Sustainable Growing
North Ferriby, East Riding of Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Aim: We aim to make Growing a more Sustainable and more financial viable for the Growers. We aim for Sustainable Growing to be the name to go to.
We have been in the industry for eight generations, and innovating along the way to make things work better for Growing. Since 2008 we have been transforming the industry of indoor growing and trying to make this more like commercial growing and bring it into the mainstream of Growing. There has been much talk about growing in a space that would require 100's of acres of farmland. Lets not get carried away as many Indoor Vertical Growing operations have failed in this bid, not by failing to Grow but failing to do it correctly and at an affordable cost. Automation is and has been available for years, the plants come to the stations needed not the man to the plants. The same with Light if the light is static then ONLY a certain part of the plant receives the light and this creates hot spots for the plant and effects the nutritional uptake of the plant. Think of a magnifying glass the light through this on your have makes your hand BURN, If you keep the Magnifying glass moving then this has the same intensity but it does not burn because the heat intensity is not concentrated in one spot so giving a BETTER spread of LIGHT & HEAT. See below and look at the top left to see how the whole array of LED's move. Also see how even the light looks on the plants. 
POWER is the issue. By implementing this system we can lower the capital cost of buying LED's . Installing the LED's is also lowered by up to 50% . How do we do this.
50% less LED's are used so therefore less LED's are Transported to the grower. This also translates to 50% less wiring is used, 50% less control points are needed so freeing up computer space. This also reduces the HOT spots which occur under the led's. Each LED light is hotter directly under the light and less heat as the light spreads to the limit , this directly leads to symptom's similar to 'tip burn' and id also liked to Calcium deficiency. However, it is the stress put on the plants due to excess heat which stops the roots uptake of the needed nutrients and this is often seen as the cause. This also causes a heat build up in between the levels and this makes the movement of the air more difficult as 'hot air or humid air' is more difficult to move around and the use of many small fans is often seen as solving this issue. Again more fans ends up adding more heat and so an every increasing situation happens.
By adapting our system of replicating the sun and as seen in the video below the light moves across the plants giving the impression of Natural Light This removes the hot spots and also because the lights move across the plants they act as a fan dispelling the air and therefore removing any stagnant air and replacing it with fresh air helping the complete climate. 10 mtr system at 20 cm spacing there is 50 leds @20w this =1,000 w 10 mtr system at 30 cm spacing there is 33 led @ 30 w this = 990 w 10 mtr system at 40 cm spacing there is 25 led @ 30 w this = 750 w
OUR system uses a 40w full spectrum LED and will use 680 wats of energy and give ZERO hot spots and full leaf coverage. As you can see just because you use a lower wattage it does not always save you money, and can increase the total cost of running a unit due to the added cost of climate control.
We can even incorporate this into a greenhouse growing situation with its own nursery unit using our LED system . We do not have any social media except for Linkedin and my Background and experience is on there We have logged Patents .
We are initially going to install the system with our LED's to show and prove the concept in a small unit this will also have an energy unit to run the Led's
Funding method
Keep what you raise – this project will receive all pledges made by 15th July 2025 at 12:06pm