Thursday, August 6, 2009
Power Grower hydroponic project updated
I love this Power Grower unit! It's compact (15 inches wide) and totally self contained. It holds 2.5 gallons of nutrient solution that I have on a timer. The timer turns on the air pump for 15 minutes which pumps the solution up into the ring and passively falls down through the hydroton completely saturating the entire unit, and turns off for 45 minutes so that these herb seed pods are feed hourly and kept moist. The timer and the seed pods are not part of the Power Grower package but everything else is included: air pump, tubing, hydoton, and two containers, one for the solution and the growing container. The pods you see here are actually expired aerogarden herb pods I had so I thought I would pop them in and see what happened. You can see the tiny basil plant that has sprouted below. How fun!
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The Powergrower is great. Have you checked out the awesome Genhydro blog yet?
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I will check it out, Thanks!
ReplyDeleteI am near your latitude and I tried almost this exact experiment with the aerogarden seed stock. I ended up with gigantic parsley and basil plants. The taproot of the basil took all of the lower space and parsley roots took over the top. The dill and chives never sprouted. The pods were pretty old. If I did it over, I would clip the roots back more often.
ReplyDeletecool, mine are growing, of course, not as fast as I want, but all have sprouted and doing well. Thanks for your comment, it gives me something to look forward to.
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