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Thought this was for plants, womp womp. We should have already made super-seeds that you can plant in concrete and grow all the tomatoes you'll need in a month
by 0xbadcafebee 1y ago
Thought this was for plants, womp womp.
We should have already made super-seeds that you can plant in concrete and grow all the tomatoes you'll need in a month with a single LED. Why be dependent on Big Ag or imports from Chile for tasteless nutritionless environment-poisoned overpriced veg if you could grow it in a closet? Saves water, saves power, saves the environment, tastes better, better for you, cheaper. We just need a lot of bio nerds (and a few billion $) to develop it.
- dyauspitr 1y agoI mean there are considerations. Something like that would be insanely invasive and overrun most ecosystems in years.
- bravesoul2 1y agoWhy not have the food grow in your stomach. Direct consumption. Put the LED there too.
- ponector 1y agoAnd a state-of-the-art AI-powered app for this!
- tanseydavid 1y ago...with a monthly subscription price (and a non-zero chance of them bricking you -- probably intentionally so that they can sell you another you).
- bravesoul2 1y agoGotta get VC funded after all, right!
- nkmnz 1y agoWhy not have the food grow in your skin. Use the fusion reactor in the sky.
- CarVac 1y agoI've always wanted to be a mixotroph.
- nick486 1y agothe wiring harness required would be a bit uncomfortable.
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- theoreticalmal 1y agoHow are you going to get more than an LED’s worth of chemical energy out of a plant that was fed only an LED’s worth of energy? Also, I find this goal equally as dystopian as big ag is currently. Just plant a garden and tend it
- busssard 1y agoi would love to have an app, that reminds me of when to water or fertilize my plants, depending on the plant species, weather and light conditions. maybe even automatically turning off and on the growlights. just to maximize plant health.
- brunohaid 1y agoHa, working on exactly that at eg https://www.meso.cloud/plants/magnoliophyta/malvales/magnoliopsida/malvaceae/theobroma_cacao https://www.meso.cloud/plants/magnoliophyta/malvales/magnoli...
- weweersdfsd 1y agoIf you're into home automation, you could probably get pretty far with some light & moisture sensors (I recommend Xiaomi Flora bluetooth sensors for the latter purpose) and smart plugs connected to Home Assistant. I did something like that on a small scale, it worked fairly well.
- brunohaid 1y agoDefinitely doable, aquarium controllers are also quite flexible. We're working on a free Home Assistant plugin that let's you define your sensors and outputs, then choose a plant (see link below, or climate of a specific location) and hopefully take most of the heavy lifting from there.
- _DeadFred_ 1y agoAdd a pre-check, that based on location,light conditions, local soil inof, etc tells you want is safe to plant.
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