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FreshLife Automatic Sprouter (FL-2000)
FreshLife Automatic Sprouter (FL-2000)
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Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #49928 in Kitchen & Housewares
- Size: Large
- Color: Clear
- Brand: Tribest
- Model: FL-2000
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 11.22" h x 11.22" w x 13.58" l, 8.00 pounds
Features
- Quiet, built-in automatic sprinkler system waters crops while you go about your business
- Up to 4 flavors per tray
- Each tray yields 8-16 oz. on average
- Juicy mung and soybean feature
- Optional extra barrel doubles growing capacity
- Quiet, built-in automatic sprinkler system waters crops while you go about your business
- Up to 4 flavors per tray
- Each tray yields 8-16 oz. on average
- Juicy mung and soybean feature
- Optional extra barrel doubles growing capacity
Product Description
Effortless gardening right on your kitchen countertop! Just fill the FreshLife automatic sprouter with water, add seeds, plug it in, and in 5 to 8 days, you’ll be enjoying your very own fresh and organically grown wheatgrass, micro-greens and sprouts—it really is that easy! For only pennies a day, you’ll enjoy these delicious and nutritious “baby vegetables” without using soil, chemicals, special lighting, wiring or plumbing. Not only are sprouted vegetables delicious, but they contain 10-50 times more vitamins, minerals, amino acids and enzymes than at any other time during their life cycle. An entire spectrum of flavors await as you’ll produce sprouts of radishes, broccoli, cabbage, garlic, onion, sunflower, wheatgrass, fenugreek, buckwheat lettuce, mung, alfalfa, clover, sweet pea, and many, many more.
Customer Reviews
Most helpful customer reviews
66 of 69 people found the following review helpful.
A waste of plastic: AVOID
By Ron Jamis
There are several things that I found annoying about this contraption. I'm cleaning house today and making closet space but I swore that I'd take time to alert interested folks about this silly device which I used faithlfully for about six months before I just put it away in disgust. I suggest that you read my summary just below and the "bottom line" at the end if you're in a hurry and just want the big pic in a hurry.The summary goes like this: 1. Customer service is non-existent. 2. After a while, the tubes and water pump and other parts in the unit get gunked up with a nasty growth. 3. The unit takes longer to grow sprouts than the old fashioned way. 4. The unit begins to squeak and howl after a few months of use. 5. You have to carefully wash the unit each day (at least one time but preferably two times) in order to keep the slime and growth under control. 6. It takes up a lot of space.Here's the long story:First, it cycles on and off approximately every six minutes all day long. I'll explain why this matters in a minute. Secondly, the spinner at the top of the water supply tube touches the lid due to the pressure of water pushing up the tube to supply the water-dispersing spinner. If not for the lid being in place the spinner would just be pushed off the tube on which is rests. So, hopefully, you get the idea of how this is designed. It's not a bad design excpept that that a plastic spinner rubbing against another plastic part will begin to make noise after a period of time and use.After you use this thing for a few months (or perhaps less) and the spinner begins to wear a little, there will be a significant friction noise as the spinner gently presses upward and rubs against the underside of the lid as it is spinning when the unit is cycled to "on". This is not a defect. It's designed to work this way. However, the squeaking sound is very annoying. That's when you will learn that it's turning on and off at six minute cycles. The noise is fairly loud too. I tested it with a professional sound pressure level meter at about 15 feet away and the sound measures 65db which is about as loud as a conversation between two people. For the record, the room ambient SPL was about 35 db as a beginning point. But this review is not only about obnoxious sounds becasue the noise can be eliminated by applying a drop of olive oil to the contact point on the top of the spinner device.The olive oil will lubricate the two contact points and that fixes the cycle-on screeching sound...for a while anyway... but you will have to repeat the lube job a couple of times each day unless you enjoy the music. I mean what could be more pleasing than the screeching, squeaking sounds of your device noisily growing sprouts in the kitchen!After a while, you will learn that the unit does not push nearly as much water up the tube which is essential for the water-dispersing spinner to be adequately supplied with water in order to irrigate your sprouts. You will see that some of the holes in the spinner are clogged and the spinner turns more