From box to basil in weeks.

No soil, no sunlight, no green thumb required. Here's how your QROOT garden grows dinner while you go about your day.

Unbox everything
Check the pack list
Lay out the device, baskets, cocopeat sponges, domes, seeds and nutrient bottles, and check the count against the pack list. Set the garden on a flat surface near a power point.
Soak the cocopeat sponges
5 minutes
Soak the sponges in water for five minutes. They should feel damp all the way through, not dripping. Squeeze out any excess.
Load baskets and sponges
Seat them flush
Drop a soaked sponge into each basket, then seat the baskets into the pod openings. They should sit flush.
Add seeds to each sponge
2–3 per sponge
Press two or three seeds lightly into the centre hole of each sponge. You’ll thin to the strongest seedling later.
Cover with the domes
Hold humidity
The domes hold humidity around the seeds. Leave them on until the sprouts touch the top.
Fill water to the half-sponge mark
Half-sponge
Add RO water until it just touches the bottom half of the sponges, enough to wick up but not enough to drown the seeds.
No nutrient yet. Seeds germinate on plain water. Nutrient at this stage can burn the new roots; it goes in at step 7.
Add plant food and fill to max
5 ml A + 5 ml B / L
Once the seeds have germinated, take the domes off. Measure with the cap: 5 ml of Plant Food A and 5 ml of Plant Food B for every 1 litre of water. Pour both into the fill port, then top up to the max line with RO water.
Plug in and switch the light on
Daily cycle
The LED runs on a daily cycle from here. Leave it to its schedule rather than switching it on and off manually.
Keep 2 inches between plants and light
≈ 2 inches
Raise the light bar as the plants grow. Too close scorches the leaf tips; too far makes stems long and weak.
Use RO water throughout
Always RO
Use RO water for every top-up and refill. It keeps the nutrient balance predictable and the pump free of scale.