Using your HydroGarden is easy - just follow these steps
SETUP GUIDE
GROWING GUIDE
Open the box and unpack all of the components. The unit contains 2 growing
‘pots’. Remove the checkered plastic covers, and the white foam inserts. The
cover comes off easiest if you put your finger into one of the holes to pull it off. Be
careful not to spill the vermiculite in the pots!
Return the checkered plastic covers onto the pots but discard the foam inserts.
Open your seed sachets and sow a few seeds onto the vermiculite in each pot.
Small seeds like Basil will easily slip between the vermiculite, but bigger seeds like
Coriander may need your help so make sure they get covered with a very fine
layer of vermiculite (2-5mm)
Fill the water container under the pots with water up to the fill level
indicated and put the pots back into the unit.
Insert the grow light at the end of the pot. Plug the power cord into the
HydroGarden unit and the plug into the main power. (AC 240V).
Turn on the grow light by pressing the button at the end of the light.
Press twice so the red light turns on as well - this red light will assist
in seed germination, root growth, and bulb development, as well as
promoting fruit production and flowering down the track. Turn the lights
off at night.
The light has a timer option which allows the light to turn off by itself at the end of the day. To set the timer press
the light button for longer until a small blue light appears underneath. This way the light will stay on for 16
hours and then turn itself off automatically and then turn itself back on again after 8 hours.
Then just leave the plants to grow! The unit has an inbuilt water level indicator, so it will alert you when a refill
of water is required.
Vermiculite has no nutritional value to feed your plants so you need to add a bit of fertiliser in the water. A
week after germination has occurred add 1 ml of the provided Seasol® and 1 ml of PowerFeed® into the
reservoir. Repeat at each refill of water until harvest.
When the plants are 7-8cm tall, snip off the growing tip of the Basil for bushier habit, and keep snipping
leaves when the new growth is big enough. Adjust the height of the grow light as your plants grow by tilting it
up.
When the plants start to turn woody or stop producing fresh leaves, it’s time to pull them out and start again.
Discard the plant and root system and clean the growing containers as well as the water tank thoroughly. Refill
the growing containers with fresh vermiculite (available at any well stocked garden retailer), and sow new
seeds.
The HydroGarden is suitable for growing almost any short growing flower, vegetable or herb seeds. Just
make sure their growing habit is below 50cm to fit under the Grow Light. For ideas on what to grow go to our
website - www.mrfothergills.com.au
GUARANTEE
- Please note our seeds come with a growing guarantee - if they don't grow for whatever reason, we will replace them.
For further information on Seasol® and PowerFeed® go to www.seasol.com.au
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