AeroGarden Flower User Manual
FLOWER
SERIES
Tending Guide
SEED KIT TYPE:
PLANTING DATE:
English
CONTENTS
Planting Your Garden
Plant Your Garden ............................2
Tending Your Garden
Remove Domes ..............................3
Add Water....................................4
Feed Garden .................................4
Raise Lamp Hood (Light[s])....................5
Keep Your Garden Healthy ....................5
Plant Problems & Remedies..................14
Appendices
Reminders About Planting Your Garden ......15
Questions & Answers – Light(s) ..............16
Set Your Light Timer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Troubleshooting ............................17
Replace Bulb(s)..............................19
Whether this is the first or fifth garden you are
planting in your AeroGarden, you will need to
reference your Quick Start Guide.
If you have planted a garden in your AeroGarden
prior to this one, please refer to “Replanting Your
AeroGarden” in the Quick Start Guide before you
proceed.
If you no longer have your Quick Start Guide
you can obtain a copy of it at
www.aerogardensupport.com
Pl a n t i n g Yo u r ga r d e n
Twinkle Phlox
(Sprouts in 4 -10 days)
Tall
A little bit of care for your Garden will ensure rapid
growth and beautiful blooms. You will see sprouts
within 2 weeks. In 6-10 weeks your plants will start
to flower. Shortly after that, you will have a garden full
of gorgeous blossoms.
P
lant Your Garden
Each Flower Series Seed Kit (except Cascading Petunias)
comes with Seed Pods that are labeled, Tall, Medium
or Short. This helps to determine the best position
for each Seed Pod in the Grow Surface, ensuring each
plant gets enough light and has room to grow.
The following are descriptions of each plant height
and the best locations for them in your AeroGarden.
Consult your Quick Start Guide for model-specific
planting instructions.
• Tall plants tend to grow faster
and branch out quickly – they
do best in Back openings.
• Medium plants grow a little
more slowly and/or tend
to be a bit bushier – they
do best when planted in
Side openings.
• Short plants are slower
growing and/or mature into smaller plants – they
are best suited for growing in a Front opening.
NOTE: Flowers need a daily dark period to produce blooms.
If your Garden is in a place that receives any room light
(natural or artificial), we recommend that you set your
light(s) to be on during the day.
able to change the time your light(s) go off, instructions
will be found in the, “Personalize Your Light Timer”
section of the Quick Start Guide.
Find Tall, Medium or Short
information here on each
Seed Pod Label.
If the option is avail-
Tending Your Garden
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te n d i n g Yo u r ga r d e n
Please take a moment to review this section shortly after
planting your Garden (see page 15 for Reminders About
Planting Your Garden).
R
emove Domes
• A few days after planting
your AeroGarden, tiny plants
will appear through the
holes in each Seed Pod Label.
When this occurs, remove
the Domes from each Seed
Pod with emerging plants
and discard or recycle.
Do not remove the Label!
• To reduce plant stress, we
recommend removing the
Domes shortly after the
light(s) turns off or near the
end of the light cycle.
• You do not need to thin your
plants as the AeroGarden
can support multiple plants
in each Seed Pod.
Each Seed Pod Label shows
the number of days until
seeds sprout.
Don’t let this happen!
If your plant is curled
inside the Dome, it was left
on too long. Immediately
remove Dome.
Never remove Labels. They promote germination,
inhibit algae growth and identify your plants.
Tending Your Garden
3
A
dd Water
There should always be water in the Bowl of your
AeroGarden. For instructions, see the “Add Water
Using a Spouted Container” section in your Quick
Start Guide.
• Use room-temperature water. Very hot or very
cold water will hurt your plants.
• We recommend using municipal tap, bottled or
purified water. Well or softened water SHOULD
!
NOT be used because the extra minerals in
these sources may be harmful to aeroponically
grown plants.
Quick Start Guides available at:
www.aerogardensupport.com
eed Garden
F
Every 2 weeks you will need to add one nutrient
tablet (3-pod AeroGardens) or two nutrient
tablets (6- or 7-pod AeroGardens) to the
Bowl. For instructions, see “Add Nutrients” (Feed
Garden - Basic Feeding) in the Control Panel Features
section of your Quick Start Guide.
All Flower Series Seed Kits have two types of nutrients
– “Starting Nutrients” and “Growing Nutrients.” The
one exception to this is the Cascading Petunias Seed Kit,
which also has “Flowering Nutrients.”
For Cascading Petunias, follow the instructions in your
Quick Start Guide using “Growing Nutrients” for first
feeding after planting and then “Flowering Nutrients”
for remaining feedings.
Note: We recommend checking for bugs every time you
add nutrients. See Troubleshooting on page 18 of
this Guide for details.
Tending Your Garden
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R
aise Lamp Hood (Light[s])
As your plants begin to grow, you should provide
1-2” (2.5-5cm) of space between the top of plants
and the light(s).
For instructions, refer to the “Raise Lamp Hood
(Light[s])” section in your Quick Start Guide.
If Grow Bulb(s) are too close to plants, the leaves may
brown and burn. If they are too far away, your plants
will “stretch” toward the light(s) and look unhealthy.
eep Your Garden Healthy
K
Keeping a watchful eye on your Garden is not
only a joy, but also a smart way to make sure your
plants stay healthy.
As your plants grow, you may see some dead or
brown leaves. This is perfectly normal.
• Remove these leaves with scissors or pinch them off
with your fingers.
• Cascading flowers
sometimes have
brown leaves on
the underside.
They will not harm
your plant, but
may be unsightly.
To remove them,
carefully lift up
the cascade and
pinch or cut off
brown leaves.
• Keep Grow Surface clear of dead leaves.
Tending Your Garden
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Check Plant Layout to Prevent Shading
To ensure each plant gets enough light and has room
to grow, you may need to rearrange the Seed Pods
in your AeroGarden. Within the first 3 to 4 weeks
of planting your Garden you may start to notice
variations in how fast or slow a plant grows and in
plant habit (e.g., spreading or upright, feathery or
dense leaves, bushy or cascading). If it looks like some
plants are shading other plants, use the following
guidelines to rearrange your Seed Pods.
• Slow Growing Plants will be shorter than other
plants in your Garden – move them to Front
openings.
• Bushy Plants have a somewhat rounded shape –
move these plants to Side openings.
• Cascading Plants spread along the Grow Surface –
move these plants to Front or Side openings.
• Upright Plants have a main stem and tend to
branch out – move these plants to Back openings
(or Front Side if there are more than 4 such pods in
your Garden.)
Continued on next page
Quick Start Guides available at:
www.aerogardensupport.com
Tending Your Garden
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