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Supporting larger plants

A project log for MoAgriS: Modular Agriculture System

Growing food crops and other plants in small indoor spaces using established containers like regular plant pots and very little money.

timonskutimonsku 03/17/2018 at 22:190 Comments

It is fairly straight forward to add this system to any breeding box, you drill 3 hole into the top and stick 3 metal rods through it. This is great for starting your plants, also if you have a garden and live a cooler climate and need to cultivate your plants ahead of season.

It gets a little tricker if you want to use MoAgriS with 1.5m heigh Tomato plant. You have two options, find a spot in your apartment where you can mount the rails with one of the hook styles available to a wall or cabinet and place the plant under there. This can be fairly invasive and your are forced to put your plants into that one spot from now on.

The other option would be to build a mobile structure that can hold the rails in place which is time consuming and requires skill.

So I tried to stay with the philosophy of #MoRaLiS: Modular Rail Lighting System  and utilize the same technologies already used. That being PCBs, fuse clips and metal rods.

Here is a quick and dirty visualisation of how I imagine it could work. Usually you wont want more than 2-3 modules on a single right angle as you only need to cover a single plant.


The benefit this also has over the other solutions is that you can position a module everywhere you want on the vertical position. Maybe you want the watering module on the bottom and on the middle and top section you want a light module or two.

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