I am here In the purchase guide for organizing indoor vertical gardening systems, Gardyn (30ple Home 4.0) is the first tester to arrive at my home. I unboxed it and set it up within a few hours, the light turned on and the water pump was run. I’m already a professional! I think.
Sure enough, within a few weeks, all of Gardyn’s proprietary seeds of Ycubes sprouted, and in the weeks that followed, I harvested a lot of herbs and salad vegetables. Although it takes about five brain cells to use from setup to harvesting Gardyn, I am very satisfied with myself, despite the incompetence of deer, rabbit and myself with anything other than the opening of a large store, I gave up gardening outdoors.
What I can’t understand is that, but mastering the subsequent system, is that indoor hydroponic gardening is as difficult as outdoor gardening in some ways. However, I can’t know this because Gardyn’s expensive add-on application and AI gardening assistant “Kelby” has been doing all the real work through a network of sensors and field view cameras (on larger home models, one on smaller studios).
A relaxed life
My new friend Kelby is collecting data to set up your own watering time, schedule 60 LED lights, and sending me occasional custom tasks that never take more than 10 minutes. And this custom maintenance not only helps to facilitate, as mold, bacteria or root clogging pipes are very common in hydroponic gardening. Kelby tells me when to add the nutrients needed (including) and how much to add, when and how to join the roots of the plant, and even when to harvest.
Photo: Kat Merck
Of course, there is also remote monitoring and a vacation mode that can put the plants in a state of stagnation. Most of my last work is just that I appreciate the plants and appreciate what I do. I first met Gardyn a few years ago during a parade of the House Fair, adjacent to a floor-to-ceiling wine cabinet. “Wow, what is that?! I want one!” Almost everyone swept through the paper swag. Even in a $2 million spec home, the lush herbs, flowers and vegetables are stunning.
When I started testing other systems, I felt a lot about my corset. At this point, I have successfully grown sunflowers, lemon balm, and even whole Kohlrabi. I have this! Within five minutes of opening the box of other systems and finding the pH test strips and vials, manual dialing timer, and multiple supplements, I realized I didn’t have this. Actually, I definitely don’t know what I’m doing. Gardyn only let me think I know what I’m doing. And, according to founder FX Rouxel (pronounced FX like the abbreviation), that’s the whole Raisond’être of Gardyn.
Engineering Growth
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You may want the founder of a hydroponic gardening system to have an agricultural background (and maybe even Some form Agriculture), but Rouxel is a tech guy. Although he has worked in the French version of the Environmental Protection Agency, his most recent pre-picnic show was at the French IT Company Capgemini, where cloud, automation and AI technologies were deployed. Although he was a parent, Cook and the Ironman, his passion was to use technology to lower the barriers to entry to his own food.
“With other systems, they are basically pumps on the timer,” Ruxell told me in a recent interview. “You need to know what you’re doing. We look at, ‘Can we actually solve this problem with AI?’ Unlike our competitors, a large portion of our companies are just engineers.” They make sure the data collected by the Gardyn app through the system’s two cameras and sensors are constantly adjusting to track water, humidity, temperature and plant growth. If the system determines the problem, it will send a specific task to the user through the application to fix it.
Note that during my seven weeks with Gardyn, I did find the cameras a little glitch and needed to reset the system regularly to keep them all online. It doesn’t seem to affect any of my tasks or plant statistics, but I find it annoying. Although it doesn’t matter if I don’t use the kelby function, because the camera is essentially useless.
