Answers to Sprouting

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Or relax, sit back and enjoy the ready-built GoGreen Automatic Sprouter.

I am not a handywoman. Yet it was so simple and quick for me to drill holes in the plant trays and connect the mist nozzles in my Sprouter. Any nine-year-old can put it together. It’s so easy! And gives you a lovely feeling of accomplishment.

It's a miracle in the history of sprouting.  Now every single family world-wide can afford fresh home-grown food! This is the way to get free of pain – not pills and potions.

Can I Get the $9.95 Sprouter Plans for FREE?

Yes, when you order a Sprouter or Mist Kit, or any rawfood kitchen appliance here – such as an Ionizer, Juicer, Dehydrator, or Blender – you get a password for lifetime free access to my private customer site, where all the goodies are – Sprouter Plans, book written to date, and whatever the future holds!

What's the Shipping Cost to Mail the Sprouter Plans?

It would be too expensive to print and mail! It's only $9.95 on the web. The Plans are more than 80 pages or so, very comprehensive, with tons of photos. It's actually incredibly simple to make a Sprouter in an afternoon, the reason it's so long is because there's so many extras people like to know about, like automatic fertilizing and large-scale sprouting.

Plus of course there's my book (one quarter written to date).

I do provide A SINGLE ZIP FILE of it all, book and Sprouter Plans, so once you get the password to the private site, you simply download the one zip file. Your web browser will open the file from your hard drive, as if you were on-line. You can read the pages at your leisure, print whatever you like. All the graphics and links work as if you were on-line. No extra software is needed on your computer.

What Space Does the Sprouter Need?

Ultimately, the Sprouter is any size you want it. Use a plastic storage box for the growing container – you can get one at stores like Wal-Mart, Lowes, Home Depot and Home Base. A few of my readers across the world have built their own growing container.

My Sprouter Plans show how to build a container of plexiglass or perspex, or to build a frame of PVC pipe or wood and cover it with plastic sheeting. This is useful if you live overseas and they don’t have the big box you want.

For our ready-built GoGreen Sprouters, we use our own custom-built food-grade container and trays. The container sizes are (width x depth):

• Small – 20-inches x 14-inches, with six 3"x12" trays;

 
• Large – 40-inches x 16.5-inches, with three wheatgrass trays each 6"x13" and six plant trays each 3"x13" made by us, food-grade plastic; this Sprouter actually fits twelve 3"x13" trays – you may order extra trays here or buy them locally.

The Sprouter is raised slightly at the back so the mist-water drains out the front drain hole. You need a flat surface, it can’t lean over the edge of a shelf. You can use a brick for the tilt, or my Plans show you how to build this PVC pipe stand (comes free with ready-built Sprouter).

GOOD for the large Sprouter, but NO for the pump sprayer! It may be too little pressure, even the 3-gallon sprayer. The sprayer's best for the small Sprouter.

You can of course use any size water tank for multiple Sprouters, and a pump with it – info in Sprouter Plans.

But easiest is simply to plug into your regular water supply – connect to faucet or water pipe. We have to re-adjust our thinking re. kitchen gardens. We don't think of watering our outdoor garden with a watering can – we use a hose. It should be the same for our indoor kitchen garden.

I Do Not Want Chlorine on My Sprouts from our Tap Water

No problem. My Plans show you how to fit a water filter into the hose-line. Or, if you use the pump sprayer as your water source, fill it with filtered water.

We use the GE ice-maker inline water filter, which has quick-connect fittings to easily snap in a replacement filter.

Do Plants Grown in Soil have More Minerals?

Not if you fit an automatic fertilizer unit into your Sprouter’s water-line. It’s easy and cheap, about $10. My Plans show you how. You fill it with liquid kelp fertilizer (I give you the best low-cost source).

Sproutman Steve Meyerowitz reports in his book Sprout It!:

"Plants have a remarkable ability to absorb nutrients through their leaves as well as their roots. ... Sprouts normally have higher vitamin and mineral levels than regular vegetables because, as baby plants, their nutrients are more concentrated. But, with the addition of liquid kelp fertilizer, these levels are elevated to rival vegetables grown outdoors."

"Some nutrients are more concentrated in kelp than in soil and are more available to the growing sprouts because they are readily assimilable. The nutrient boost the sprouts get actually makes them heartier and can improve taste and texture."

How Many Sprouters Do I Need for One Ounce of Wheatgrass Juice Daily?

One large Sprouter. One 3"x13" tray yields 2-3 ounces of wheatgrass juice, and wheatgrass takes ten days to mature. The large Sprouter fits twelve 3x12 trays. So you can use ten trays for wheatgrass and have two trays over for baby greens or bean/grain sprouts.

Also be sure to read How much Wheatgrass Juice?.

It’s good to use a variety of seed because wheat is so hybridized. Each day sprinkle one heaping quarter-cup of mixed grass seeds (about 1/2 wheat, the rest unhulled barley, rye, kamut, oats) in a 3x13 tray. This will give you at least one ounce of green grass juice a day – or 2oz depending on your lighting, temperature (grows faster in summer), and how good your juicer is.

My advice is, don't drink only juice. Get a second Sprouter for greens and bean sprouts, if you plan to juice a lot of wheatgrass. You need fresh greens like sunflower to blend into Green Smoothie and Energy Soup. You get $40 discount on your second Sprouter here.

Must I Soak the Seeds First?

It’s best not to. They lose minerals into the soak water.

One of the beauties of my Sprouter is that you do NOT soak the seeds. Simply sprinkle them in the trays and let the automatic misting do the rest. My Plans show you how many seeds per tray depending on whether they’re greens, grains, beans, etc.

How Much Time Does It Take Daily?

For one big plateful of greens fresh each day (not refrigerated) it's the time it takes to sprinkle 2-3 teaspoons of seeds in a tray, say five minutes a day? Or you can plant and harvest once a week if your job takes you away from home.

I don't count washing the plant tray (after you've eaten your greens) because that's simply washing a dirty plate. And you can stick the tray in the dishwasher!

Do You Sell the Plans or the Kit?

We offer everything! 

PLANS – $9.95 – for you to build your own Sprouter. You buy locally the misting parts, growing container, and plant trays. If you live in USA, my Plans give you specific part numbers (from Home Depot, Wal-Mart, etc.). 

If you live outside USA, my Plans give you detailed specifications to look for in each part, at your local stores.

Remember, the beauty of this Sprouter is that you do not have to buy all the parts in one month!  See the question on the next page, I Don't Have Any Money. 

MIST-KITS – from $89 – these contain all the light-weight, hard-to-get parts – everything you need for the automatic mist-line – and you buy from local stores the heavy (expensive shipping) easy-to-find parts (growing container, plant trays, hose) and assemble your Sprouter. 

READY-BUILT SPROUTERS –  my licensee, New Life Systems (owned by Dan Schaefer) will build an automatic Sprouter for you. These begin at $199 for a Sprouter with six 3x13" trays. 

GUIDANCE – on how to transition from junk foods, through cooked whole foods, to living foods. This is a free on-line book with recipes (on my private customer site) which I'm slowly uploading as I write it. Victoria writes:

"I just finished reading the parts of your book that you have finished! ABSOLUTELY WONDERFUL!!!  Please accept my heartfelt thanks and HUGS. You have a timeless message and a wonderful spirit with which you write the words that most certainly must turn to deeds."

No, I live in sunny South Africa! The telephone number of my sprouter-builder and shipper in the US, Dan Schaefer, is 989-689-0005 (Michigan, EST-NY time).

There are forums here where you can get advice from myself and experienced others on building your Sprouter if you'd like to try something that's not in the Plans.