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An automatic sprouter apparatus is disclosed which comprises a housing having an interior divided into a plant compartment and a water compartment. The plant compartment has a porous horizontal divider adapted to allow plants to rest thereon and water to drain therethrough. The water compartment is divided into an upper space having a floor, a water reservoir containing water positioned below the hardware space and a mixing area interposed between water reservoir and hardware space with the floor forming the top of the mixing area. The floor has a plurality of holes therethrough which provides gaseous communication between the mixing area and the hardware space. The sides and the bottom of the mixing area are formed of a screen. A mist generator is mounted to the floor and has a motor with a shaft extending downwardly therefrom. A hollow tapered shaft, open at both upper and lower ends, is mounted on the shaft and extends downwardly therefrom through the mixing area and into the water reservoir. The shaft is tapered from a wide portion at the top to a narrower portion below whereby when the shaft is spinning rapidly, the combination of centripetal force on the water and the outwardly sloping inner surface of the tapered shaft forces water upwardly therein. A disk is mounted atop the open upper end of the tapered shaft and adapted to receive water therefrom. The disk throws the water off in a radial movement in small droplets in the mixing area and also forces air within the mixing area outwardly throughout the mixing area. This action mixes the air and the water within the mixing area and forces the resultant mixture through the screen to the plant compartment in a fine mist.
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