Aerogarden Bounty - maximum number of seeds to plant

I am about to start my first aerogarden grow using the aerogarden bounty ( 9 pods) and was trying to decide how many seeds to plant. I wanted to plant 3 seeds.
Could anyone please advise ?

What kind of plants do you want to grow? It certainly can grow lettuce.............

KeepRolling420 said:

I am about to start my first aerogarden grow using the aerogarden bounty ( 9 pods) and was trying to decide how many seeds to plant. I wanted to plant 3 seeds.
Could anyone please advise ?

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Hi KeepRolling
Just purchased a AG Bounty too - should be here in a couple of days. I’ve done absolutely loads of reading about AG’s, I got the Harvest model first, even before that machine arrived I realised that it was going to be too small - I’ve stuck it on Flea bay. Ordered 3 seeds from RQS Royal Queen Seeds, they’re auto flowering Royal Dwarf variety. I’ve bought PH & TDS pens, Flora notes series, ph up & down, pump & air stone, also got one of the Mylar light boosters on the way too, a fan & 24hr timer.

This’ll be my first ever grow. I think I’ll start off with 1 possibly 2 - from reading other AG growers the roots are going to need so much space. How did you get on with your grow in the end? You posted your question well over a year ago. If anyone can offer any tips that may be useful to me as a first timer then I’d be really happy to hear them.

Loving the site - great job RIU

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KeepRolling420 said:

I am about to start my first aerogarden grow using the aerogarden bounty ( 9 pods) and was trying to decide how many seeds to plant. I wanted to plant 3 seeds.
Could anyone please advise ?

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Hi KeepRolling420

Have you started your AG grow yet?

I started mine last week. I’m afraid to say it’s ALL going wrong, my poor seedling looks as if it’s on it’s last legs. Can’t quite understand what I could’ve done to fail so badly at this early stage. I followed a nutrient schedule from a site, posted by a guy who has had amazing success using the AG Bounty.

Today, I decided that there’s no way I’m giving up. I completely emptied & cleaned the AG, then set about mixing up a brand new solution, only this time using just 1ml of each of the Flora series nutrients & 3ml of the Calmag. Checked & rechecked the PH, it’s at 6.0 now. New solution has gone into the AG. Really hoping my little NL auto will not die - although you’ll see from the photo, she’s all but given up. As a back up, I’ve started a brand new seed in the AG ( another NL auto ) was only planning to grow one plant at a time but seen as my first attempt is looking so bad I decided to pop another one in.

How is your grow going?

Has anyone had any luck fully growing with the aro. I have my whole set up and ready to go would like some tips I have no idea what I’m doing

I use the aerogarden to start seedlings. I have no issue starting healthy plants in those. I have never used them for a full harvest.
Those seed pods hold water for a long time. you have to make sure the watering schedule gives the sponge time to dry out. at this stage you should be using no nutrients or anything in the water. pH is almost irrelevant at this stage.

I would adjust watering schedule to 5 minutes on and at least one hour off maybe more. watch the color of the sponge to make sure it's drying out between watering.

I would only grow one plant in the aerogarden if i was using it for the entire life cycle. Put it right in the middle and spread the canopy.

I started this in the smaller aerogarden and moved it into a farm xl at about 3-4 weeks. Was pretty surprised how well it grew under the initial 30w aerogarden lights. I added 2 150w LED bulbs for supplemental lighting around week 5.

Placed seed directly into grow pod.
Used Fox Farm and Cal-Mag starting week 3.
Monitored PH around 5.5-5.9
Flushed water and added nutes every 7 days
Monitored PPM, if it dropped closed to 200 I would add nutes, but it never did so I would just add distilled PH reg water throughout the week.

This definitely wasn't perfect but I feel that its turned out pretty well for my first try.