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![]() Click above to view Michael Christian in the video segment from California Heartland If it is your dream to become a successful hydroponic grower or farmer, the AmHydro Pro™ Research Station is the place to come to learn about our commercial systems and much about soilless growing in general. The Research Station features extensive data and information that will help you make informed decisions on equipment, crops and techniques. You can discover more about existing growers and their successes, as well as see photos and maybe even a video. Here at the Research Station, you will find the following links:
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Article excerpted from Growing Notes -- New Zealand Hydroponics: Simplicity in Designby Michael Christian "New Zealand is an amazing place: very clean, no nukes, and you can still drink the water. Down under, the north tip of the North Island has a climate like Los Angeles; the southern tip of the South Island has a climate like Portland, Oregon; and in-between are hundreds of micro-climates, even an active glacier in the middle of a subtropical rainforest that moves a meter a day. The people are charming (tea is at 11 a.m.), and there are more hydroponic NFT farms per capita than anywhere else in the world. It’s a plumber’s paradise.
"As guests of Grenville and Joyce Stocker of Stocker Horticulture, my wife Donvieve and I had carte-blanche access to some of the most innovative and advanced NFT farms we had ever seen. Grenville Stocker is an analytical chemist and hydroponic expert. For 25 years, he has been consulting for hundreds of hydroponic installations, from New Zealand to Asia. Working together with Lon Dalton and Rob Smith of New Zealand Hydroponics, they were the first to apply the work of Allen Cooper to commercial NFT crop production in New Zealand.” |








