If you are going to build a pilot plant to test things out, it makes sense to make it small, light and not very energy intensive then use v2 and v3 to scale up.

If you are going to build a pilot plant to test things out, it makes sense to make it small, light and not very energy intensive then use v2 and v3 to scale up. Since potatoes contain a lot of energy, they also take a lot of energy to grow. Lettuce is a good crop to start with precisely because it is not very energy dense.