Growing Tomatoes Indoors With 94% Less Water And No Soil
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- Опубліковано 27 вер 2020
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Do you thinks is BIO?Nah a lot of chemical involved and if thats the future than we re doomed!
You new generation farmers are killing nutrients in food crops.
I bought carrot the other time, it was so orange in color and fresh and meaty that I couldn't wait to eat it.
As soon as I took a bite, I became worried. It was flavorless and tasteless. I was eating carrot that tasted like water. Carrots are supposed to be sweetish with a very strong carrot flavour
Same thing with garlic. Garlic ought to have a really strong garlic flavour but the garlic in the market these days is so mild in flavor that you wonder what horror profit driven greedy farmer are doing to our food crops!
I can't be the only one noticing how mild our fruits and veggies are getting in flavour??
Profit is not all there is to life. Food nutrients in plant should always trump profit.
Change your ways.
Grow food on the ground.
Use organic manure.
Stop being lazy.
Spread the word!!
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@@bbas4251 l
How to tomato seed arrived
Gonna be strawberry farmer this year! Wish me luck(:
Edit: also in comment section . Im in rehab . Been here for almost 7 months. I hope i will start when life is more stabil.
Blessings.
Wish you the best, mate 😀👍
@@redangrybird7564 thanks ❤️ very kind of u☺️
Good luck!! 🍓
@@martinflores1370 thank you sir 🙏🏻❤️
All the best. How big your farm will be?
I had to put marijuana plants in there so no one got suspicious I was growing tomatoes.
Nice one, I see what you did there😉
I know you're joking but stinger nettles are a very similar shape and mask the odour and provide good protecting insects
@@thefirstbushman protecting insects?
@@Jo-hq4zt "protecting insects" keep mite numbers down, mites can be damaging to some crops
😂😂 Has much man power has it taken to keep a plant away from us?
In dutch horticulture it is common practice to actually introduce real bees in the greenhouse so that pollination occus through them. Great video :)
That's a workplace hazard for everyone working there, from electricians to plumbers and gardeners. I would call union, if my boss came to office and poured a bucket full of viper snakes on the floor "to keep the mice out naturally". "They rarely bite humans, that can happen on some rare occasion, but their bite is life threatening only for those who are allergic. Which you may or may not be, can't know if you've never been bitten by a viper. Such is life, suck it up!" xD
@@atklm1 or you could just not get a job working in horticulture with bees if you were allergic.
You are funny. You do realize that tomatoes pollinate themselves?! Even if a plane flies by your closed greenhouse that is enough...
@@michaelmano7261 Bee sting is a workplace hazard, whether you are allergic or not. Here where I live (Nordics), employer would have to pay for protective suit and depending on case, maybe has to pay even hazard bonus. And that is cheap compared to what it would cost if employee gets sting because suit and proper safety education and procedures were not implemented. And I mean, like really expensive, like 18 months salary as a compensation, plus fines, because workplace safety violation by neglect is a crime. And I actually don't know whether I am allergic to bees or not. I might be, it's not like everyone gets tested as a child like getting vaccination. And allergy is not like diabetes, that you either have or don't, it's a spectrum and you may gain or lose allergies over time. I know people who were really allergic to chocolate when younger, but now eat a ton of it. And vice versa.
@@atklm1 Ever heard of this place called outdoors? Bees generally exist in any workplace that deals with plants and nature, why would it be any different in this case? Do you also wear a full-suit of protective gear when walking around in the forest? Most people sure don't..
One of the best features of this system, apart from saving millions of litres of water, is the lack of pesticides !
But isnt the electricity cost too expensive.
@@soonsuicidal put solar panels on the field nearby and it should be fine
@@M1ssing_Link I doubt solar panels would be anywhere near powerful enough to power the operation, but it could be a small help
@@mr16325 A big help! He says the farm ist a "quarter of a million square meter" big, which means that if we cover about 60% of the area with solar panels at an output of about 200W peak per square meter for, lets say 6 hours a day (australia is pretty sunny but i still only make 6 hours to cover some downtime and lower electricity generation over a year), that makes about 180000 kWh generated per day, aka a massive amount of power. Of course this is a pretty ideal scenario without any losses, but still, thats a lot of electricity
@@calsterman8119 uhhh why would you waste 60% of the area to hold solar panels
As 1 tomatoes grower said "I don't get paid for the taste only by the tonne. Taste doesn't pay me a dollar more "
Thats why store bought tomatoes only look like tomatoes not taste like them.
