants Outdoors (By Paul Henderson) / Choosing A Soil: A Few Types Of Soil (By Sols et Paysages) / 14Notes & News: Dr. John A.A. Thomson Of The Vitamin Institute Receives Lifetime Achievement Award (By Travis and Patrisha Thomson) /The Benefits Of Consuming Local (By Hedi Green) / Preserving Nature In Panama (By Helene Jutras) / 19 Tips & Tricks: Seed Germination(By Bordy Lachance) / CRW Mulch (By Jessy Caron) / 22 Simplified Hydroponics As An Appropriate Technology To Implement FoodSecurity In Urban Agriculture (By Martin Caldeyro-Stajano Ing. Agr., M.Sc.) / 28 Morphological Change, Physiological Development:Perfume, Always (By Dave Guillemette) / 30 Indoor Water Features (By Edward Jackson) / 32 Gallery (With The Collaboration OfAquasculpture, Montreal) / 38 Plant Foods – Part 3: Choosing A Nutritive Solution: Using A Complete Line Of Products From The SameBrand Or Combining Many? (By B. Bredoux & William Sutherland) / 44 An Ecological Solution Against Fly Problems (By Daniel Gingras) /46 Para Lumen Paradigm Shift: High Intensity Fluorescent Plant Growth T5 and TT105 (By Charles Winslow) / 48 The Test: The Satellite

Fluorescent Light II Test (By Charles Winslow) / 52 Plant Physiology: More Roots, More Fruits (By Simon ‘Red’ Gareau, from Hydro-Sciences) / 54 Cooking: Gary’s Grand-Mother’s Sourish Red Cabbage Recipe (Transmitted through oral tradition) / 55 The HydroponicWorld of North America / 56 Book Rewiew : Adding Biology In Soil And Hydroponic Systems By Elaine R. Ingham, Ph.D. and Carole AnnRollins, Ph.D. / 58 HESI Products: A Formula Adapted To Growth And Flowering (By V. Green and S. C.) / 60 Shopping: HorticulturalNovelties, A Selection Of Products That Caught Our Attention For This Summer (By Kari Bayne, Vertuda Green, S. C., D. Lesage, HeleneJutras, P. Steph & Jessy Caron) / 65 Q & A : One Question… Two Answers! (By Fred Leduc & Herb Gardner).

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22 Hydroponics and Aeroponics Gardening: A Look At 15 Influential Systems

PLUS:

8 Nettle, Fern and Foxglove Are in Town!International Flora Montréal 2006: The GardenPassion

18 My Idea Of The Perfect Plant

20 Subscribe and Win: An EcoSystem Is Waiting For You!

46 Indoor Plant Classification: Part 5—The Main Orchid Families

52 Gardening Philosophy: What Is “Natural”? What Is “Organic”?

“The definition of what we cancall organic in agriculture is muchmore recent than René Descartes’definition of what is natural. It isonly in the early 1970’s that theconcept of “organically grown”

foodstuffs was invented. It was theeditor of Organic Gardening and

Farmingmagazine who started theball during a public hearing held onDecember 1st, 1972 in New York.”

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CONTENTS 6 Editorial: There Is A Season, Turn Turn Turn… (By Bruno Bredoux) / 8 Introduction: Nettle, Fern and Foxglove Are inTown! International Flora Montréal 2006: The Garden Passion, A tour of the new horticulture, landscape and design industry exhibit inMontréal (By Bruno Bredoux) / 13 Industry—Homage: Claude Poirier (1936 – 2006), cofounder of “Systèmes rotatifs Bonzaï 360º” (ByB. Bredoux) / 14 Notes & News: The Unknown History Of The Carrot (By Helene Jutras) / China: Super Corn Gives Super Yield …and othernotes and news (By B. Bredoux and al.) / 18 Tips & Tricks: My Idea Of The Perfect Plant (By Fred Leduc) / 20 Draw For Our Subscribers:An EcoSystem Is Waiting For You! / 22 Hydroponics and Aeroponics Gardening: A Look At 15 Influential Systems (By W. Sutherland) / 28Techniques—Supercharge Your Ecosystem Naturally: 5 Elements For Good Gardening (By Réjean) / 29 Gallery: The Omega Gardens InPictures (By Ted Marchildon) / 36 Gallery: The Rotogro Garden In Pictures (By Jim Gall) / 38 The Wilt Prevention Experiment—Afteradapting a new technique of cloning, our gardener discovered that the plants were more prone to wilting. He decided to try two of themore popular wilt prevention products available. Here are the results! (By Josh Morell) / 40 Choosing A Site To Transplant Your PlantsOutdoors – Part 2: The second part of our tips for transplanting your crops outdoors (By Paul Henderson) / Protecting Your Outdoor Crops

And Flower Arrangements (By B. B., H. J., W. S. & P. H.) / 46 Indoor Plant Classification: 5 – The Main Orchid Families, The fifth installmentin our series about indoor plants and their care (By Jessy Caron) / 50 Plant Physiology—Glucids: An Explanation (By Roger Raynal) / 52Gardening Philosophy – What Is “Natural”? What Is “Organic”? How to determine what is natural and what is organic – the beginningof an explanation. (By Bruno Bredoux) / 55 The Hydroponic World of North America / 60 Shopping: A Selection Of New Products ThatCaught Our Attention For This Fall (By B. B., Kari Bayne, Jessy Caron, T. K., M. M., W. S. & P. Steph) / 64 Q & A: Questions keep pouring in.We answer the most relevant ones! (By Edward Jackson, B. B. & H. G.).

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8 Sustainable Tourism through Green TravelerAction. A Humane Tourism Experiment inVeracruz, Mexico.

26 Predators and Parasites in Biological InsectControl: The Most Environment-friendly Methodto Protect Plants Against Pathogenic Insects.

26 Your Last Resort in Pest Control: Chemical Insecticides and Products

38 The Unavoidable Spathiphyllum

50 Water Cooled Fans and Water RefrigerationCoolers in Your Grow Room

“If pest populations becomeextremely large, chemical

insecticides and fungicides may bethe only answer – but they shouldbe your last resort. Most are broadspectrum, which means they don’tdifferentiate between the good

guys and the bad guys. Beneficialinsects such as ladybugs and

lacewings are extremelysusceptible to these poisons.”

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CONTENTS 6 Editorial: Small Beasts Don’t Eat Big Ones… (By Bruno Bredoux) / 8 Introduction: Sustainable Tourism through GreenTraveler Action. A humane tourism experiment in Veracruz, Mexico. (By Agni Alethia Ruedas Acosta) / 12 Notes & News: Horticultural“Felt Root Cloth” and Wool Mat (By Bruno Bredoux) / Hydroponics As A Social Re-Insertion Tool …and other notes and news (By B.Bredoux) / 18 Tips & Tricks: The Basics of Propagation: Cloning and Propagation Products (By William Sutherland) / 20 Growth andFlowering Cycles of Dioecious Plants: A cultivation recipe that applies to most dioecious indoor plants. (By Thierry Jouette) / 26 Predatorsand Parasites in Biological Insect Control: The most environment-friendly method to protect plants against pathogenic insects. (By W.Sutherland) / Your Last Resort in Pest Control: Chemical Insecticides and Products (By W. Sutherland) / 32 Gallery: International FloraMontreal 2006 – four months later… (By Anna Kanaras) / 38 The Unavoidable Spathiphyllum (By Daniel Fortin) / 40 How tosuccessfully complete a healthy and biological growing phase (By Jessy Caron) / 42 Parallel Growing Experiences: Latest Technology vs.Ghetto Technique (By T. Monk & G. Hannafin) / 46 Morphological Change, Physiological Development—Water: Source Of Life (By Dave

Guillemette) / 48 Plant Manipulation Version 2.0: Another way of looking at this topic for those who cannot get gibberellic acid (By FredLeduc) / 50 Water Cooled Fans and Water Refrigeration Coolers in Your Grow Room (By W. Sutherland) / 52 Shopping & HorticulturalNovelties: A Selection Of New Products That Caught Our Attention For This Winter (By B. B., Kari Bayne, Jessy Caron, Paul Henderson &Josh Morell / 58 Q & A: Questions on hortensias, cacti, rosebays, and an online hydroponic store (By Fred Leduc & B. B.) / 60 House &Garden: Hem Incense and Garden Incense (By Onyx Xanadu) / 61 The Hydroponic World of North America /64 The Bio Game: Are you a100% organic horticulturist? Test your knowledge!

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“Best of 2006”

A Collection of Our Best Articles From the PastYear Plus Some Previously Unpublished NewMaterial

“2006 has been a great yearfor The Indoor Gardener

Magazine and our companyGreen Publications. We

have celebrated our secondbirthday, made shortlists inthe gardening industry andstarted working on a tradeshow to take place everytwo-year in Montreal.”

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CONTENTS 06 Editorial: Our Best Articles, ...Yet? ...Ever? Not Close! (By S. Daimon) / 08 Looking for Scorpion in Canola: Discover howthe scorpion genes reinforce canola seeds through a poison which paralyzes the insects munching on the cereal. (By Bruno Bredoux) /08 GMOs and Americans: A Few Statistics / 10 Buy A Hydroponic Product …And Help Teenagers Recovering from Abuse and Neglect atStar Ranch in Texas. (By Bruno Bredoux) / 12 Hydroponics As A Social Re-Insertion Tool (By Bruno Bredoux) / 14 The Summum Products:Try an exclusive brand of fertilizers and plant nutrients for your indoor garden. (By P. Steph) / 16 BioBizz for the Vegan Grower. For thepurist organic grower come the highest quality organic products from BioBizz. These products are unique because they are “vegan”nutrients, which contain no animal by-products. (By Josh Morell) / 18 Spring Production Calendar for Cucumbers, Indoor And Outdoor(By G. Benz) / 20 More Roots, More Fruits: Learn why the roots are the most important part of your plants, as they are responsible fordelivering water and minerals... and more! (By Simon ‘Red’ Gareau, from Hydro-Sciences) / 22 Vitamin C, A Panacea? (By Tom Primo) /24 What Is Water? A look at water characteristics, analysis and chemical components. To grow your plants correctly, you must start toknow how to answer the question: “What is water?” (By Créa-Lise) / 26 Urban Agriculture in Latin America Simplified Hydroponics as anAppropriate Technology to Implement Food Security in Urban Agriculture. (By Martin Caldeyro-Stajano, ASUDHI) / 34 Pest Control: I.P.M.or The Importance of Integrated Pest Management and Organic Conditions in Growing Medicinal Plants and Herbs (By Trichome Pharm,Consultants) / 40 Para Lumen Paradigm Shift: High Intensity Fluorescent Plant Growth – T5 and TT105 – and Their Impact on PlantGrowth. (By Charles Winslow) / 42 The Test: The Satellite Fluorescent Light II Test. It appears that in a side-by-side trial, the Satellite IIfluorescent light surpasses metal halide lights. (By Charles Winslow & Sunleaves) / 46 Aeroponics In 4 Words (x 2) (By W. Sutherland) /48 Choosing The Right Location For My Plant Plot: A Few Types of Soil (By Sols & Paysages) / 50 The Wilt Prevention Experiment (By JoshMorell) / 52 Inside A Plant—Plant Physiology or What Goes On Inside A Plant? (By S. Ste-Anne & Simon ‘Red’ Gareau, from Hydro-Sciences) / 58 The Orchidaceae Family or The Largest Flowering Plant Family... So Far: Discover 7 celeb orchid genera from this big plant

family offering stunning flowers and characteristics! (By Jessy Caron) / 62 A Rose Is Not Simply A Rose! Fair trade flowers offer SouthAmerican workers decent working conditions and are grown in better respect of the environment, and this is to our common benefit.(By Helene Jutras) / 66 A Short Glossary of Aphrodisiac Plants and Their Derivatives: Discover our miniature non-exhaustive glossary ofplants known to bring about a certain kind of happiness... (Part 2: From M to Z) (By Mimsy Phoebus) / 72 Philosophy In The Garden:Natural Versus Organic. From Descartes and Rousseau to Jean Rostand, a look at the philosophers and their idea of Nature. (By BrunoBredoux) / 76 The Beautiful, Beguiling Art of Fred Tomaselli: A trippy art high... (By Joan Moossy) / 82 Q & A: One Question Two Answers(By Fred Leduc & Herb Gardner).

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22 Which Fruits and Vegetables for MyHydroponic System?

26 Hydroponics: Watering and Irrigation

32 to 37 Gallery: 2006 FIHOQ Fair

40 Fugus Control – Part 1: Fungicides,Molluscicides, Acaricides, Algaecides and OtherGardener’s Little Helpers

40 A Brief Tour of the Main Fungal Diseases

53 Hoodia Gordonii: The Succulent We’ve All Been Waiting For?

“The Cordyline genusincludes about fifteen species

of shrubs native of thetropical or subtropical regions,three of which are grown asindoor plants in our latitudes:

Cordyline australis, C. indivisaand C. terminalis. The first tworesemble Draceana, while thelast and best-known specieshas very colourful leaves.”

