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PRODUCE PRODUCTION SYSTEM AND PROCESS

  • US 20150027048A1
  • Filed: 07/30/2014
  • Published: 01/29/2015
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/26/2010
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. A process for growing produce, the process comprising:

  • in a production facility equipped with at least one production lane, producing non-compartmentalized growing trays of plants growing in a soil blend engineered to have absorptive characteristics that provide a predetermined soil moisture level and a watering cycle of predetermined length, the soil blend also engineered to have nutritional characteristics that provide a plant growth cycle of predetermined length;

    advancing individual growing trays of growing plants along the production lane toward a watering station on a gravity-fed growing rack;

    as the growing trays advance along the production lane, illuminating the growing plants with light at frequency, intensity and duration selected to produce desired plant characteristics within a predetermined growing cycle;

    as the growing trays reach watering stations along the production lane, adding water in amounts calculated to maintain the predetermined soil moisture level; and

    controlling environmental inputs to maintain plant health and produce plants within the plant growth cycle of predetermined length, the plants having at least one predetermined desired characteristic.

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