The Best Plant and Gardening Gifts From LetPot (2025)

I archetypal encountered LetPot arsenic a marque earlier this year, portion investigating its LPH-SE Senior hydroponic increasing strategy for my usher to the best indoor gardening systems. Positioned arsenic alternatives to the long-beloved OG Aerogarden tabletop hydroponic systems, LetPot's countertop gardens (which are fashionable capable to person their ain subreddit) let you to turn immoderate seeds you'd like—no proprietary pods needed—using inexpensive baskets and sponges that are ubiquitous connected Amazon and tally astir 20 cents each. (LetPot's sets travel with capable baskets and sponges to get you started, but nary seeds.) I regularly urge LetPot's mentation arsenic the champion fund enactment for anyone looking to get into hydroponic gardening.

Since then, I've tried a assortment of astute gardening devices from the brand, which has been established successful Hong Kong since 2007, but much precocious expanded into the US successful 2019. If you're buying for a plant person oregon gardener this vacation season, these are the products I've had the champion occurrence with successful my ain location and gardening setups, and would bargain myself.

The 12-pod LPH-SE Senior, featured successful my indoor gardening guide, has been a trusty tabletop companion for respective months now, producing integrated babe chard that tin beryllium clipped each fewer days for caller salads. (Food doesn't get much section than greens grown inches distant from your meal plate!)

The LetPot app is benignant of funky, but it's not needed erstwhile you've acceptable the timer for the 24-watt LED lamp, which some raises and lowers and flips up for casual harvesting access. A pop-up gauge tells you astatine a glimpse what level the h2o is, the pump runs each 30 minutes connected its own, and instructions connected erstwhile and however to adhd nutrients are close connected the vessel (two bottles with dehydrated nutrients are included).

I've besides tested a mates of Aerogardens alongside the LetPot, and portion the Aerogardens' app, design, and interfaces are a spot slicker than LetPot's, the extremity effect is the same. LetPot's LPH-SE is not lone little costly than the comparable Aerogarden Bounty, it has spaces for 3 much plants.

Second connected my database of LetPot hits is the brand's turn airy for houseplants. (Though it would besides beryllium cleanable for seedling trays.) It besides works with the LetPot app, but similar the LPH-SE, the app's not wholly indispensable erstwhile you've acceptable the timer, and if you don't privation to woody with the app astatine all, there's a corded distant that besides lets you crook the airy connected and disconnected and set the airy intensity.

The almighty 100-watt airy tin either bent from the ceiling oregon beryllium connected its telescoping stand, rotating astir 360 degrees to radiance wherever you request it. (Keep successful caput 100 watts is beauteous hot—you won't privation it excessively adjacent to immoderate leaves.) I admit that the airy itself is ample (2 x 3 feet), truthful it keeps plants from becoming excessively leggy. One downside to note: While the statement says the basal tin widen to 72 inches, it truly lone goes to astir 60 inches, truthful if you person gangly plants, you'll privation to support this successful mind—or usage the hanging feature.

LetPot's SS Pro effect starter is brand-new, but promising. It's inactive successful pre-order close now, but I've been utilizing it for the past mates of months to turn onion, carrot, and parsnip starts. A full-coverage, 24-watt airy (12 x 7 inches) sits implicit a integrative vented dome, which rests atop a effect tray. The tray is acceptable into a shallow container, underneath which sits a 24-watt heating pad. Fill the instrumentality with water, determination immoderate mean you'd similar into the tray (you'll request to acquisition this separately; I utilized expandable effect starting soil, $12), and works your seeds.

The LetPot app's car mode volition urge a somesthesia scope and airy duration based connected what you're increasing and crook the strategy on/off accordingly, oregon you tin take your settings manually. A somesthesia and EC sensor (electrical conductivity, which measures dissolved solids—essentially, the magnitude of nutrients successful your ungraded disposable to the plants) goes successful the soil, and a integer surface connected the beforehand tells you each you request to cognize astatine a glance: existent temperature, EC level, and however galore days it's been since the seeds were planted. LetPot boasts a 99 percent germination rate, and portion excavation wasn't rather that high, I did admit that the finished seedlings were noticeably healthier and little leggy than those grown with lone a tiny turn light. The powerfulness adapter makes a high-pitched dependable erstwhile the lights are on, the somesthesia and EC sensor springiness immoderate occasionally buggy readings, and auto-mode erases whenever it's unplugged, but if those insignificant foibles don't fuss you, the SS-Pro is unsocial successful this abstraction and worthy a look.

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