Indoor farming hasn't even been widely implemented yet it's still in it's infancy the food actually taste better from indoor farms the food from the market is still grown in soil just gmo now
@@armvahdat8791 TOTAL RIBBISH IVE GROWN BOTH
@@franko3006 probably wrong the indoor grown vegetables I've tasted all have exceptional taste and quality the depth of flavor is really no comparison
@@franko3006 The future is here old man, get with the times
@@ashwan3875 amateur tyre kicker. Do you work at an indoor operation. I will put $100k that my tomatoes taste better than any of your best indoor tomatoes.
It's a shame you didn't show the final product - maybe give us a run down of the amount of nutritional value in one tomato, and compare with others that were grown through different methods. A taste test could also be interesting. Tomatoes nowadays are usually plucked nowhere near to when they are ripe, because of transport.
I just harvested my first tomatoes of the year 3 days ago. I haven't had a fresh tomato since last fall, just store bought. I was blown away by how good mine are compared to store bought. Not just taste either, the texture is far superior as well.
I grow them in the ground with home made compost and foliar feed weekly with kelp and fish emulsion. If the plant is strong and healthy with no nutrient deficiencies they are much less susceptible to pests and diseases. Just like people.
@@taitjones6310 That's great, what kind of a climate do you live in? I think the current problem with commercial tomatoes is that their genetics have really been modified to be productive rather than tasty or high in nutrients. I guess we can't complain, though, since we need more demand now than ever. If you're interested , I highly recommend reading the University of Florida research about tomatoes and their complex phenotypes (Denise Tieman).
@@GamingBT I live in USDA zone 6b in NW Texas. Average yearly rainfall is listed at 14 inches, but we just got off a 10 month drought and I've had about 4 1/2 inches so far since May.
The problem with commercially grown tomatoes is actually volume and shipping.
Industrial practices took hold in agriculture and everyone forgot all their common sense. Commercially grown tomatoes have to be picked before they are ripe and shipped long distances. We really just need more small farms, like 20,000% more small farms in order to keep most produce local, or at the very least, regional, so that tomato varieties can be bread specifically for individual climates. Honestly, selecting the right variety of anything for your local climate is the most important thing in maintaining a healthy garden.
If you're interested in the actual growing side of it, you should look up Charles Wilbur. He could be considered the Godfather of high production organic tomatoes. He set the world record for tomato plants with a 28.5 ft. tall plant that produced over 400lbs. of tomatoes.
No GM phenotypes, just Big Boy and Better Boy varieties. After reading some of his work (he has a book) I've doubled the size of my plants and tripled production. The plants are the healthiest plants that I have ever grown or seen in person. And I've still got a long way to go.
I grow tomatoes hydroponically. They are just as tasty and nutritious as the plant has dialed in nutrients.
That would reveal that they are literally worthless as food, because despite a techbro's best effort, plants are complex parts of a complex ecosystem (the soil) which only work properly within that ecosystem.
Amazing! Watching this for my Study Tour module to the Netherlands for my MSc in Agroforestry and Food Security. This is inspiring not only on an agricultural level but also on a videography level. Thank you for sharing.
Works 5 min. I love this job... Man work 12 hours than tell me if you still love it 🤣
still better than any other regular job tho
@@sahali14
if you do it for at least 8 hours a day it IS a regular job....and a very boring and repetitive one at that.
@@sabin97 like every other job isn't?
@@josh._-_
regular jobs, yeah.
@@sabin97 so farming isn't a regular job? Howd you work that out
I do never buy any tomatoe in the shops in winter. I do buy in the market from small producer in Summer.
Should just maybe let a few hives of bees in there.
That's what I was thinking. Must be some crazy reason they dont
Other farms do that
Since they're dealing with monofarms, if they didn't control the environment, most likely they'd have a pest problem, and the bees would suffer because of it. I've never really understood why they don't do multicrops in this kind of hydroponic environment. Open for insects, a few plants would get pests but other insects would arrive to control them. Variety would be key to homeostasis.
Bees wouldn't survive in there. They don't deal well with monoculture, which is one of the reasons they're dying out in rural areas but thrive in urban areas.
@@affenkeks that makes sense. I'm sure they would if they could because it would be cheaper
I like it right now. I work in tomato cultivation, but I liked farming in England. I hope to work there as soon as possible. I have 9 years of experience. Thank you from Syria
Love from Germany best of luck
Thank you very much
Huge complex, wow Amazing stuff Aussies!
