My New Greenhouse Crop!

[AzGrower]

So for those who dont know, I work for Eurofresh Farms (www.eurofresh.com)
We just finished constructing the new greenhouse site and it was planted on Thursday of the past week. Here is what hydroponic greenhouse tomato transplants look like. The greenhouse itself consists of 8 compartments, each compartment 1.4 metric hectares or 3.5 acres each. The dimensions of each compartment are 220 meters long by 64 meters wide. With a center pathway at the 108.5 meter mark. The height is 6 meters to the rain gutters. So in total my new greenhouse is 11.2 metric hectares (or 112,000 sq meters) or roughly 28 acres. Each compartment holds 51,000 tomato plants, and my total area holds over 400,000 plants. Anywho, the structure and total build cost including packhouse costs roughly $22 million, thats correct $22 million. So the tomatoes I grow are not your average backyard variety, these are the top quality tomatoes you see in the grocery store that costs $2.99 per lb. Company wide we are over 220 acres of growing area and produced last year over 100 million pounds of tomatoes. Anywho enough of my crap, here are some pictures:

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[cam2Xrunner]

Definitely the best Hydroponics in the city :D

[blackreplica]

You've got the WRONG crop in there ;) i can think of something which will make you quite a bit more heh....just remember to camouflage the roof, LOL

[AzGrower]

You've got the WRONG crop in there ;) i can think of something which will make you quite a bit more heh....just remember to camouflage the roof, LOL

The funny part is that the company is a Dutch owned company, but we cant have any of that kind of stuff in the greenhouse (I dont care for it anywho). The liability of having a legal problem like that with a $100+ million company is just to great a risk.

[demon2091tb]

Do i see some 5 leafed budding plants in there.....Hmm definently the best hydroponic outfit i've ever seen. Street pharmacy wage i take it........Just be sure to send me some sticky icky after yall bring it in for the year :).

:D Like Replica said just remember to camo the roof. So which strains yall got growing....hehe.

J/k what kind of plants are those, i think i read tomato, there looks to be a ton of them.

[AzGrower]

J/k what kind of plants are those, i think i read tomato, there looks to be a ton of them.

In my greenhouse alone: 270,600 tomato plants
Company wide: 3,366,000 plants

Take the Virtual Tour on the website. I posted a link in the original thread above.

[tokyofist]

In my greenhouse alone: 270,600 tomato plants
Company wide: 3,366,000 plants

Take the Virtual Tour on the website. I posted a link in the original thread above.


is that a malone-era burt reynolds in one of the pictures?

[ArcL100]

Reminds me of the summer I worked in a greenhouse *shudder*

-aaron

[Stumbo]

are those little rc cars in the last pic?

[AzGrower]

are those little rc cars in the last pic?

No those are roller seats used for doing work low on the crop, so that the workers can sit down and roll on the pipes.

[Ocelaris]

Wow that's awesome, I have been a fan of your company since I saw them on sale at a local grocery store. Went home and looked up the company a long time ago. I'm a HUGE Hydroponics fan, no not in the street slang sense. I used to grow orchids, big HID lights, Misting system... not quite hydroponic, but my parent's basement at the time didn't suit a full blown system. Someday I hope to have a nice hydro system in a small greenhouse. That's sooo cool... Wish I was closer would LOVE to see the nutrient management stuff, as well as different environmental controls...

Do you use CO2 enrichment?