I like your setup r32115. What's an airstone, and what's it for?

Is it stupid for me to try to do a grow using everything stock on the aerogarden? ie: no other nutes or lights, just a separate lights timer for flowering.

I may be able to find some side lights before I flower, but I'm not sure.

Just looking at the design, I am thinking I could probably build my own "aerogarden" for pretty cheap, which I may do eventually, but I kind of want to do an experiment just to see how well this thing can perform on it's own.

So far I have 7 seeds in the aerogarden since Thursday. 4 have already germinated! I have no idea what I'm going to get from these seeds. They are a mix of bag seeds I've collected over the years from California, Oregon, and Mexico. When selecting my seeds I tried to pick seeds that all looked different from each other, some light, some dark, some with spots, and different sizes. I am hoping that will give me more varieties, but who knows.