Garden Indoor Hydroponic Garden Review: Growing through AI is better
I’m inside A collection of buying guide and gardenn for indoor vertical gardening systems – 30-Plant Home 4.0to be precise, he was the first tester to arrive at my house. Within hours I opened the box and set it up, with a light-on and a water pump running. I’m already a professional! I thought.
Sure enough, within a few weeks all of the Ycubes filled with Gardon’s own seeds had sprouted, and a few weeks later, I was harvesting a bowl of herbs and salad greens. From setup to harvest, Gardon had to use about 5 brain cells, but despite giving up outdoor gardening with deer, rabbits and anything other than starting from the big box store, I was very pleased with myself.
I didn’t understand, but getting to grasp the system afterwards was that indoor hydroponics was just as difficult as outdoor gardening. There was no way to know this as Gardyn’s expensive add-on app and AI gardening assistant “Kelby” did all the real work through a network of sensors and live-view cameras.
Easy life
My new friend Kelby had set his own watering times, scheduled 60 LED lights, and sent out occasional customized tasks that didn’t take more than 10 minutes to collect the data. And this customized maintenance is not only useful for convenience, as mold, bacteria, or roots that clog the plumbing are very common in hydroponics. Kelby told us when to add (it is included) the nutrients you need, when and how to attend the plant roots, even when to harvest, when to add, when to add, when to add.
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Of course, there is also a mode of remote monitoring and a vacation that keeps the plants in a kind of stasis. Most of my work was simply to praise my plants and to praise what I did. The first time I saw Gardyn was a parade of a show in a house adjacent to a floor-to-ceiling wine cabinet a few years ago. “Wow, what is that?! I want it!” announced almost everyone who shuffled with paper boots. Even at the $2 million spec house, the lit-up display of lush herbs, flowers and vegetables was a shortpper.
When I started testing other systems, I felt very big for my britch. At this point I have successfully completed the sunflowers, lemon boums and even the whole Kohlrabi. I have this! Within 5 minutes of opening the box on other systems I found a pH test strip and vial, a manual dial timer and a bag of multiple supplements, but I realized that there was none. In fact, I had no idea what I was doing. Gardon just made me think I knew what I was doing. And according to founder FX Russel (pronounced FX like initials), it is Gardon’s all-existent drate.
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You might expect the founders of hydroponic systems to have an agriculture background (probably Specific types (in agriculture), but Rusel is an engineer. He once worked for the French version of the Environmental Protection Agency, but his latest Pregardon gig was found at the French IT company Capgemini, deploying cloud, automation and AI technology. He is also a parent, chef and Iron Man athlete, but his passion is to use technology to lower the barriers to penetrating to raise his own food.
“In other systems, they’re basically timer pumps,” Rusel told me in a recent interview. “You need to know what you’re doing. ‘Can you actually solve this problem using AI?’ There are a large portion of companies that are engineers, unlike their competitors. “They make sure the Gardyn app is constantly tuned through data collected through two cameras and sensors in a system that tracks water usage, humidity, temperature and plant growth. If the system identifies a problem, it sends a specific task to the user through the app to fix it.
Note that I found the camera to be slightly glitches during the seven weeks I was using Gardin. It didn’t seem to affect my tasks or plant statistics, but I found it to be frustrating. Even if you weren’t using the Kelby feature, it’s not a problem as the camera is essentially useless.