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CONTENTS 4 Credits and Errata / 6 Editorial: What You Will Not See In This New Issue of The Indoor Gardener… (By Bruno Bredoux) / 8Introduction: How to Place A Plant In Rock Wool Flakes, Gardex (Mixture of Vermiculite, Perlite And Rock Wool) or In Coco Fibre (By PierreBonnard and Jean-Pierre Daimé, CityPlantes)/ 20 Plant Physiology: Photosynthesis, or Adapting to Immobility (By Dave Guillemette) /22 Which Fruits and Vegetables for My Hydroponic System? (By Bruno Bredoux) / 26 Hydroponics: Watering and Irrigation (By PierreBonnard and Jean-Pierre Daimé, CityPlantes) / 30 Have Everything You Need In Hand with Gardena® (By B. Bredoux) / 38 Cordylines(Genus Cordyline) (By Daniel Fortin) / 40 Fugus Control – Part 1: Fungicides, Molluscicides, Acaricides, Algaecides and Other Gardener’s

Little Helpers By V. Green, W. Sutherland, B. Bredoux and P. Henderson) / A Brief Tour of the Main Fungal Diseases (By P. Henderson & B.Bredoux) / 46 With These Two Different Methods, Breed To Succeed (By Soma) / 48 Plant Classification: Part 6 – Liliaceae (By B. Bredoux) /53 Hoodia Gordonii: The Succulent We’ve All Been Waiting For? (By Helene Jutras) / And our usual features: Notes & News (10 to 14)/Tips & Tricks (16 to 19) / Gallery (32 to 37) / Cooking (54) / Shopping (55 to 60) / Order Form (60) / The Hydroponic World Of NorthAmerica (61) / Q&A (64) / Last Minute Shopping (66).

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8 Biodiversity: Five Months in Vanuatu,Thousands of New Species

24 Horticultural Lighting: Light Guides Plant Life

26 Fluorescent Lighting and the Right Distancebetween Lamps and Plants in Your IndoorGarden

30 Growing Experiment: How To Obtain Larger Inflorescences ByAlternating MH And HPS Lighting

32 Gallery: A Collection of Photos by ShanePassmore-Crawford

38 Fungus Control – Part II: Make Your Own Natural, Plant-Based Fungicidesand Antifungal Products

54 Who’s Afraid of Camellias?

Vanuatu:Thousands of New Species

Who’s Afraid of Camellias?

Fungus Control Part 2:Make Your Own Natural, Plant-Based Fungicides and Antifungal Products

Horticultural Lighting:• Light Guides Plant Life• The Right Distance Between

Lamps and Plants• Alternate MH and HPS to

Obtain Bigger Flowers

Volume 2 — Issue 5www.indoorgardenermagazine.comISSN: 1715-0949 – Bimonthly

Gallery:A Collection of Photos by Shane Passmore-Crawford

March/April 2007

Growing Experiment:Growing Experiment:Lighting Ideas for Your Grow RoomLighting Ideas for Your Grow Room

“Plants use the light their leavesreceive to make their food. Ifplants ripen, flower and dies

throughout the seasons, it is notso much due to their age or tothe evolution of temperatures,but mostly due to the length ofdays. An extra light source can

allow the horticulturist totransform short winter days into

gorgeous summer days.”

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Make Your Own Natural, Plant-Based Fungicides and Antifungal Products (By Bruno Bredoux) / 44 Enjoy The Green: Happy Saint-Patrick’s Day / 46 Seeds: Dormancy and Germination (By Fred Leduc) / 48 Health and Nutrition: The Impact of GMO Discovery on HumanNutrition (By Roxanne LaBelle) / 53 Botanical Glossary: GMO Edition (By Roxanne LaBelle) / 54 Who’s Afraid of Camellias? (By DanielFortin) / And Our Usual Features: Credits and Erratum (4) / Editorial (6) / Order Form (6) / Notes & News (12 to 15) / Tips & Tricks (16 to20) / Discovery (56) / Shopping (57 to 59 and continued on 66) / Industry News (60) / The Hydroponic World of North America (61 to63) / Cooking (64).

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8 Using Fertilizers, A Matter of Observation

16 Tips & Tricks: Growing Experiment With Bat Guano

18 Horticultural Lighting: Light Movers andLighting Accessories

36 Clean, Fresh Air and Ozone Control in Your Grow Room

40 Carbon Dioxide and The Set-Up It Requires In AGrow Room

50 Growing Experiment: Indoor And OutdoorCultivation, In Soil, With Nutritive SolutionRecipes, Step By Step

“When fall returns, it is time todig out the soil... and I meanreally dig it, deep and wide. It

must also be enriched. I use freshsheep manure, fallen maple

leaves and granulated Acadianalgae. Once these ingredientshave been mixed well into thesoil, I sprinkle the soil with

agricultural lime to accelerate thedecomposition process. Wood

ashes also work well.”

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CONTENTS 6 Editorial: Strange Cultivated Plots Seen From Above (By Bruno Bredoux) / 8 Introduction: Using Fertilizers, A Matter ofObservation—How Do You Know How Much Fertilizer To Use? Observe The Plant... (By JR Hannafin) / 12 AeroGrow®: Aeroponic PlantGrowing System For In-Home Consumer Use and Other Notes & News (By B. Bredoux, E.-L. Lacroix & K. Gunkel) / 18 HorticulturalLighting: Light Movers and Lighting Accessories (By W. Sutherland and Esoteric Hydroponics) / 22 Crotons, or Cordiaeum Variegatum (ByDaniel Fortin) / 24 Gardens Festival: International Flora Montréal Sets The Stage for The Summer of 2007 In The Old Port (Photos by GuyBoily) / 26 Portrait: The Woman Behind the Creation of The Institute for Simplified Hydroponics for Mexico (By Olivier Dubois) / 30Gallery: Photos from the Exhibit “Immagini nere del barocco brasiliano” & Funny (and Sexy) Carrot Crops / 36 Air Quality and Ventilation:How to maintain clean, fresh air and ozone control in your grow room (By W. Sutherland) / 40 Carbon Dioxide and The Set-Up It requiresIn A Grow Room (By W. Sutherland, with additional reports by B. Bredoux, K. Bayne, P. Bonnard and J.-P. Daimé)/ 46 Hydroponics Classics

III: Production With The Aquatop, A Traditional Hydroponic and Aquaponic Ebb & Flow Table (By Yan Dignard) / 50 Growing Experiment:Indoor And Outdoor Cultivation, In Soil, With Nutritive Solution Recipes, Step By Step (By Bordy Lachance) / 56 Discovery – As Long AsThere Were Forests... We Could Make: 1 – A Viking Fleet! (By Bruno Bredoux) / The Trip Beyond Kalaallisut Or “Green Land” (By B. Bredoux) /66 Q & A: CO2 Edition (By Loup-Claude LeBlanc) / And Our Usual Features: Credits and Errata (4) / Editorial (6) / Order Form (6) / Tips &Tricks (16 to 21) / The Hydroponic World of North America (59 to 61) / Industry News (60 and 65) / Shopping (62 to 64).

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8 Amateurs’ Corner: “Installing My First Indoor Garden”

24 SUPERthriveTM: 67 Years of Success! Exclusiveinterview with Dr. John A. A. Thomson, founderof the Vitamin Institute

38 Plant Care: Foliar Spraying & FertilizerManagement in Hydroponics

52 The Sea of Green Method in a PerpetualGarden

56 As Long As There Were Forests, We Could UseSlash and Burn Agriculture

66 Flora 2007: A Stroll Through the RenewingFlora Gardens With Raquel Peñalosa

“You can consider that the wholefield of vitamins for humans is

parallel to the development of theknowledge of vitamins for plants.Except that in the field of vitaminsfor plants, it is a little bit different inthis respect. Humans have to have

them from the outside by definition.But in the case of vitamins for

plants, most of the plants MAKEthem if the growing conditions areideal and if they have enough time.”

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CONTENTS 5 Homage: Oshun Boilard (1973-2007) (By Bruno Bredoux) / 6 Editorial: No Such Thing! (By Bruno Bredoux) / 8Amateurs’ Corner: “Installing My First Indoor Garden” (By Pierre Bonnard and Jean-Pierre Daimé, CityPlantes) / 24 Sixty-Seven Years ofSuccess: Exclusive interview with Dr. John A. A. Thomson, founder of the Vitamin Institute and inventor of SUPERthriveTM (As told toBruno Bredoux) / 28 Morphological Change, Physiological Development: Imitating... for Life! (By Dave Guillemette) / 30 Industry:Wernard Bruining, Ruined In Spite of Success (After A. Aubron) / 32 Gallery: Ripe fruit / Flowering fruit-bearing trees (By B. Bredoux,Forest and Kim Starr (USGS), Golden Valley Seed, The Naughty Curry Project and Anthony 53 / 38 Fertilizer Management in Hydroponics(By Pierre Bonnard and Jean-Pierre Daimé, CityPlantes) / Plant Care: Foliar Spraying (By J.-F. Savard) / 44 Does your blower fan have anAtmosphere look? (By Brite-Lite and Vertuda Green) / 48 Horticultural Lighting: LGM Grow Light™ Series and Pro-Gro Arrays™ (ByJonathan D. Cardinale) / 52 The Sea of Green Method in a Perpetual Garden (By Paul Henderson) / 56 Discovery: As Long As There Were

Forests, We Could Use Slash and Burn Agriculture (By Bruno Bredoux) / Health & Nutrition: Seaside and Spa Treatments in Romania (ByRoNTO) / 66 Flora 2007: A Stroll Through the Renewing Flora Gardens With Raquel Peñalosa, B.L.A. (By Bruno Bredoux) / And Our UsualFeatures: Credits and Errata (4) / Editorial (6) / Notes & News (12 to 16) / Tips & Tricks (18 to 20) / Industry News (22-23, 51, 54 and 60) /Hydroponic Classics 4 (42) / Order Form (51) / Shopping (62 to 64) / The Hydroponic World of North America (59 to 61) / Q & A (64-65).

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20 Checking and Monitoring pH In IndoorGardening

28 Successful Cuttings: Traditional Method

44 Discovering The Rose Cultivars Named AfterFamous People

50 Plant Physiology: The Colours of Fall

51 Mara des Bois Strawberries on My Balcony Untilthe First Frosts

52 Growing Experiment: My Growing Method In ACloset—A Success Story

61 The Hydroponic World of North America

“We had big storms these last fewdays. I feared for the little

strawberries on my balcony, but nodamage was done. It would havebeen too bad: look! I have sixplants like this one. They are

Woodland strawberries (Fragariavesca L., biferous plants that

produce from spring until the firstfrosts of autumn), and it is a delight

even to think of their flavour. Ican’t wait to see them redden.”

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CONTENTS 6 Editorial: Autumn Sonata (By Bruno Bredoux) / 8 Introduction: Saffron, or 100,000 Crocus Flowers (By Ch. Rémy) / 20Checking and Monitoring pH In Indoor Gardening (By William Sutherland) / 26 Industry: Wernard Bruining, Ruined In Spite of Success(After A. Aubron) / 28 Successful Cuttings: Traditional Method (By Pierre Bonnard and Jean-Pierre Daimé, CityPlantes) / 36 Gallery: TheCubeCap in Pictures (By Steve Gallo) / 38 Hydroponic Classics 5: From AeroFlo® to RainForest®, Find the Aero/Hydroponics System thatFits Your Needs (By General Hydroponics) / 44 Plant Classification: Part 7 – Rose Cultivars Named After Famous People (By BrunoBredoux) / 51 Gallery: Mara des Bois Strawberries on My Balcony Until the First Frosts (By Mamylaine) / 52 Growing Experiment: MyGrowing Method In A Closet: A Success Story (By Raymond Ridou) / 56 Horticultural Lighting: What is Light for Plants? (By William

Sutherland) / 58 Growing Experiment: A Hop Project (By Fernand Pigeon) / And Our Usual Features: Credits and Errata (4) / Editorial (6) /Order Form (6) / Notes & News (10 to 14) / Science: The Century of Living Dangerously (16) / Tips & Tricks: Amateurs’ Corner—BiofloralDrippers Hydroponics Kit (18) / Morphological Change, Physiological Developpment: It’s Cold, Why Get Undressed? (50-51) / IndustryNews (62 and 65) / Shopping (60 and 64) / The Hydroponic World of North America (61 to 63) / Q & A (66).

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20 Easy Tropical Plants: Aglaonema

40 The Miracle of the Golden Pothos

42 The Cacao Tree or The Mysteries of Chocolate

48 My Growing Method In A Closet: The Experiment Continues

52 Horticultural Lighting: Yield per Bulb

52 Horticultural Lighting:What Is A Bulb’s Micromole Value?

“Always water plants with thenutrient solution, unless the

plant has become dehydrated,in which case you should

water with plain water. Oncethe leaves are rehydrated,water with the nutrient

solution. Dehydrating a planton purpose only weakens the

inside cell wall structure and creates undue

stress for the plant.”

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8–Theobroma cacao L. (Malvaceae family) or The Mysteries of The Cacao Tree (Par V. Green) / 46 Conversion Table & Errata / 48 MyGrowing Method In A Closet: The Experiment Continues (By Raymond Ridou) / 52 Horticultural Lighting: 1.Yield per Bulb & 2. What IsA Bulb’s Micromole Value? (By J.-F. Savard) / And our usual features: Editorial (6) / Interlude (51) / Justice for Plants (56) / Industry News(57 to 63) / The Hydroponic World of North-America (59 to 61) / Shopping (63-64) / Q & A (66).

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“Best of 2007”

A Collection of Our Best Articles From the PastYear Plus Some Previously Unpublished NewMaterialBest of

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A Collection of Our Best ArticlesFrom the Past Year

Some PreviouslyUnpublished New Material

December 2007 - January 2008

“In the past decade, the hydroponicsindustry has enjoyed an unprecedentedrise and success. Consumers are moreand more careful about their impact

on the environment, and more carefulabout what they consume. Growingtheir own vegetables, fruits and herbsis no longer only a source of pleasure:

it also adds a sense of security.Consumers may now experience the

unique satisfaction of knowing exactly what is on their plate.”

