Kaido
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Seems like a lot of hype around these. My mom bought a couple of those from Costco. Used it a few times to grow a few tomatoes and lost interest with all the refills, etc. For overall very little output.
Yeah, which is exactly my approach is a bit different...the off-the-shelf hydroponic systems are pretty neat, but the system I'm using is actually very low-tech...it's just a fancy clay pot that holds a week's worth of water, so that when you're starting your seeds, you only have to remember to refill it on like Sunday or whatever. Then I plan on trasferring the seedlings into a home-built hydroponics system to grow full-size plants, starting with tomatoes. GE has a really amazing setup:
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This is what the inside of the terracotta Orta seed starter looks like: (Youtube screenshot)

I have the small one, which can start 6 seeds at a time:







