Can smart gardens really grow delicious vegetables inside your apartment? WSJ asked Timothy Hammond, an urban gardener and educator in Houston, to test out Rise Gardens hydroponic smart garden to see how the vegetables compare with his own outdoor garden. Photo: Ben Hallock for The Wall Street Journal
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What a useless contraption
The future
Teacher:I'll give you some fun homework
Me: 3:37
This is just an ad…
lol. Rediculously expensive & over-engineered. Suggest using Kratky method, it's simple, effect, cheap and virtually zero maintenance. Just a few plastic containers (from Whole Food market if you want to be a hipster) and a few cheap grow light led's! Eg https://youtu.be/XDuqJUdjr14
No it can’t. I experimented with hydroponics. Costs too much to build. One led light alone costs $100-200. Sun light is free. Sprinkler system too expensive and maintain. Not worth it.
What about the taste? Although they grew at different rates, and the varieties are probably different, does an indoor garden with artificial light affect the taste of the final product? Also for size, I'm imagining the smaller versions of the indoor unit aren't going to provide much once you harvest; in order to always have fresh greens available you'd need the larger unit to sustain constant growth and harvesting. The pods remind me of Keurig — are they sustainable, or bad for the environment?
For over $700 I expect to not need to clean up after plants.
Not worth it, build your own and you can customize it to whatever you want to grow, herbs, cacti, flowers, etc.
What's dumb is those grow pods for the hydroponics will cost more than you going to the supermarket and buying it yourself. Wish it wasn't that way.
Good usefully grow lights cost a thousand dollars and up,up.
The price is insulting!
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Wow so smart. Is it fisher price?
You didn't talk about nutrition which has more minerals and vitamin?
How does the taste compete?
That reservoir isn’t big enough for big veggies roots
For that price, at least grow weed in it
Mmm, now that’s a 700$ leafy green salad…
Didnt even do a test comparison.
I have one. I love it
Love this! Very insightful!
Always been skeptical about hydroponics, how do they make sure the water has all the nutrients. They could be missing some micro nutrients.
Just grow it lol
No
that guy was honest. he wasnt just advertising the product that sponsored him
they could grow crops in space or mars or antarctica or the moon using this
$1000 to grow some vegetables lol
Ask him how to defeat the Squash Vine Borer, I just got decimated
i garden because i want to be outside and move a bit.
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Ask any cannabis farmer, outdoor can't even compete with indoor. There is no competition when your'e able to completely control the environment.
Rip off, but bring on the competition, all will be well.
This is so stupid, you can easily make one yourself, and as for the grow lights it cost pennys to run, LED lights barely use any wattage and the water pump is nothing as well.
I had the Rise Garden for a little over a year. It's nice until their water pump failed and there support team won't admit to replacing it to the latest one, which they have been doing for other customers. Worst experience ever
i love it
I’m looking into wall mounted hydroponics for my apartment.
There are good plans on YouTube to build one for yourself!
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My question is what is in the 'so called nutrients' that your adding that they supply. My purpose of gardening period is to be as organic with what goes into my veggies as possible. I would not want some lab fast grow chemicals in my food supply. Do they disclose on the bottles exactly whats in them?
Great review . My opinion gardening as someone more on a budget would be going for a diy version or an aerogarden or a knockoff aerogarden along with growing outside and in soil. This kit is great for people who have more money .
Would an apple seed grow in this thing?
What a blatant lie from Rise, there is nothing special about the technology or the materials used that would justify that price.
You could very easily make a DIY solution for a 10th of the cost
1. The market for this started with the Arduino Crowd.
2. Then the more resourceful Aquaponic Growers.
3. Now we these Kit gardens, the Home Depot isn't really taking seriously!
For this to really take off at those prices, it should come with a fish tank at least!
So many design mistakes here, Know there are better kit system out there!
Wow that was weak. 25 days isn't nearly enough. Maybe the outdoor plants started slower but would have out-produced the indoor ones? Very likely with many sun-loving plants. Then again, you're unlikely to get much in the way of pests inside since you're not using soil. This was just so incomplete.
Can it run off-line
The thing is, most of the time you would start your seeds indoors until they were strong enough to handle the heat
An overpriced Lettuce machine for Karens and hipster morons who dont know you can make the same thing that can not only grow lettuce but peppers etc. For pennys what this cost. There is nothing "Smart" about paying $2,500 for something you can build yourself out of lowes Heavy Duty totes, Aquarium pumps and a decent grow light
I wonder if you can use this for succulents! That'd be awesome… But I'd rather use it to grow some flowers. Gonna talk to my dad to see if I can get one for x mas.. as well as a "Yesteday, Today and Tomorrow" tree.
What about the electricity