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CONTENTS 6 Editorial: ’07 Time Travel... (By S. Daimon) / 8 Notes & News: Selected Newsflash / 12 The One-Tonne Challenge:Discover the challenge presented by the Government of Canada for citizens to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions by one tonne eachyear. (By Vertuda Green) / 14 North American Union, An Unavoidable Social System? The economic and political union of Canada,Mexico, and the United States: utopia or reality? (By Olivier Dubois) / 16 A Stroll Through the Renewing Flora Gardens With RaquelPeñalosa (By Bruno Bredoux) / 20 A Hop Project. A garden centre owner develops a hop farm in the Eastern Townships of Quebec. (ByFernand Pigeon) / 22 Total Plant Care With Foliar Spraying—Learn how to initiate a complete foliar spraying program, offering yourplants all the life insurance they need to give you a plentiful harvest without a glitch. (By J.-F. Savard) / 24 State-of-the-art CalifornianGarden—Gardening basics: follow steps to planting success. (By Jesse Ruiz, Coachella Valley Water District) / 26 Amateurs’ Corner: Learnhow to use BioFloral drippers hydroponics kit to start your first indoor garden. (By F. DeGuire, from BioFloral) / 28 Installing My FirstIndoor Garden: A Beginner’s Guide. (By Pierre and Jean-Pierre, from CityPlantes) / 32 Adventures in Fogging: The Revolution ofUltrasonic Fog Generators in Aeroponic Cultivation. Key principles, advantages and revolutionary concept of a rotating garden systemwith an ultrasonic fog generator. (By P.G.) / 36 Watering and Irrigation In Hydroponics: How to get healthy plants: everyone can have agreen thumb with these simple and basic watering tips. (By Pierre Bonnard and Jean-Pierre Daimé, CityPlantes) / 40 A Step-by-StepGrowing Experiment: From Seedlings to Harvest. There’s nothing that compares to the flavour of properly grown organic plants. Let’sstart with seeds and follow our bio gardener… (By B. Bordeleau) / 46 Which Fruits and Vegetables for my Hydroponic System? Let uslook at the advantages, other than that of eating our favourite fruits and vegetables out of season, of an indoor vegetable garden. (ByVertuda Green) / 52 An Urban Gardener Indoor Experiment: My Growing Method In A Closet or My Success Story. A closet growingtechnique derived from the environment the gardener has to work with and his own desires for the cultivation. (By Raymond Ridou) /62 Plant Health and Fungus Control: Homemade Plant-Based and Natural Fungicides. A few plants are revealing their—often unknownbut efficient—antifungal effects. (By Bruno Bredoux) / 70 The Dr. Thomson Interview. Exclusive interview with Dr. John A. A. Thomson,founder of the Vitamin Institute and inventor of SUPERthrive®. (As told to Bruno Bredoux) / 76 The Coliseum or The Revolution of Vertical

Gardening. The revolutionary Coliseum tower ensures an optimal production in a space much smaller than that of a traditional garden.(By V. Green & B. Sutherland) / 78 I Never Met a Booster I Didn’t Like… Plant boosters: hype or hope? (By Ralph B.) / 80 Hoodia Gordonii:The Succulent We’ve All Been Waiting For? (By Helene Jutras) / 82 Do You Believe In Year-round Strawberries? Is harvesting strawberriesall year long a good thing? And will indoor-grown strawberries flower multiple times, if grown all year long? Not everyone agrees…(By Vertuda Green) / 86 Have Everything You Need In Hand With Gardena (By Bruno Bredoux) / 92 A New Revolutionary Product AgainstFungus Gnats: The CubeCap. The CubeCap is the solution to algae and fungus gnat problems in your indoor garden. (By Eve Bettan) / 94Music: Perpetual Groove Winter Tour 2007 (By Seth Weiner).

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8 Basic Tricks for Indoor (and Outdoors)Cultivation

18 Technique: With Topping & Pinching, HarvestA Much Higher Yield

26 Colony Collapse Disorder: Bad Buzz in theBeehives, Exclusive Interviews With Beekeepers

40 Successful Cuttings “À la Mode”

48 A Few Interesting Acalypha

52 What Happens To Plants In Wider Containers:Bigger Pots = Bigger Plants!

What Happens To PlantsWhat Happens To Plants In Wider Containers:In Wider Containers: Bigger Pots = Bigger PlantsBigger Pots = Bigger Plants

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SuccessfulSuccessful CuttingsCuttings

“À La Mode”“À La Mode”

Technique:Technique: With Topping/Pinching,With Topping/Pinching, Harvest A Much Higher Yield!Harvest A Much Higher Yield!

Basic Tricks For IndoorBasic Tricks For Indoor (And Outdoors)(And Outdoors)

CultivationCultivation

Bad Buzz AtBad Buzz At The Beehives:The Beehives: ExclusiveExclusive Interviews WithInterviews With BeekeepersBeekeepers

January/February2008January/February 2008

A FewA Few AcalyphaAcalypha Of Of InterestInterest

“Don’t focus on the calendar;keep in touch with your plants.Make your grow room easy toaccess and use water carefully.Make sure all wiring is done assafely as possible. Have a fireextinguisher in the grow room.Make sure water and electricitynever mix. Make sure it’s asquiet as possible. Keep it

green, loving and full of light.”

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CONTENTS 6 Editorial: Happy New Year... In the Indoor Garden! (By Bruno Bredoux) / 8 Introduction: My Basic Tricks for Cultivation(Indoors and Out) (By Luc Krol) / 14 Notes & News / 18 Technique: Partial Topping and Controlled Pinching of Plants for An IncreasedYield (By Sébastien Lachance) / 22 Plant Physiology: Fruit, Vegetable and Plant Acids (By R. Raynal) / 26 Exclusive Interviews on ColonyCollapse Disorder: Bad Buzz in the Beehives (By Fred Leduc) / 32 Industry News (By L. Murphy and K. Bayne) / 36 Gallery: An Artist’sGarden in Winter (in Asheville, NC) (By Bruno Bredoux) / 38 Arts: Sublimations, A Tribute to Artist Gary J. Glaser (1951-2007) (By BrunoBredoux) / 40 Successful Cuttings—Part 3: “Clones à la Mode” (By Raymond Ridou) / 44 Tourism and Cooking: Mexico’s Mole PoblanoSauce (By Rosa Del Bosque (a.k.a. Rose Laforêt) / 48 Botanical Dictionary: A Few Interesting Acalypha (By Daniel Fortin) / 50 Technology:

Horticultural Lighting—Kara Reflectors (By W. Sutherland) / Horticultural Lighting—Accessories for Kara Reflectors (By W. Sutherland) /52 Plant Health: Bigger Pots = Bigger Plants (By Fred Leduc) / Winter Fun: Ski Healthy (By Bruno Bredoux) / 64 Around the World: What’sUp in Hydroponics Innovation in Namibia, Morocco, etc. (By Bruno Bredoux & Loup-Claude LeBlanc) / And our usual features: Creditsand Errata (4) / Editorial (6) / Order Form (6) / Notes & News (14 to 16) / Industry News (32) / Shopping (56 to 62) / The HydroponicWorld of North-America (59 to 61) / Q & A (66).

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22 Plant Adaptation: Shyness?

28 First Filial Generation or F1 Hybrid Seeds

40 Growing Experiment: Hurrah, It’s Finally Working!

42 Accelerating Plant Evolution: A Quick Look at Hybridization

46 Begonias As Indoor Plants

54 E-Z Greenhouse: A Gardener’s Guide Step-by-Step

Growing Experiment:Growing Experiment: Hurrah, It’s Finally Working!Hurrah, It’s Finally Working!

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Plant Adaptation:Plant Adaptation: Shyness?Shyness?

E-Z Greenhouse:E-Z Greenhouse: A Gardener’s GuideA Gardener’s Guide Step-by-StepStep-by-Step

Accelerating PlantAccelerating Plant Evolution: A QuickEvolution: A Quick

Look at HybridizationLook at Hybridization

First FilialFirst Filial GenerationGeneration or F1 Hybrid Seedsor F1 Hybrid Seeds

M arch/April2008March/April 2008

BegoniasBegonias As Indoor PlantsAs Indoor Plants

“Experienced hybridizers createnew varieties by growing

hundreds of plants. They choosecertain plants bearing the desiredcharacteristics to obtain those

traits within the variety they wishto create. All other plants are

removed and destroyed. Examples of desirable

characteristics are: early flowering,heavy fruit, and high yield.”

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CONTENTS 5 Editorial: A + B Two-part Nutrients: Why? (By B. Bredoux) / 6 Introduction—Morphological Change, PhysiologicalDevelopment: UVB Rays Modify the Cells of Phytoplankton... for the Worse! (By D. Guillemette) / 10 Environment: The HimalayasRecycle CO2 Better Than Other Young Mountains (By B. Bredoux) / 12 Notes & News / 18 Horticultural Lighting: The Adjust-A-WingsReflector & The Adjust-A-Wings’s Companion, the Super Spreader (By J.-F. Savard) / 22 Plant Adaptation: Shyness? (By Sylvie Laberge) /28 First Filial Generation or F1 Hybrid Seeds (By Willy Jack) / 40 Growing Experiment: Hurrah, It’s Finally Working! (By Stephen S.) / 42Accelerating Plant Evolution: A Quick Look at Hybridization (By Soma) / 44 Plant Health: Pest Control with Doktor Doom’s Foggers and

Insecticide Plant Sprays (By Grigg Kellock) / 46 Begonias As Indoor Plants (By Daniel Fortin) / 48 Botanical Dictionary: Clover (By B.Bredoux) / 54 E-Z Greenhouse (By Fred Leduc) / And our usual features: Editorial (5) / Music for Plants (16) / Table of conversion (16) /Shopping (26-27) / Gallery (32-35) / Industry News (36-39) / Around The World (60-62) / The Hydroponic World (63-65) and Q & A (66).

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8 Hand Pollination

14 Summer is here! A Guide For Warmer Daysand For the Start of An Outdoor Garden

16 The Tip of the Asparagus

20 Potting Mixes: Hydroponic Recipes

24 The Plant That Doesn’t Die

28 Discover the Svalbard Seed Bank...

46 Growing on Coco: Busting the Myth

“To procreate, we need a male and afemale. Dioecious plants need both:begonia, kiwi, chestnut, etc. Craftynature has allowed us to discover awonderful technique to preserve the

genetics of a plant withoutpollination. When you’re cloning a

plant, the characteristics andqualities we like in a certain varietycan be preserved for years, with nodegradation of the genetic capital.”

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CONTENTS 6 Editorial: Falling in the Meadow (And Never Getting Back Up) (By B. Bredoux) / 8 Introduction: Hand Pollination (ByFred Leduc) / 10-13 Notes & News / 14 Summer is here! A Guide For Warmer Days and For the Start of An Outdoor Garden (By J. Caronand G. Hannafin) / 16 The Tip of the Asparagus (By D. Guillemette) / 18 Clerodendrons (By Daniel Fortin) 20 Potting Mixes: HydroponicRecipes (By W. Sutherland, B & B Hydroponics Garden) / 24 The Plant That Doesn’t Die. A century-old tree? Yes... A thousand years old?Indeed, but rarely. An immortal plant? Come on! And yet! In New Guinea? In the Galapagos Islands? In Sumatra? Not so far... Nearby, amajestic white spruce (Picea glauca) rises up, it’s lower branches flirting with the ground; its neighbor, the trembling aspen (Populustremuloides), watches over its countless offspring; at their feet, a very small plant flowers: the yellow clintonia (Clintonia borealis)spreads its yellow bell-shaped corolla. Which one of these plants does not die? All of them... potentially. And to find them,you need only

take a look outside, towards the woods… (By Sylvie Laberge) / 28 A Natural Freezer for the Survival of Plant Biodiversity (By HeleneJutras) / 32 Horti Fair: Part 2 (By Jan S.) / 40 Horticultural Lighting: Selected Light Spectrums and Phototropism (By Barry Meatyard) /42 News from Homebox (The Original!) (By Denis S.) / 46 Growing on Coco: Busting the Myth (By Ralph B.) / 52 CubeCapTM is ExpandingIts Product Line (By S. Gallo) / And our usual features: Editorial (6) / Table of conversion (6) / Industry News (10, 12 & 13) / Shopping(56-58) / Around The World (60-62) / The Hydroponic World of North-America (63-65) / Q & A (66).

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6 My Basic Indoor Gardening Tips and Tricks

16 China: Hydroponic Olympics

28 Our Pollinizer Friends: From Wind To Wings

40 Ecological Fungicides: Twelve Recipes for Natural Products to Apply to Your Plants

46 Summer Cultivation: In the City or in the Great Outdoors?

“Be always ready! Make sureyou have at your disposal

everything you will need untilharvest-time before you

germinate the seeds. This willgive you the best chances ofbeing able to act as you must,when you must, and to avoid

useless stress. Buy nutrients andsubstrate mix in sufficientquantity from the get-go.”

