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HydroHuts is please to announce the long awaited arrival of its new, non-toxic Silver Edition line of grow tents. It has been a long road getting through the recall and we are still the only company to have openly admitted the problem although tents all over the world are harming plants due the plasticisers being used. Our commitment to quality dictated that we carried out a nationwide recall and refund policy. We now know why the tents acted as they did and we’ve tested our new Silver Edition line quite extensively to assure that nobody will have toxicity issues.

The recall of our old units made with white plastic is now over. Please do not buy second hand units off of the internet. We never sold ANY Huts to on-line retailers nor sellers on eBay or craigslist.

The owners of Homebox took our unfortunate situation to attempt to show the world what they think they know about the toxicity issue. Their new tents luckily do not off-gas but the information that they supplied to "prove" this point to the world is highly biased and completely misleading. Testing grow tents for known plasticisers that can be used safely for children’s toys or food grade items sounds rather convincing but in reality is misleading. A test that is rendered for indoor, grow chambers would necessitate that testing is done to a much higher standard than children’s toys. What is safe for children IS NOT safe for plants. Homebox measured for milligrams of compounds when in fact they should have tested for picograms of substances because picograms of compounds detected are three orders of magnitude smaller than milligrams. Therefore, their test could not reveal the minute levels of certain harmful compounds that affect plants. Granted, they do not currently have a problem but quoting Greenpeace is quoting the most biased source of info on plastics. Other sites state the opposite of what Greenpeace states. More biased info Homebox could not have picked for their attempt to prove how they are covering everyone’s butt. They measured to the wrong standard, they talked all about PVC when we used PU, and they leave several facts unanswered about the PE that they do use now. The one test that they offered could not measure what is important to plants because the standard they picked did not measure the minute quantities needed to affect plants. A children’ toy‚ the standard they used is the wrong standard to use, quite simply.