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Hydroponic Grow Mediums for Growing Microgreens
In the world of Hydroponic Microgreen Growing there are a ton of choices when it comes to grow mediums, and we wanted to share our opinions
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- Jan 20
- 13 min
Reusable Microgreen Grow Medium - complete guide
What exactly is a Reusable Microgreen Grow Medium? And why should you care?? Well, it’s exactly what it sounds like, reusable (shocker right?) and the good thing about reusable items is it helps you cut back on cost over time by making a one-time initial investment into the reusable item. In this case, we aren’t talking about reusable cups, reusable straws, or reusable bags – We’re instead discussing a grow medium that can be used time and time again, if you take care of it.
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- Jan 20
- 6 min
5 Microgreen Hacks: Everyday tools that will better your Microgreen growing experience
If you’re new to growing Microgreens or are an experienced grower, you may have noticed some things that can be time consuming or just flat out annoying when it comes to various steps of the microgreens process…. And let’s face it, the more efficient you can be – the better. Especially if you’re someone who has a TON of trays growing at once for selling at your market. Along with making things more efficient, if you can make it easier on yourself and/or your workers… that’s a
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- Jan 20
- 6 min
What are Microgreen Tray Clips?
What are Microgreen Tray Clips and why did On The Grow create this product? The Microgreen Tray Clips are a Patent Pending product that our founder CJ Vaughn invented and created here at On The Grow® after we noticed a continuous problem of struggling to separate trays from each other every time we had to bottom-water our Microgreen crops or when we wanted to inspect our crops/roots. Because of the separation struggle, we noticed a recurring problem with our watering time tak
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- Jan 20
- 5 min
How to Clean and Sanitize Microgreens Trays with Tips and Tricks from On The Grow®, LLC
You know How To Grow Microgreens, but you’re unsure of How To Properly Clean & Sanitize your trays now that they’ve been harvested…. Well luckily, On The Grow® is here to help answer this question! Knowing How to Clean & Sanitize trays is just as important as knowing how to grow the crops, because it is vital to creating a business and providing your costumers with safe product… Plus, it can help prevent you from running into pathogen issues like “Dampening Off”, which can wi
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- Jan 20
- 8 min
Professional Microgreens Grow Rack - Step by Step Build Guide
Want to set-up a Professional Grow Rack that can grow some epic Microgreens? In this guide, we will show you, step-by-step, how easy it is to build and use a long-lasting, MASSIVE veggie producing rack. (You can also grow edible flowers, and many other crops with it!) We also have a YouTube video guide (click here) that you can follow along with as well in case things get confusing! Be sure to check out our other blogs (Click here) where we talk about How To Grow Microgreens,
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- Jan 20
- 4 min
What to do with the used Grow Medium after harvesting Microgreens?
One the main questions that we receive through our YouTube channel, Website and Social Media is “What are you supposed to do with the leftovers from harvested microgreen trays?”. Which there are a lot of options out there and it really comes down to how you want to handle it! First, it depends on what type of grow medium you are using. If you are using soil, coco-coir, or hydroponic grow mats like hemp, you can toss those into your home compost bin, and they will break down o
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- Jan 20
- 4 min
Starting a Microgreens Side-Hustle business from a Beginner's prospective
Hello, my name is Zach and I am the newest member of the On The Grow® Team!! In this blog, I’m going to share with y'all my side-hustle of growing and selling microgreens locally in Texas! I’ll discuss my grow setup, favorite Microgreen crops to grow, least favorite crops to grow and what I’ve found to be valuable wisdom in my growth so far from the perspective of a new grower and as a vendor! As someone who didn't know about growing prior to starting up, how did I find my wa
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- Jan 20
- 11 min
How to Grow Microgreens Complete Guide - On The Grow® Style
Learn How To Grow Microgreens Indoors with our Method step by step guide!
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- Jan 20
- 4 min
Easy Slow-cooked Chicken Tikka Masala with Turmeric Cashew Butter Basmati Rice and Microgreens
Whenever our Founder CJ, was 22, he lived in Rishikesh, India for 7-months to study Yoga and help heal a tough time in his life. Not only did he end up getting his certification for yoga instructing, but he also fell in love with India and the beautiful culture he got to witness during his time there. From the nature he enjoyed during his walks and early morning meditations, the beautiful sounds of an entire city praying throughout the day, and the amazing flavors of Indian c
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- Jan 20
- 15 min
5 FREE Microgreen Recipes to cook for your Kids (or yourself)
We hear it all the time. How do I get my kids to eat healthier? Almost every parent has had to struggle with their kid’s eating issues at one time or another. Everything and anything can be perceived as a problem for a picky eater. When the food is too soft, too crunchy, too salty, or too sour, or simply just too close to the rest of the food on the plate, sometimes epic food battles can occur! Why are some kids so picky? To begin with, it's really not all their fault! Scient
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- Jan 20
- 9 min
What are Microgreens?