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CONTENTS 5 Editorial: Homeopathy—Pass the Hot Water, Please! (By Bruno Bredoux) / 6 Introduction: My Basic Indoor GardeningTips and Tricks (By Raymond Ridou) / 10-14 Notes & News / 16 China: Hydroponic Olympics (By V. Green) / 20 Horticultural Lighting:Looking in the Eye of the Lighting Industry with EYE Lighting (By L. Thomas) / 22 Gear: Air Cooled and Air Conditioning with Excel AirSystems (By B. Kion) / 26 CubeCapTM is Expanding Its Product Line (By S. Gallo) / 28 Our Pollinizer Friends: From Wind To Wings (By SylvieLaberge) / 32 Gallery: Eclipse 2008 (By Helene Jutras) / 36 Gallery: The Bio Game—Fungi Fun Facts: Truth or Hoax? (By J.R. Hannafin) /38 Streptocarpus (By Daniel Fortin) / 40 Ecological Fungicides – Part 3: Twelve recipes for natural products (plus a joker!) to apply to yourplants (By Bruno Bredoux, with the contribution of P. Henderson and R. Ridou) / 46 Getting Away or Coming Back to Gardening: Back

Outdoors (By Michel Blume, with Loup-Claude LeBlanc) & Back Indoors (By Maya R., with Loup-Claude LeBlanc) / 50 Not an Easy Winterfor the E-Z Greenhouse (By Fred Leduc) / And our usual features: Editorial (5) / Table of conversion (10) / Industry News (10, 14, 52, 53& 54) / Shopping (56) / The Hydroponic World of North America (57-59) / Discovery: In The Land of Honey (60-62) / Q & A (64) / Answersto the Bio Game (66).

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6 Benefits to Home Gardening withHydroponics

6 Hydroponic Cultivation: Advantages for All!

16 Optimal Cultivation Conditions without CO2

Input: The Tunnel Effect

26 Indoor Plants Series: Caladiums

60-64 It’s Apple Season!• Why the Big Apple?• In the Big Apple

And our usual features!

“‘Modern’ soil-less cultivation startedin Germany in the 19th century, duringresearch into what plants consumed.The required methodology forcedresearchers to set up cultivation

systems using inert substrates, in whichthe roots were only fed mineral saltsfrom the water provided. It was the

best way to study the effects of variouscompositions on plant development.That is how hydroponics was born.”

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Gardening (By P. Steph) / 44 Photosynthesis: When Life Makes Bubbles (By Didier Pol, tenured professor, life, earth and sciences) / 48 Our PollinizerFriends—Part 2: From Apis to Bees (By Sylvie Laberge) / 52 Internews and Webtricks for Your Indoor Garden (and Your Internal Garden) (By ChrisGaipier & Thomas Primo) / 56 Horticultural Novelties / 60-64 It’s Apple Season! Why the Big Apple? & In the Big Apple (By bbny) / 63 The HydroponicWorld of North-America / 66 Q & A (By Paul Henderson) / And our usual features!

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6 Introduction: Why Turn to HydroponicCultivation?—Part 2

22 From Halloween to Christmas: Prepare YourSeedlings

36 Pests and Diseases: There's Always A Non-Toxic Treatment Available

44 Leaf Crops (Such as Herbs and Lettuce)Feeding Formulas in Soil and Hydroponics

“You tend to forget all about watering?That is often due to the usual warnings:“Once a week, never more!” With a

substrate made of a mixture ofvermiculite, perlite and rock wool, youwill be able to water without questions(even several times a day). If you forgetto water, this substrate will allow for

about three times the autonomy of soil(between one and three weeks,

depending on plant size and season).”

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CONTENTS 5 Editorial: The “International” of Indoor Gardeners is Here! (By Bruno Bredoux) / 6 Introduction: Why Turn to HydroponicCultivation?–Part 2 (By Loup-Claude LeBlanc, with Bob Ramirez’s collaboration) / 12 H2O = Water = Life–Part 3. Saving Water: The TrueChallenge of the 21st Century (By Créa-Lise) / 16 An Aquaponic Trip to Lake Titicaca (By Jean D’If and Rose Laforêt) / 18 Notes & News /Industry News: MegaWatt and Van Patten Publishing / 20 In A Nutshell: Got a Problem? Here are Simple Solutions! (By Jessy Caron) / 22From Halloween to Christmas: Prepare Your Seedlings (By Jean-Félix Savard) / 26 Hydro for Hunger: New Hydro for Hunger Sponsors andProducts (By Ethan Young) / 28 Anthurium (By Daniel Fortin) 32 Galleries: Our Pollinizer Friends–Part 3 (By Patrick Laberge) & Myrmicasin My Garden (By Carlos “Mad” Gator) / 36 Pests and Diseases: There's Always A Non-Toxic Treatment Available (By Mike Biggs,

Agronomist, CanadianXpress, Kwinana, Western Australia) / 40 Travel, Travel: Seed Transportation (By Sylvie Laberge) / 44 Leaf Crops(Such as Herbs and Lettuce) Feeding Formulas in Soil and Hydroponics (By Bill Sutherland) / 50 Molecular Expression: See Plant DetailsWith an Optical Microscope (By Santulli O’Keefe) / 52 Indoor Gardening: When Should You Water? (By Pierre Bonnard, columnist onCityPlantes.com) / 52 to 62 Industry News / 63 The Hydroponic World of North-America 64 Q & A (By Paul Henderson).

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8 pH of a Nutritive Solution: Measuring andCalibrating Advices

14 iPots and Other Horticultural Novelties

22 Horticultural Lighting: The Bright Side of theLight (A Look at Different Lighting Devices’Emission Spectrum)

28 Fertilizers—Chemical or Organic: What’s Your Creed?

31 & 42 In A Nutshell: Herbs and Their Virtues

“I recently read an article in theMontreal Gazette about space

farming. I found it veryinteresting when professor MikeDixon, director of CESRF atthe University of Guelph was

quoted as saying, “In the future allastronauts will be vegetarians.” I’vethought for a long time that theultimate in indoor gardens wasgoing to be in outer space!”

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CONTENTS 6 Editorial: 1970’s… Was It Better Before? (By Bruno Bredoux) / 8 pH of a Nutritive Solution: Measuring and Calibrating Advices(By Loup-Claude LeBlanc, Bill Sutherland & Christopher Sheppard) / 14 iPots and Other Horticultural Novelties / 16 Anthuriums (By Daniel Fortin) /18 Pest Control: Harmful Insects Are Attacking? Wage an Efficient War on Them (By André Malépart) / 22 Horticultural Lighting: The Bright Side ofthe Light (A Look at Different Lighting Devices’ Emission Spectrum) (By Bill Sutherland and B&B Hydroponic Gardens) / 28 Fertilizers—Chemicalor Organic: What’s Your Creed? (By Gerald “J.R.” Hannafin) / 31 & 42 In A Nutshell: Herbs and Their Virtues (By Bruno Bredoux) / 36 Incoming and

Outgoing Ventilation Control (By Gerald “J.R.” Hannafin) / 40 My New Solar Greenhouse (By Fred Leduc) / 44 Interview—Plants in Space: Interviewwith Professor Mike Dixon, director of the Controlled-Environment Systems Research Facility and of the Space and Advanced Life SupportAgriculture program at the Ontario Agricultural College, University of Guelph (By Fred Leduc) / 50 Dinosaurs in your Back Yard (By Sylvie Laberge) /54 Beautiful But Short-Lived: Amaryllis (By Daniel Fortin) / And our usual features (Notes & News, Industry News, Q&A, etc.)

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20 Successful Cuttings—Part 6: Cloning 101 for Professional Cuttings

32 The Lollipop Plant (or Pachystachys lutea)

36 Survivors… A Tale of the Winter Time

40 Purifying Water:From Ancient Civilizations to AquaCartis

44 Operation Puppy Proof

“Also known as the yellow-shrimpplant and the golden-shrimp plant,

the lollypop plant (Pachystachys lutea) isa shrub originating from the tropical

regions of Peru. Its popularnicknames refer to its 10 to 15-

centimetres high spikes composed ofheart-shaped bracts. They are a

slightly orange yellow, very decorative.From them emerge tubulous whiteflowers that look like lollypops.”

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CONTENTS 5 Editorial: Demeter, or Biodynamic Agriculture (By Bruno Bredoux) / 8 Seedlings: Is the Moon’s Influence WorthConsidering? (By Hubert The Gardener) / 12-14 Notes & News / 16 Plant Classification Series—Among Rubiaceae: Coffee (By VertudaGreen) / 20 Successful Cuttings—Part 6: Cloning 101 for Professional Cuttings (By Jean-Félix Savard) / 26 Salt Cultivation: GuérandeSalinas (By Coopérative des paludiers de Guérande) / 32 The Lollipop Plant (Pachystachys lutea) (By Daniel Fortin) / 36 Survivors… ATale of the Winter Time (By Sylvie Laberge) / 40 Purifying Water: From Ancient Civilizations to AquaCartis (By Fred Leduc) / 44 Operation

Puppy Proof (By Kerrie R. Barney) / 48 Plant-based Cosmetics and Body Products (By Vertuda Green) / 49-54-55-56-58 Industry News /50 Visiting Netherlander and Belgian Hydroponic Stores (By R.D.) / 57-59 The Hydroponic World of North-America / 60 Water Solutions:G.H. Pumps and Filters (By General Hydroponics) / 64-65-66 Environment (Duvetnor: Protecting the Common Eider, Discovering ItsHabitat & Magnum D’Or Recaps Major Events of 2008) (By Mélanie Doré) / 66 Q&A. And Our Usual Features...

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8 The Healing Garden

16 Grow Your Own Produce: The Happy Family Farms Model

20 Hydro/Aeroponic Countertop System for Mother’s Day?

32 Justicia carnea, the Brazilian Plume

48 Growing Your Plants Right: From MediumSubstrates to Micronutrient Foliar Applications

“The idea for our farm began outof frustration. We wanted what somany other people want–to feedour family naturally grown fruits

and vegetables without theridiculous price tag that comes with

them. Produce grown halfwayaround the world, loaded with

pesticides and commercial fertilizerswere just no longer an option, yet

we had to be dollar-conscious, too.”

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CONTENTS 5 Editorial: An Economic Crisis for Plants? (By Bruno Bredoux) / 8 The Healing Garden (By Brandon Pillon) / 10, 12 & 14Industry News / 16 Grow Your Own Produce: The Happy Family Farms Model (By Brian Johns) / 20 May 10th is Mother’s Day! Think AboutOffering a Hydro/Aeroponic Countertop System (By Vertuda Green) / 23 Cheapest Hydro Set Up (By Fred Leduc) / 24 Hydrotek Int’l, Likea Phoenix (By Bruno Bredoux) / 26 & 27 More Industry News / 27 Call to Readers: We Invite You to Write for The Indoor GardenerMagazine (By Roxanne LaBelle) / 28 Plant Physiology: Roots (By S. Sainte-Anne) / 30 Build Your Own Ebb & Flow Table to Start Cuttings(By Loup-Claude LeBlanc) / 31 Norfolk Island Pine Cultivation Tips (By Fred Leduc) / 32 Justicia carnea, the Brazilian Plume (By DanielFortin) / 34 Organic/Mineral, What’s The Deal? (By Geary Coogler, Horticulturist) / 36 Under the Top Soil (By Sylvie Laberge) / 40Discovery: As Long As There Were Forests... We Could: 3 – Protect Them (By Bruno Bredoux) / 44 Discover Atmosphere’s RevolutionaryPowerfans (By Bruno Bredoux & William Guida) / 46 Botanical Curiosity—Stevia rebaudiana: Prospects of Sugar (By Guy Arseneau) /

48 Growing Your Plants Right: From Medium Substrates to Micronutrient Foliar Applications (By Bill Sutherland) / 54 Kitchen-AdviceSpecial Page (By F. Deschenes) / 56 Postcard from the Big Apple (By Rose Laforêt) / 58 Swarming City: In the Big Apple—Part 2 (Bybbny) / 58 Gallery: Flowering Apple Trees and Apple Blossoms for the Home Décor (By Bruno Bredoux) / 64 The Hydroponic World ofNorth-America / 66 Q & A / And our usual features…

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5 Editorial: Cowpots: The Pots You Plant

8 Grow All Summer: Water Cooling Explained

22 A Garden of Blue Flowers

26 Rapid and Easy Cuttings

44 Medicinal Plants: Weapons of Mass Disruption

52 Growing Medium:The New Roots Organic Formula 707

“Genetically modified (GM) rice,soon on our plates? It’s possible,as the European commission is

proposing to authorize theimportation of Bayer’s LL62

transgenic rice. Right now, thereexists no commercial transgenic-rice cultivation in the world, butthat could quickly change underthe pressures from large seed

groups and some government.”