Wow its nice. Im wishing someday i can work like that. I love so much planting
Put big woofers matching natural frequency of those flowers and run the amp full volume.
This is a great idea!
Interesting... so what's the natural frequency for em ???? I'd like to try
Thank you very much from France, here aquaponics and hydroponics are still not well known. I will also make an aquaponics system much smaller but I will try a prototype and see what it will give.)
It's simply industrial production. Enough tomatoes can be produced by traditional means.
This is what most farming should turn into. One of our biggest problems is agricultural runoff and soil acidification from farming. Thats even before pesticides and the rest. Warehouse farms is the go - clean, efficient, minimal pollution. Output vs land size, with a return of HUGE swathes of land to forest.
But using traditional farms simply isn’t sustainable . Having farms that massive traditional wrecks havoc on the water supply and soil health
It’s like sci craft but applied to tomatoes
You are really serving the humanity, may-God bless you
Thankyou for sharing ...great job.....
He is very good with that stick that vibrates
Are you sure, you're talking about this video???? 😁😁😁😁
Lol
This is based on old technology. I was doing this in the 80s
In your basement under lamps? That's where my "tomatoes" are
@@HashFace253 no. I was a commercial tomato grower growing in greenhouses.
Ya just like you used to walk 10 miles for school....
Ya just like you used to walk 10 miles for school....
Ya just like you used to walk 10 miles for school....
Pertanian Tomat yang Luarbiasa,,&
Sangat menginspirasi🙏
Thank you for this information
Nina : Look, Pollen is in the air
Paul: No Nina, Thats love.
This is truly wonderful ❤
Date: So what do you do?
Me: I vibrate tomato flowers.
You can also introduce pollinating insects...many enclosed farms do.
Yes! And it tasted like rubber too!!!
And this is why I grow my own food, TASTE! It just seems important to me to savor my food.
Great info ❤🌱🌱
I like the fact you emphasize at the end.🖤
i wonder if you could grow cotton like this
That's amazing stuff but it seems like the other thing these farms need to figure out is the pollination
I never knew my mum liked tomatoes so much until I found one of those pollination wands in her top drawer
Waow am an agricultural student in Nigeria. My goals is to enhance food security in my country. Agric is life
Manager: How Comes we are Going Through so many batteries with the 'Wand' Rita 👀😵
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Plot twist:
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Looking for this comment! :)
If I was Rita I would definitely do that. Just every 10 000 plants to keep the mood up.
94% less water, 100% less smell and taste of natural tomato. Close your eyes and try it . You will never guess what you are eating
Poor tasting tomato is artificially ripened tomatoes that have been picked very early so they can be shipped easier. Vine riped hydroponic tomatoes taste very good.
Pollination music with the "wand" buzzing in the background was genius. Kudos to the people who edited the video 🤣
I love your farm. I want to go at your farm.
This is super cool but I am a little bummed that they are hand pollinated. That seems like a lot of work and that pollen could feed a lot of bees. If only there was a way to have hives inside the green house with lots of bees to pollinate everything. Plus you get honey that way too as a bonus. No idea if thats feasible at all though. We just need more bees in the world.
we need to support solitary bees, bees are dying because of a surplus of honey bees
I don’t see why it wouldn’t.
🌸 I second that, they can easily place some beehives in there & just ensure people they hire are not allergic. Bees only sting if they’re under serious threat or disturbed in their hive, that’s why beekeepers are so gentle.
@@jamskinner Bees can't move in greenhouses since they use sunlight to navigate..bumble bees can tho
Bees eat nectar and unwittingly transmit pollen in the process. The gigahertz from the MW towers is slaughtering the bees. No bees no food.
In this country, as prone as it is to drought, it makes a lot more sense to use these methods, than traditional ones.
No. Checkout Pascal Poot.
@@Rhinoch8 , his stuff looks interesting; especially the heritage varieties he is growing, that needs to be encouraged. But what passes for dry in France is completely different from what passes for dry in Australia during a drought.
@@Rhinoch8 Fine for France, but other nations take dry to an entirely different level. It's not dry compared to Australia. Or, Heaven forbid, some place like Chad, or even Burkina Faso.
Its amazing farming excellent work
Simply great
What a cool set up! Just missing some LED's. They have killer rebates for farmers looking to add to their facilities!
