Hydroponics Growing System – Indoor Herb Garden w/Grow Light | Style of Clay Pebbles, w/ Premium Growth Lamp & Smart Quiet Pump, Plants Germination Kit, Gardening Gifts for Women

Gave this to my mother as a Christmas present since she is unable to have her garden anymore. This product is great quality and she loves being able to grow fresh herbs again. She is throughly enjoying this product. I will probably buy one for myself.

there's a lot of indoor hydroponic garden kits, but what makes this hydroponic system great is that it has clay pebbles, which means it's optimized for starting seeds indoor. when the seedlings are about an inch or maybe a few inches in size, you can pull it out for transplanting in the garden. if you are used to buying a lot of seedlings and you don't have a lot of time or space to start seeds, this small indoor hydroponic seed starting system is great for starting seeds year round to save money. the fact that the hydroponic system holds a lot of water means you don't need to worry about the seedlings drying out, unlike soil based system that require constant watering and care.

Really like this hydroponic system. I also have the systems with pods, but this one seems a bit easier for me. Would recommend!

seems to be very useful to get seeds to start. I use this as a starter and transfer over to the larger system.

I bought one of these units and my strawberries fell in love so I got another to try out some different planting options. I have an embarrassing number of aerogardens and a couple handmade bucket and pump set ups but this unit is really something special. The foot print is very small so you're going to be restricted to a couple of plants, max but it turns out it can support a very dense lettuce growth if you're aggressive about your harvesting. It supplied a couple salads a week until I couldn't keep up and had to let them bolt. Outstanding unit, please run more deals so I can justify buying more

All seeds germinated together in the bottle in sphagnum moss within a day or two. I took some seedlings out of the bottle and planted them in my hydroponics system. The pictures show the difference in their growth after three days in the hydroponics system. The seedlings in the bottle are still healthy but they haven't grown nearly as much as those I moved to the system. Ease of assembly was a cinch, the system is an amazing value for the money, it's functionality is perfect because it can fit just about anywhere and it's extremely fun to watch the root growth through the see through base of the unit. I wish it was sold in a larger size because I had to buy three units to start all of my seeds around the same time.

It came with everything you need to get started and was very easy to set up. That gets two stars, but I couldn’t find anything to rate it higher. Okay, it’s also cool looking. As far as the functionality and the claims made for it, this unit fails miserably. It claims that you don’t need to add water for at least 3 weeks. That may eventually be the case if your plants mature enough to send roots down to the floor of the water tank. But when your seeds are starting out, the water level needs to be above the 3L line, but no more than 3.5L. Any lower than 3L and the water will be below the pebble tray and seeds/seedlings/cuttings will die. Any higher than 3.5L and they will drown or rot. There is no way to create a humidity zone around and above your seed. This system has no grow pods and no humidity caps; just an open tray of pebbles, the top portion of which will dry out in less than 12 hours. It’s a pain having to mist the pebbles twice a day. This gets the foliage of sprouts wet (which is not a good thing) for the sake of keeping un-sprouted seeds moist. It also gets everything around the unit misted so you have to wipe down every time. The mister (“kettle”?) has a crappy design. No way to securely grasp the bottle and pull the trigger without getting your hands wet. Seeds can drown and get lost easily because there is no way to securely hold them in place at the appropriate level beneath the pebble tray surface. The pebbles are small and jiggly and the slightest tough could dislodge your seed from where you finally got it. After repeatedly soaking and rinsing the pebbles for 2 days, they still dumped a lot of black sediment into the bottom of the water reservoir. Be sure to add water through the water spout and avoid pouring it over the ceramsite pebbles. They will simply never wash clean. Lifting the light deck is necessary when misting the pebbles because droplets on the LED lights can cause them to shatter. But it is so easy to capsize the pebble tray while trying to pull up on the light pole. It happened way too many times. The only seeds that were able to germinate in this unit were tomatoes because… tomatoes. Nothing else sprouted and the only seedlings to grow in it had to be germinated outside the unit then carefully and precariously nested in the pebbles. A few things tried to grow but slowly and poorly. Hydroponics is not supposed to be this hard; not for a counter-top unit. I thought that with the ability to lower the light deck as close as 2 inches above the pebble surface, peppers would be sure to germinate. Nope. They were not impressed. I was not impressed.

Bought as a gift for our executive chef son. He loves the setup and ease of growing inside. Also bought a variety pack of seeds. I have a soil grow and want this instead.