Deluxe Kitchen Crop Seed Sprouter with 4 Growing Trays and 1 Seed Packets, (Alfalfa Seeds) Easily Grow Sprouts Indoors for a Healthy Lifestyle

This product increased my sprout production tremendously!

I waited several months before I posted this review. I wanted to make sure it was working great, and stood up, and yes it does! I love that the seeds sprout for me by the next day. I love that I can have this sit in a room by the window, and nature does all the work. I have 4 going at any time, so that the birds have fresh sprouts daily. I actually wish they made these in a bigger size. Sometimes I add more than recommended, like the Hard Spring Wheat or Mung Beans. The field peas I do admit need less. This is really for my girls that are working so hard to produce eggs. They run like race car drivers, weaving, to see who can get to the sprouts first. This lets me give them extra nutrition, full of vitamins and minerals, as a treat. They love everything I have sprouted in it so far, and my husband is partial to the radish seeds.My tip would be to rotate the sprouter a quarter turn everyday, so that they grow evenly towards whatever yoour light source is. I don't presoak, I found that presoaking the seeds tended to cause mildew, which is toxic for the girls, and a waste of seed and time for me. I really don't have to, because the next day, they have started to sprout. Also, handwash with dishsoap the bottom green container that the water drains into each day, before watering the sprouts. I find if you don't, there tends to be an odor, but, thats not from the product, but the seeds. Its a little tip. I also have zero problems loading these in the dishwasher, and added bonus for sterlizing.I also wanted to mention that the sprouts, depending on which seed you're doing, get a beautiful root base because of the container design. Which, if your feeding to birds like I am, they gobble up in no time at all.Also, when you sprout, you will see little fuzzies around the growth as they start to produce roots. If you look closely, you can see the water vapors trapped. Thats not mold or mildew, however, if you're not sure, a quick internet search will help you out.I have tried a dozen other products, and they were all garbage compared to this one. The mesh plastic design that some have, may look like a fantastic ideal, until you have to clean the roots out of there. This is the only one I use now, and definitely recommend it for human or chicken use :)

This sprouter is so fantastic, and so easy to use! If I could give it more stars, I would! I love alfalfa sprouts with a passion! On sandwiches especially. And they are so nutritious! I used to buy sprouts, but if you use a lot, they are quite expensive and not as fresh tasting as when you sprout your own. And when you run out, you either have to do without or make a trip to the store. Then I learned to sprout my own in glass quart or 2-quart jars. But unless you keep 2 or 3 jars of sprouts going all the time, it just does not make enough. and then you have to wait a few days for the next batch to grow. Plus, you have to keep the bottles lying on their side and you can imagine how my counter looks with 2 or 3 bottles lying on their side all the time.I should mention that unless the seed that was provided with the sprouter is better seed than the seed I have been using in the quart bottles, it seems to me a higher percentage of the seeds sprout in this sprouter, too. I think it is partly because you can't spread the seeds out as well in a quart jar. Also, with a quart jar, you have to rinse the seeds and then drain the water off morning and evening. And I think in the beginning stages of sprouting, this rinsing, no matter how careful you are, breaks the delicate new sprouts off some of the seeds, and then those seeds do not grow again. With jars there is always unsprouted residue which is hard to separate from the sprouts. But it seems every seed sprouts with this sprouter.With this sprouter, each tray sprouts about as much as you can sprout in a quart jar, but uses less seed. I use 2 teaspoons of seed for a quart jar and I use 1 teaspoon for each tray of this sprouter. This sprouter is so much more convenient, attractive, efficient, and space saving, and while sprouting in quart jars is not hard, this is even easier. There is no rinsing morning and evening, you just empty the bottom water catcher tray, rinse it well (wash it every few days), and pour fresh water into the top tray twice a day. The water from the top one dribbles down to all the other trays, and eventually into the bottom one. Each tray of sprouts is at a different stage of growth. I simply use out of the one with the largest sprouts, then when it is empty, I wash it and start a new batch in it so that I always have some sprouts available for whatever I want to use them on. When you clean a tray, be sure the drain holes are clear. Otherwise the water will not drain down properly. This is important because if the seeds get too much water, in other words, if the water does not drain off the seeds, or if a plugged tray does not let the water drain down to the next tray, so that those seeds do not get enough water, they will not grow properly.I always love it when I find a really good product and this is one of those!

Still figuring out how to properly use this but it works great. Sprouts in 3 days.