We installed a Six Tier Grow Stand and Pocket Greenhouse one day last week for an orchid hobbyist who after 20 years of growing has decided she wants to grow some more difficult orchids and loved the idea of the indoor growing environments that Portagrow provides for her new experiments.
We were also recently hired to design and build a set of custom grow stands to be used with a customer's existing 48"x32" hydro trays. She has been growing orchids for roughly 35 years and has experimented with many types of growing areas, from large scale greenhouses where she kept her 1500+ prized orchids to window sills and everywhere in between. She has been reducing her collection to her most loved plants and was having difficulties allowing the room to cool down at night. The heat generated by her HID light was overheating the room. She was also struggling with too much humidity in her basement growing room and starting to see signs of mildew on the drywall walls.
By using Portagrow's highly efficient, high output, cool running, T5 fluorescent grow lights and stands we will be reducing the heat generated by the grow lighting significantly, as well as reducing the energy consumption of the old HID light we replaced. We also were able to contain the majority of the humidity within the Pocket Greenhouses, maintaining a comfortable growing environment for her plants while protecting the rest of her home from too much humidity.
The project consisted of two custom stands for her four hydro trays, a six tier grow stand and three pocket greenhouses. Each of the grow stands incorporated a Humidity Distribution System (HDS). The set-up was designed to hold her 250 -300 orchids in controlled environments inside her existing growing room.
We are all excited about the set-up and will share more about it in the future. It is our largest single project to date and look forward to the possibility of creating others like it.
Here are some pictures of the project. We will also be posting a video or two of it on You Tube soon.
