Make your own automated sprouter at home

Don't spend $150 to $300 for a home sprouting system!!! Here's how you can make one out of a $25 garden hose timer and $16 misting kit, and various other $2 and $3 parts. Total cost, about $60. The same timer and mist nozzles could make a system 6 times this size if you want.

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• sprouting
• sprouts
• sprouter
• automatic

[youarethedeal]

this is fantastic, im gonna do it

[kv3g]

@youarethedeal Glad to hear it! If you need any questions answered, just post them here.

[eliz7212]

How come you don't soak the seeds for 8 hours BEFORE you put them in for sprouting? thanks much if you can answer this question.

[kv3g]

@eliz7212 I do usually wet doen the tray when the seeds go in. Surface tension keeps them wet for a coupld of hours--until the first timed spray goes off. They are wet from the minute they go in, so they are soaked, so to speak.

[gug1970]

HI, interesting video and a great system. My only question is... do you actually *need* the lamp ? - I thought that sprouting didn't actually require light. I've got a manual clay sprouter that actually doesnt let hardly any light in.

[kv3g]

@gug1970 The sprouts I use (Mum's sandwich mix) get nice and green with light. Some things, like mung bean sprouts (what you get in Asian stores as "bean sprouts") will get too bitter WITH the light. So you have to turn it on for small sprouts, and leave it off for larger stuff that would get bitter (sunflower and mung beans, for instance).

[boomer00000]

this is really neat. i want to try it!

[yahmana]

that's interesting. they are green so they must be photosynthesizing and you don't have them exposed to sun light, so it's fluorescent light is sufficient to allow them to photosynthesize.

[kv3g]

@hortihorteae Not sure why you'd say that. What does the shape of the pot have to do with anything? This works perfectly fine, as you can see from my results.

[kv3g]

@ve3tru It's been hanging in my laundry room for 3 years and not a single drop has leaked. Yes, they are designed for outdoors, but I haven't had any issues.

[gigagroove]

Great. Manufacture them and sell them. Lazy folks will buy it, maybe they pre-order/pre-pay and you make and ship the parts.

[ve3tru]

Very nice

That rain-bird timer looks like quality that's not always the case. Those sort of things are designed for outdoors, and made cheaply, as they don't care that they leak a little.