no it wasn't broken i just didn't put it back in because i figured it wa sjust another crevice for mold to hide in...does it do any harm to leave it out?

rick357,

Welcome to the forum. Glad to have another point of view on this Aerogarden set up. I hope we can save you a bunch of time and trouble by posting our experiences with the Aerogarden. By all means please post any pertinent info you come up with so we can all help each other as a community should. I'm still interested in the maximum capabilities of the Aerogarden as a weed growing technique. I have been ever since I first started seeing them on TV a year or two ago.

With the increasing popularity of the Aerogarden, I wonder if we should make this a sticky or have a subsection for Aerogardening.

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nope no harm just shows water level

that would be cool since these are now sold everywhere (sears,kmart,walmart,)

somthing i found:

Three Ways to Kill Mold Naturally

Tea Tree Treasure
Nothing natural works for mold and mildew as well as this spray. I've used it successfully on a moldy ceiling from a leaking roof, on a musty bureau, a musty rug and a moldy shower curtain. Tea tree oil is expensive, but a little goes a very long way. Note that the smell of tea tree oil is very strong, but it will dissipate in a few days.

2 teaspoons tea tree oil
2 cups water p> Combine in a spray bottle, shake to blend, and spray on problem areas. Do not rinse. Makes about 2 cups, lasts indefinitely.

Grapefruit Seed Extract
The advantage of using grapefruit seed extract instead of tea tree oil for killing mold is that it is odorless.

20 drops grapefruit seed extract
2 cups water

Combine in a spray bottle, shake to blend, and spray on problem areas. Do not rinse. Makes about 2 cups, lasts indefinitely.

Vinegar Spray
Straight vinegar reportedly kills 82 percent of mold. Pour some white distilled vinegar straight into a spray bottle, spray on the moldy area, and let set without rinsing if you can put up with the smell. It will dissipate in a few hours.

Yeah thanks for chiming in rick, fyi you may want to use some hydrogen peroxide diluted into your aerogarden right from the beginning. since jimmybones and myself have both had mold problems in ours..just a suggestion opie anf jimmy both have more experience than me so whatever they say takes precedence...

please continue to post results with pictures if possible so we can compare grows.

Be careful using those natural things. Most or all will affect the PH of your solution. You may need to compensate a little if you use them, by adding a little PH up or down.

I accidentally found this today and thought it sounded real nice for your moldy snot problem:
Physan 20

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yea i saw this a few time, but didnt seem to be worth the money to me, actualy sold my aerogarden today, but it will have some good room to let them grow

also + opie that stuff looks very nice, its been added to the list of stuff i need to get

yo i would at least get a cheap like 250w hps, it will make a hudge diff in the harvest

roots seem to be looking better today, and all the purple spots that were left in the roots have turned a little bubbly white on top (kinda like infected cuts do when you pour hydrogen peroxide on them) so i think it's working. the only part that is not changing is the spouts that drip the water onto the rapid rooter sponge. they are so clogged up with pink/purple snot and they are right next to the rapid rooter so i can't really pull it out....it's tough to describe but jimmy you probably know what i'm talking about..any suggestions??

good find on that physan stuff opie...i'm going to give the hydrogen peroxide a few days but i may be ordering that stuff soon & maybe we'll get to see how it works. thanks for the link I tried to rep you but it won't let me anymore- apparenly i need to spread some love around before repping you again? i think that's BS!!

Sorry a little off topic but could you use clones in the aerogarden and what kind of light does it put off. Full spectrum or more reddish? I cant find anything about their bulbs.

team its full spec but its like 1400 lumins (pic of wat?)

but anyway WORDS - i know what your taling about and my only thought is if its possably to pull out the clear plastic thing thats incerted in the holes (basically pull the whole plant out), and carefully put them somwhere and then fill the revisor with a hot mix of water/bleach and run it through for about 2 hours, it should be gone, OR you can take it apart but you'd still have to remove the plants and its a bitch to get back together.


also is your filter filled with that shit?

yes the filter definitely has some in there...i got most of it out yesterday but there's plenty left. man i wish i had my camera at home yesterday when i cleaned out the res. if only you could have seen how much of this shit was in there!

i am changing about 1/4 of the res water every day and adding fresh nute solution with hydrogen peroxide...the HP I have is just like the 35% food grade stuff but it's already diluted to the 3%, it's sold at a local health food store as a spray for your food...after reading up on HP for the last few days i am finding out that there is this whole popular health movement using HP as a supplement. in fact lots of cancer patients believe it helps them..kinda interesting if your into that whole holistic medicine thing.

i am going off topic...can you tell i'm high as a kite right now?

if I were to remove the plastic cups with the rapid rooter sponge in them (effectively removing the entire plant from the aerogarden) i would be able to clean it out much better. that would involve moving the plants quite a bit though, plus i would have to cut the root mass with scissors as everything is obviously all tangled in the res. Do you guys recommend doing that? it seems like it would be a huge stress on the plants. Maybe i should see where i am in a few days with just running the HP?