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CONTENTS 5 Editorial: The Cow and Her Pat Pot, A Fable for Our Times (By Bruno Bredoux) / 5 Call to Readers: We Invite You to Write for TheIndoor Gardener Magazine (By Roxanne LaBelle) / 8 Grow All Summer: Water Cooling Explained (By Hydro Innovations) / 14 The Watering AdvicePage (By William Sutherland) / 16 The Bug Killer Page (By J.-F. Savard) / 18 Notes & News / 20 Tips & Tricks / 22 A Garden of Blue Flowers (By BrunoBredoux) / 26 Rapid and Easy Cuttings (By Christopher Pythoff and Raymond Ridou) / 32 All About Banana: a Cluster of Virtues (By M. Traversy andS. Sakura) / 38 More Hydroponic Classics (By J. Población & al.) / 40 An Unwanted Treasure (By Sylvie Laberge) / 43 Cinema: The Mystery of ThugIsland, Italy, 1964 (By B. Bredoux) / 44 Medicinal Plants: Weapons of Mass Disruption (By Sylvie Laberge) / 48 to 58 Industry News / 52 Growing

Medium: The New Roots Formula 707 (By Hydrofarm) / 56 to 57 The Hydro World of North America / 60 Environment (Coalition Against BayerDangers Announces: Greenpeace vs. the Risks of Bayer’s LL62 GMO Rice) & Education (By L. Rouxel & al.) / 62 It’s Rose Month! A Rosy Endeavour (ByEditor Bob) / 64 to 65 Q & A / 66 Gallery: The Canadian Indoor Gardening Expo in Kelowna (A Photo Gallery by William Fitzmaurice) / And our usualfeatures…

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10 Bugs 101: Identify the Parasites beforeFighting Them Organically

36 The Life Phases of Flowering Ornamentals

40 Plant Physiology: the Stem

48 & 50 Indoor Plants:• Orchid Cactus or X Epicactus• The Wax Plant or Hoya carnosa

52 to 63 Industry News:Fall Product Listing

“Indoor wild strawberries? Amongthe diversity of plants grown

successfully by our collaborator, theflavourful wild strawberry (Fragaria

vesca L.) can easily be grown indoors.Since this variety is quite resistant

and perennial, you can take plants innature. Provide it with a sunny

location in a rather acidic soil thatwill remain cool and well drained.Clumps can be divided in the fall.”

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CONTENTS 6 Editorial: A Gardener’s Green Thumb Revealed (By Bruno Bredoux) / 7 Call to Readers: We Invite You to Write for TheIndoor Gardener Magazine (By Roxanne LaBelle) / 8 Q & A / 10 Bugs 101: Identify the Parasites before Fighting Them Organically (ByBruno Bredoux & Paul Henderson, horticulturist) / 15 An Incomparable Product: Dr. Node’s 0.4-0.2-0 (By Rambridge) / 16 CultivationTips from Our Readers / 18 to 22 Notes & News / 22 Cinema: Seasons, A 1987 Imax Movie Narrated By Captain Kirk! (By Bruno Bredoux) /24 Humour for An Economic Crisis Era: Red Tomatoes (By The Tomato Page Network) / 24 Herb Science Product Line (By V. Green) / 28Cooking: Zucchini Bread and More (By Danièle Montrouge) / 30 Gallery: A Variety of Plants Grown by Our Collaborator (By Fred Leduc) /36 The Life Phases of Flowering Ornamentals (By Didier Pol, tenured professor, life and earth sciences) / 40 Plant Physiology: the Stem(By S. Ste-Anne, biology teacher) / 44 The Trees of Life—Part One: Family Tree (By Sylvie Laberge) / 48 Orchid Cactus or X Epicactus (By

Daniel Fortin, horticulturist) / 50 The Wax Plant or Hoya carnosa (By Daniel Fortin, horticulturist) / 52 to 63 Industry News / 52SuperThrive® Originator Receives Lifetime Award (By Dan Stevens) / 63 DVD: John Carpenter’s Halloween (1978) (By Bruno Bredoux) /64-65 The Hydro World of North America / 66 Gallery: Fall Scenery, Aerial View of Hydro Quebec’s Saint-Narcisse Power Station / And ourusual features…

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6 The ‘12’ Issue: Ideas, Facts, Tips & Tricks...

8 Amusing Biology in 12 Points: Chlorophyll, aHighly Excitable Molecule

16 Twelve Steps to Hydroponic Success

40 Twelve Horticultural Wonders from Heaven, or the “Valhöll” for Indoor Gardeners

54 Consuming the Environment on Credit inTwelve Facts

“When chlorophyll absorbs light,some electrons in its atoms absorblight energy. This brings them to an“excited” state, further away from

the atomic nucleus. This very unstablestate only lasts 10 nanoseconds

(1/100,000,000 second), and electrons spontaneously go back to their initial state byrestoring the energy absorbed at red light (fluorescence).”

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CONTENTS 6 Editorial: “12” (By Bruno Bredoux) / 8 Amusing Biology in 12 Points: Chlorophyll, a Highly Excitable Molecule (By DidierPol, tenured professor, life and earth sciences) / 12 Industry: Dozen of Opportunities, BioFloral Garage Sale (By N. Emond) / 14 Winnerof Our Writing Contest: There’s Never A Bad Question (By Frank Nyikos) / 16 Industry: MegaWatt HydroCulture’s Story (By Devin Courte) /18 Hydroponic Success is Only Twelve Steps Away (By Bill Sutherland) / 21 Order Form / 26 The Trees of Life—Part Two: He Who’s Afraidof Leaves (By Sylvie Laberge) / 30 The Chinese Lantern or Abutilon X hybridum (By Daniel Fortin, horticulturist, Centre la Nature de Laval,Quebec) / 32 Gallery: Home Décor—Twelve Great Artificial Plants for Your Home (By Hon Lam) / 36 Gallery: Twelve of the Most AmazingTrees in the World (By Vertuda Green) / 40 Hydroponic Fair: Twelve Horticultural Novelties from Around the World (By M. Durand, V. Green& J. Sennema) / 46 In A Nutshell: 12 Plants and Herbs and Their Virtues (Part 3) (By V. Young) / 47 Three Sunleaves’ Shopping Ideas for

the Season (By E. Young) / 46 Cultivating Cacti with Soma in Twelve Steps (By Soma) / 50 Twelve Facts About Tomato Grafting Vs.Chemical Alternatives (By M. Besri) / 52-53 The Hydro World of North America / 54 Environment: Consuming the Environment on Credit(By Bruno Bredoux) / 58 to 62 Industry News / 62 Q & A / 64 A Christmas Tale: Hirisc, the Red Crocodile, or When Green Wins Over Red(By Bruno Bredoux) / And our usual features…

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8 Pest Control—Fighting Thrips: Know Your Ennemy!

12 Become A Ventilation Master Thanks toa Broad Range of Equipment

24 Cultivation Tips:Forget Crystal Balls: Look at the Roots!

30 Plant Physiology: Leaves

44 The Trees of Life—Part Three: Blue Gold versus Green Gold

48 Plant Physiology: Nutrition

“Ventilation is one of theelements that are essential for

successful cultivation andharvest. Your plants’ healthdepends on air quality and

temperature and on its humidityrate. Your plants cannot reachtheir maximum development

without ventilation that’s adaptedto your lighting and your indoor-

gardening space.”

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CONTENTS 6 Editorial : Mirror, Mirror, Tell Me… (By Bruno Bredoux) / 6 Brite-Lite Group Announcements / 8 Pest Control—Fighting Thrips: Know Your Ennemy! (By Pro Gardening Systems) / 11 Cultivation Tips from Our Readers / 12 Techniques: RecommendedEquipment to Become A Ventilation Master (By V. Green) / 13 Industry News: BioFloral & Bedol / 14 Let Your Plants Breathe with Econo-Fan (By M. Durand, Owner) / 16 Hydro Innovations: Expert in Heat Control (By Stephen Keen, Owner) / 19 Winner of a Column for A Year:Carried Away (By Glenn Milbrand) / 20 Depolluting Plants: Well-Being Allies (By Flora Mag) / 21 Letter to The Editor / 22 A QuickConversation with Humboldt Wholesale (By Sam Kagan) / 24 Forget Crystal Balls: Look at the Roots! (By Frank Nyikos) / 25 IndustryNews: The Grodan Family) / 26 Q & A / 27 Twelve Shopping Ideas for All Seasons (By E. Young) / 29 Gardening: A Joint Venture (By EditorBob) / 30 Plant Physiology: Leaves (By S. Ste-Anne, Biology Teacher) / 36 Gallery: PPM Hydroponics, Your North-Shore HydroponicSpecialist / 38 In A Nutshell: Twelve Plants and their Virtues (By V. Green) / 40 Plant Foods: GH Flora Series (By General Hydroponics) /

43 Order Form / 44 The Trees of Life—Part Three: Blue Gold versus Green Gold (By Sylvie Laberge) / 45 New from BWGS / 48 PlantPhysiology: Nutrition (By S. Ste-Anne, Biology Teacher) / 52 Destination Profile: Romania. Visiting Dracula’s Land and Other RomanianItineraries (By Rose Laforêt) / 56 to 60 Industry News / 62 Twelve More Shopping Ideas for the Season (By E. Young) / 63 “Concerto enaHÉROSol” at Café Graffiti in Montreal (By Raymond Viger) / 64-65 The Hydro World of North America / And our usual features…

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8 Indoor Plants: Dieffenbachia

12 Sick Plants? Protect Your Garden from Volatile Organic Compounds

16 Confessions of a Plant Whisperer

24 Plant Physiology: Carbohydrates (or Saccharides)

58 Destination Profile: Before the Earthquake—Memories of Haiti

“Most of us gardening typestend to feel a little bit down as

the summer winds down and weslip into fall. With the days

getting shorter, the air gettingcolder, and the outdoor gardentilled in for the winter, we areleft with only our indoor houseplants to give us the comfortthat our summer garden did

bring to us. […] Or maybe not.”

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CONTENTS 6 Editorial: March Attacks! (By Bruno Bredoux) / 8 Indoor Plants: Dieffenbachia (By Daniel Fortin, horticulturist) / 10Winner of a Column for a Year: The Danger of GM Foods (By Josh Gulliver) / 12 Sick Plants? Protect Your Garden from Volatile OrganicCompounds (By Pro Gardening Systems) / 16 Confessions of a Plant Whisperer (By Kerrie R. Barney) / 20 Winter Wonderland (By GlennMilbrand) / 24 Plant Physiology: Carbohydrates (or Saccharides) (By R. Raynal, Chemist) / 25 Pablo Jardinage, Exclusive AdvancedNutrients Distributor for Mauricie (By B. Bredoux) / 27 Pizza Margherita is Celebrating Its 120th Anniversary! (By lifeinitaly.com) / 28 TheGrocery Store Gardener (By Frank Nyikos) / 34 Mater of Ventilation: From Can-Fan to Max-Fan (By W. Sutherland) / 36 Q & A / 37Environment—“Superweeds”: Five Years of Unresolved Questions (By Third World Network & France 24) / 38 Growing Experiment: TheTale of Two Berries (By Glenn Milbrand) / 42 Growing Experiment: The Lazy Hybridizer (By Frank Nyikos) / 46 Growing Experiment: “WeDid It to A Radish!”—Bob & Ted’s Excellent Adventure in Indoor Gardening (By Loup-Claude Leblanc, with Bob T. & Ted B.) / 50

Cultivation Tips from Our Readers / 51 Industry News: Grodan Dangles its Danglers (By W. D.) / 52 Master of Nutrients (By M. Cubaynes,J. Cuffley and F. Leduc) / 56 Industry News / 58 Destination Profile: Before the Earthquake—Memories of Haiti (By Rose Laforêt) / 62Movies: Experience “The Dark Side of Oz” for the Movie’s 70th Anniversary (By G. Lechasseur) / 63 Movies: Instructions for “The Dark Sideof Oz” Experience (By G. Lechasseur) / 64-65 The Hydroponic World of North America / And our usual features…

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Volume 5 - Issue 6

Celebrating Our 6th Year in Business!

A Bouquetof Selected Articles (2005-2010)

Contest: Win An EcoSystem 2 (See All You Need to Do on Page 32)!“March 2005… We were launching

our very first printed issue after a“Number 0” trial and four monthsof brain storming in a “basementcorner turned office”, on Rue

Beaubien in East Montreal. Severalfloods later (there was a not so

well-run self-service laundry on theother side of the wall…), we are

still in business but, thank God, wehave moved from that place!”

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CONTENTS 6 Editorial: Celebrating Our 31st Issue and Entering Our 6th Year! (By Bruno Bredoux) / 6 GeoHumus Now in NorthAmerica (By M. R.) / 8 Featured Plants: Lilies (By Jessy Caron, horticulturist) / 12 Winner of A Column for A Year: Gardening With MyFather (By Stephanie Annis) / 13-14 Industry News / 15 Organic Care for Babies: Greenie Mouse (“Souris Verte”) Freshens Up! (By LucFaucher) / 15 Cooking: Herbed Pumpkin Soup (By Dairy Farmers of Canada) / 16 Q & A / 18 Plant Health: How to Eliminate Pests fromPlants Coming In From Outdoors (By Grigg Kellock) / 20 Botany—Grain Transportation: The Seed of Life (By Sylvie Laberge) / 24 Mom,My Gardening Muse (By Frank Nyikos) / 28 Technology: EcoSystem 2—Revolutionizing Vertical Growing (By Réjean Roy and ChantalMarin) / 32 Contest: Win An EcoSystem 2 (Eco2-18) with The Indoor Gardener Magazine! / 34 The Unavoidable Spathiphyllum (By DanielFortin, horticulturist) / 36 Photo Gallery: Indoor Gardening Show, Montreal (By Fred Leduc) / 39 Interesting Spathiphyllum Cultivars (ByDaniel Fortin, horticulturist, Centre de la Nature de Laval, Quebec) / 40 Organic, Mineral: What’s The Deal (By Geary Coogler,horticulturist) / 46 Growing Experiment: Growing in Soil: From Indoor Seedlings to Outdoor Harvest (Step by Step with Nutritive SolutionRecipes) (By Sébastien Lachance, horticulturist) / 52 Growing Experiment: Growing in Soil—An Outdoor Garden without much Hassle

(By Jessy Caron, horticulturist) / 57 May 1st National Movement: Fighting Global Economy to Preserve Agriculture Standards (By P.DiRienzo) / 62-63 The Hydroponic World of North America / 64 Gallery: Cheshire Cats (By Marielys, Shane & D.R.) / 65 Choosing Nutrients:My Way of Feeding Great Plants (By Yan Dignard, from Jurassic Products) / 65 Grodan Addresses Vertical Growing Gardening Trend (ByM.R.) And our usual features: Environment 40 & 57 / Tips & Tricks 56 / Industry News 62, 63 & 65.

