Customer Reviews

Freshlife Automatic Sprouter - Grow Fresh Healthy Salad Sprouts in Your Kitchen All Year Long. Sprout Alfalfa, Buckwheat, Clover, Green Lentil, Red Lentil, Radish, Brocolli, Mung Bean, & More - Fresh Life.

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If you've read any books on sprouting than you know that even newer traditional methods like bamboo baskets and mini-green houses that, while worth it, can be a little involved and requiring various little items to get you going. Spout bags are nice but only good for certain sprouts. This sprounter cuts out a ton of work and detail and allows you to sprout any sprout with one method. With this sprouter, adding some Grapefruit Seed Extract (Anti-Mold) and Liquid Kelp (Nutrition) to the water each day grows some of the most organic, fresh, and nutrition rich foods on planet for pennies in a few days, anywhere! Truly something that can change ones life for the better. I also recommend the Vita-Lite grow lights if you live in a dark area and all the Books by Sproutman. Happy Sprouting!

This is a very expensive item for what it is - a pump and a bucket! It also has a few serious disadvantages:
1) It circulates dirty water over the sprouts - not a good idea.
2) It is flimsy and unreliable. The pump on my unit gave out.
3) The spray spins around very unreliably - it's virtually impossible to adjust so that it spins consistently. Either it doesn't spin at all or it almost blows the spray attachment off the top.
4) The pump gets clogged up with gunge. And yes - I followed all instructions very carefully, changed the water frequently and washed out the device.
5) The sprouts are hard to harvest as their leaves and roots get stuck in the trays.
Definitely get into sprouting - it's great! But this is not the device to do it with!

Wow, I definitely recommend the Freshlife sprouter to anyone who wants to be able to grow and eat their own organic sprouts. This machine was easy to set up, and even easier to operate. Once the sprouter's assembled, all you really need to do to get started is add water, add seeds, and plug it in. After that, all you need to do is change the water once a day, and the sprouter does the rest for you!

And the sprouts that come out of the Freshlife are amazing. I think a big part comes from the peace of mind that I feel, knowing that what I'm eating hasn't come into contact with any pesticides or other chemicals that covers store-bought produce.

I have owned a Tribest 2000 Automatic Sprouter for three years now, and it still looks and works like new. I have sprouted several different types of seeds over the years but now I grow wheatgrass exclusively. Wheatgrass takes about six days for the crop to reach maximum height and it is perfect. I use only organic seeds and I plan to order them from Amazon in the future because of a big price break from my local health food store. Everything is automatic with this machine. The water pressure is adjusted with a turn of the bottom valve and it never needs to be re-adjusted. The spray head rotates and waters the seeds perfectly just like a real farm. I use RO Water with a tablespoon of 35% food grade hydrogen peroxide so that bacteria and fungus never become a problem. Sometimes I add an ounce of colloidal silver that seems to do the same job. I have used sprouting trays from other manufacturers but sometimes mold would ruin my sprouts and the seeds never germinated as well as with the Tribest Sprouter. The trays and parts clean very easily and quickly. With this sprouter, the seeds do not need to be presoaked for 12 to 24 hours as with other sprouters. Just use clean water and change the water every 24 to 48 hours during each growing cycle. I juice the wheatgrass with organic celery and apples and the juice is delicious. Sprouts are one of God's little miracles with concentrated nutrients to fight disease and keep the body healthy. I strongly recommend the Tribest 2000 automatic sprouter.

I find it a miracle. It grows sprouts so fast with absolutely no mess.
It feels so wonderful to see a sprout start germinating overnight !!!. And the best part is that you dont have to presoak the seeds.
Easy to clean. I was having trouble with traditional sprouting in my garden in winter. Hence I bought this. I am a raw foodist. So I wish I could add one more barrel. I already have two in total. But the customer support said they discourage a 3rd barrel, as the sprinkling system is not powerful enought to reach 3 stories. I needed the 3rd barrel to sprout grains to make bread.
I think I will buy another new set. Its worth it !!!

The sprouter will serve you well for limited time only. I brought a sprouter and was so pleased with it and brought another one for my sister. But soon the problem started that refused to go away no matter what I did. first. the growth of fugi. It is an intrinsic problem of this product because it recycles the same water again and again. The Worst was that there was no way to control it after it started. I could not even find a way to clean it! Second. its motor failed quite rapidly; making horrible noises at first and stop completely shortly after. Third. the service was horrible. Whenever I called, the person on the other end sounded so impatient as if I was making troubles. The universal answer to my question was "I do not know what to tell you". My experiences with this expensive sprouter is anger and frustration. I am angry at being cheated and frustrated at not being able to even partially undo the damage. If you have not spend this money yet. Do not do it!

I have been sprouting various kinds of beans quite successfully using this unit. It is a well designed, low tech contraption that does it's job very well. The unit is actually quite large - the diameter of the tub is about 15 inches and without the extension the unit is about 24 inches high. You can spread out two cups of dry garbanzo beans on the tray in a single layer.

The Tribest Sprouter is super easy to use & clean. It grows sprouts very quickly. I'm not a sprout guru by any means but I needed to comment anyway because I think this is a fabulous product.

I like the fact that water is running over the sprouts which minimizes the chance of mold. You need to change the water daily to insure freshness & to deter from mold. I also add two capfuls of the 8% food grade peroxide to help with this issue.

I am a big "gadget" fan. When I buy gadgets, they better be easy to use, easy to clean & used often or else I resell them. I will be keeping my Tribest Sprouter & I'm contemplating on getting the extra barrel as I blend a lot of veggies & fruits & use a lot of sprouts in the them. My smoothies taste awesome! Sprouts are so nutritious that they are included into my smoothies even though I really don't care for the taste of them on their own.

Like another reviewer, I was struck by what my money actually bought me. This is a very poorly engineered system. First off, the way it's marketed led me to believe that it was a two-tray system. Well, it is...kinda. You can only grow one tray at a time and the second tray merely sits atop the first to hold in humidity. Interesting wording.

Secondly, it's basically a bucket with pump mounted underneath; another bucket that sits on top of that grows your sprouts. The real handicap this system has is that to drain and refill the water bucket, one has to basically disassemble and reassemble the unit to accomplish this. The operation involves pulling the top bucket off while trying not to pull the bottom water-riser tube off with it, and then trying to realign the riser tubes while putting the bucket back on top of the base. Can be pretty tricky. It doesn't take much to imagine parts soon loosening up or breaking from the daily necessity of assembling/disassembling the unit.

I've boxed mine up to return and will reinvest in a better system. In its favor I'll say that at least the pump motor is quiet. But overall it's a very poorly thought-out system and certainly not worth the money.

Being new to sprouting, I relied on the reviews for purchasing this Tribest Automatic Sprouter. I am glad I did. This sprouter is so easy to use and makes sprouting so much fun. When one batch is done, I start another. It has a permanent spot on the countertop next to the kitchen sink, and, when indirect sunlight is needed for the last days of sprouting, its NE exposure to daylight is all that it takes. Just set it up and maintain the sprouting process according to the instructions and the seeds, nuts, and grains will do their magic perfectly, every time.