Also, as an added problem, i am using about 60% of my vertical space right now and I need to start flowering soon. any advice there?

yea when im messed up i stagger on and off topic too,
that was my thought, that you wouldnt be able to remove plant with out cutting roots, so dont cut them

im looking for a solution for you on cleaning that but, in the mean time i would flower tommarow, the peroxide(i know this stuff it crazy, even saw somthing about it being an aid to help quit somking) has been there a little wile, but i would set to flower, not sure if you know the technical details of flowering but its basically,

your going to remove the cfl light, and set up the hps on a timer (timer is better but not necessary) on a 12/12 light cycle, and when the hps is off the plant needs 12 hours of uninterrupted darkness and in 3-10 days we can start to tell the sex of your plants

Wordsandwich, considering how much space you have left, I would probably try a couple more days to get the snot out then go to flower. I don't think I would cut apart roots at this time. You may end up doing more harm than good.

Teamgreen, what plant in the AV are you talking about? I didn't see one. That's cool they have an upgraded light system. If I were going to spend $109 plus shipping though, I would probably consider a 150W HPS instead, or better yet a switchable ballast or digital ballast (more money though).

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hmm, ok cleaning that with plants in there is going to be a project, i thought of every possible way it could be done and all has a negative efect on the plant, my thought is its prob going to be killed by the peroxide but remain until cleaned out (ater the plants flower) just got to hope they dont get clogged and stop water from flowing (is the water flowing in all sockets?) other thought is to maby turn up the pump all the way maby it will help get a little out,

when your plants finish, i would boil a pot of water (not to boil but make it HOT) pour it into the revisor and add a little bleach (open a window so you dont breath the bleach fumes) and turn it on for a few hours, when you come back the water will be filled with all the crap, then repeat with no bleach added and it will be like new i still got this in my mind and if i come up wit anything to do wit the plants in there ill post it

yo word what the hell is in your avi?

What? You can read that. Man, get some glasses.

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glasses?, think i'd need a telescope

For the snot problem I would be flushing. And flushing some more. I would flush with a fungicide like the one I linked. I think Serinade is a more popular fungicide, not sure. I would do a combination of following directions and using your judgment, but in general I would drain the res and fill it with some solution of water and the antifungal. Start at a low strength to make sure it doesn't have an adverse affect on the plants. Turn on the bubbles and anything else that helps circulate, and let it sit for an hour. Dump that and start again with a slightly stronger solution, and keep doing it until you reach recommended full strength, or beyond if you feel adventurous. I would think after a day of this treatment the snot should be mostly or completely gone. Just my guess though.

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opie, the only thing with these systems is that there is a interinal flow system delivering a steady stream of water to the media, inside there is basically impossable to fix/clean at this point, and if thats not cleaned/killed it will just spread every day

the only way of cleaning would be to
1 disassemble, but not possable with the plants in there
2 flush it out using the pump to circulate harsh cleaner through it, also not possable wit plants in there

This is why my thought was to jump to full strenth peroxide to kill it asap, because with my mold expirence, if you dont kill it quick it wont go down easy. (my last grow i ended up chopping due to mold, when i was cutting it down the whole main shoot was filled with mold, it basically infested the whole plant and reasonably quickly)

word, you got me thinking i need an avi

stewie's the shit

Why do you have to disassemble it to run an antifungal through it? Is it 100% clogged or something? I don't know if I would feel safe letting my plants eat full strength H2O2. You say it's not possible to flush it out using the pump to circulate a harsh cleaner. Well I agree, but why can't you circulate an organic antifungal? What am I not understanding here? I'm not saying you're wrong, I don't even have an Aerogarden. I just don't get it. If it were me, I would be spraying an antifungal on top, and circulating an antifungal underneath (if possible).

Mr. snotty, uh I mean word sandwich, if there is more than one outlet in the line for the pump, is there some way you could make several, or at least an extra one, flow through one opening? Could you make a T or Y in the line, and force two into one delivery system? I'm thinking the extra pressure could help blow the snot out better? Am I making any sense at all?

Well I hope you and jimmy get it figured out and make it a nice learning aid for all who use the garden. I hope you don't think I'm butting in and talking about things I don't know about. I just have always been interested in what the Aerogarden could do if the gardener did things just right and squeezed the maximum capabilities out of it. I'm assuming each grow will get better and better. I must say there's a lot of weird shit involved in these gardens from what I can tell so far. Maybe some day soon I'll see an incredible success story derived from a KISS Aerogarden grow. And I'm rambling.

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Hmmm, never changed my AV, now you guys are tempting me. So many possibilities. What should I be? Cow, dog, moon, brain matter, weed leaf?

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Here ya go, man...

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