What Did You Do With Your AeroGarden Today?

Seems like it's just the luck of the draw sometimes.   I have 2 banana pepper pods in a Bounty right now.   One has sprouted and the other has algae and no germination.  They are the same batch of pods, same water, same conditions... different outcome.     Kind of like my kids.  

I have been having the same problem with my pods. Planted pepper and tomato seeds in a Harvest to move outside - nothing. Replanted and still nothing. After 2 weeks my seeds seem to have disintegrated. Stuck some cucumber seeds in and I am 1 for 6. Moved that outside and cleaned unit by taking apart and then running the Aerogarden cleaner through it. Planted 3 Merlot and 3 Super Jericho seeds I just purchased. -nothing. Cleaned out sponges and replanted. I am 2 for 6. I am thinking it may be the no name brand sponges I bought on Amazon. When dry they are slightly smaller than Aerogarden sponges but when wet they are the correct size.
Used a different sponge on my 1 orange Hat which actually has 2 stems from 1 seed. My Veranda Reds with sell date of 11/23 have not germinated.

Here's the photo of the late-germinating petunia, at 28 days.  I need to move it and some of the other pods into a vacant Bounty.  None of these are really large enough to transplant outdoors yet.  

swimmom500, your seeds that have disappeared are probably duds by now.

However, a few things that seem to help with germination in general are:

(1) Plant at least one seed on top of the sponge. Some AG sponges have huge central holes, and seeds that fall all the way down may not get enough light to grow up above the deck. Depends on the plant.

(2) With pelleted seeds, which I think my slowpokes were, plant atop the sponge and be sure that the sponge stays wet. You can pour water from the top, or change the pump setting to "always on" in AGs that let you adjust pump settings.

(3) In general, set the pump to "always on", and check from time to time that the AG hasn't reset the pump when changing from "germination mode" to "high growth mode".

I always add the recommended amount of AG nutrients at startup. Sometimes my seeds get white fuzz, but usually the plants grow anyway.

As AG says, seeds have a mind of their own. But some AG pods are definitely duds. And some seeds, like cilantro and spinach, are hard to get started, no matter the source. The odds with these improve if you use the paper towel method.

I honestly don't know whether more light helps with germination! But I do find that it's easier to grow everything in a Bounty than in a Harvest or Sprout.

Y'all, I had to take a break from my gardens, just got overwhelmed, but now the days are getting shorter, I want to clean the poor gardens out and get a few going to have all that nice light around me. Probably just for fresh greens and herbs.

But has anyone been to the AG site recently? I hadn't, but on my Reddit feed this morning was someone posting that Aerogarden is closing its doors! So, not taking anything on Reddit at face value, I headed my browser over to the actual site, and it seems to be true.

Closing, and selling product from the site until October 7; Amazon until the end of the year.

I'm feeling so sad about this! The end of an era. I hope it won't be the end of this forum though. I'm hoping the products I have will serve for a long time yet.

My 89 day old Albino Bullnose peppers. Today they got a trimming of the top leaves.  The plants are surprisingly compact.  They don't need much trimming.

I tried one as it is now and it's more like a celery/lettuce taste with a tiny back end of a green pepper. I really don't like green peppers. I love orange/yellow/red peppers though.  These are supposed to be a mild version of those.  I'm waiting until they turn orange/red to harvest them - not sure how much longer they will take to get there.

Agreed! Even though I'm not sure I could easily deal with pepper plants if I had to root trim, I may have to try, at least once. I love sweet peppers, green, yellow, orange, red!

Yesterday I clean my Aerogarden Bounty Elite. Today I put in Cucumbers seeds in.  What setting should I do for cucumber? 

It doesn't make the pump schedule on a more aggressive time  line?  Like my lettuce never sets the pump to always on but, over time with tomatoes it sure does(Hight Grow Rate).