Click and Grow

[CanadianHomeChef]

Day 8

[CanadianHomeChef]

Leaves are getting longer on the lettuce. Basil is slow and steady. Tomatoes are finally starting to show more leaves. 

Edited December 25, 2018 by CanadianHomeChef (log)

[JoNorvelleWalker]

I too am tempted.  For the first time in years I don't have anything culinary growing over winter.  It doesn't help that the Burpee catalog came yesterday.

 

Can the Click and Grow work for seed starting for transplanting outdoors?  Burpee has a neat new pink pumpkin.  How deep is the soil in the pods?

 

For some reason the Click and Grow romaine pods are sold out.

 

 

[JoNorvelleWalker]

Hearing no dissent I placed my order.

 

[CanadianHomeChef]

Transplanting should be easy. It’s a self contained pod. It feels more spongy than dirty, so it should come out easy. Company says it can be transplanted and there are pics online of it being done. 

 

The soil oil isn’t too deep, so larger fruit bearing plants will have to be transplanted. I will measure when I’m back home. 

[CanadianHomeChef]

Day 12. Basil in the foreground, romaine in the middle, and tomatoes off in the distance. 

Edited December 26, 2018 by CanadianHomeChef (log)

[JoNorvelleWalker]

I ordered some Kelvedon Wonder pea seeds that grow to 18 inches.  Will I be in trouble?

 

[CanadianHomeChef]

At 18 inches you’d need to get an extension arm. These are the pods. Only about two inches deep. I think good for an herb garden, but fruit bearing plant pods they sell are all dwarf varieties. Doesn’t stop you from getting something started in the click and grow and transplanting though. 

[CanadianHomeChef]

Day 14. Tomatoes had a growth spurt. Basil still slow and steady. Lettuce growing like weeds. 

[JoNorvelleWalker]

My unit came today.  Was as expected except I can't quite envision growing their spruce tree pods.  Price is now $60 more than what I paid two days ago.  There is a 20 percent off sale that lasts for a (very) few more hours and I may order some spare parts.

 

If nothing else the Click and Grow looks nice.

 

 

 

Edit:  most of their stuff is sold out so I am spared for now.

 

Edited December 29, 2018 by JoNorvelleWalker (log)

[CanadianHomeChef]

18 minutes ago, JoNorvelleWalker said:

My unit came today.  Was as expected except I can't quite envision growing their spruce tree pods.  Price is now $60 more than what I paid two days ago.  There is a 20 percent off sale that lasts for a (very) few more hours and I may order some spare parts.

 

If nothing else the Click and Grow looks nice.

 

 

 

Edit:  most of their stuff is sold out so I am spared for now.

 

 

Yeah. I think you get a single branch of spruce before you need to transplant 😂

[JoNorvelleWalker]

16 hours ago, CanadianHomeChef said:

Yeah. I think you get a single branch of spruce before you need to transplant 😂

 

I am a bit disappointed as the height to the light bar is only about ten and a half inches.  If I buy (they could jolly well have included them) a pair of extension arms that only adds another seven.  Some of what I read led me to expect two sets of arms in the box but I received only one.

 

The picture on the experimental pod shows a pineapple.  Here are some of their other suggestions:

https://www.clickandgrow.com/blogs/news/35309188-smart-herb-garden-now-grows-anything-you-want

 

Should one weary of peas and pine spruce the list includes tobacco and opium poppy.

 

 

 

[CanadianHomeChef]

Opium and tobacco, hmmm. Wonder if they’ll start selling cannabis pods for their Canadian customers? 😂

[JoNorvelleWalker]

@CanadianHomeChef when you started your seeds, did you use the extension arms or not?

 

[CanadianHomeChef]

34 minutes ago, JoNorvelleWalker said:

@CanadianHomeChef when you started your seeds, did you use the extension arms or not?

 

I used the extension arms with the domes, which is what the company recommends. You don't use the extension arms if you have the Click and Grow 3, but apparently on the 9, the light will be overly intense if you don't use the arms. 