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12 Growing Experiment: Tomato Summer—My Earthbox Adventure

18 Compost Under the Shell

30 Technique: Supercharge your EcoSystem Naturally

36 Gallery: Water Gardens, Aquariums and IndoorFountains

40 Auxiliary Garden Equipment

Contest: Win An EcoSystem 2 (See All You Need to Do on Page 32)!

“Let’s face it, pests in our gardens canseriously hold us back from havingthe kind of crops we all wish for.

Anytime you use a pesticide spray ofany kind, you instantly set the stage

for constant spraying thereafter. Bugsbecome resistant to sprays and they

become harder and harder tocombat. Beneficial nematodes are analternate and brilliant way to address

your pest problems.”

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CONTENTS 6 Editorial: How to Train Your Dragon… Plants & Co! (By Bruno Bredoux) / 8 New DVD: War and Peace in the KitchenGarden (A Movie by Jean-Yves Collet) (By Bruno Bredoux / 10 Industry News: House & Garden Products Now Available from MegaWattHydroCulture (By N. Courte) / 12 Growing Experiment: Tomato Summer—My Earthbox Adventure (By Kerrie R. Barney) / 16 Winner ofA Column for A Year: The Nerdy Gardener—How to Build A Home-made Sulphur Burner (By Émile Lestrange) / 17 Industry News:HydroSystem.ca—World Leader in Hydroponic Systems (By Michel Drouin) / 18 Compost Under the Shell (By Sylvie Laberge) / 21Industry News / 21 Cooking: Green Pea Soup (By Cooks.com) / 22 Fragaria vesca: A Strawberry for All Seasons (By Au Jardin, Switzerland) /25 Gallery: Strawberry Field near Watsonville, CA (By Bruno Bredoux) / 26 Micropropagation: The Best Plants You Could Ever Create! (ByPGSGrow) / 28 Pest Control: Fighting Garden Pests with Beneficial Nematodes (By PGSGrow) / 30 Technique: Supercharge yourEcoSystem Naturally (By Réjean Roy) / 32 Contest: Win An EcoSystem 2 (Eco2-18) with The Indoor Gardener Magazine! / 36 Gallery:Water Gardens, Aquariums and Indoor Fountains (Photos by Aquasculpture, Spirit Elements, Green Thumb Reg’d & TIG) / 40 Auxiliary

Garden Equipment (By Frank Nyikos) / 44 The Tale of Two Berries-Part 2: The Full Season (By Glenn Milbrand) / 50 Christy, Sarah, andPanda the Lucky Bamboo Plant (By Kerrie R. Barney) / 54 Learning from Experience (By Stephanie Annis) / Evolution Without Time: TheTruth on GMO’s (By Josh Gulliver) / 58 As Long As There Were Forests… We Could Build A Raft To Survive a Shipwreck. Adrift on theMéduse Raft (A Story by Jean Trogoff) / 64-65 The Hydroponic World of North America / And our usual features…

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10 Environment & Education: S.E.E. Water Wise Landscape Makes Big Splash

12 Growing Experiment:Strawberries beyond Compare in Home-madeGrowing Systems

20 Trimpro, the History of Trimmers

28 Essential Oil Extraction:Getting the Best out of Essential Oil Extraction Bags

40 Successful Cuttings: Start Vigorous and Healthy Cuttings

Contest: Win An EcoSystem 2 (See All You Need to Do on Page 32)!

“In the late 1990’s, long before thecurrent economic hard times, there wasa brief period when several mail-ordergift catalogs offered what they called

“complete indoor gardening tool kits.”Now, these kits were clearly not

designed for the serious, professionalgardener. Instead, they were strictly

meant for hobbyists who tended a smallcollection of pampered houseplants…

but oh, the tools they contained!”

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CONTENTS 6 Editorial: The Pros and Cons of Year-round Strawberries (by Bruno Bredoux) / 8 The Romance and Sex Life of the Date(By Bruno Bredoux) /10 Environment & Education: S.E.E. Water Wise Landscape Makes Big Splash (By Nick Federoff) / 12 Winner of AColumn for A Year: Strawberries beyond Compare in Home-made Systems (By Jim Fritz) / 14 Cooking: Tanzanian Curried Chicken BananaSoup (By soupsong.com) / 15 A Simple Green Solution: Plant Pots from Cow Pies (By Jim Della Croce) / 16-17 Industry News / 18Cultivation Tips from Our Readers: Secondhand Growing Systems (By Loup-Claude Leblanc) / 19 Industry: Ferti-Pro from Fertilec—AComplete Range of Fertilizers for Environmentally Friendly Consumers / 20 Trimpro, the History of Trimmers (By Steven Drummond) /23 Turkey Bags for All your Needs… and More! (By Bruno Bredoux) / 24 Growing Experiment: Home-made Grow Bags on Lawn (By JimFritz) / 30 Technology: EcoSystem—Always a Model for You! (By Réjean Roy) / 32 Contest: Win An EcoSystem 2 (Eco2-18) with TheIndoor Gardener Magazine! / 36 Trends: Container Gardening Design Gone Crazy! (By Farm Fresh Living) / 39 The Geek Gardener: Howto Use Blood Meal Fertilizer in your Kitchen Garden (By Émile Lestrange) / 40 Successful Cuttings: Start Vigorous and Healthy Cuttings(By J.-F. Savard) / 45 & 51 Q & A / 46 The Tool of the Trade (By Kerrie R. Barney) / 49 Gallery: Kitties Heart Plants / 50 It’s Fall? Let’s Take

the Garden Indoors (By Stephanie Annis) / 52 & 54-55 Industry News / 56 “Gro-Smart” with Grodan (by W. Denney) / 58 HydroFarmPresents… / 60 LumiGrow Inc. New Light Bulbs for Environmental Control Chambers and Greenhouses (By George Chan) / 62 A QuickBreakdown of Humbolt Wholesale Exclusive Products (By Sam Kagan) / 63 Coming to North America: GeoHumus / 64-65 TheHydroponic World of North America / And our usual features…

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10 Fertilizer Alchemy

20 Plants & Bliss:The Trail of A Fascinating Alchemy

26 A Christmas Cactus Story

30 Technology: Why Air Conditioning is Critical To Your Success?

32 LED Delivering A Wide Spectrum of Red forPlants’ Needs

Contest: Win An EcoSystem 2—Last Chance!(See All You Need to Do on Page 45)!

“Everyone has a different approachto indoor gardening. Hydroponics isvery popular but it requires daily

attention to very specific details anddemands skills many people do nothave. Growing in soil is much morecommon. I use soil for my indoorgarden because I am a beginner andalso because my working space issmall. In reduced space with little

light, growing in soil can be preferable.”

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CONTENTS 6 Editorial: “Write for Us” Contest Ending (By Bruno Bredoux) / 8 Growing Experiment: Feeding the Soil Naturally (ByStephanie Annis) / 10 Fertilizer Alchemy (By Frank Nyikos) / 16 With Apollo 3, Experience Fast Growth and Ease of Use (By Michel Drouin) /18 The Tales of the Hippy Dippy Gardener: Memories of My Life (By James Fritz) / 19 Cooking: Watercress Soup (By Soscuisine.com) / 20Plants & Health: The Trail of the Magic Potion (By Patrice Meyer) / 26 A Christmas Cactus Story (By Kerrie R. Barney) / 30 Technology:Why Air Conditioning is Critical To Your Success? (By Excel Air Systems) / 32 LumiGrow, Inc., New LED Light Bulbs Deliver the Red YourPlants Need, Without the Waste (By George Chan) / 34 The Geek Gardener: How to Make An F-1 Hybrid (By Émile Lestrange) / 36 Gallery:Late Season Tomato Harvest Checklist (By Harvestwizard.com) / 39 Gallery: The Skinny Kitty Teahouse at Burning Man 2010 (Photos byMystic Beat Lounge) / 40 True Liberty Bags: Thicker and Stronger Turkey Bags (By Bruno Bredoux) / 44 The Forest is a State of Mind (TheTrees of Life—Part 4) (By Sylvie Laberge) / 45 Contest: Win An EcoSystem 2 (Eco2-18) with The Indoor Gardener Magazine!—LastChance! / 47 Expo 2010 at Toronto Congress Centre (By Landscape Ontario Association) / 48 “Our” Earth (By Joshua Gulliver) / 53 Angelo

Trepanier, Collector of… Chainsaws! (By Sylvie Laberge) / 58 “Give Peace A Dance”: GH Sponsoring Earthdance 2010 (By Mystic BeatLounge) / 59 XXX-Tractor Bags: Cold Water Extraction Bags (By Lucy) / 60 Q & A / 62 Discovery: PGS Grow at Food Awareness Benefit withPaul Stamets (By PGS Grow) / 63 Nature’s Treats of the Season: Cèpe & Chanterelle / 64-65 The Hydroponic World of North America / Andour usual features…

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8 My Indoor Gardening Year: A Comedy in 12 Parts

26 Plant Physiology: The Invisible

36 Growing Experiment: Gardening in My Home-Made Growing Chamber

44 Aromatic Plants Used as Condiments (andtheir Derivatives): Characteristics, Use andVirtues

50 Indoor Landscaping with Water Features

“I've taken some pictures of mylavender field for The Indoor Gardenermagazine readers. Lavender farms arenow more and more common inQuebec’s Eastern Townships.Strolling through the deep bluefields of flowering lavender has

become a Summer treat. The deepfragrance of plants scents the air inthe delightful landscape remindingthe visitor of Provence’s images. ”

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CONTENTS 6 Editorial: Here Comes 2011! Your Lucky Number 11—Order, Regularity and Fortune! (By Stan Daimon) / 8 My IndoorGardening Year: A Comedy in 12 Parts (By Kerrie R. Barney) / 14 Techniques: Collecting Essential Oils (By Stephanie Annis) / 16 MyFavorite Time of the Year for Gardening (By Frank Nyikos) / 18 SunGro Horticulture Expands Popular Sunshine Advanced Product Line(By B. Busenbark) / 20 A Man Who Made Music History: Russell Simmons, Entrepreneur of His Own Remarkable Journey on Oxygen TV(By B. Shine & W. Hart) / 22 Grodan Endorses Caps Made by CubeCap (By W. Denney) / 23 Industry News / 24 The Geek Gardener: Howto Build a Home-Made Hydro Unit (By Émile Lestrange) / 26 Plant Physiology: The Invisible (By S. Ste-Anne) / 32 My Lavender Field andthe XXX-Tractor Washing Bags Technique (By Lucy) / 36 Growing Experiment: Gardening in My Home-Made Growing Chamber (By

Raymond Ridou) / 44 Aromatic Plants Used as Condiments (and their Derivatives): Characteristics, Use and Virtues (By MimsyPhœbus) / 50 Indoor Landscaping with Water Features (By Fred Leduc) / 54 Nature & Discovery: Flora and Fauna of the DanubeDelta (By RoNTO) / 56 Cooking / 58 Industry News / 62 Gallery: Hot Sale Greenhouse 2011 / 63 Essay: Confessions of a Tree Voyeur (ByFrank Nyikos) / 64-65 The Hydroponic World of North America / And our usual features…

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Aromatic Plants

Indoor Water Landscaping

Plant Physiology: The Invisible

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14 Integrated Pest Management: The Good, theBad, and the Ugly

18 Gardening Experiment: Indoor Daffodil Cultivation

22 Steampunk Horticulture—Sir Jagadish BoseCrescograph

28 A Tropical Adventure: Hydroponic Bananas

52 Water Solutions with GH Pumps and Filters

“Indoor gardening offers endlessoptions in regards to what typesof plants we are able to grow. Wecan grow out of season floweringvarieties to brighten our day, or

vegetables to supply us with freshproduce throughout the year, andwith some forward planning, wecan even grow varieties of plants

from different places andclimates of the world.”