Yes got a few HLG's and super spreaders using the UV supplement,so much better than hps,especially in Australian climate
I see lots of electricity, glass, metal, and plastic used, and lots of work.....why not keep beehives in there...plant vibrators indeed
Honestly as a grower myself. We would love to be able to use bees instead of manual pollination as it'll save us alot of money on labour. Problem is the bees required for the job you're not allowed to bring in from Europe due it being an invasive species.
solar energy is always an option! theres too much farmland but people still starve. if this helps solve land and starvation issues, than a little more power can't hurt
@@trolololol9000 Sorry what ? You don't have bees ?
Rockwool as growing medium is not sustainable farming
@@mckinleyd603 yes it is as you can still mulch it into the soil for your soil crop after the season done
Que maravilha !
I want to do farming like this
Awesome, the manual pollination will help them observe the plant closely too on a daily basis.
Interesting and productive way to farm but I find a lot of tomatoes lack flavor. While it requires more work and longer time to grow them in soil they provide much more flavor. The same can be said of oranges, a lot of them look awesome in appearance but their flavor has been watered down.
I didn't know oranges could be grown hydroponically
it's not due to the nutrients, that's due to the lack of sun light.
@@TechieTard this farm has sunlight
I would say due to the speed of growth withthe high carbon intake they would be lacking in nutrients and probably flavour as well
Charles Robert interesting
Green house nya keren bangett
Just amazing 😍
What is the energy/co2 cost of this compared to Normal plants?
Thanks for the brief insight into hydroponics. In a world where we are changing our environment by stripping forests to plant grain, it has become important to reverse the trend via hydroponics. We can now restore our forests and the natural environmental controls by finding more efficient ways of producing our food.
@Bitterman Yes, grain is fed to animals, but it is still deforestation-for-grain.
Yes going vegan is more efficient use of land but the question is can most people tolerate that diet? Dr Sten Ekberg couldn’t tolerate a vegan diet and turned to a keto diet with 75% fat, 20% protein and 5% carbs. Some of the Keto food is protein from fish, pork, beef and chicken. IMHO The problem with vegetable protein is the mismatch with our DNA nucleotides resulting in waste.
Not really even trees need to be cut down from time to time, logging isn't the real issue clear cutting is. Just like strip mining and fracking is. Its when you go over board that creates an issue. most oil wells they frack to get the last bit out, unfortunately they also pull up radio active waste when they do. strip mining they tear up miles of land to get to the coal, but in most places the surface coal also filters the stream and lake waters of toxins and ammonia. most of this water comes out in natural springs. Unfortunately most people think solar and wind will fix all the issues. Does any one realize just how long it would take a battery or a solar panel to break down in a land fill, Or just how many trillions of tons of solar panel scraps there is world wide that they have absolutely no ideal what to do with. or all the heavy metals released into the soils from the batteries used to store the energy from solar panels. Kinda like carbon impact every ones promoting these days. most people never consider just how much carbon plants need to thrive. Its not the carbon thats the problem its that the majority of carbon globally is coming from certain major cities world wide were all the manufacturing is going. If you look at satellite photos of the earth you can pretty much guess were you will find the majority of carbon before even looking at the photos. Kinda like ozone layer you never hear any one say global warming caused by jet engines or space rockets burning up the gas's in the upper atmosphere. Out of 35 million air plane flights just in the US every year you would think some one would mention that! Hydroponics has been around thousands of years, climate control and artificial lights have not, those are the real improvements. we should also mention that wine and beer comes in metal and glass containers which are made of materials found in nature, yet all food items come in plastic which is not. even when better containers are available food providers still use plastic. Stop thinking like every one tells you to and open your eyes. Hydroponics is to dependent on the grid and manufactures.
Actually the Main leading cause of doforestation, especially of the Amazon is animal agriculture and raising beef in particular. There was a study done that showed that hypothetically if the world went vegan, we could not only grow enough food for the current population but the 2050 population, and on only 70% of the land currently being used for agriculture at the moment allowing Huge areas of land to be re planted.
People always want to find every solution except the one that involves people not being selfish.
That being said though I am a huge fan and advocate of hydroponics, especially for fruiting annuals (tomatoes, capsicum, cucumber, eggplant, zucchini ect) but our cereal crops will still always need to be grown in fields cause of the sheer volume
@@tinderella2386 Agreed. However protein is important in the Keto diet which completely reversed T2D. Synthetic protein will come to the rescue in the near future.
