Scotts MiracleGro Indoor Grow System

[CatHerder]

Ummmm......

www.prioritydesigns.com/content/indoor-grow-system-design-development/

They ditched Aerogardens for this?  

The video shows a floor unit with a light almost like an end table - which is what my cats would use it for.  I couldn't use them, I have to keep my gardens up high away from the cats.  Plus, the pods and supplies look proprietary, in other words, we couldn't buy cheaper options on Amazon, etc.

Ugh.

[maskedsonnet]

They were selling something similar before they took AG over, and no one was buying it. Guess they decided buying and killing the high-end competition might bring more customers to their crummy design.

[CatHerder]

Oct 25, 2024 15:19:51 GMT -5 maskedsonnet said:

They were selling something similar before they took AG over, and no one was buying it. Guess they decided buying and killing the high-end competition might bring more customers to their crummy design.

I didn't realize that.  Figures.  

[maskedsonnet]

Yeah, while I don't remember exactly WHEN, I do remember seeing ads for it when they first rolled it out. After searching Google a little the oldest mention I can find of the MiracleGro system is from 5 years ago. They acquired AG in 2020. Now, MAYBE that wasn't their goal. But I think it's pretty suspicious.

[Clovis Sangrail]

Looks like there's a placeholder on Amazon.



It's not just a garden. It's furniture --




They are stackable, so kitty (or your husky) can climb right up on top of that wall on the right. 

Look what you can grow --



That link to miraclegrotwelve.com takes you to the MiracleGro website home page, where a search for 'twelve' gets no results.

Pods --



Edited to add: It looks like this is an old Amazon ad, as there are reviews, albeit none later than 2023.

But give it a look. There are lots of photos if you scroll down. And reviews, too. 

And they were proud of that bad boy. I saw a review that said it was 200 bucks.

[maskedsonnet]

Scrolled through the 1-star reviews a little - oldest I saw was from 2019. $200 is pretty pricey for what a lot of people say was a piece of trash!! The photos look plastic-y and cheap, not what I'd look for in a piece of furniture. Maybe if the frame was a nice oak or maple. And I didn't have pets who would immediately shove their face in the garden area!

[Clovis Sangrail]

Furniture for Zoomers --













And a nice you tube video -- 


And it's all Bluetooth connected.

[pfunnyjoy]

Hard pass from me. I'm not looking for furniture, I want to grow things. Preferably not where my cats could get to the plants and play with them while I'm not looking.

[maskedsonnet]

Oh yeah, my grandmother gave me some beautiful antique furniture when she went to an assisted living facility and I only BARELY managed to fit it all in my house. Furniture of ANY kind (but especially ugly furniture with plants my dogs will 100% eat) is a hard no lmao. They'll pry AGs out of my cold, dead hands.

[golddustpeak]

They wont get any of my money either, no furniture for me.

I'm just hoping someone will create a replacement for my Bounties.

The iDOO 20 looks good but it is a tank only model with no pump :-(

[bluetech]

On a good note maybe they will just rebrand the AG nutes and sell them there so we can atleast have a supply of those in the future.

[pfunnyjoy]

Oct 27, 2024 10:58:02 GMT -5 bluetech said:

On a good note maybe they will just rebrand the AG nutes and sell them there so we can atleast have a supply of those in the future.

Very possible. If they want to sell the "furniture," they'd want to make it easy to grow with.

[lynnee]

The MiracleGro garden was news to me! My first thought was "How heavy is that big square tank when filled with water?" I shudder at the thought of wrestling with it for R&Rs.

[Clovis Sangrail]

Oct 28, 2024 10:18:38 GMT -5 lynnee said:

The MiracleGro garden was news to me! My first thought was "How heavy is that big square tank when filled with water?" I shudder at the thought of wrestling with it for R&Rs.

Yogi says he thinks that the kind of people who would buy those things are not the kind of people who would do R&Rs.

[lynnee]

Yogi says he thinks that the kind of people who would buy those things are not the kind of people who would do R&Rs.

Clovis Sangrail

[maskedsonnet]

I mean, I don't do R&Rs. I've never found that my plants suffered for it.

But I also think the design being like a table puts you WAY to close to the ground, in addition to the tank being a heavy nightmare to handle for those who do want to R&R. My knees can't handle the abuse of kneeling to harvest, add water, etc. I like having my machines' tanks a little above waist-height. Makes everything much easier to handle! When I get moved (it's now official and I'm freaking out) I'm going to re-do how ALL my gardens are set up - supplies I don't need super often on bottom shelves and all gardens up where I can work on them easier! That's still a couple months down the road though.

[lynnee]

Will you have another "Garden Room" in the new place, maskedsonnet? I hope you will have help in moving both your garden room and garage plants!

[LoveSalads]

Off topic but Wooooo Hoooooo congratulations maskedsonnet glad you got what you wanted. I hope the move is as painless as possible. Sounds like you have plans for the garden setup already..   Nice  

[maskedsonnet]

Oh yeah, going to insist on a 3-bredroom again so I have a garden room. The moving service will hopefully take care of all the machines once I've emptied them out, and my parents have said they'll help move anything that I didn't want the movers to handle/anything they aren't allowed to transport. Which will include a LOT of plants!!

[ntxhydro]

I will buy AeroGarden before they get any of my hard earned money. That is such a poorly designed useless waste of space. Let me know if you really wanna know how I feel about it but I do understand this could be a PG rated foreign so I’m not gonna share all my thoughts.