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CONTENTS 6 Editorial: Strolling… Or Lazing About the Garden? (By V. Green, with Thomas Primo) / 8 Potency and Symbolism ofPlants—Characteristics, Uses and Virtues (By Mimsy Phœbus) / 13 Doktor Doom New Product Profile: It’s Back! (By Grigg Kellock) / 14Integrated Pest Management: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (By Jim Fritz) / 18 Gardening Experiment: Indoor Daffodil Cultivation (ByFrank Nyikos) / 20 The Geek Gardener: How to Finish Your Plants under Natural Light (By Émile Lestrange) / 22 SteampunkHorticulture—Sir Jagadish Bose Crescograph (By PGS Grow) / 26 Maria Pastora: The Leaves of the Shepherdess (B. T. Lyttle) / 27 NaturalAlternatives: Epicurus or The Way to Pleasure (By D. Rigeault & M. Hernisos) / 28 A Tropical Adventure: Hydroponic Bananas (By GlennMilbrand) / 33 Industry News: New from MegaWatt (By N. Courte) / 36 Multifunction Flexibility: Avant-Garde Indoor Garden, i-Pots andMore (By Vicki Williams) / 40 Gallery: Vintage Vilmorin Ads and Catalogs (By V. Green) / 42 Creating a Natural Environment Indoors (ByStephanie Annis) / 44 For the Vegan: 10 Organic Snack Delicacies and Healthy Bagged Products (By Jill Di Donato) / 47 Industry News:

New LED Grow Lights from Tlsanli / 48 “One for Woody Benefit”: The Most Memorable Concert of the Past Decade (By R. Varkony) / 50-51 Industry News / 52 Water Solutions with GH Pumps and Filters (By Luc Charnet) / 56 Get Proper Essential Oil Extraction (By Drop Bags) /59 Lost in Translation (By R. Saint-Gengoulf) / 60-61 The Hydroponic World of North America / 62 Company Profile: Botanicare (By BrunoBredoux) / 64 Q & A about SUPERThrive (By Dr. John A.A. Thomson) / And our usual features…

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8 A Formidable Journey in the Heart of a Seed

18 Advanced Science Applied to Your IndoorGarden

33 A Tribute to Japanese Farmers

36 How Humic and Fulvic Acids Became OrganicBiostimulants

40 Botanical Tips to Fight Pathogens Naturally

“The fruits and seedswe eat are often takenfor granted. However,the path leading tothe formation of a

seed, and eventually afruit, is long and filled

with obstacles.Everyday, we litteralyhold little miracles in

our hands.”

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CONTENTS 6 Editorial: Dear Readers, Announcers, and Distributors (By Stephanie Lock Leiva) / 8 A Formidable Journey in the Heartof a Seed (By Sylvie Laberge) / 14-15 Industry News / 16 Discover May and June’s Birth Flowers (By Stephanie Lock Leiva) / 17 There AreAs Many Indoor Gardens As There Are Gardeners (By Stephanie Annis) / 18 Techniques: Highly Advanced and Technical Science Appliedto Your Indoor Garden (By PGS Grow) / 22 Potency and Symbolism of Plants—Characteristics, Uses and Virtues: Part 3 (By MimsyPhœbus) / 26 Gardening With Kids: Simon and Clément in Brittany, France (By Bruno Bredoux) / 29 Crossword Puzzle (By Stephanie LockLeiva) / 30 The Geek Gardener’s Corner: How to Test Stuff’n’Things Indoors, Before Using Them Outdoors (By Émile Lestrange) / 32Mycorrhizal Inoculums (By J’) / 33 Stunning Rice Fields in Inakadate, Japan(By carreimperial.fr) / 36 How Humic and Fulvic Acids BecameOrganic Biostimulants (By Bruno Bredoux) / 40 Integrated Pest Management—Close-Up: Botanical Tips to Fight Pathogens Naturally

(By Jim Fritz) / 42 Natural Alternatives: Landais Folklore, the “Échassiers” (By D. Rigeault, with Tour Adour) 44 Horti Fair 2011—HortiFair 2011 in Amsterdam (By hortifair.nl) / 45 Iran Horti Fair 2011 in Tehran (By hortifair.ir) / And our usual features: Editorial 6 • PlantPhysiology 8 • Notes & News 14, 15 • Industry News 6, 20, 46 to 51 • Botanical Dictionary 22 • Gallery 39 • Tourism 43 • Music History 54 •Humour 57 • The Hydroponic World of North America 58-59.

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10 The Zen of Dusting Houseplants

16 Soil: from Dust till Dawn...

22 Plant Physiology: Flower and Reproductive Organs

28 Growing Miracles: The Ground Beneath Our Feet

42 Gardening Experiment:Summer Camp

“You can tell a lot about aperson by looking at their

garden. Character is expressed inthe construction and the care ofthe plants. It’s only natural thatthis is so. The main questionremains: outdoors or indoor?Humans always found very

adaptable, multi-use plants, forboth! And so they’re gardening

outdoors and indoors…”

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CONTENTS 6 Editorial: Ornamental Gnomes Disappearing from Gardens (By Bruno Bredoux) / 10 The Zen of Dusting Houseplants(By Kerrie R. Barney) / 16 Soil: from Dust till Dawn (By Sylvie Laberge) / 21 Growing Experiment: Gardening Indoors With Soil (ByStephanie Ann) / 22 Plant Physiology: Flower and Reproductive Organs (By Sophie Sainte-Anne & Simon Gareau) / 28 Growing Miracles:The Ground Beneath Our Feet (By J’) / 32 Algae to Omega Selects LumiGrow LED Solution for Energy-Efficient Indoor Algae Farm (ByGeorge Chan) / 36 Pest Control: Weapon of Choice (By Frank Nyikos) / 37 The Memories of My Life or The Tales of the Hippy DippyGardener (By Jim Fritz) / 38 The Geek Gardener: Homemade Fungicides (By Émile Lestrange) / 40 Aphrodisiac Plants and TheirDerivatives (By Mimsy Phœbus) / 42 Summer Camp (By Carl & E. Rosenthal) / 50 Celebrating India’s Holy Men Colourful Festival (By Dolf

Hartsuiker) / 54 B&S Électrique, inc.: Everything Under One Roof! (By Bruno Bredoux) / 59 Plant-Based Cosmetics and Body Oils: FromArgan Tree to Sunflower (By D. Rigeault (with V. Green) / And our usual features: Editorial 6 • Flash 6 • Interlude 33 • Humor 37 • IndustryNews 46, 56 to 58 • The Hydroponic World of North America 62-63 • The World of Our Distributors 64-65. Visit Our Website:www.theindoorgardener.ca.

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8 A Civilization Rises in the Garden:What Are These Ants Up To?

10-17 Industry News and Novelties: Get Ready With New Ideas to Upgrade Your Garden!

18 Indoor Plant Collectors:Are You A Collector Too?

22 The Importance of IPM and OrganicConditions in Growing Medicinal Plants and Herbs

32 “Green” your Garden by Recycling Rain withA Solar-powered Pump

“With abundant snowfall throughoutmost of the United States this winterseason, now is the best time to "think

spring" by planning for a greenergarden. In addition to garden designand new plantings, this year is theperfect time to consider ways to"green" your garden through

increased environmental efforts. Oneway to make a big impact is to recycle

your rain and turn to the sun.”

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CONTENTS 8 Editorial A Civilization Rises in the Garden (By Bruno Bredoux) / 10 Industry News: New from Botanicare® and more!(By B. Busenbark & al.) / 18 Indoor Plant Collectors (By Frank Nyikos) / 22 The Importance of IPM and Organic Conditions in GrowingMedicinal Plants and Herbs (By Trichome Pharm, Consultants) / 30 Bird Feeding—An Autumnal Tradition: Enjoy Birding WithoutBreaking The Bank (By Kelly Rozick / Birdfeeders.com) / 31 Fun Facts—Birds Stories. Beaks: Tools Shaped Out Of Necessity & A Bird BrainKnows How to Count / 32 “Green” your Garden by Recycling Rain with RainPerfect™ (By J. Wallace and R. Greenstein) / 34 LumiGrow®Closes ‘Series A’ Funding (By George Chan) / 36 The Hippy Dippy Gardener: The Salad, from Tucson, AZ, to Molina, CO (By Jim Fritz) / 38

Transform Your Plants! (By Rambridge) / 40 Hydro One is Moving! (By Sean Dyke) / And our usual features: Editorial 8 • Notes & News /Industry News 10-17 • Nature 30-31 • Flash 31, 39 • The Hydroponic World of North America 42-43 • Q & A 46-47 • Photos Credits 47.Visit Our Website: www.theindoorgardener.ca.

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6 Biodynamic Agriculture:Is It Only For Moony Gardeners?

16 Up the Mountain! Discover Alpine Plants and Their Admirers!

24 Keep Humidity Out of Your Growroom With A 55-Gallon Drum

34 Botanical Dictionary: From Artichoke to Zucchini... Characteristicsand Symbolism of Some Amazing Plants

40 Extreme Tourism Experience:At the Kumbha Mela in Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh, India

“A delicious spring green,similar in taste to

asparagus, is houblon orhops, the shoots of which

can be eaten steamed,braised or fried. The maleflowers can also be eaten

in salads. The femalecones are used later in theseason to impart a certainbitter flavour to beer.”

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CONTENTS 6 Editorial: Is Biodynamic Agriculture Only For Moony Gardeners? (By Bruno Bredoux) / 8 Industry News: New LED LightDesign from Ringer Lighting and More! (By Linda Lei et al.) / 16 Up the Mountain! (By Sylvie Laberge) / 22 Which Nutrient to Use WithYour Growing Medium? The Versatility of Substra Explained (By Canna Hydroponics) / 24 Keep Humidity Out of Your Growroom With A55-Gallon Drum (By Pro Gardening Systems) / 28 Gallery: To Autumn… / 31 The Tales of The Hippy Dippy Gardener: Living from OurNeighbor’s Garden (By James Fritz) / 34 Botanical Dictionary: Potency and Symbolism of Plants—Characteristics, Uses and Virtues (Part5) (By Mimsy Phoebus) / 40 India’s Holy Men Colourful Festival: At the Kumbha Mela in Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh (Pt. 2) (By DolfHartsuiker) / 46 Home & Garden: Feed Birds, Not Squirrels! Weight-Activated Wild Bird Feeder from Perky-Pet® Protects Seed, Attracts

Birds (By Kelly Rozick / Birdfeeders.com) / 47 Squirrel-Proofing Kits from Perky-Pet®: Protect Seed, Attract Birds! (By Birdfeeders.com) /And our usual features: Editorial 6 • Notes & Industry News 8-15 • Quote of The Month 15 • Gallery 28 • The Hydroponic World of North-America 43-45 • Nature 46. Visit Our Website: www.theindoorgardener.ca.

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6 Editorial: Socio-Cultural Education in France—What about Gardening?

12 Plant Food Demystified: What is Fertilizer?

23 An Enigma for the New Year:All About the Number 23 or “The 23 Enigma”

28 Plant Physiology: The Main Functions of the Vegetative Organs

30 A Perfectly Natural Condition... The Art of Distributing Seeds and Clones to Friends

“One of the most commonquestions we get here at the PGS

Grow blog and in the stores is “canyou please help demystify plant foodscience for me?” I would love to:

Fertilizers are chemical compoundsapplied to promote plant and fruitgrowth. They are usually appliedeither through the soil (for uptakeby plant roots) or by foliar feeding

(for uptake through leaves).”

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Alain Decarpentrie) / 39 Tourism: Bali Luxury Villa for Rent in Tanah Lot (By Christophe Peeters) / 42 Dub Revolution—Roots andBranches (By J. Bush) / And our usual features: Editorial 6 • Industry News 8-10 • Gallery 32 • Column: The Tales of The Hippy DippyGardener 36 • The Hydroponic World of North America 40-41. Visit Our Website: www.theindoorgardener.ca.

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8 Unexpected Pleasures: The Patio Festival, in Cordoba, Spain

16 The War of the African Violets:When African Violets and Your Family WereNever Meant to Get Along...

22 A Life With SUPERthrive®: Homage to Dr. John A.A. Thomson and His Brilliant Career

28 Curious Cukes, Cukes International:Did You Know That Cucumbers AreParthenocarpic Plants?

32 On a Unique Farm, an Amazing Woman—Le Jardin d'Olympe and Lina De Rossi

“The first Boston hydroponiclettuce indeed appeared on theNorth American market onMarch 25, 1987, showing itsroots for the first time on theQuebec market a few weekslater. For years, it had beencultivated in greenhouses in

Quebec during the winter. Thenew product met with true

international success.”

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CONTENTS 06 Happy 25th Anniversary, Quebec Hydroponic Lettuce! (By Bruno Bredoux) / 08 Unexpected Pleasures: the PatioFestival, in Cordoba, Spain (By Asany Fulekno) / 10 Introducing BioCanna BioRhizotonic (By Canna Hydroponics) / 11 New fromLumiGrow: University of Wyoming Selects LumiGrow LED Horticultural Lighting & Algae Farm Selects LumiGrow LED HorticulturalLighting (by George Chan) / 14 The Newest Products from HomeBox / 16 The War of the African Violets (By Kerrie R. Barney) / 22 A LifeWith SUPERthrive®: Homage to Dr. John A.A. Thomson and His Career (By Bruno Bredoux) / 25 Dr. John A. A. Thomson, Ph.D.,—founderof the Vitamin Institute and inventor of its key product, SUPERthrive®— Passes Away at 100 (By Bruno Bredoux) / 28 Curious Cukes,Cukes International (By G. Benz & L.-C. Leblanc) / 30 Are You Afraid of the Dark? (By Pro Gardening Systems, with Alex Mark) / 32 On a

Unique Farm, an Amazing Woman—Le Jardin d'Olympe and Lina De Rossi (By Bruno Bredoux) / 38 Home Decor: Solar FloralDehydration (By Jim Fritz) / 44 Jam Non-Stop! Enter the String Cheese Incident (By J. Chester) / 48-49 The Hydroponic World of North-America / And our usual features: Editorial 6 • Notes & News 8 • Industry News 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 • Gallery 28 • Home Decor 38 • Music44 • The Hydroponic World of North-America 48-49. Visit Our Website: www.theindoorgardener.ca.

