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Pastimes : Gardening and Especially Tomato Growing -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Cogito Ergo Sum who wrote (3163)	4/29/2020 9:47:32 PM
From: Sun Tzu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3495

Keeping the top off also means not having the lights where I want them.

To: Cogito Ergo Sum who wrote (3163)	4/30/2020 5:56:04 PM
From: sense	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3495

It's not possible, is it, that we're the first people to think about this issue this way ? Must be something out there already somewhere between adding a conservatory as a new wing to the house... and keeping dwarfed terrarium-proven plants in a 5 gallon aquarium ? There are some innovative things out there... like the biOrb... and its creators at ambius bill themselves as "indoor landscaping experts"... mostly proving the point that there's enough market interest to enable building a business around the idea of "house plants plus"... which they do commercially in 17 countries ? But, their commercial markets are well enough satisfied with "what works" aesthetically... using a list of proven plants for indoor applications... without imposing any new requirements for added utility in indoor agriculture. They pitch customers on "image" paired with not having to do any of the work themselves... I'm not finding anything out there that addresses the scaling issues... without a surrender to the small... or a surrender to a plant list limited to "what works" and looks good... instead of "what I want is..." The UK's legacy of hot house growing seems it is about closest thing... ? And there's a market for that and businesses with that focus in the UK... including at least one with a focus on innovation in commercial scale indoor agriculture. Otherwise, the "do it yourself" approach... is still mostly about using a commercially produced container and populating it yourself... There's just a very big gap left between products focused on starting plants indoors to plant out later... where the aesthetics aren't much of a consideration... and products and plants focused on keeping plants indoors...