Essentially, all it is is it's a cabinet that happens to hold some shelves, and a water
bath, and a heating element.
What it does is it basically just keeps the inside of this nice and warm, usually about
80 degrees.
We can actually set the temperature on the side with the thermostat, and that heating
element will heat up that water, and cause it to vaporize, and just forms this water
vapor.
You'll see how humid is in here, super, super humid.
When we take a tray like this and we slide that tray in full of seed, and this one is
just starting to go now ... These are lettuce seeds here.
When it just starts to get going, all these seeds will germinate all at once in this nice,
humid environment, and we end up with product that's all the same side, germinates at the
same time, and usually we get a little bit better germination rates than we would if
we just planted in a dry mist bench or something like that.
This is a really, really great way, if you can put one together, or if you can afford
one, to basically get good germination rates and good uniformity out of your seedlings.
We use this propagation chamber to get all of our seedlings ready for our bigger systems.
It's really, really nice because it takes the germination time from several days, over
the course of several days, where you maybe have one seed germinating on day one, another
seed germinating on day seven, so you've got seven days worth of variation and size, which
can be significant at the end of a growing cycle, it takes that, and it makes sure that
everything is germinating usually within a day or two of each other.
It shortens it all down.
It also makes sure that we are germinating our seeds for a very, very short period of
time.
As soon as they pop up, we slide them over into the seedling system, start giving them
a light, start giving them more nutrition, and let them really start to get going.
You can see how simple these things are.
They're not really complicated.
We're talking about shelves.
We're talking about enclosed space, powder coated steel or stainless, and of course plastic,
because it's super, super humid.
You guys can actually make your own, and a lot of people will do that.
Depending on how handy you are, you can look at these things.
There are plans online.
You can build your own propagation chamber.
You can also buy them if you're looking for something that you know is going to work right
out of the gate, and work for you, and help you get producing better, more consistently,
faster.
If you're thinking about that, make sure you talk to us, because we're using propagation
chambers now.
We have some opinions.
If you're one of our greenhouse producers, or one of our warehouse producers, you should
seriously be thinking about a propagation chamber of some size to help start off your
seedling production cycle.
The reason for that is if you're doing batch harvest, so if you're going through, and you're
harvesting, say, a zip rack of towers, or you're harvesting a zone of towers all at
once, all at the same time, you want the lettuce coming out of there, you want the products
to be coming out of there to all be the same size.
Starting with the propagation chamber, and exerting a lot of control over the germination
process makes sure that when you get to the end of your growing cycle, things are much
more uniform than they would be if you hadn't used this to start with.
All right, so the nice thing about these is that they move as well.
You guys know that we're a huge fan of modularity at Bright Agrotech.
We design as much of our products as possible to roll, to move, to be easily handled by
people.
The nice thing is if you're growing in a warehouse, you've got nice, concrete floors, you can
get this going, pack it up, fill it up at your planting bench, roll it down to where
you want it to live for the next couple days, plug it in, set it against a wall, out of
sight, out of mind, come back, take your seedlings out, and move things around really, really
effortlessly.
That's a big labor saver.
For those of you that are farming already, you know that labor savers are well worth
the money.
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