But if we moved away from grain to greens, nuts etc there would be even more food for the 8 billion population, less T2D, and tree roots would bind soil and banish deserts. In short our desire for grain foods is killing us
Lmfao. Probably not the stupidest comment on this thread, but it deserves an honorary mention.
Growing vegetables, fruit and flowers in this way could utilize unused spacious buildings such as old factories, disused Department Stores etc. reduces "Food Miles" and could include a retail shop for local people to purchase produce.
So amazing technology i love it
*giggle Plant vibrator...
Surely there must be blind taste test between these & regular outdoor tomatoes. Would be interesting to see the difference in flavor.
The tomatoes grown outdoor in normal conditions would taste much much better, 100%.
@@arbulonrexhepi not really in my experience the ones grown in hydroponics are of higher quality if done correctly
Nhìn thấy mê quá
Waw amazing greenhouses
and even less taste then today
I have bought truss tomatoes for many years because they have more flavour and are not sprayed with poisons as field tomatoes are. If solar power and water reuse are employed, it will be a sustainable business.
no
just amazing
If the ABC has its way this will have to be our future.
The ABC is the pride of the fleet for shutting this country down.
What variety of tomato is being grown?
Have feeling it's not heirloom, creole or betterboys. Wld like to know as well.
Wonder where the other tomato plants are😂😂
Hy A,b,C you are fabulous and creative. I really admire you.
Wow sangat bagus
How about taste?
"Is it the price we have to pay to feed a growing population?"
Well, given that North American and European couples have on average less than 2 children per couple, that statement is dubious at best.
Many people do not have the IQ to grasp this.
Well, the global south is fighting hunger with just MORE children
Interview: What ur former job?
Me: skating flowers and pollinating them
wish to see any plans or guides how to build such plantation
It's interesting and scary.
Heathy soil provides a tastier tomato. Chemical water solution may produce abundance but these are flavourless. If you’ve ever eaten a garden tomato next to its greenhouse grown counterpart, you know the taste does not compare.
100% agreed.
Ive stoped eating tomatoes that come from the store as they have no flavor, ill eat cherry tomatoes in the winter here and there, but grow a 100 in my garden and im sick of them by the end of the summer up here in New Hampshire
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Amazing technology
Is there a video explaining how to build something like that and the tech involved in each step?
3:56 my girlfriend wants that toy
hahah
The Pollinator
So do I. It can compliment my hitachi
Likely has it you just don't know
Why don’t they keep bees inside the greenhouse to pollinate the plants
I want more of them
Amazing!
No bees,. That seems a little sad.
Normal bees don't pollinate tomatoes, the pollen is inside the stamen. Wind or a particular bee that sits on the flower and vibrates it's wings do the job in nature.
"This could be more sustainable than my backyard veggie garden" they have 350 people just to grow tomatoes. Sustainability is about a lot more than just saving water. It's about involving animals, trees, designing systems that regenerate ecology. If everyone left that monstrosity tomorrow. Everything will degrade really quickly. Thats's not sustainability in my opinion.
water isn't an issue in every part of the world and I don't get the fixation on conserving it every where. also how is it sustainable to ship in all that fertilizer and pay the insane electric bill? this whole thing is a waist of resources but its ok because there using less water that literally falls from the sky for free smh.
I can grow 1 Kilo of tomato with lots of less than 200 liters, i wonder where he got this alarming number!
@@freedomisdead9638 there are people that just mulch their plants heavily and literally NEVER water. Only rain. In pots it's difficult, but again you can control the growth media. If you're in the ground, the Paul Gauci guy, whatever his last name is lol, literally puts layers of woodchipa and never waters his plants even if it doesn't rain for months. Like, I have to.water every day simply because of the pot and the soil I'm using but I mulch and it works. If I had temperature control and could pump CO2, I'm sure the plant would be doing even better than it is now.
The only thing is taste. I think y'all should quit arguing about taste. The grocery store tomatoes are shiz for 2 reasons. 1. Farmers are paid by amount not taste and so they need to get as many tomatoes as fast as they can and so they pick em when they aren't ripe, and the flavor is shiz. 2. After that, the tomatoes are shipped hundreds and thousands of miles. Hardly the condition for great taste
The point being, the closer a tomato is on the vine and full ripeness, the better. That's why local is better. And if they grow it organically, which can be done hydroponically with correct nutrients, then the taste and nutritional content will be great.
