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It was!!! Personally, I have no aversion towards GMO. But in the end, it's the customers. It's already so hard to convince that food grown in clean and steriliz

It was!!! Personally, I have no aversion towards GMO. But in the end, it's the customers. It's already so hard to convince that food grown in clean and sterilized nutrient medium is far better than the romantic soil everyone is clinging to; GMO would take way more convincing. However, there are tastes that are indeed only found in the 'old' seeds, so there is do see the aversion non-GMO from customer side. In terms of optimization, here are some: 1. What is the optimal time for getting a lettuce plant until harvest without juicing it up with nitrates? 2. What parameters could double the functional components of my mint (think about essential oils) and basil plants just by proper timing in stress and nutrition. These are already questions that botany departments have worked on- I want to bring them out in commercial setting (and may be a bit better). 3. Does back-radiation i.e. reflected light from plant leaves help in measuring plant well-being? 4. What's the right grow medium 5. In general, I BELIEVE, that there is a sub-optimal application (as in wastage) of light (which is roughly 20-30% of indoor farm expense), sub-optimal production in terms of the harvest we get. An improvement in harvest timing by a day would still be a very big volume once you scale it to bigger grow area; more importantly, I believe plant experts are good (even though very rare and expensive), but a DeepFarmer might be able to do better (and this is my main bet), both in terms of scaling and expertise.

OneGuy123 6y ago
> It's already so hard to convince that food grown in clean and sterilized nutrient medium is far better than the romantic soil everyone is clinging to; You are delusional if you belive this. You actually think that putting some vitamins, minerals etc.. in your hydropnic system is enough to immitate the insanely complex environement of real soil? You are the example of peak arrogance: you think you can take a few things here and there and that you will be able to make the "perfect food". The food you will grow like this will lack nutrients and will be sub-par for human consumption. There are people who: 1) Know that they don't know many things. 2) Don't know that they don't know many things. You are category #2. Your delusion is that you think you can immate the insanely delicate and complicated interdependencies in soil just by putting some stuff in water. You can eat as much of your food as you like, if you eat shit food that is your problem. The issue I have with people like you is that you will be forcing your stuff down my throat sooner or later, even indirectly since your obviously campaign against soil grown foods: people like you will put legit farmers out of business and then people like me will have severely limited access to real food: just because you arrogantly belive you can mix a few minerals and vitamins and that that will produce legit food. You are a prime example of someone who will do great harm out of your own deluded belief in "the greater good". In reality you are absolutely clueless when it comes to understanding the complexity of nature: nothing works in isolation in nature, but you think it does.
- haarts 6y ago
  Best to tone it down a bit. One man's legit food isn't necessarily the others. No one is forcing you to put anything in your own mouth.
- legacynl 6y ago
  Why are you so angry? Aqua- and Hydroponics have been successfully used to grow food for a very long time now. If you have any evidence of food grown this way lacking any nutrients, please provide it.
- Sinidir 6y ago
  Wow. I have never seen someone project this amount of anger onto a random person on the internet. Maybe take a day off before your head explodes.
- dang 6y ago
  You can't post like this to HN. Since you've been repeatedly breaking the site guidelines, we've banned the account. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

OneGuy123 6y ago

> It's already so hard to convince that food grown in clean and sterilized nutrient medium is far better than the romantic soil everyone is clinging to; You are delusional if you belive this. You actually think that putting some vitamins, minerals etc.. in your hydropnic system is enough to immitate the insanely complex environement of real soil? You are the example of peak arrogance: you think you can take a few things here and there and that you will be able to make the "perfect food". The food you will grow like this will lack nutrients and will be sub-par for human consumption. There are people who: 1) Know that they don't know many things. 2) Don't know that they don't know many things. You are category #2. Your delusion is that you think you can immate the insanely delicate and complicated interdependencies in soil just by putting some stuff in water. You can eat as much of your food as you like, if you eat shit food that is your problem. The issue I have with people like you is that you will be forcing your stuff down my throat sooner or later, even indirectly since your obviously campaign against soil grown foods: people like you will put legit farmers out of business and then people like me will have severely limited access to real food: just because you arrogantly belive you can mix a few minerals and vitamins and that that will produce legit food. You are a prime example of someone who will do great harm out of your own deluded belief in "the greater good". In reality you are absolutely clueless when it comes to understanding the complexity of nature: nothing works in isolation in nature, but you think it does.

haarts 6y ago
Best to tone it down a bit. One man's legit food isn't necessarily the others. No one is forcing you to put anything in your own mouth.
legacynl 6y ago
Why are you so angry? Aqua- and Hydroponics have been successfully used to grow food for a very long time now. If you have any evidence of food grown this way lacking any nutrients, please provide it.
Sinidir 6y ago
Wow. I have never seen someone project this amount of anger onto a random person on the internet. Maybe take a day off before your head explodes.
dang 6y ago
You can't post like this to HN. Since you've been repeatedly breaking the site guidelines, we've banned the account. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html