We automate growing processes

Systems. The magic word of modern and efficient gardening. Automatic growing systems take care of regular irrigation, and sophisticated control units ensure the optimal climate and lighting for plants in day or night mode. This applies even in your absence, so if indoor growing has caught your interest and will not let go, why not do it systematically like a true professional? You will enjoy higher yields, and you can use the time or energy saved as you wish!

It is tempting and easy to forget manual routines and hand watering! But when, a few years ago, you wanted to buy a system for indoor growing of vegetables, fruit or herbs, the only solution was to spend a lot of money. Today, the market offers a more or less advanced range of self-watering systems and control units, which is fortunately so broad that both enthusiastic beginners and commercial gardeners can choose without any problem, so literally anyone can grow like a professional. This, after all, explains the enormous popularity currently enjoyed by various hydroponic and aeroponic systems.

Automatic solar irrigation also allows you to make outdoor growing much easier, whether it is watering your garden, a field bed, young trees in an orchard, or even the English lawn in front of the house.

Efficiency is what it is all about...

Before you start automating your current growing activities at home and take them to a professional level, or if you want to simplify the beginning straight away with some basic self-watering system, it is a good idea to clarify a few basic parameters first, much like when choosing a grow box. The main one is the scale of the planned harvest, which is usually what determines the level of investment in new equipment for the home grow room. This, of course, is closely related to the size of the growing area you have available. After that, it mainly depends on your budget.

A great harvest as standard? Automation of the main and supporting growing processes allows you to optimise growing conditions perfectly. In addition, you save on water, energy and fertiliser consumption.

Thanks to a suitable investment in autonomous systems, you no longer need to worry unnecessarily about the correct timing and actual implementation of the following processes:

• Switching day / night mode based on the entered input parameters
• Automatic irrigation and monitoring the water level in the reservoir
• Humidity control
• Climate monitoring

Another difference lies in whether you want to have only selected functions, or all of them, within indoor growing processes without worries, because in such cases every grower will find a universal automatic control unit useful, such as the GSE Smart Grow Controller, which has a higher purchase price, but in return you get a fully fledged alternative to a large number of similarly expensive devices. The unit ensures everything from switching on lights, through regulating fans or humidifiers depending on the microclimate, to dosing carbon dioxide.

Less is sometimes more

If you were to take away just one piece of information from this text, keep in mind that plants of all kinds generally benefit from a lower dose and intensity of watering, but they welcome the highest possible watering frequency. That is precisely why automatic irrigation always brings a far better harvest than time-consuming and physically demanding hand watering! 

Now let us introduce the individual types and examples of automatic irrigation systems.

Hydroponic systems

A reliable passive type of irrigation that is easy to operate is represented by the growing systems AutoPot, which work well with all types of growing media.

Among growers of varying experience around the world, the hydroponic systems Atami Wilma are well known, and they are a convenient gateway to the world of the diverse possibilities that hydroponics brings to growers and will bring a joyful harvest even to complete beginners! Higher-end sets also cater to experienced or commercial growers. In the image you can see what one of the most sought-after models looks like – Atami WILMA Large.

In this type of drip irrigation, the nutrient solution travels through tubes to the top of the pots, where it is absorbed directly into the substrate and each plant then takes exactly as much as it needs. This applies to water with nutrients and oxygen. In addition, nothing goes to waste, because all the solution that is not absorbed is used later, which brings us back to one of the main reasons for buying an automatic system, namely efficiency. The timer accommodates the individual needs of each plant during feeding.

For the roots of large plants, or for cultivating a mother plant, the self-watering pots Flo Gro are ideal. Other types of hydroponic systems also include vertical NFT.

Aeroponic systems

We have saved the best for last! We mean automatic irrigation systems that do not need any substrate to function and will provide you with a truly dream harvest thanks to precise dosing of the solution with an ideal oxygen level. This assumption is based on the fact that the same technology is used, among others, by NASA in research into plant cultivation in space. A typical example is the Aeroflo 40 shown in the image.

We hope that this article has helped you form a clear idea of what automatic growing systems and control units can bring you. Do not forget proper care of hydroponic, or aeroponic, systems either, thanks to which they will function at 100% for a long time. Do not hesitate to ask us anything you are interested in on this topic. We will be happy to answer your questions at the well-known e-mail address Previous article Next article