Deciding on your Water Source & Hose

(1) Will I connect my Sprouter to a faucet or to a cold water pipe? The faucet must have threads.

(2) How far away from faucet or cold water pipe will my Sprouter be? That will decide the length of your hose.

If you connect to a faucet, then you need:

• a washing machine hose with built-in faucet connecter,
• OR a high pressure hose with faucet kit – the benefit of this hose is length,
• (optional) a Y-connecter if the Sprouter will share faucet with another device, such as a washing machine.

• a high pressure hose with adapter to connect hose to pipe,
• e.g. see photo below to clamp hose-to-pipe with a saddle valve, or
• download this Word doc to see photos of all adapters we offer, to connect your Sprouter to any pipe or faucet in your home, even to the toilet pipe!

To locate your Sprouter more than 6 feet away, you can:

• use 1/2-inch high-pressure hose before the valve, and have the timer-valve at your Sprouter, or
• use 1/4-inch mist-tubing after the valve, and have the timer-valve at your faucet or cold water pipe.

Dan writes: "The 1/4" mist-tubing downstream from the valve is good because it's flexible and less conspicuous. It's just as safe as the high-pressure hose – its rating for burst pressure is 450 psi. Most household water pressure is 35-60 psi."

With multiple Sprouters, you branch them off after the valve, so each has its own-mist-tubing leading to Sprouter – see photo of Manifold Kit below.

This stand is for Large Sprouter.

(clockwise from upper left) – one 3/4"x1/4" pvc bushing for valve, 1 blue auto-shutoff quick-connect adapter (screws into bushing), 1 compression ring which secures the, 1 male quick-connect adapter that fits into mist-tubing.

You can't find them in local US stores. If you're building your own Sprouter, you can order the QC Upgrade Kit here in Sprouter Parts + Extras.

• on the left, 3 inches x 13 inches – for beans, grains, and baby greens like sunflower, alfalfa, broccoli;

 
• on the right, 6 inches x 13 inches – for wheatgrass, gives six ounces of juice using half a cup of wheat seeds.

Users in small apartments are clamping the saddle valve to a pipe under the kitchen sink, then water flows to both your Sprouter and sink. You switch water on-off normally at faucet, while the timer-valve switches it on-off at your Sprouter.

The sequence is: faucet connected-to hose connected-to timer-valve connected-to manifold connected-to 3 mist-tubings connected-to three Sprouters.

We also offer an international valve with British pipe threads (metric). Order this valve if your country is metric (centimeters not inches). Valve is not pictured here because externally it looks the same as the US valve.

This battery timer-valve also comes in an international version – valve has British pipe threads (metric).

Dan shipped the Large Mist Kit with 220v timer and metric valve, to me in South Africa. The quick-connect adapters in the Kit fit perfectly into the 19mm pipes of the valve, with a little extra teflon. I'm the envy of my rawfood support group! I hope one-by-one they will order a Mist Kit and experience the healing power of LIVING GREENS.