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The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Lighting for Urban Farming Projects

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2018

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Back with Tobias Peggs of Square Roots Grow, we're talking about the lighting technology they use in their shipping containers and why they went with that method. We also touch on some other farming projects in the city and how they stack up against SRG. Learn More: Square Roots Grow Website SRG on Instagram Keep Growing, Kevin Support Epic Gardening Support Epic Gardening on Patreon Follow Epic Gardening YouTube Instagram Pinterest Facebook Facebook Group Buy the Epic Soil Starter Organic Fertilizer! How do you super-charge your soil with good, inexpensive organic matter? That was the question I sought to answer when I designed this custom-mixed fertilizer with my friends over at Garden Maker Naturals. It's designed to take your ordinary raised bed garden soil and give it enough organic matter to kick-start your growing season. Order Your Epic Soil Starter Here   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

What's up everyone? Welcome back to the podcast. We are here again with Tobias

0:05.1

pegs of Square Root Grow and we're going back into the nerdy realm just a

0:09.2

little bit and talking about the lighting that they use in their shipping container growing systems

0:16.0

and then we get a little more free form and we talk about, you know, how do, how do square foot grow

0:22.0

fit into the tapestry of urban farming projects the future of food

0:26.4

what sort of other projects are out there what kind of approaches are those projects

0:30.6

taking versus square Roots Grow,

0:32.5

and we do a lot of sort of riffing and rafting

0:34.9

on those topics.

0:36.1

So without further ado, let's go ahead

0:38.1

and get into the episode.

0:40.2

And I wanted to get into a little bit about the lighting. I know you talked to you you work with

0:44.3

Phillips and you're experimented with a lot of different things. Are you primarily using LED lighting or are you

0:50.9

I think you said you're using low blue so I'm assuming maybe

0:53.7

metal halide bulbs there? No it's all LED okay yeah yeah is is that

1:00.0

because I mean I guess there's so many benefits to using LEDs I almost don't have to ask the question you got your lower heat output your lower energy

1:08.0

your longer lifespan from a this is going to get pretty technical, I guess, but from a spectrum perspective, are you guys doing anything with calibrating that on a per plant basis or are you just messing around with the

1:25.4

overall spectrum you're giving everything in the garden or in the farm?

1:29.3

Yes, no no it is it's actually a really great question, right?

1:34.2

And then that the ability to calibrate on a per plant basis

1:38.9

also then feeds into the AI, right?

1:40.9

Because you could.

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