The eagle has landed!
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Lol should have said seeds instead of beans, but I think the wife has blue lake beans slated in the next rounds grow. We have a Farm 24 with one side taken up by a single patio eggplant and the other side growing some Thai chilis, mega cherry tomatoes, and some lettuces. Then we have a Harvest Elite growing a single Jalapeño, and another filled with herbs. Finally I have a bounty that I’ve been using to start pot seeds with.
I was gonna post some pics, but im out n about and apparently don’t have any lol. If you wanna see what we’re running I have em all up on my thread.
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In mine, 2 jalapenos, normal, not aerogarden packs. Then I have seeds from a seed vault growing, eggplanf, lavender, cilantro, peruvian white habanero, lemon spice jalapeño, red hots, some purple bell, rosemary. Things I know I will cook with!
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How’s your luck been with this? I can get them to sprout with no issue but they never flourish, and die soon after.
I so far had the best luck putting a few seeds in fox farm and chunking in the window sill. I got about 3 harvest, then I made the mistake of trimming too low and possibly killed them. I put 2 pods of cilantro in aerogarden 12 xl. WATCH them!! one molded up, nasty, had to take it out and toss. One, is doing well. So they seem finicky, but they do good in the window! I just put in soil, spritz, put aero garden cup over them and had solid, amazing cilantro in a few weeks!
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They need lots more water than most of my plants I think. In the window, they needed water almost every day!
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Let me find the seeds that I have pretty good luck with. 1 sec!
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Seedra Cilantro Seeds for Planting Indoor and Outdoor - Non-GMO Heirloom 300 seeds/2,6 g with Instructions - 1 Pack Amazon.com : SEEDRA 300+ Cilantro Seeds for Indoor, Outdoor and Hydroponic Planting, Non GMO Heirloom Seeds for Home Garden - 1 Pack : Patio, Lawn & Garden
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I mostly use the grow your own pods, I got a case of 50.
I reuse those too. Just squeeze out sponges and let dry, and they still work great lol
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Thanks for the tips. I’ve only tried them in the aero itself (planting seeds in the plugs that fit into the plastic aero thingy). I hnc what they’re actually called. They’ll sprout, grow a few inches, and then fall over and die. I don’t expect to be successful with every kind of seed in this contraption, but cilantro seems to be one of the more finicky I’ve attempted. It sucks because I’d love to have it fresh. The shit already goes bad quickly when bought from the store.
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I’ll let you know how aerogarden cilantro goes. Like I said, one of my pods molded and I had to toss. but the other one…
no mold, look healthy, swollen, but 14 days in. I have noticed even in window they take a long time to sprout.
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They’re nice plants. I am amazed how fast they grow in the summer. Curiously, I’ve been seeing what looks exactly like my Blue Lakes growing randomly around town on the roadside. Farm and Fleet has a whole outcropping. That looks accidental. Weird.
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It lasts wayyyy longer on your own plant. Try the window. You won’t get as much as from the store, butt it lives a long time. Just be prepared to have patience waiting on sprouts, same as aerogarden though. In all honesty, aerogarden seeds are pretty good, they usually pop, occasionally the oddball. I grew out two of their mini jalapenos, got over 100 peppers and they were way more hot than my yard grown Louisiana sun jalapenos. I thought more sun = more heat, so pleasantly surprised on what the aerogarden light can do!
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Isn’t that funny? I notice things now too that I started growing. Even cannabis, learning what the actual plant smells like, I realized on my walks to the park, I’m not the only one growing 
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I must have been a dog in a previous life because I have found others plots on 3 different occasion on smell alone… 
Especially right after a good rain, when everything has that ozone smell, they become even more pungent to me…
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I love beans, but try to avoid carbs lol I make navy beans and ham when I feel thin enough and of course our staple here in Louisiana, red beans and deer sausage, with whatever peppers I can pluck.
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Exactly, always rains here, It’s a rain forest and the smell sticks. This is my back yard line, 100 acres dense forest. The upside is everything cane be grown here, but have to be careful because the soil is so so clay heavy
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heavy clay here as well, plus glacial till… Years of using double / triple ground mulch on all the beds here has made for some seriously nicely amended, beautiful rich black soil. None of that dyed stuff thats ground-up pallet wood, just plain good old fashioned mulch does more than make it look nice 
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