[CanadianHomeChef]

Day 17. I moved around the pods a bit a couple days ago so that the smaller plants get more light in the middle.  Seems to be making a small difference. 

[JoNorvelleWalker]

Here is my setup.  Were it a telescope this morning was first light:

 

 

 

Pizza peel and DARTO pans shown, umm, for scale.  Peas seeds have not come.  I started three basil pods last night.

 

A feature of the Click and Grow is that the 16 hour light cycle begins from the time one plugs the unit in.  I wanted the cycle to start just after sunrise.  That means I would have to remove my bod from bed just after sunrise.  I planned to set my alarm for 7:30 but I was sure there must be another way.

 

I remembered I had a smart plug purchased a couple years ago for $5 as part of an amazon promotion.  I had never used it.  Just a few hours later and I was sitting down with my mai tai long after most revelers had gone to bed.  Why choose the easy way when you can ask Alexa?

 

So far, so good.  The light turned on as promised.  Now waiting for the seeds to sprout.  One thing I haven't figured out is how to tell when to add more water?

 

[CanadianHomeChef]

1 hour ago, JoNorvelleWalker said:

Here is my setup.  Were it a telescope this morning was first light:

 

 

 

Pizza peel and DARTO pans shown, umm, for scale.  Peas seeds have not come.  I started three basil pods last night.

 

A feature of the Click and Grow is that the 16 hour light cycle begins from the time one plugs the unit in.  I wanted the cycle to start just after sunrise.  That means I would have to remove my bod from bed just after sunrise.  I planned to set my alarm for 7:30 but I was sure there must be another way.

 

I remembered I had a smart plug purchased a couple years ago for $5 as part of an amazon promotion.  I had never used it.  Just a few hours later and I was sitting down with my mai tai long after most revelers had gone to bed.  Why choose the easy way when you can ask Alexa?

 

So far, so good.  The light turned on as promised.  Now waiting for the seeds to sprout.  One thing I haven't figured out is how to tell when to add more water?

 

 

The indicator will be half way down. I’m told there’s no harm keeping it topped up but don’t over fill (have the indicator reach above the surface of the click and grow). 

[rotuts]

you might up the GizzMo

 

on one of those Clock-ey Thing-eys

 

that turn your light on and off

 

just saying.

 

Guess you have or had one.

 

why not wait for the Peas ?

 

do not see the DARTO  nor the Peel.

 

best of luck with this  I do mean it

 

next to some SunLight

 

even better

[JoNorvelleWalker]

@rotuts the smart plug will do all sorts of schedules but I am happy to let the Click and Grow control itself:  16 hours on, 8 hours off.  I just needed a way to turn the Click and Grow on at the proper time to get the schedule started.  Still, "Alexa, turn on the grow light!" has a certain ring to it.

 

The DARTO pans are on the second shelf under the Click and Grow.  I couldn't figure any other place to put them.  The peel, which is about four foot long, is hanging at the far end of the Click and Grow.

 

Don't worry, I saved six spaces for the peas.

 

[rotuts]

@JoNorvelleWalker

 

Ah , yes.

 

you are in NJ , not MA nor CA nor CO etc

 

six spaces might cover the total cost of the C&G in those states 

 

and then some

 

with the proper '' shoots ''

 

maybe even with our Friends N of the Border.

 

Just saying

 

Just thinking A Head.

 

 

 

enjoy those ' peas '

Edited January 2, 2019 by rotuts (log)

[JoNorvelleWalker]

Peas are planted.  Now it's wait and see.  Thanks to @rotuts I expect the police on my doorstep any day.  I'm sure Alexa has already called them.

 

[CanadianHomeChef]

Day 20

[JoNorvelleWalker]

One of my basil pods has germinated.  That was fast.

 

[JoNorvelleWalker]

All three basil pods have germinated!  Day 3.