I was in Mumbai this past week. I got an opportunity therefore to explore a bit on SIKCO engineering. Mr Milton Sikder is the gentleman I met. Apart from delving in windmills, solar panel solutions, bio-gas plants and electrically powered bicycles they also manufacture LED based grow-lights for hydroponically grown plants. It was good learning and I intend to experiment a bit in the field now. The obvious gains are for places where sunlight is an issue. Also, plantation can be carried out in more environmentally controlled enclosures for exotic plants/ fruits. And of course, it is also known to affect the over-all yield, as the plants are free from the day-night cycle, where the genuine growth gets restricted to daylight hours.
The irony is, that I have to travel yet again tomorrow. So it's only next week now, that I can hope to pursue whatever additional I want to. This includes the innovation on the hydroponic raft I've mentioned earlier. Meanwhile, the plants in both gh1 and gh2 are doing great!
Here's the cucumber for starters. So far I've harvested 12 large sized cucumbers from the plant.
The leafy greens of rucola, spinach and Swiss chard in the three raft systems have picked up well too.
I've also become a huge fan of the grow-bags. These individual havens of lush beauties provide a rich medium for their sole inhabitants. So the bell peppers, the sweet basil and the asparagus all display gleeful expressions nestled comfortably in their respective bags.
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The taller plants in gh2 are also stable and seem to be getting an adequate amount of diffused sunlight through the translucent plastic sheets on top. Here's a view from my dining room's window overlooking the backyard.
And O! the winters are almost here. My morning run today, greeted me with the first whiffs of smoky
exhalations and a ground veiled thinly in mist. The evening sky was something else though.
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