swampgrower
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yea might as well and cut your losses.stick to the norm alot easier!
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yea might as well and cut your losses.stick to the norm alot easier!
Why? I've had very good results with the A/G's lights, especially if you get the up grade kit with three high intensity CFL's. In an A/G you're going to grow plants not ten foot trees. With the upgrade kit you have a twenty four inch arm/light stand and you can grow them that big.
A/G's nutrients are okay up to the flowering stage but they're not designed for what we want to do with the A/G. You might want to try Technaflora's, "recipe for success," at your local hydroponics store. You can get a starter kit for about $40 and it's gotten me through a couple of crops and I still have some left over. You have formulas for all the stages of growth and it's very user friendly.
As far as lighting is concerned, that's what drew me to the A/G. Admittedly the two round CFL's are a little weak for M/J but they don't use a lot of electricity either. The three lamp hood available in the upgrade kit will light up a couple of plants as far as the twenty four inches of arm/lamp stand height and that keeps it simple. I got an advanced look at a book coming out this fall by a guy named Sebastian that will explain a lot of what you're asking about.
As far as lighting is concerned, that's what drew me to the A/G. Admittedly the two round CFL's are a little weak for M/J but they don't use a lot of electricity either. The three lamp hood available in the upgrade kit will light up a couple of plants as far as the twenty four inches of arm/lamp stand height and that keeps it simple. I got an advanced look at a book coming out this fall by a guy named Sebastian that will explain a lot of what you're asking about.
If you feed it and keep it lit about eighteen hours a day you should be ale to do it indefinitely. I did it for about nine months.
You can go to www.aerogardenstore.com for anything related to their products and if you get on their mailing list they'll send you occasional offers you can't get at other stores.
Aero420: you're going to grow miniature treats and the A/G is very user friendly if you pay attention to what you're doing. I've used them for a while and I have no interest in anything else. Good luck
Aerogarden now recommends changing the nutrients at the feeding schedule, (When the light comes on). They never said anything about pH but on the advice of others I adjust mine as close to 5.8 as possible and changing my nutrient mix weekly keeps it pretty close. I still check it every day because it does change as nutrients are absorbed. Do you have a pH test kit? If you don't you should get one. Also, you might want to use either distilled water or a good safe bottled water because you wouldn't believe how bad the stuff is that comes out of most taps.
To me that doesn't make a lot of sense. You have a self contained unit with sufficient lighting to do the job for two to three small plants and the reservoir won't accommodate more than that anyway. It's very energy efficient and you opt for bigger lamps, why use the A/G?