AeroGarden Tip #9 – Set Your AeroGardens Light Timer

On our countdown of Top 10 AeroGarden Tips, #9 on our countdown is a simple one, but one that is often ignored. For most Aerogarden seed kits this tip doesn’t necessarily change anything, but for anything that has blossoms or fruit (Flowers, tomatoes, chili peppers, peas etc) this tip can make a big differences in the succes of your AeroGarden harvest.

AeroGarden Tip #9: Set your light timer to turn off at night!

Why? Although the AeroGarden automatically turns the lights on and off for the correct amounts of time…the aerogarden doesn’t set the light cycles to correspond with the natural cyles of daylight and night. You would think this it is a big deal to have the AeroGarden lights on at night, and might think it will grow better because it will have artificial light all night long, then have natural daylight during the day. This is great for greens and herbs, but this is not the natural way plants interact with light. By giving your plants too much light, it can actually be counter productive.

Some plants, such as flowers, tomatoes, and other blossoming plants requires a period of darkness each day in order to produce blossoms and flowed with will turn into fruit. If your AeroGarden lights are constantly on, or do not allow for a period of darkness, you may not get your aerogerden to produce any blossoms or fruit at all.

Luckily the AeroGardens have a built in light timer that can be programmed to turn of at anytime day or night. This allows the plants in your AeroGarden to get the proper amount of “rest” from light, and they will have the energy they need to produce blossoms. Think about it, would you b able to produce good results at your job if you were never allowed to sleep? Probably not – plants need rest too…

Each AeroGarden is different, so consult your AeroGarden mAanual -and be sure to SET YOUR AEROGARDEN’S LIGHT TIMER to TURN OFF AT NIGHT!