Method and systems for indoor farming
AssigneeVertikal Green Tech Ltd.
InventorsShahram Rashti, Bahram Rashti
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Abstract
A method of providing light to plants. The method comprises providing a plurality of plants within a room, grouping each plant of the plurality of plants into one of a plurality of groups of plants based at least in part on a desired total light integral (“TLI”) for each of the plurality of plants and providing the corresponding desired TLI to each plant of the plurality of plants by sequentially providing light to each of the plurality of groups of plants during a time period. For each group of plants, each plant has a substantially similar photoperiod and a sum of the photosynthetic photon flux densities (“PPFDs”) of all plants in the group of plants is substantially similar.
Claims18
A method of providing light to plants, the method comprising:
- providing a first group of plants and a second group of plants within a room, wherein plants of the first group of plants are spaced apart from plants of the second group of plants;
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- sequentially providing light to the first and second groups of plants during a 24 hour time period according to a sequence by providing light to the first group of plants for a first sub-period of the time period and providing light to the second group of plants for a second sub-period of the time period wherein the first and second sub-periods are substantially non-overlapping and a sum of lengths of the first and second sub-periods is substantially equal to 24 hours;
- wherein a first total photosynthetic photon flux density (“PPFD”) provided to the first group of plants during the first sub-period is approximately equal to a second total PPFD provided to the second group of plants during the second sub-period.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.