Vertical growing, high density , but needs light enrichment. how about your opinion on cost vs. efficiency ？
by springzhu
Vertical growing, high density , but needs light enrichment. how about your opinion on cost vs. efficiency ？
by springzhu
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You can do it with tomatoes as long as they are the indeterminate variety. No additional lighting needed.
Yeah it’s pretty standard practice, look up any commercial tomato greenhouse, they grow up not out, you train them to a string clipped to a cable on the top, it’s a pretty cool setup
I did this with pepper plants a few years ago. It actually worked out great, even for my “throw it together out of PVC pipe” setup. I tried horizontal, but I could never get it to ‘flood’ properly and long enough to work right.
Today’s greenhouses are tall, 24-30’ at the gutter. So crops are in layers, or vertical like tomatoes, peppers and cucumbers. The photo with strawberries and led lights is expensive for electricity, strawberries need moderate temperatures so not in summer, yet. New varieties may solve this in time. Greenhouses are tall for 2-3 layers but mostly for ventilation efficiency.
Per day per square meter？
The cost seems higher but the efficiency higher as well. . . . . .as with most things. . .
That’s horizontal 🤓
If had more space
Greenhouse tomatoes are not delectable.
You can be sure the cost/benefit analysis has been run and the cost of supplemental lighting is less than the cost of more sqft of gh space.
Personally im not a fan just because hydroponics strawberries taste like nothing, amd there are serious long-term sustainability issues with hydro; but people still want cheap strawberries and people still make money growing them this way.