I saw this setup on a show and was wondering if it's just for TV (aesthetically pleasing and non functional), or…if/how it would actually work in real life?
These are vertical farms. They had their day, a number of suppliers have gone out of business as they don’t perform as well as they are marketed. But they look real science fiction, techie. So they like to use pictures of them.
Problem is high capital cost, high operating cost, and worst of all low value crops like lettuce. There’s someone I’m NJ doing Japanese Strawberries right.
screamingcarnotaurus
Looks like a hybrid NFT system with a direct feeder for each plant. The bottom pipe is pressurized, the pipe with the lettuce is on an incline to drain the water. Honestly just doing 1 feeder NFT would have been fine. Lettuce isn’t that heavy of a feeder that the one before would suck up all the nutes. I’ve got 8′ runs with no difference in size from the first to the last.
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These are vertical farms. They had their day, a number of suppliers have gone out of business as they don’t perform as well as they are marketed. But they look real science fiction, techie. So they like to use pictures of them.
Here’s some info
https://youtu.be/JYIetQjRRfQ?si=KhopmTsBIc8IcntR
https://youtu.be/8BXHu_yXVQk?si=u7hJfphuAwoGOVOC
Problem is high capital cost, high operating cost, and worst of all low value crops like lettuce. There’s someone I’m NJ doing Japanese Strawberries right.
Looks like a hybrid NFT system with a direct feeder for each plant. The bottom pipe is pressurized, the pipe with the lettuce is on an incline to drain the water. Honestly just doing 1 feeder NFT would have been fine. Lettuce isn’t that heavy of a feeder that the one before would suck up all the nutes. I’ve got 8′ runs with no difference in size from the first to the last.