Revision of the Indoor Gardyn hydroponic garden: better grow through the IA

I am in the in the midst of a purchase guide of indoor and Gardyn vertical gardening systems: the Home at 30 plants 4.0To be exact, it was the first tester to get to my house. I had it in box and installed in a couple of hours, the lights on and the water pump in operation. I’m already a professional! I thought.

Quite safe, within a couple of weeks, all the ycubi full of Gardyn seeds had sprouted and a couple of weeks later, I was collecting the bowl of herbs and vegetables salads. Although from the setting to the Gardyn collection it required the use of about five brain cells, I was happy enough of myself, despite having given up some time ago for outdoor gardening due to deer, rabbits and my incompetence with something different from the one that starts from the large shop.

What I could not understand, but I would have understood with the subsequent systems, was that internal hydroponic gardening is equally hard in some way as outdoor gardening. I had no way of knowing it, however, because the expensive additional app of Gardyn and the gardening assistant Ai, “Kelby”, had done all the real job through a network of sensors and live visible cameras (two on the largest model of home, one on the smaller study).

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My new friend Kelby had collected data to set up his irrigation times, plan his 60 LED lights and send me the personalized occasional task that has never requested more than 10 minutes. And this personalized maintenance is not only useful for convenience, since molds, bacteria or roots that clog the hydraulic system are extremely common in hydroponic gardening. Kelby told me when to add the necessary nutrients (included) and how much to add, when and how to deal with the roots of the plants and also when to collect.

Photography: Kat Merck

There is also remote monitoring, of course, and a holiday mode that keeps plants in a sort of stasis. Most of the work of my part was simply I admire my plants and I admire that I did it. The first time I saw a Gardyn was a couple of years ago, in a parade of houses, adjacent to a ceiling floor wine furniture. “Wow, what is it?! Almost announced almost all the people who dragged themselves into their paper boots. Even in a specific 2 million dollar house, the enlightened performance of lush herbs, flowers and vegetables was a show.

When I started testing other systems, I felt large enough for my Britches. At this point, I had successfully cultivated sunflower, lemon balm and even an entire Kohlrabi. I have this! Within five minutes from the opening of the boxes of the other systems and by the search for stripes of pH and vials, manual timers and more bags of supplements, however, I realized that I did not have this. In fact, I absolutely had no idea what I was doing. Gardyn had only made me think I knew what I was doing. And, according to the FX Rouxel founder (pronounced FX, like the initials), which is the entire Raison of being by Gardyn.

Engineered growth

You may expect that the founder of a hydroponic gardening system has an agricultural background (perhaps also a certain type of agriculture), but Rouxel is a technological boy. Although once he has worked for the French version of the Environmental Protection Agency, his most recent Pre-Gardyn concert was at the French IT company Capgemini, distributing cloud, automation and artificial intelligence technologies. Although he is also a parent, Cook and Ironman Athlete, his passion lies in the use of technology to lower the entrance barrier to the cultivation of your food.

“With other systems, they are basically a pump on a timer,” Rouxel told me during a recent interview. “You have to know what you are doing. We looked:” Can we use to to solve this problem actually? “Unlike our competitors, we have a large piece of the company that is only engineers”. They ensure that the Gardyn app is constantly adapts through the data collected through the two cameras and sensors of the system that trace the use of water, humidity, temperature and growth of plants. If the system identifies a problem, it will send the user a specific activity through the app to solve it.

Note that I found the glitches slightly in the seven weeks in which I used the Gardyn, requesting periodic restorations of the system to keep them both online. It did not seem to influence any of my tasks or vegetable statistics, but I found it irritating. Even if I were not using the Kelby function, it doesn’t matter, since the cameras are essentially useless otherwise.