Do you remember seeing some chopped small 2-leave sprouts placed on toast in 90’s magazines? Well, I’m sure some of you might! At that time, sprouts were considered as an elite food, perfect for photo-shoots, like how today caviar is. They were not necessarily elite because they were expensive like caviar but, rather due to the innovativeness and the interest pique they created. In this blog, we cover a few area’s that all have to do with these amazing tiny greens, and hopefu
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- Jan 20
- 4 min
DIY EASY Aeroponics Bucket System for Growing or Cloning plants, veggies, herbs & fruit!
Making your own DIY growing units is not only fun but can save you hundreds of dollars, while earning you the bragging right of “I made that”. One great way to get started, especially if you are crammed on space, is by creating a Aeroponics Bucket system at home for growing and/or cloning plants, fruits, vegetables, and herbs! Best part is this build only takes 6 simple steps and a few parts from your local hardware to make it! First, if your unfamiliar with what Aeroponics i
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- Jan 20
- 11 min
Case Study: Coco Coir VS Reusable Microgreen Grow Medium - High seeding density
As many of our OG YouTube subscribers know by now, one of our absolute favorite grow mediums we like to use to grow Microgreens is Coco coir – especially when we are doing any of our nutrient experiments where we compare various nutrients against each other to see how they preform for growing microgreens. We’ll even sometimes do grows where we take two trays using regular filtered tap water (control group) and put them against a particular nutrient to get an idea of how the n
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- Jan 20
- 5 min
How to grow Microgreens at Home in Fall - Halloween style using Pumpkins!
If you are as big of a fan of Autumn, Fall or Halloween seasons like we are… then this blog was written for you! Growing microgreens inside of a pumpkin is such a fun and creative way to grow microgreens, and a great way to get your kids involved with growing at home! You can also apply this method to other fruits as well and grow microgreens in them! The fruit skin will act as the tray or pot that will hold the grow medium, and once the seeds have grown into microgreens, thi
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- Jan 20
- 3 min
What works best for harvesting Microgreens?
Whenever it comes down to harvesting your Microgreens, there are two main ways most people go about it! You can grab you a pair of Scissors or a Sharp Knife! If you real fancy and can afford it, there is also a $560 “Quick-Cut Greens Harvester”, though I’d opt for a small set of hedge trimmers before going that route… Just make sure if you go the mechanical harvester way, that you use a food-safe oil to lubricate the friction points! In this blog, we are going to focus on Sci
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- Jan 20
- 7 min
How to Grow Microgreens using Sprouting Trays:
If you’ve watched our YouTube channel before, you may have seen us using some trays that are smaller than the typical 1020 trays used for growing microgreens. So, what are these? Technically, they are called “sprouting trays” and aren’t actually meant for growing Microgreens, instead their meant to be used for “sprouting”. Since sprouting is a completely different method of growing, they do have some growing challenges to overcome in order to use these “sprouting trays” as mi
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- Jan 20
- 5 min
Have a Few Planting Pots Laying Around? Grow Microgreens in them!
If you’re a plant lover, then you more than likely have a few extra planting pots laying around that aren’t being used. You can EASILY turn those pots into decorative microgreen production centers that can blend in or stand out in your windows for a beautiful Kitchen garden that matches your personality! One night while we were doing some late-night online shopping, we ended up stumbling across a set of these cute pots with anime faces. We had to purchase them because of how
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- Jan 20
- 7 min
Best Nutrients - Fertilizers for growing Microgreens
Seeing as we’ve done hundreds of Microgreen grow trials now, we figured it was time to put out our “Best Nutes” list! We will start with our favorite soil additives and then favorite hydroponic nutrients. Please keep in mind that while we have tested a lot of nutrients, we haven’t tried them all 😊 We will periodically update this list if we find new favorites! TL;DR Favorite Soil Additive Nutrients Vermis Terra Premium Worm Castings FoxFarm Happy Frog Jump Start (OTG Favorit
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- Jan 20
- 7 min
What is Damping-off? How it Affects Microgreens, and How to Prevent it?
Did you go to bed with beautiful trays of Microgreens, then wake up and check on them the following day and notice that you now have patches of die off on some crops? Then before you know it, half your tray is affected and you can no longer make it to harvest day....causing you to start the process over in hopes that this issue won’t happen again next time with your Microgreens... Well, we are very familiar with this, in fact it still happens to use every now and then with pa
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