slowly. What happens is that algae and other micro organisms are growing inside the concealed pump and the spinner device and the plastic tubes that channel the water from the pump to the spinner which is positioned about 10 inches above the concealed pump. Yukkk! When you see this dark green and black gunk you'll want to throw this thing out immediately but I contrived a cleaning tool with a very small gauge copper wire and a small amount of cloth hooked to the end and I pulled it through the tubes. I soaked the spinner which was partially clogged with this growth in hydrogen peroxide. I made a pint solution of the same 3% food grade H202 and let the pump run this detoxifying liquid until the gunk stopped coming out. All this takes more than an hour if you have the "tools" at hand. I suppose you could sub bleach for the H2O2.Now, here's the main gripe: I swear that this thing takes two to three times longer to grow sprouts than the old fashioned method of just soaking them one or two times per day on growing trays or in a jar. So what's the benefit? You have to change the water and clean the bowl and lid each day. The water in the bowl gets really nasty for the first two or three days so replacing it twice per day is optimum. It holds about two quarts of water and you'll use two gallons or more cleaning it at least one time per day. If you forget and fail to clean the water you'll smell it pretty soon. It stinks like a dirty fish aquarium.If you write or call customer service to ask if the unit is supposed to cycle on as often as it does you might not get an answer. I never got a response to my questions so I assumed that the on, off, on off, cycle is set to six minutes. Again, you'll learn how often the thing cycles on and off when it begins to squeak. While this was going on I kept wondering why does it need to water the sprouts ten times per hour. At first I assumed it was warming the water. But my kitchen ambient temp got wamer each month as winter turned to spring and then to summer and I finally realized that it's a timer...not a temperature sensor that makes it cycle on and off. Customer service never gave me a response to my emails so I suppose they all work this way and my unit is not defective.Bottom line: it makes nice sprouts albeit with an extra ordinary amount of unnecessary comotion and fanfare and noise and labor and use of water. It takes up a lot of space compared to a jar or a Sprouter Master. So, what's the benefit? None that I can see because you certainly do not just plug this contraption in to your house current, fill it with water and sprinkle some sprouts on the tray and forget it until the sprouts are all grown and ready to eat. And when you finish growing the sprouts you have the clean up hassle. If you're still intent on owning one of these things then go for it but just know that it takes about 10 to 15 minutes to fully clean the roots from the growing tray....provided that you have a small stiff nail brush or similar handy.This contraption is an answer to a problem that did not exist. In fact it creates more work and mess than any other growing system and the end result is not superior. AVOID.
65 of 69 people found the following review helpful.
Very expensive and unreliable
By Dr. James S. Arlow
This is a very expensive item for what it is - a pump and a bucket! It also has a few serious disadvantages:1) It circulates dirty water over the sprouts - not a good idea.2) It is flimsy and unreliable. The pump on my unit gave out.3) The spray spins around very unreliably - it's virtually impossible to adjust so that it spins consistently. Either it doesn't spin at all or it almost blows the spray attachment off the top.4) The pump gets clogged up with gunge. And yes - I followed all instructions very carefully, changed the water frequently and washed out the device.5) The sprouts are hard to harvest as their leaves and roots get stuck in the trays.Definitely get into sprouting - it's great! But this is not the device to do it with!
70 of 76 people found the following review helpful.
Simply Amazing
By RayTheOwner
If you've read any books on sprouting than you know that even newer traditional methods like bamboo baskets and mini-green houses that, while worth it, can be a little involved and requiring various little items to get you going. Spout bags are nice but only good for certain sprouts. This sprounter cuts out a ton of work and detail and allows you to sprout any sprout with one method. With this sprouter, adding some Grapefruit Seed Extract (Anti-Mold) and Liquid Kelp (Nutrition) to the water each day grows some of the most organic, fresh, and nutrition rich foods on planet for pennies in a few days, anywhere! Truly something that can change ones life for the better. I also recommend the Vita-Lite grow lights if you live in a dark area and all the Books by Sproutman. Happy Sprouting!
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