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8 Industry News and New Products Profiles

18 Outdoor Grow Tips—Choosing A Site ToTransplant Your Plants Outdoors

24 Gardening Experiment: Outdoor Hydroponic Garden

28 Potency and Symbolism of Plants:The Amazing Virtues of Some Amazing Plants!

46 The Beginning of the End for Bananas:Is This The End of Bananas (As We Know Them)?

“The key to success in anoutdoor plantation rests mainlyon the choice of its location.

When moving fromhydroponics to soil outdoors,one needs to take many factors

into account in order topreserve the benefits, qualities

and characteristics that the planthas accumulated during its

growth in a hydroponic system.”

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CONTENTS 06 Editorial: Gardening. Publishing! (By Bruno Bredoux) / 08 Industry News: Welcome to Tradewinds Wholesale GardenSupply!... And More News / 09 LumiGrow® Expands Management Team (By George Chan) / 12 Valoya LED-lights Grow High QualitySaintpaulia (By Sanna Näveri) / 15 Books: A Classic Revisited! (By José Población) / 18 Tips and Tricks: Outdoor Grow Tips—Choosing ASite To Transplant Your Plants Outdoors (By Paul Henderson) / 24 Gardening Experiment: Outdoor Hydroponic Garden (By Loup-ClaudeLeblanc) / 28 Botanical Dictionary: Potency and Symbolism of Plants—Characteristics, Uses and Virtues (Part 6) (By Mimsy Phœbus) /34 A Moving Story (By Kerrie R. Barney) 38 The Tales of the Hippy Dippy Gardener: The Rockies Pink Flamingos (By Jim Fritz) / 40 India's

Holy Men Colourful Festival—Part 3: Epilogues (By Dolf Hartsuiker) /44 My Tree Is Dying... (By Frank Niykos) / 46 Banana Wars—Is ThisThe End of Bananas (As We Know Them)? (By CP.org) / And our usual features: Editorial 6 • Industry News 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 16 • Essay 44 •Notes & News 46 • The Hydroponic World of North-America 48-49. Visit Our Website: www.theindoorgardener.ca.

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18 The Best Tomato Plant: Wisdom from My Uncle Carl

22 Outdoor Grow Tips—Part 2: Growing Your Favourite Plants in the Great Outdoors

28 Growing Experiment: Coming Back to Hydroponic Gardening!

30 Actor in the Industry: Profile of Louis Bastien,Agronomist at ITA, St. Hyacinthe, QC

34 Biodiversity In Peril:An Approach on Current Environmental Issuesin 3 Essays

“One of my favourite perennialsat the Hippy Dippy Gardener’splace surely is the Achillea, or

yarrow species. I have a passionfor this genus that can thrive evenwhen neglected and, if given a

little extra water and fertilizer, willproduce splendid blossoms!

Three varieties of theseremarkable plants are ubiquitousin our Colorado community.”

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CONTENTS 6 Editorial: Adding Drama to an Urban Garden With a Standing Stone! What Else! (By Bruno Bredoux) / 8 Industry News:New from SunGro Horticulture (By B. Busenbark) / 9 LumiGrow Launches Most Powerful LED Horticultural Lights and Industry’s FirstLight Management Software (By George Chan) / 10 America’s Natural Master Gardener, Nick Federoff, Inducted into the Green IndustryHall of Fame (By Dan Stevens) / 11 More Industry News / 18 The Best Tomato Plant: Wisdom from My Uncle Carl (By Kerrie R. Barney) /22 Outdoor Grow Tips—Part 2: Choosing a Site to Transplant your Plants Outdoors (By Yan Dignard) / 28 Growing Experiment: ComingBack to Hydroponic Gardening (By Michel Blume (with Loup-Claude Leblanc) / 30 Actor in the Industry: Louis Bastien, Agronomist atITA, St. Hyacinthe, QC (By Jessy Caron) / 32 The Tales of the Hippy Dippy Gardener: A Passion for Achillea (By Jim Fritz) / 34 BiodiversityIn Peril: 3 Essays on the Environment— 1. Nanna, or the Soul-Life of Plants (By L. Kraub)—2. Is Our Earth Really... “Ours”? (By JoshuaGulliver)— 3.Biodiversity in Peril (By J. Gondziola) / 40 The Incredible Edible Program in the U.K. (By Trueactivist.com) / 42 Educating a

New Generation of Gardeners (By Frank Nyikos) / 44 Summer Roadtrips and Pilgrimages: An Adventurous Traveler’s Guide (By M. James) /46 The Tales of the Hippy Dippy Gardener: My Congressional Race (By Jim Fritz) / 48-49 The Hydroponic World of North-America / Andour usual features: Editorial 6 • Industry News 8 to 16 • Notes & News 16, 40 • Essay 42 • Extreme Tourism 44-45 • Politics 46 • Classified48-49. Visit Our Website: www.theindoorgardener.ca.

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14 Every Plant I Have Has A Story: “ColoradoWildflowers Have Always Been My Faves”

20 Back Indoors! Setting Up A Successful Indoor HydroponicGardening

22 Thrips in Your Garden? You Can Beat That Scourge

32 The Humorous Adventures of An AmateurPlant Photographer Plus Kerrie’s Favorite Tipsfor Budding Plant Photographers

44 Fans and Filters: Air Solutions for Your Garden

“Why invest in fans? Dynamiccooling ventilation is done by

extracting and/or injecting air into agrow room to control its climate.Unfortunately, this operation isoften neglected by gardeners in

their home indoor gardens.Controlling the climate is, as you

know, a major factor in horticulture,and has a great impact on the

proper growth of indoor plants.”

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CONTENTS 6 Editorial : That Was Hot! (By Bruno Bredoux) / 8 News from the Industry (By S. Cervantes, B. Busenbark, E. Meek,Gordon Redman, W. Denney, Milan Zalar, Stéphane Corbeil and Bruno Bredoux) / 14 The Tales of the Hippy Dippy Gardener: Every PlantI Grow Has A Story—My Faves-12 Western Colorado Plants (By Jim Fritz) / 20 Back Indoors! Getting Away or Coming Back to HydroponicGardening? The Amateur Gardener’s Corner or Why Turn to Hydroponic Cultivation?—Part 3 (By Maya Rozen, with photos by GlennMilbrand) / 22 Pest Control: Thrips? Solved!—Thrips in Your Garden? You Can Beat That Scourge (By Grinkeeper) / 28 Amazing TundraFlora: Discover the Resistant Thunder Plant (By Rosa van Tijn) / 30 Actor of the Industry’s Profile: Luc Moreau, Apiarist—A Dream MadeReality (By Jessy Caron) / 32 The Humorous Adventures of An Amateur Plant Photographer (By Kerrie R. Barney) / 38 The Tales of theHippy Dippy Gardener: A Kombucha Tea Wedding (By Jim Fritz) / 40 Blunts and Stunts in Europe—Romania-based PKK Networks: Kurds

at the Core of Narcotrafficking on Romanian Territory (By Bruno Bredoux) / 42 Cooking: Bliss Baklawa (By Topher Gourmet) / 44 Fans andFilters: Air Solutions with Atmosphere (By Co-contributors) / 44 End of Summer Destinations, Into The Great Wide Open: Kluane and TheWrangell—St. Elias Ranges National Parks (By M. James) / And our usual features: Editorial 6 • Industry News 8 • People in the Industry30 • Cooking 42 • The Hydroponic World of North America 45 (US), 47 (Canada) • Questions & Answers 48.

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6 Editorial: From China with Light...

14 Carried Away! Sharing A Passion and a Lifestyle—Hydroponics!

18 Back to Basics: “Ebb and Flow” Gardening

30 Landscaping Designer:A Dream Made Reality for Guillaume Boulanger

32 The Seed in the Plastic Cup:A Look Back At a Classic Scholl Experiment

40 Chill Out: Snowy Slopes Holiday Guide

“Begonia rex foliage is the bee’sknees in flower arrangements.Beautiful, streaking magenta,burgundy, teal, silver and

blacks—there really is nothingelse that can pack so much

punch sitting next to a flower.Not only is it gorgeous, butafter the flowers die, you canroot your begonia cutting tomake a new houseplant.”

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Hydroponic Food Production—7th Edition / 46 Puzzle—Word Search: Celebrating Gardening with USDA Forest Service (By StephanieLock Leiva) / And our usual features: Editorial 6 • Industry News 8 • People in the Industry 30 • The Hydroponic World of North America37 (US), 39 (Canada) • Notes & News 39 • Q & A 48.

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8 Helsinki Zoo Shines a Light!LED Grow Lights Enhance the Illumination ofPlants and Animals

14 The Lucky Bamboo in the Laundry Room

18 Which Fruits and Vegetables Are Best Suitedfor my Hydroponic Project?—Inside the IndoorGrower’s Textbook

22 Wild in Blue—Wild Plants of the ColoradoCanyons

30 Hosta Hybridizing TechniqueHybridizing Is Easier Than You Think! “Bringing plants in from

outdoors or startingplants from seeds or

from clones will alwayscarry the threat of

pathogenic insects. Toeliminate insects from

plants, you should alwaystreat them with a residual

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once roamed the Earth. How did their 160-million-year reign come to an abrupt end 65 million years ago? (By campus.fortunecity.comand palaeo.gly.bris.ac.uk) / 44 Parkour: One Flew over a Garden of Concrete (By S. Howard, myspace.com/headsmag) / 47 Actor in theIndustry: A Passionate Green-Entrepreneur (By D. Rigeault) / And our usual features: Editorial 6 • Industry News 8 • Gallery 28 • TheHydroponic World of North America 37 (US), 39 (Canada) • Discovery 40 • Sports 44 • People in the Industry 47 • Q & A 48.

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22 Fertilizer Delivery: Delivering Mineral Elements to the Plant

28 Techniques: Indoor Water Gardens

30 The Lucky Bamboo in the Bathroom

36 The Pineapple Experiment

“The advantages of hydroponics:• It is simple;

• It is customizable;• It is flexible;• It works well;

• It is clean and sterile;• It is easy to move;

• It respects the environment;• It works for any budget!

A few shortcuts will help you use ahydroponics setup quickly and easily.”

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Group) / 41 Cool Recipe: Fresh “All Green” Spring Salad / 44-45 The Hydroponic World of North America / 46 Chill Out 2013: The Late, LateSnowy Slopes Guide (By M. James) / And our usual features: Editorial 6 • News 10 • Actor in the Industry 34 • Must Read 37 • Cooking41 • Q & A 42 • The Hydroponic World of North America 44 (US), 45 (Canada).

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22 Growing without Soil:Growing Substrates and Their Use inHydroponics

28 What Kind of Gardener Are You? Use theWisdom of the Ancient Taijitu Symbol to FindOut!

32 My Indoor Gardening Ends With Spring

34 Hydroponic Gardening Two Adventurers and Their First-time IndoorSetup

“Seed saving is the mostnatural of hybridization

techniques. Anyone can do it.It is fun for all ages. Schoolchildren have a great time

collecting, cleaning, packagingand preparing the seed forgermination. Old timers like

me enjoy collecting andsaving seed from plants theyhave been growing for years.”

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Radish! (By Ted and Bob, with. Loup-Claude LeBlanc) / 38 Heading Out The Huichol Way (By Drew Fergusson) / 44 Lightning Fast Growthwith NASA Red and Blue LEDs (By Steven Lau) / 48-49 The Hydroponic World of North America / And our usual features: Editorial 6 •Indutry News 10 • Tips & Tricks 18 • Questions & Answers 46 • The Hydroponic World of North America 48 (US), 49 (Canada).

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20 Tips for Growing Lettuce in July:Do Not Let Your Salads Bolt!

22 The Lucky Bamboo in the Bedroom: My Feng Shui Journey Plus Lucky Bamboo FunFacts and Different Kinds of Luck

34 A Brief History of Beer:Miraculous, Magical and Magnificent Beer

40 “Our” Earth 3.0:Protecting What’s “Ours”!

“Lettuce is one of the coolseason crops. Some blame themoon, bad seeds or a maliciousgnome, but in July salads have a

tendency to bolt quickly toflowers and then to seeds

before we even have a chanceto bite into their green foliage.But we also have good adviceto prevent your salads frommimicking the magic bean.”

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Summer Suds, & Buds (By C. Giguère) / 40 Environment: Earth 3.0 or “Our” Earth—Part 3 (By Joshua Gulliver) / 46 For the Vegan: AGourmet Moment (By J.A.G.) / And our usual features: Editorial 6 • Industry News 8-14 • Arts 16 • Environment 16 & 40 • The HydroponicWorld of North America 32 (US), 33 (Canada) • Q & A 48.

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10 Manicuring and Drying Plants:Tips from the Grower’s Textbook

14 Pest Control: No More Foliar Nematodes!

28 Plant-feeding Harmful Insects and their Life Cycle

32 Bromeliads:A Quick Glance at the Genus

“Drying is almost certainly theoldest method that humans havepracticed to preserve food for

future use. Drying foods in sunlightreduced the weight and volume ofthe foods so that they could be

more easily stored and transportedby our ancestors. I know peoplewho dried aromatic herbs in the

microwave. Of course these herbsdidn’t come out tasting very good!”

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(By Daniel Fortin) / 34 For the Vegan: Snack Around the Clock! (By Signature Group) / 40 Culinary Tourism: Vienna... Viennoiseries! (ByRose Laforêt) / 48-49 The Hydroponic World of North America / And our usual features: Editorial 6 • Industry News 8 • Tips & Tricks 10 •Gallery 24 • Missing An Issue? 29-30 • Q & A 46 • The Hydroponic World of North America 48 (US), 49 (Canada).

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