Cultivation

Salad, herbs, and berries

Short-cycle crops grown in greenhouses and plant factories, where light recipe, root-zone control, and hygiene do most of the work.

4 topics

Indoor lettuce

Fast, predictable, and highly responsive to light and root-zone temperature. Lettuce is the workhorse crop for plant factories and the fastest route to a repeatable protocol.

Deep flow and nutrient film systems with controlled solution temperature
Light recipes tuned for weight, colour, and leaf shape
Cycle protocols that hold quality year-round regardless of weather

Indoor herbs

High value per square metre and strong demand from food service. Herbs are sensitive to light spectrum and airflow, which makes them a good test of a facility's precision.

Spectrum tuning for aroma compounds and leaf density
Airflow management to keep canopies dry and compact
Staggered planting for continuous weekly supply

Indoor spinach

Difficult in the open tropics because of heat and disease pressure, and therefore an obvious candidate for controlled environments.

Root-zone cooling to keep the crop out of heat stress
Tight humidity control to suppress foliar disease
Clean hydroponic culture that avoids soil-borne pathogens

Indoor strawberries

A premium crop that normally demands highland conditions. Under cover, the climate can be brought to the crop rather than the crop to the mountain.

Table-top growing at working height on controlled substrate
Day and night temperature strategy to drive flowering and fruit set
Managed pollination inside an enclosed structure

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