@@matthewkheyfets1309
Dudes, i am a farmer 😊, tomatoes represents 30% of my crops, i am producing a few tons of cherries tomatoes per year, i know a bit about tomatoes
@@kevincornell1439 the electricity bill smaller than the tractors use on feul just drving up and down the field.
Alguém recebeu o link desse vídeo como email de uma empresa chamada AG hydroponic farm Canadá ?
Vibration of transformers of precise frequency could be control by switching LRC circuit and help precise sound pattern by surroundings sound
Energy and material cost seems to be too high to be sustainable
So I'm waiting for part 2 of this like...I'm waiting for someone to 'develop' pollinators like artificial butterflies...robotic ones perhaps that looks real & mimics its characteristics🤔
interesting pHD topic in aerospace
I have seen a video but that was strawberry. They are raising honeybees inside.
Bubble bees. They do it already bit not sure up to this kind of scale
why couldn't they just use real bees?
@@shamicentertainment1262 Think of these greenhouses as factories. They need to standardize every steps of production to maximize the output. In order to do that, everything must be controlled effectively. It is very hard to control live insects, especially when you want other parts of the systems sealed off from those insects.
We are doing this in the Netherlands for decades
Bahan apa yang digunakan dalam polibek sehingga bisa ditanam tansman
Wow, that puts my home hydroponic tomatoes to shame. There's no way I can let them reach 15' high. I only have 8' ceilings.. 😆
Make a video about it..
Make a video about it..
Make a video about it..
Spain does this in mass commercial scale if anyone is interested
Do the tomatoes taste good?
@@meghanarella3573 If you ever been to Germany, France, UK or even Italy. Huge chance that tomato was harvested in these supercell green houses
@@gvi341984 yeah so do they taste good?
@@meghanarella3573 Yeah, they taste like normal tomatoes and very good as well so are the other crops grown in this area
@@gvi341984 wow idk why people in the comment section say that these tomatoes lack taste lol.
Smart and modern of farming
That's at flavorite in warrigal I used to deliver the grodan rockwool there many years ago even back in the 90s they would a couple of semi loads a week its not a mad scientist thing at all but a matter of giving the plants everything they desire to get the perfect nb perfect temperature and humidity and a tailored amount of phosphorus potassium and nitrogen kind of the difference between living on bread and water and having a completely balanced diet I still buy them now as I find vine ripened tomatoes are absolutely delicious
I grow my own and they taste fantastic. I purchase tomatoes when mine are not in season but do so kind of begrudgingly since they just don’t taste as nice.
the supermarket ones often don't taste at all lol
interesting ! Would that be easier to have a bee hives help pollination?
I went on a field in Paris as I wanted to know how the keep up with tomato paste supply. This is good business
Really nice
5:30 I don't see how it not feeling natural is being a price.
also, consumers don't see any of this anyways.
Do you really think that these plants are as healthy as the ones grown naturally in a garden? They can't even polinate themselves. Probably there are other downsides too..
@@minimars3696 it somehow sounds like you anthropomorphize these tomato plants. otherwise I can't even identify any basis to your arguments.
of course they are healthy. or do you see any risk of them withering?
I would agree that the manual pollination by humans with the vibrating tool seems inefficient. I would hope they come up with a better, more automated solution in the future. but to the plants, of course it makes no difference whether the pollen is carried by a bee to them or transported in any other way.
so again, I have no idea what downsides you are referring to.
@@minimars3696 "They can't even pollinate themselves." That's not a "downside," it's an effect of environmental controls. There are no insects, which reduces pollination ... but it also *completely eliminates* crop destruction by pests and *completely eliminates* the need to spray insecticides. If the trade off for not injecting thousands of gallons of insecticides into our groundwater and not throwing out hundreds of kilos of food because of pest destruction is that someone has to vibrate the plants with a rod for a second and a half ... that's worth it.
@@rhet1016 This is something I feel would be at cross-roads for those who prefer 'organic' and 'sustainable'. The artificial environment and control isn't exactly organic but the immense savings/reduction of water, herbicides and pesticides compared to organic or industrial farming is great for the environment. Plus, hydroponics uses the least land for output, whereas organic farming is the worst. Saved land can be used for natural recovery of forests or shrubland as well.
Personally, I think variations and improvements with research will be the future of farming.
Subhan'Allah
Allah didn’t anything
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great infomation , i share to all
Wow amazing high yield!