Aerogarden- 8 days. Brown spots/curling

Hi everyone- I purchased an Aerogarden around 10 days ago and germinated the seeds in tissue paper, I then planted the 4 germinated seeds in the 4 middle pods of the aerogarden. I have the light the lowest it can go and it is on a 17/5 herb/ basil setting. I gave the water 1 nutrition tablet when i first started although i have refilled a few times with rainwater since this. It has now been 8 days and I am beginning to worry about the brown spots that are forming with slight yellowing on the leaves and some curling.


I have attached these 2 pictures to show you how far the light is away and the condition my poor babies are in. This is my first attempt growing in the aerogarden so much help will be appreciated.

Do you have any kind of fan blowing across the tops of the plants ?

Kind of looks like the heat is burning them up. maybe some one with an areo will show up.

i dont have an aero garden but can tell you adding rain water to your machine is prolly the culprit. rain water lacks calcium and all those other benificial minerals. also did you check the ph of the rain water before putting it in your machine? if you didnt chances are that the ph is very very low. i would ditch trying to pretreat and use rain water and use tap if you can. if you have terriable city water then use ro water treated with calmag

forgot to add. if your also trying to grow garden herbs with medical herbs in the same cup then your going to have big problems later down the road. you are going to get root-bound with two plants in one cup. and next time don't cut the cotyledons off till they are ready to fall off by themselves. those little weird looking leafs are sustenance for the plant until it gets mature enough.

your feeding is definitely the issue. Rainwater + no cal-mag + a nutrient tablet meant for HERBS = lack of nutrients.

Also, I hope you are growing lowryder plants in that aerogarden. Otherwise you are in for trouble later on. I am sure that system can not handle a four foot plant. :thumbsup:

Get some GH three part nutes and follow the instructions. :jointsmile:

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Originally Posted by martyrprojekt

your feeding is definitely the issue. Rainwater + no cal-mag + a nutrient tablet meant for HERBS = lack of nutrients.

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For sure. Plus if there are nutes present in your solution, they aren't available due to the PH. If you added rainwater ( i would assume the ph of rw to be around 7, unless it's crazy acid rain) that would put your PH on the high side for any medium. What is that medium in the little containers? And are you growing herbs in the same openings?

I think you should ditch the aerogarden and transplant them into soil and put them under some CFL's. I think you would have much better luck with something more adjustable.

Don't feel bad tho, i saw the HT article on the aerogarden too. They had all those pretty little colas growing in it, looked easy as hell. The problem is HT is a marketing machine that will take money from advertisers, and for that money they will lay out whatever BS the advertisers want US to hear.

On second thought, don't ditch the aerogarden. Clean it out and put some herbs in it. Use it for what it was intended for, little bitty itty herbs. I'm sure they would come out wonderful.

get water to ph of of between 5.2 and 6.0 and get some mild nutes in them. They are starving for N I'll bet money on it :thumbsup: