About GrowPodHQ

Smart-garden marketing has a tell: the photos always show tomatoes, and the spec sheet never shows clearance. Buy a 12-inch countertop unit for the tomato photo and you'll watch the plant grow into the light arm around week six. Meanwhile the running costs — proprietary pods that behave like a small subscription, a 50-watt light running 16 hours a day, a membership that gates the features you bought it for — appear nowhere on the box.

GrowPodHQ is built around a single growing database: 8 systems × 12 plants, every combination computed with the same documented rules. The compatibility matrix tells you whether the salad you want will actually grow on the machine you're considering; the running-cost calculator prices the pods and electricity at your own utility rate. When a spec is corrected, every verdict updates with it.

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