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Hydroponic Seed Starter

Fail

The top 5 brands take 97% of clicks, so Hydroponic Seed Starter is a Fail.

Flapen Score
48
48 / 100
Ranks 6,657 of 8,839 Patio, Lawn & Garden niches · −8 vs the category median of 56
Market size
$237K/yr104K searches / yr
90-day growth
-14.0%search demand this quarter
Competition
89%top-5 click share · 6 brands · 40 sellers

Flapen Score

Hydroponic Seed Starter against its category

The dotted line is the Patio, Lawn & Garden average. Past it, Hydroponic Seed Starter is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

48Fail
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Hydroponic Seed Starter market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Hydroponic Seed Starter 104K times last year and spent an estimated $237K. The top 5 brands take 97% of clicks. Demand peaks in Feb–Mar. Flapen scores it 48 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

An estimated 9.7% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 104K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. An estimated 9.7% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -14.0% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $237K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
104K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-14.0%
Conversion, latest week
9.7%
Market size, estimated
$237Ka year
Peak month
February2.0× the quietest month
Top search term
rapid rooter plugs27K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $23.41.

Listings sell for $23.41 on average, from $14.88 to $31.14. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 10K to 13K a year. The average listing sells 1,250 to 1,500 of them. At $23.41 that is $29K to $35K a year per listing.

Average price
$23.41inside the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$14.88–$31.14
Amazon United States median price
$24.38across 115,062 niches
Units sold a year
10K–13K
Units per listing a year
1,250–1,500
Revenue per listing a year
$29K–$35K
Returns
0.6%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is reviews.

63% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 100% ship with Prime. On an average day, 0.0% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #648 within Soils, Mulches & Planting Media. It carries 2,204 reviews at 4.38 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
63%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
0.0%
Average rank
#648in Soils, Mulches & Planting Media
Average rating
4.38 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
2,204per listing
Listings tracked
8

04 · Newcomers

1 of last year's 1 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

1 products launched here in the last 12 months. 1 of them cleared the first-year sales bar, our mark for a successful launch. The brands on the shelf have sold for 59 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

Launched, last 12 months
1
Successful launches
1Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
59 months

Products

Top Hydroponic Seed Starter products & what they sell for

Every tracked product: its share of the shelf, its reviews, and its price.

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Competition

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take 89% of clicks. A locked shelf that new listings rarely crack.

Brands

6 rising

Sellers

40

Top-5 brand share

97%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

89%

Top 20: 100%

Open market

0%

  • Brand 173%
  • Brand 29%
  • Brand 37%
  • Brand 45%
  • Brand 54%
  • Brand 63%

Demand

Hydroponic Seed Starter search demand

Weekly searches over the year, seasonality beneath. Pick a range.

2K2KHoliday '24Spike '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Feb, Mar · busiest ÷ quietest = 2.0×

Search terms

Top Hydroponic Seed Starter search terms shoppers use

The exact words shoppers type, with yearly volume, growth, and conversion.

  • rapid rooter plugs27K/yr
  • rapid rooter19K/yr
  • plant plugs9K/yr
  • seed starter plugs9K/yr
  • rapid rooters6K/yr
  • rooting plugs5K/yr
  • root plugs5K/yr
  • rooting cubes4K/yr
  • cloning cubes3K/yr
  • seed plugs5K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Hydroponic Seed Starter

We read the reviews and the return reasons for every product selling here.

39%of positive reviews mention “Plant Growth”
22%of negative reviews mention “Plant Growth”
0.6%of orders come back
“These are horrible for growing from seeds”
A buyer, on “Plant Growth”22% of negative reviews mention the same topic

Every topic

Every topic buyers talk about, one row each.

Red shows the share of negative reviews and green the share of positive reviews, biggest topic first. Open a row to read what they wrote.

18 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Hydroponic Seed Starter questions

Answered from the same tracked data.