In recent days I was thinking what I could do to improve the growth of my plants. I tested #MoRaLiS: Modular Rail Lighting System all winter and its working nicely but two major flaws made the results less optimal.

One being the absence of wind, without wind plants grew fast but lazy and develop only very thin stems because they only build up as much support as they need. Without any forces pushing them around like wind or straying animals they will not grow into strong plants.

One thing you can do is stroke your plants every day. Which is nice but also gets pretty old rather quickly if you have to do that multiple times a day. So a Fan was needed which I prototyped on a milled board and that attaches to the rail system just like the LED modules.

As you can see its mounted on the top side of the board and a large hole enables air flow from the top of the breeding box.

Here a video of some young fennel bobbing in the breeze.

With that I got ideas for a few more modules that I could add to this system and also a few mechanical tricks on how to adapt the system to very large plants without build a large support structure.